CARD, Orthodox Indifference, MIDRASH, Missionizing Jewish Conversion - STUMP THE RABBI (40)

0:17In the name of G-d, let's do it and succeed. Torah lesson. In the name of G-d, today's lesson will be for Ilui Nishmat Asher Ben Sarah and Ezra Reuben. Also for Ilui Nishmat Avigael Meril Bat Baila. And also for a Refuah Shlema for Rivka Bat Chava, David Ben Esria, Doris Bat Jorah, Rabbanit Levana Bat Sara, Rav Efraim Ben Shulamit, Rabbanit Sara Anat. Serach Bat Batya, Batya Bat Sara, Rivka Bat Chava, Dvora Bat Mercedes, Esther Bat Tzipora, and also for Hatzlacha Rabah, Refuat HaNefesh, Refuat HaGuf, Miriam Bat Avraham, and HaKadosh Baruch Hu Yevarech Otam B'kol Mikol Kol.

1:39So, Baruch Hashem, we just came back from Montreal, Canada. It was a fantastic trip. We had a very big turnout in the lectures over there, Baruch Hashem. The first night, for anyone who didn't watch, we had a shiur with Rav Mizrachi together, and we had, Baruch Hashem, maybe 400 or so people show up at that event over there, which for that community, Baruch Hashem, is a large amount. And then we had a... very big turnout in the lectures over there, Baruch Hashem. The first night, for anyone who didn't watch, we had a shiur with Rav Mizrachi together, and we had, Baruch Hashem, maybe 400 or so people show up at that event over there, which for that community, Baruch Hashem, is a large amount. And then we had a... another shiur, a business shiur, the next day with a group of guys that I went to their office last year when I was there. And then we did an interesting meeting with a few rabbis about the situation, which, B'ezrat Hashem, we'll talk about a little bit today. And then we had another shiur the last night, not yesterday, the day before, at Rabbi Gad Ifrah's Beit Midrash.

2:57So, Baruch Hashem, each year was different, each year had some interesting new insights, some things that were brand new that we haven't mentioned, a few things I think I've mentioned in the past, but generally speaking, Baruch Hashem, we try to continue bringing new information to people. So, number one, for all the people that have been watching our shiurim for the last few years, you don't ever say, "Oh wait, I heard this before," at least not too often. But also, it forces us to continue learning, Baruch Hashem. This is one of the great benefits of doing kiruv and getting Am Yisrael to get to know their Father in Heaven, is that you have to constantly bring new information, and the Kadosh Baruch Hu helps you. Because I remember before I started doing shiurim, I was, Baruch Hashem, able to study for hours and hours at a time without a break, and without anyone bothering me, without anyone calling me 500 times, without any text messages really. You could study for hours, as if you're in a tunnel by yourself. 10, 12, 15 hours straight, as if only five minutes had passed.

4:11Today, Baruch Hashem, you don't have the same opportunity because you have so many different people from all over the world watching the shiurim. So you don't have the same amount of time. But HaKadosh Baruch Hu says that you're never going to lose by doing a mitzvah. Needless to say, you're never going to lose by doing the mitzvah of zikui harabim, of kiruv. Because what are you really doing? You're bringing my children that I've been waiting for them to come home for 3,300 years. And you're going and sacrificing your time, your effort, your body, your resources, just for the sake of bringing my kids home. So there's, Baruch Hashem, plenty of gifts that HaKadosh Baruch Hu gives in return for anyone who truly dedicates themselves to kiruv. As a side note, anyone see those things? If you could bring that to me, please. So as a side note, for anyone who... wants to help our efforts in getting Am Yisrael to come back to Abba Shebashamayim, there's obviously countless ways to do it. The most traditional way is obviously anyone that wants to donate. Anyone that donates money, gives their ma'aser, their tithe, to kiruv, to help us, you go to bezrathashem.org, B-E-Z-R-A-T-H-A,

5:35shehm.org. You could donate there as much as your heart allows you to, and that helps us do all these things. For example, when we go to Canada, we don't charge a fee like Manis Friedman. We don't charge $5,000 just to show up. We charge nothing, but it costs money. And the reason why we don't do it is not because you're not allowed to charge; you're allowed to charge money too, but by the same token... It's important to not let the yetzer hara get in the way. So, of course, we rely on people donating, and it's very important for people to also become partners in the zikui harabim, because this is one of the things that HaKadosh Baruch Hu wants from us. It's the only thing we can really do for Him. All the mitzvot, the learning Torah, the things that we do every day, it's for us. It's not for Him. The only thing that we can do for Him is bring His children back home. So we don't want to let the yetzer hara get in the way, and usually the yetzer hara is an expert in getting into people's heads when it comes to money. You know, as soon as they hear "price," oh no, no. So, Baruch Hashem. Anyone that wants to be a partner can do so by going to the website. Another way for anyone who does not have money, or even if you do have money but want to do even more than just donate money, is...

6:52is to sponsor CDs. We're almost running out of CDs. We only have a few thousand left, Baruch Hashem, but we're waiting for another few hundred thousand to come, but HaKadosh Baruch Hu has to let that happen because of what's happening in China. Baruch Hashem, there's a delay, a very big delay, because of what's happening over there. So, Baruch Hashem, when that comes, we'll have a new CD out, a new DVD out, and new USBs out. But in the meantime, anyone that wants to sponsor those, that's obviously another way. But another thing that we just started now is we have a movie card. So this is a simple flyer that's our poster for the movie. But the beauty is, on the back, you have this QR code. So if you take your camera, any phone camera that you have, and you just point it at this thing, It goes directly to the movie. It goes directly to the movie. It's a brilliant idea, Baruch Hashem, that can help many, many people become introduced to our work. Usually, when people first start watching us, it's because of either a personal story that was in a lecture or the movie. And Baruch Hashem, so far we're almost at a couple hundred thousand views of this movie.

8:17and countless people have started doing their teshuva because of it. There's going to be many, many more. This is just another way for people to get introduced to the work. Like I said, it's just strictly going to the movie, nothing else. They go to the movie, They play the movie, B'ezrat Hashem, their neshama gets rewired, and then they end up watching the rest of the shiurim and come back to HaKadosh Baruch Hu. Even if they're religious, even if they're not religious, even if they hate God, even if they don't even know God exists, whatever they are, they are alive, HaKadosh Baruch Hu wants them to have a chance. If anyone hasn't heard, I told you recently there was a woman that was... 79 years old that called me, crying because she just discovered a couple of months ago that she's Jewish. So she was crying because she says, "Listen, now that I know that I'm Jewish, what does God want from me? What do I do?" From that, we learned a lot of Mussar, that HaKadosh Baruch Hu doesn't forget anyone, meaning no matter what you do in your life. No matter if you make money, you don't make money, you're male, you're female, and...

9:24you do right, you do wrong. Everyone is going to get their chance or chances during their life to meet HaKadosh Baruch Hu. But sometimes, some people's chances end a little early, a little earlier than they thought. Like, for example, just on the way here, Hashem yirachem, I found out that my cousin, was only 48 years old. He died just a couple of days ago. And that's the same family of the other cousin who died two years ago at 23 years old, his brother. Hashem yirachem, he was married to a non-Jew and didn't keep any Torah and mitzvot. Apparently, he ran out of chances. You don't want to be one of these people that not only runs out of chances, but also the person who was the chance. Meaning, if you took the initiative to make a certain donation and the CD will be printed because of you, or you sponsored a lecture, or you did something to help kiruv, you don't want to be the guy that Hashem says, "I'm going to use you as the chance," and then you don't follow through.

10:33because you want to buy a new watch instead, or you want to buy a $30 steak every afternoon. You want to make sure that your money is used for something that's actually valuable, more than just your own stomach. The same concept is that you don't want to be the guy that is losing his own chance, thinking that you have all the time in the world to waste time and just be 50-50, religious whenever you feel like it. Like one young girl, a fantastic neshama, that I met in Montreal, She comes from, Baruch Hashem, a family where her brother did teshuva by watching our shiurim. And then his parents started watching the shiurim. They started doing teshuva. And then the sister comes, and she has a question for me after the shiur. I say, okay. She says, is it okay if I just keep Shabbat twice a month? And it's a, you know what, you laugh, but it's a fantastic question. It's actually a fantastic question. Why? Because you're not saying that God doesn't exist or that you want to go against Him. You're asking simply, is there leniency? Is there, like, you know, can I just do sometimes yes, sometimes no? Now, the answer is, if it was my Shabbat, then I could tell you, you know what, keep it whenever you feel like it. Why? I'm lenient, it's okay. But it's not my Shabbat though. It's not my Shabbat. As we learn from the Chafetz Chaim,

11:50Chafetz Chaim had a very big donor come to his Beit Midrash, years ago. This very big donor came to his Beit Midrash and donated tons and tons of money to build yeshivot and so on, and they wanted him to meet the Rav. So, when he sat down, shook the Chafetz Chaim's hand, the Chafetz Chaim held on to his hand. He didn't let it go. And the guy is holding a sefer Torah. He doesn't want to let go either, but it's unusual. He's just holding the hand. And Chafetz Chaim is just analyzing his hand, looking at his hand. And the guy, after a few moments, becomes a little uncomfortable. He says, Kavod HaRav, is everything okay? Chafetz Chaim says, Chaval. Why Chaval? Meaning, it's too, it's sad. It's sad. What's sad, Kavod HaRav? What?

12:50Because it's sad that this precious hand that's so good at giving tzedakah is going to be burned in Gehenom. Because you don't keep Shabbat. The guy, the multi-millionaire, thought he has a ticket, front-row seats in Gan Eden. Until the second when the Gadol HaDor told him that he's going to go to Gehenom and he's not coming out. Because when a person does not do teshuvah for chilul Shabbat, ein lo chelek l'olam haba, the Torah says. So the guy is scared to death. The Gadol HaDor just told him he's in trouble. He said, "Okay, okay, Kevod HaRav, what do I need to do?" Because you need to keep Shabbat. And he starts seeing the Chafetz Chaim start crying. The Chafetz Chaim is crying, holding this man's hand, and he starts crying because he's looking at his hand being burned. To us, it's just a story, it's words. To him, he's seeing the hand burned. So the guy can't handle the Chafetz Chaim. He's almost 100 years old. He's crying. It's dangerous already. He goes, okay, okay, just give me like a month, month and a half. Let me fix a few things with my business. And then I'll keep Shabbat. No problem. I'll keep whatever the Rav says. I'll keep all Shabbat. The Chafetz Chaim starts crying even more. It's hysterical. Everyone becomes uncomfortable now.

14:07Well, I'm going to keep it. Just give me a month to fix. I have my shop. I have to fix. I have to make arrangements. The employees, just give me a few weeks, you know, and that's it. The Chafetz Chaim continues to cry. He's crying. He's holding his hand stronger and stronger. He goes, I'm going to keep it. Just give me a few weeks. The Chafetz Chaim looks at him and goes, Do you think it's my Shabbat that I can just tell you to violate it for a few more weeks? If it was my Shabbat, do whatever you want. It's not my Shabbat. It's HaKadosh Baruch Hu's Shabbat. He created it for you. He created it for you, but if you don't keep Shabbat, what can I tell you? All I see is the hand being burned with the rest of you. And he continues crying hysterically until the guy says, "Okay, I'm sorry, Kavod HaRav, I'm going to keep Shabbat. I'm going to keep Shabbat." Baruch Hashem, that's the complete answer. Sometimes you have to give a nine-hour shiur to get people to do teshuva. Sometimes you hold the person's hand and he does teshuva. When you're the Chafetz Chaim, you don't need to do much. You just hold the hand, the guy does teshuva. But the point is, Rabotai, this young girl asked me, can I just keep two Shabbatot a week? The answer is, if it's my Shabbat, do whatever you want. Since it's not my Shabbat, and HaKadosh Baruch Hu created the Shabbat for you, that means you have to keep it as soon as possible if you're a Jew.

15:25Hashem, she was a very smart and clever girl. She understood the point, and b'ezrat Hashem, her brother just told me earlier this afternoon that starting this Shabbat, she's keeping Shabbat for 24 hours—the whole thing, 25 hours—the whole thing from now on. No 50/50, she got the point. I wish the rest of us got the point. I wish the rabbanim got the point. I can tell you that the only thing that disappoints me is... is that when I see that when you tell people the truth and they don't necessarily believe it. They agree. They say, I agree with you. Yeah, you're right. Okay, so you're going to do something? No. That drives me crazy. That drives me crazy. I tell people, you have a million and a half opportunities to help people do teshuva, and they say, yeah, I'm going to do it. And then they don't do anything about it. Now, these cards, I brought you a bunch of them, a few thousand of them. They're in my car. If you want to give them out, give them out. You have money to give, give them. You don't have anyone to give, take them anywhere and just give them out. But just make sure, no matter what, don't leave them in your house. No one's doing teshuva if these things are in your house. I can leave them in my house also. Also, anyone that's watching, if you're located in America and you want to give these cards out in your community, you want to take 20, put it in a

16:47Kosher supermarket, another 20 in a shul, another 20 in different places. You know, give them out in different places. Just send me a message. We'll send you some. If you can pay for it, you can pay for some shipping, you can pay for anything, please do. If you can't pay for it, no matter what, we'll send it to you anyway. Because the key is for people to do teshuva. HaKadosh Baruch Hu will send the money one way or the other. So, I brought a bunch of them for anyone who wants to give them out. And again, anyone that's in the U.S. that wants to give them out, let me know. We'll ship them to you. But don't just take the whole stack of a thousand and just put them in one place and leave. That's not giving them out; that's throwing them out. Take 20, put them in one place, go to another place, take another 20, and put them in another place. I have to say this because this is what happened with our CDs. We sent a few people a few thousand CDs, and the next day I asked them, "What are you doing with the CDs? Did you find a few places?" "Yeah, I put everything in my store." Like, he just took the box and put it in the business. He thought he did kiruv. I said, "You just stole money and..."

17:47You just stole the money. That's what you did. You just took everything that we gave and you threw it in the garbage. You left the box in one place. No, take a little box. Take 20. That's it. Because when people see big piles, it starts looking like garbage. So, put a few, and then move on to the next place. And then, if you spend half a day doing this, you'll be able to get into a lot of different places. And when you get up to Shamayim after 120, HaKadosh Baruch Hu is going to tell you that you have helped countless people do teshuva. So this is another easy way to help people do teshuva. So, with that being said, I had a disappointing... had a disappointing meeting, which, to be honest with you, I wasn't really surprised by. I met with a few rabbis because I was asked to speak about the current situation that apparently the Jewish world is unaware of for the most part. They're unaware, and even when they're aware

19:00don't care if you remember about a month and a half ago or so, I told you guys that the missionaries from Christianity have chosen Florida as their next destination point, specifically the Jewish neighborhoods, as the next destination point to invest their millions in order to recruit Jews to Christianity. I also told you sometime before that that the Muslims are decided to do their dawah, their form of missionizing, all over the country. It's now the fastest-growing religion in America. It's also a very fast-growing religion in Canada, too. It's a very fast-growing religion in Israel, as well. It's a fast-growing religion everywhere. Now, the Muslims are doing their missionizing, which they call dawah. The Christians are doing their missionizing, which is avodah zarah. But the Jews, unfortunately, I don't know what they're doing. Because you see that it's really not that hard to help people do teshuva. It really isn't that hard. Why? All you got to do is tell people the truth. More times than not, they're going to start changing their life. One of my students, who's a rav in a school, asked me a question about what to tell someone

20:25what to tell someone about him attending a different school. I told him, "Listen, tell him the truth." He goes, "Yeah, but maybe he'll be offended, maybe this." I said, "Tell him the truth. Tell him the truth no matter what." He told the kid the truth, and he calls me today. He says, "You wouldn't believe it. The kid not only accepted the truth, but it became the whole conversation for the whole school. Everybody enjoyed this truth now." You tell people the truth, you're giving them a legitimate chance to do teshuva. You don't tell them the truth, you're simply taking away their chance to do teshuva. Don't do that. Tell people the truth. Now, many times you can't do it. You have me do it. You give them a card, you give them a CD, you give them a link. But sometimes you tell certain people the truth when they have the ability to influence others. And not only do they... not accept it, but they reject it in a way where it's very discouraging. So I met with a couple of rabbis and I told them that after my shiurim about Christians coming to Florida, a few, Baruch Hashem, a few thousand people have watched that shiur, and now my phone is being blown up on a daily basis

21:48all types of communities are telling me that everything I said is happening in their backyard. One guy tells me that on Shabbat he sees a new guy in his beit knesset. He doesn't know him, okay, maybe it's a new guy. He doesn't know, the guy looks a little unusual. After everyone's finished praying, the guy doesn't really know what he's doing. So maybe he's a new ba'al teshuva. You don't know, you don't ask questions. But then he sees that as everybody else finishes praying, they start eating, and he sees the guy going outside, talking to one of the other guys, and he overhears them. Who is he talking about? Yoshke? He's talking about Jesus right outside the beit knesset. Why? Because he's a Christian. But why did he come to the beit knesset? He's looking for customers. The beit knesset on Shabbat here in Florida... What you think didn't happen in New York, happens in New York also. Best yet, just last night, just last night, I have a guy say, there are people that call themselves Haredim in Eretz Yisrael that believe in Yoshke. Haredim, the peyos, the everything, believe in Yoshke. Mothers are calling me, crying.

23:12Over the last few days. Why? One mother tells me, I don't know what to do. Why? What happened? She said, I spent, I borrow money. She says, I borrow money just to send my kids to Jewish schools, to Yeshiva. She says, I sent my, I think, seven or nine-year-old kid to Yeshiva. He comes home. She says, oh, what'd you learn today? He goes, oh, I learned about Jesus. She goes, what? Who are you learning about Jesus from? Who? What rabbi taught you that? He goes, no, it wasn't the rabbi, Ima. Who taught you that? He goes, my history teacher. My history teacher taught me about Jesus. Hashem yishmor v'yatzil. Hashem yishmor v'yatzil. Here in Florida. Wait, it's not happening in New York? In New York, they have some guy from New York, in Monsey, translated the New Testament to Yiddish. Who are you learning about Jesus from? Who? What rabbi taught you that? He goes, no, it wasn't the rabbi, Ima. Who taught you that? He goes, my history teacher. My history teacher taught me about Jesus. Hashem yishmor v'yatzil. Hashem yishmor v'yatzil. Here in Florida. Wait, it's not happening in New York? In New York, they have some guy from New York, in Monsey, translated the New Testament to Yiddish. So I'm getting calls. I'm getting text messages. I'm seeing kids. I can't help it. There's just so many people crying about this, and so I figured, you know what, each time I see more, we have a solution. We spoke about the solution a few months ago: Just do what I said. Fire all of the people that are not Jewish. Hire people that are Jewish. Baruch Hashem. You're finished. Jewish people are looking for work. The non-Jewish people could find different work. It finished and

24:12So I'm getting calls. I'm getting text messages. I'm seeing kids. I can't help it. There's just so many people crying about this, and so I figured, you know what, each time I see more, we have a solution. We spoke about the solution a few months ago: Just do what I said. Fire all of the people that are not Jewish. Hire people that are Jewish. Baruch Hashem. You're finished. Jewish people are looking for work. The non-Jewish people could find different work. It finished and They want to teach there, but you just can't go teach it and not alone gain on for like you. I don't care if it's in a Jewish school; you teach about Judaism. That's it. How do you verify that the guy's going to teach about Judaism if he's a religious Jew? So I tell this to a few rabbis, and I think that we're going to get something. One rabbi, Baruch Hashem, accepts that. He says, "You know what? I'm going to have to start becoming more equipped with knowledge of how to deal with this." and... To deal with this, how do I teach my kids to defend themselves when a missionary comes? When they're little kids, 14, 15, 16 years old, a missionary shows up to them and starts asking them questions about Isaiah 53 or Daniel 9 or some other verses that they're completely mistranslating and distorting. They're not going to have the answers. They're going to create confusion. So I'm going to have to, I'm going to watch some of your shiurim, I'm going to do this, I'm going to do that, Baruch Hashem. I was very happy. The other guy, on the other hand, he says the following to me:

25:35He says, I agree with everything you're saying. He says, everything you're saying makes sense. Makes sense. The missionaries are investing a lot of money. They're investing a few hundred million dollars a year in Israel alone. They're converting a thousand people, a thousand Jews a week, just in Eretz Yisrael, immersing them in water to turn them to Christianity. Every week. that apparently lives in Israel now, opened an office in Yerushalayim. His main focus is religious Jews. All he cares about is money, but he tries to target religious Jews, and unfortunately, he's succeeding to a certain extent. But he calls it Judaism. He says, no, we're Jews, 100% Jews. We even believe in the Oral Torah. He doesn't tell you; he just mistranslates it, though, to his liking. So they're succeeding. So I tell the guy, listen, this, this, and this. So he says, I agree with everything that you're saying. There's a problem with the missionizing. There's a problem with everything. Fine. He says, if you can get the Gadol HaDor, the biggest rabbi in the world, to write a Psak Halacha, Psak Halacha, to say that from now on we're going to teach like you, I'll do it.

26:53That's like telling me, if you can jump from the top of the Empire State Building and survive, I'll do it. I'll do it. You might as well say, you know what? I don't agree. Oh, you know what? I don't feel like it. To give me a response like that shows me how much more trouble we're in than I even thought. I'm telling you that your own backyard is in jeopardy. There's a girl in your community that almost married an Arab three weeks ago. There's another guy that's going out with a goya that I have to beg him to leave her. There are countless people that are begging me to help them get out of their intermarriage situation. They're in your backyard, and you're telling me, let me go get a letter from the Gadol HaDor for you to say something about it? You might as well just ask me, go get Moshe Rabbeinu, go find this kever, go find what he's doing, get him to write a letter, and that's it. I'm telling you that there's a danger inside your house, and you're telling me to go get a letter? Now, if you're going to ask, well, what's the big deal? Go get a letter. You don't need a letter for that.

28:01You don't need a letter for that. If the doctor tells you you have cancer, you don't need someone else to tell you, by the way, you should take care of that. You have cancer. You've got to take care of it. Not any normal person needs to know that. So the other rabbi that was with me got really frustrated at this awful response. He says to him, listen, you've been doing kiruv for how many years? 20 years? He says, "Yeah, how many people have you helped do teshuva?" He says, proudly, "Ah, a hundred. A hundred people." My friend didn't want to embarrass him. He says, "Don't you think it should be more?" So he was taken aback. He goes, "What do you mean? It's a hundred people. It's a lot of people." It's a lot of people if you compare it to zero. One is also a lot of people in comparison to zero. But if you worked 20 years to get 100 people to do teshuva, and your number one job every day, morning and night, is to do kiruv, you should find a new job. Why? You, you right now, you guys who are watching right now, right in front of me, you, you people watching on the internet, you are responsible to get at least 10 people every year to do teshuva.

29:26You, without a kiruv organization, without millions of dollars being donated to you, just by taking these flyers, taking the links, taking the CDs, doing something, you are responsible for getting ten people to do teshuva every year. If a kiruv organization is proud of helping five people a year do teshuva, we are in serious trouble. If I didn't get at least three, four, or five emails every single day from people who have done teshuva because of our shiurim, I would quit. Well, it weakens me. If I don't get results, it weakens me. Because you ask yourself, what's the point of it? I'm not making any money. In fact, it's the opposite. You have to live on a miracle. On top of it, you've got no end to the headaches. On top of that, no end to the Erev Rav that tries to fight you. So at the very least, let me get some Baalei Teshuva. So you get, you know, at least, no, B'ezrat Hashem, at least some people have Olam Haba now. So, if you're not getting three, four, five letters every single day, text messages, emails, phone calls, all types of things—"Oh, you saved my life. I changed this, I changed that. I started keeping, I started"—if you don't get that every single day, that's what you need. You have to have it. You have to have it every day. You have to have it. That's the air in your lungs. If you're not getting a few people every day, at least one a day, one a day, I don't know what you're doing. Something's wrong. Torah is easy.

30:50Torah is easy. You tell people the truth, they do teshuva. It doesn't, it's not even talent. People think it's because I'm a good speaker. It has nothing to do with speech. Moshe Rabbeinu couldn't speak. He got all of Am Yisrael to do teshuva in one speech. Moshe Rabbeinu, Moshe Rabbeinu was not only a stammerer, but also a stutterer. You can't get worse than that. All of Am Yisrael did teshuva. No, it's because of the miracles. What, you don't see miracles? You open the Sefer Torah, there's no end to the miracles. Right before the shiur, right before the shiur started, we saw a live miracle. I don't know if you guys noticed. Baruch Hashem, every time we come here, Usually, Baruch Hashem, he's here before us setting up the cameras and everything else. He was with me in the freezing cold over there in Canada, so he got sick. Baruch Hashem. I told him to take the night off. What I forgot is that he has the key. He has the key to the place. So we got here, there's no key.

31:57There's no key to the place. So I said, okay, Baruch Hashem, there's no key. What are we going to do? Okay, we're going to wait for the key. Waiting for the key, waiting for the key. Then a Holocaust survivor shows up. A Holocaust survivor that's almost 90 years old shows up, and I talked to him one-on-one, Baruch Hashem. He's interested in doing teshuva. He's interested in hearing more Torah. He's not going to stand here for two hours like you guys. He's not going to stay in for two hours like you guys. The only chance in the world for me to talk to him one-on-one and become best friends with him right now. Give him a hug. Give him a kiss. He says, yeah, I'm going to come to his house tomorrow. We're going to get together, b'ezrat Hashem. We're going to do teshuva together because we want to live for a long time. The only chance is if we have to wait outside for almost a half hour for somebody to show up with a key. Oh, you think it's an accident? HaKadosh Baruch Hu manipulated the entire world. For Sonny to get sick, God bless him, for him and me to forget that he's the only one that has the key, for the guy to show up today and be open to hearing for the few minutes we have before we start the shiur. HaKadosh Baruch Hu maneuvered the entire world just for this guy, and you're telling me

33:20Who's not paying attention? Everything is paying attention; everything is paying attention. Why? Everybody has to have a chance. Now, surely he's had many chances, but he's getting another chance now. The key is about eyes to pay attention to all of these things. When we have a fire, we don't need a fireman to tell us to move out of the way. When we have a sickness, we don't need someone to tell us you should take care of it. When we have a problem, we don't need anyone to tell us, oh, what are you going to do about it? We need to already start being proactive about it. We have to become a little more aggressive. When someone tells you, yeah, listen, go have the Gadol HaDor, the biggest rabbi in the world, get him to write a letter. And of course, everybody has a different opinion of who the Gadol HaDor is, right? So you know, his Gadol HaDor is not the same Gadol HaDor that I have. what I have is not what he has, and what he has is not what he has. And even if you give him what he has, he says, "Yeah, but maybe it's not enough. Maybe you should get two." It's like when we were fighting against the missionaries in Boca Raton four years ago. They wanted Goldberg and company to bring the number one Catholic missionary in the world to give a Shabbaton to a kehila with a thousand Jewish families. And

34:45screamed fire. Everybody said you're right. Okay, so join me. No, no, no Why not? Now our kids go to school here. We go to the Beit Knesset here. I said, yeah, but you realize the whole community is in danger right now. If a Catholic missionary, a Christian missionary, any type of missionaries is coming here, that means you are on the radar. That means it's not going to end with one meeting. That means you're all in danger. You don't understand what these missionaries are. I do. No, we agree with you. I said, okay, so why don't you support it? Talk to the rabbi. Scream. Do something. Why is everybody comfortable living? Comfortable living? So when I got to the community, pretty much even the ones that agreed with me didn't want to do anything. They just said, "Listen, we're just not gonna go." I said, "You may not go, but there's a thousand families here. It's one of the biggest Jewish communities here and..." Their head rabbi, one of the head rabbis in Florida, is Ephraim Goldberg. If he's the one that's inviting them, that means he's putting a kosher stamp on a missionary. Do you understand what this means to people? You've got a 13, 14, 15, 16-year-old kid who gets his rabbi saying this guy's okay to listen to. Guess what? You're finished.

36:0325, 35, 45-year-old woman. She's having some problems in her life. The rabbi says, "Good, listen to this guy who talks about Yeshu. You're finished." Crying to people, no one's listening. No one's helping, nothing. So I said, okay, Ephraim Goldberg is one of the top modern Orthodox rabbis in all of America, needless to say in Florida. He's a dayan. He's not only a rabbi. He's a dayan. He almost has keys to the White House. He's in AIPAC. He's in the Jewish Federation. He's with the OU or ORB. He's everywhere. He's one of the most well-connected rabbis in America, if not the world. I'm crying, and everybody's like, yeah, yeah, no, we agree with you, but maybe you're a little too aggressive. Maybe you should talk to him. I said, I already talked to him for a month. He doesn't want to hear it. So what do we do? We went to Gedolei HaDor. We figured, okay, Baruch Hashem, the kehillah itself is too stupid to realize what danger they're in front of. There's an atomic bomb being shipped UPS, and they're not doing anything. So I said, okay, let me go to the Gedolei HaDor. Why? Because the local rabbis weren't doing anything either. A few said, "Oh yeah, you're right, you're right, you're right, you're right," but it doesn't help. So we went to the Gedolei HaDor.

37:27We went to practically every single Gadol all over the place in Israel and America. You would think people would chase us with signatures, would start showing up at the community saying, "Listen, we've got to stop this." One rabbi after another said, "Listen, I agree with you, but I'm not going to sign a letter." Why not? I Why not? One rabbi told me, "Listen, your mistake is that you think the Modern Orthodox and Orthodox are the same religion." I said, "I agree with you. There's a difference and so on and so forth. Fine, no problem. It doesn't make a difference. There are Jewish people on the line here." He says, "No, you're not understanding. Even if I sign, they won't listen to me. So what's the point?" I said, "The point is there will be support if you sign. Somebody else will sign also." He didn't want to do it. I go to another one, who wanted to sign, but then his son or grandson decided to be Gehazi and ruin it. I go to another one. He says, "Listen, we're going to get back to you." He never got back to me. Another one, "We'll get back to you." He never got back to me. We were calling them all day, all night. We literally didn't sleep for almost a month. My son was born. My son was born. I was barely there to see him. If you guys remember, there was a shiur on his brit milah. It was pretty much almost the first time I saw him.

38:51We didn't sleep day and night. We got a couple of rabbis to sign, but only one Gadol. A few decent-sized rabbis to sign, Rabbi Meir Eliyahu, Rabbi Mutzafi, I think it was also, who is also one of the Gedolim. But from America, only one Gadol, Rav Shmuel Kamenetsky, signed a letter. Now, Baruch Hashem, we never even needed to have those letters because eventually, the Christian guy or the Catholic guy got so scared out of all the chaos we were causing that he ended up canceling the event three days before it happened. Hashem had mercy on us because He saw that all the rabbis are losers. They care less. that there's an atomic bomb showing up at the community. But Baruch Hashem, HaKadosh Baruch Hu had mercy on us for everything we were doing for two months. The Catholic guy called in, "I am canceling. Why? I'm scared of what's going to happen to me if I show up." I don't know who, what, when, or how it happened. All I know is that he got scared. But the point is, Rabotai, there's nothing clearer, there's nothing clearer than the danger of missionaries, especially if they come into your community.

40:05So if four years ago, that's what happened. What do you think is gonna happen now? You think if I go to them they're gonna sign a letter right now? Most likely not. You know why? Everybody's busy. Everybody's busy doing other stuff. Now you think this is new? It's not new. The Klausenberger Rebbe, alav ha-shalom, almost 40 years ago in 5736, we're 5780 now. ...over 40 years ago in one of his sichot on Parashat Beshalach in a shiur called Chumash and Rashi, Parashat Beshalach 5736, he writes the following. These are excerpts from what he wrote in his sicha. He says there are many times that the rabbi of a community only rebukes other communities. The rabbi of the community, he only rebukes other communities instead of his own community. Meaning, he's in America, he says, yeah, but you know, the communities in Israel, yeah, they're weak over there. Or he's in Israel, he says, oh yeah, you know, at least we're here. But in America, they're like Reform. Or he's in Florida and he's making fun of New York. He's in New York, he's making fun of Florida.

41:32Instead of focusing on his own, he's focusing on somebody else. Then the Klausenberger Rebbe continues and he says, but then there are other types of people, not just rabbis, but also big influences within the community, who aren't only just people that have no Yirat Shamayim whatsoever, and they're not reliable people, but they go to the extent of stopping other people. from rebuking their community with the necessary mussar because they're afraid that it would offend the important and wealthy people in their community and that would lead them to stop coming to the beit knesset, meaning no less donations So to make themselves feel better, what do they do? No, no, we rebuke here. We just do it our way. How do you do it? By rebuking other communities. You're rebuking someone else. You're Chabad, you're going to rebuke Yaron Reuven. You're not an Orthodox, you're going to rebuke Chabad. You're this Orthodox, you're going to rebuke somebody else. Everybody's rebuking somebody else except their own. So then the Klausenberger Rebbe says,

42:57When it says the mitzvah of checking for chametz, it specifically says check your chametz, not your neighbor's chametz. Check your chametz first. Check your problems first. Check your mum first, your community first. You have a bunch of people driving to the Knesset on Shabbat. You have a bunch of people that go out nightclub dancing, mixed marriages, mixed dancing, beaches, Hashem yirachem. all types of aveirot from the Torah, all types of things, and you dare not rebuke them, and if that's not bad enough, you stop other people from rebuking them. The Klausenberger Rebbe says these people are so delusional, they forgot that the mitzvah of chametz, or finding the stuff that you have to take out to burn, They forgot that the mitzvah is on them, on their community, on their house. So they appease themselves by pretending to rebuke, by talking about other people, talking about other communities. So this is what's happening today. What's happening today, Rabotai Yekarim, is that either there is simply no rebuke whatsoever, or if there is, it is done incorrectly.

44:14They listen to resha'im like Manis Friedman, who tells everybody that no matter what you do, Hashem is not going to punish you—Hashem yishmor v'yatzil. He removed one of the 13 ikarim of the Rambam from the Torah: no reward and punishment. He said after 2,000 years of exile, after the Holocaust, inquisitions, Hashem is not going to punish anybody. No one is going to get punished. It doesn't matter if you keep Shabbat, don't keep Shabbat, it doesn't make a difference. I'll make a difference. So people listen to him. People defend him. There's no rebuke. Or worse yet, worse yet, they rebuke somebody else. They tell you about the problems of other communities. They have intermarriage in their own community, but they talk about how other communities are saying lashon hara. They have chillul Shabbat in their community, but they're talking about other communities that have a problem with their eruv.

45:18They have all types of immorality crimes in their yeshivot, in their batei knesset, in everything, but they're talking about the problems of how other communities are not giving enough tzedakah. This is the Satan himself. Yehi ratzon may it be as well that we never fall into this trap of the Satan of thinking, we don't have to clean our own house first. Sure, you have to help other communities by telling them if they have a problem, you gotta let them know, gotta help them. But you have to make sure you help yourself, save yourself first. That's why, no matter whether it was the flight to Montreal or the flight from Montreal back to Florida, the people, the stewardess and had the same instructions. They said in case there is a problem with the plane and the oxygen mask comes down, Hashem says, put the mask on yourself first, then somebody else, then the baby, then the child, then anybody else. Why? You have to save yourself first, Rabbi. You have to clean your house first. Because if you don't clean your house first, you don't save yourself first, you're not going to survive to help anybody else.

46:42So the first obligation that a person needs to have when he intends to do kiruv, when he intends to try to help other people do teshuva, is to start doing teshuva himself. She has to start doing teshuva herself. This is why people are confused when they say, isn't there some sage that said, no one has the right to rebuke anymore? Now, first of all, he didn't say that. Second of all, you need to understand what he said. In the previous generations, they literally had people that were perfect tzaddikim. When you talk about people like Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus, or Rabbi Akiva, or Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi, or Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, all of these tzaddikim, these people were literally the complete human beings. The complete human beings. So if they rebuked you, they could rebuke you about everything. Why? Because they themselves didn't have a problem with it. If they told you about teshuvah for Shabbat, for taharat mishpachah, for bad middot, for wasting seed, for being a bad husband or wife, and so on, whatever it is, they knew what they were talking about. Needless to say, they weren't hypocrites. So, the Sefer says, there's no one that can rebuke

48:07like them. Meaning there's no one living today that can rebuke about everything. Why? Because no one is complete in everything. Okay, you're complete in some things, but not everything. So what is he trying to say? Only rebuke about things you're good at. Don't tell people to keep Shabbat if you're still driving on Shabbat. Don't tell people to keep kashrut if you're still eating treif once a week. Don't tell people shalom bayit solutions if you're divorced four times like Tony Robbins. You understand? Don't be a hypocrite. If you're gonna tell people to do teshuva about something, it better be something that you are doing well. That's the key. That's the key. So with that being said, b'chavod, who wants to start with some questions? Today, after we finished our shiur, I was talking with another rabbi about whether it would be a mitzvah to set fire to a strip club or any one of those places. He said no, because the goyim are not restricted from such places; a Jew can't go there, but a goy can. But then I asked him, okay, so are you allowed to set fire to...

49:34So, the question is, are you allowed to destroy other people's property and also put people's lives in danger because they're sinners? Both answers the Rabbi told you were not complete, to say the least. You had a Sanhedrin. At the time of the Sanhedrin, Am Yisrael had control. Am Yisrael had the power, and if they found out that someone was a homosexual or someone was promiscuous, they would give him the death penalty. meaning if a woman was with someone who was married or if a man was homosexual in some way, and people committed sins that are karet, they would be killed. But the Sanhedrin hasn't been around in nearly 2,000 years, so since that time we do not have the...

50:50the power, not just the power as far as physical power, but the authority from Heaven to take the law into our own hands. We have no permission whatsoever from the Torah to set any place on fire that's not our own. You want to burn something, you can burn your own house if you'd like, but you cannot burn somebody else's house, no matter what they're doing there. You cannot burn somebody's company. You cannot burn somebody's club. Regardless of what they're doing there, you have no permission whatsoever to destroy somebody else's property. Their sins are their problem, not your problem. Your problem is your sins, not their sins. If they come to you and they ask you for guidance... about what they should do with their life, and if their life needs adjustment, then you can tell them, "Listen, in reality, every time you are performing homosexuality or you are promiscuous, you're causing

51:50People to waste seed and cheat on their husbands and so on, or cheat on their wives. You're causing a shem to lower, shorten your lifetime, and increase your punishment in Gehinom. You could tell them stuff like that, but to take the law into your own hands and put other people's lives at risk? Absolutely not. Any rabbi that told you it's allowed or even gave you the insinuation that it's allowed to... needs to go back to yeshiva, learn the halachot, and understand what it means to have a Sanhedrin, and what it means to not have a Sanhedrin. The reality is, Rabotai, people that think they can force the world to change by brute force simply do not believe in G-d. Again, People that think that they could change the world by their own hand, by their brute force, do not believe in God enough, at least. Why? You think that God sent you to kill people? He doesn't need you to kill people. He killed my cousin two days ago for no reason. Meaning, He had His reasons, but He didn't have to shoot him in the face. He didn't have to burn him alive. He killed him in His own way. He doesn't need you to burn his house.

53:05He doesn't need you to burn anybody. He kills 18 million people a year from certain things, almost 60 million people a year all over the world without your help. He doesn't need your help to kill anybody. If we're at war, that's a different story. You want to go kill people, go sign up for the army, shoot at will. Go to the army, front line, sure they're going to send you to some terrorist squad and then you can kill as many as you see. but until then, you have no right, no permission whatsoever, to even put anyone at risk, even if he's a sinner. Even if he's a sinner, even if he's a child molester. Why? You have a law. You have a law. That's their job. That's their job now. Would the Torah kill such a person? Absolutely, but we don't have a Sanhedrin. So, what happens in the times of no Sanhedrin is... Gemara says, at the time of the Sanhedrin, don't think for a second that their judgment is forgiven. Don't think for a second that their judgment is not given to them. It is given to them, but in HaKadosh Baruch Hu's timing. In HaKadosh Baruch Hu's timing. So, someone in the old days that violated Shabbat was supposed to get stoning, right? Today, he gets hit by a car.

54:27Today, he falls off a building. Today, he falls down the stairs. Today, he goes into a plane crash. Today, there's no end to the number of ways that HaKadosh Baruch Hu kills this person. Whenever He chooses to kill this person, He doesn't need you to help Him. He has sins, but HaKadosh Baruch Hu didn't kill him for a reason. Never, for a moment, think that you are allowed, for a second, to take the law into your own hands. Never. Secondly, you shouldn't even have those thoughts. The fact that you have those thoughts is also unhealthy. It's unhealthy to have such thoughts because a person could seriously lead themselves to a point where they could lose their mind and become another member of the killer squad that's shooting up schools, UPS locations, USPS, and all types of malls. This is happening here in America every two and a half days. Every two and a half days, there's a mass shooting here in America. There's something wrong in the water. There's something wrong in the education. There's something wrong. What's going on? I think it has a lot to do with the movies and the video games people play, but it definitely also has to do with the drugs they give to little kids. Every little kid has some type of drug addiction because they didn't pay attention in class.

55:51So, the point is, Rabotai, you have to understand. You are responsible for you. That's all. You're responsible for you. You're not allowed to kill anybody. You're not even allowed to beat up anybody. In fact, you're not even allowed to curse them. You don't like it, go somewhere else. you want to say things that are in the Torah, you want to give a shiur, say how much homosexuality is disgusting, it's an abomination, they're going to go to Gehenom if they don't do teshuva, and so on and so forth, no problem. You can do that. Why? Because that's education. You're saying things from the Torah. But to go take... God's job and put it into your own hand to start. No, that's a very, very unhealthy thought, and you have to do whatever you can to remove this thought from your mind. It's not your job to kill people. It's your job to do teshuva. That's your job.

56:56you want to help people bring more kedusha to the world. The reason why is because it doesn't matter how many gay clubs and strip clubs and all types of filthy, disgusting places you will destroy in the world. For every one you destroy, the Satan will make another two or three. So there'll be no end. There'll be no end. So the reality is, all you will do is desecrate God's name and make Jews look like fanatic ISIS members, some psychopaths, make the Torah look disgusting, make the Torah look like some type of book of murder, make HaKadosh Baruch Hu look like some killer, and nothing good will come out of it. Nothing good will come out of it. So a person needs to know that HaKadosh Baruch Hu runs the world. He doesn't need your help. make Jews look like fanatic ISIS members, some psychopaths, make the Torah look disgusting, make the Torah look like some type of book of murder, make HaKadosh Baruch Hu look like some killer, and nothing good will come out of it. Nothing good will come out of it. So a person needs to know that HaKadosh Baruch Hu runs the world. He doesn't need your help. If He wants to kill somebody, He will kill them. If He doesn't want to kill somebody, He won't kill them. As Moshe Rabbeinu asked HaKadosh Baruch Hu about the question of how come there are righteous that suffer and there are wicked that don't suffer, that prosper. HaKadosh Baruch Hu says, I'll do whatever I want. I'll do whatever I want. I don't have to give you an explanation, Moshe. Moshe was His best friend.

57:51If He wants to kill somebody, He will kill them. If He doesn't want to kill somebody, He won't kill them. As Moshe Rabbeinu asked HaKadosh Baruch Hu about the question of how come there are righteous that suffer and there are wicked that don't suffer, that prosper. HaKadosh Baruch Hu says, I'll do whatever I want. I'll do whatever I want. I don't have to give you an explanation, Moshe. Moshe was His best friend. Moshe was asking a legitimate question. Hashem gave him a few different reasons. But Moshe was digging deep into this question. How come this? How come that? How come? How come? Listen, if I was chavruta with Hashem, I would also ask questions. But HaKadosh Baruch Hu at some point said to Moshe Rabbeinu, I'll do whatever I want. I don't have to explain myself to you. If He allows this gay club, this strip club, this terrorist, this idol worshiper, this house of idolatry to exist, that's because He's allowing it to exist. You want to defeat it?

58:55You want to destroy it? You can only destroy it in a spiritual way. The only way to destroy the filth of Tumah, the impurity, is by producing Kedusha, by producing more Torah in the world, more people that are Shomrei Torah u'mitzvot. doing more mitzvot yourself, learning more Torah yourself, and helping other people do the same. That is the only way that you can destroy the tumah. Why? Because when you produce more kedusha, that kedusha will defeat the tumah. It has nothing to do with physical prowess. It has nothing to do with tanks. It has nothing to do with guns. It has nothing to do with even an aggressive language. It has to do with what HaKadosh Baruch Hu told us to do. You want to beat the tumah? First of all, start with yourself, do teshuva. Second of all, become an influence to the people around you by helping them do teshuva. That's it. That's it. That's all you need to do. Next question. Chavrutah.

1:00:13The question is, for people at home that didn't hear, because there's no mic today, when Am Yisrael sinned on a couple of occasions with idols, was it because they worshipped the idols because the idols actually spoke to them and were able to perform because HaKadosh Baruch Hu instilled power in them in order to test the people to see if they would go after them or not, or was it because they really wanted to perform immoral crimes because of what happened? a couple of occasions with idols, was it because they worshipped the idols because the idols actually spoke to them and were able to perform because HaKadosh Baruch Hu instilled power in them in order to test the people to see if they would go after them or not, or was it because they really wanted to perform immoral crimes because of what happened? With the Moabites and the Midianites and also what happened at the time of the Beit HaMikdash with other goyim. So it's a built question, so there's a two-part answer. At the time of Mount Sinai, the sin was for one reason. At the time of the Beit HaMikdash, the sin was for a different reason. The idolatry performed at the time of Mount Sinai was because the Satan saw that the people

1:01:38were weakened. Their emunah was weakened because they mistook the time of how long Moshe Rabbeinu was supposed to be at Mount Sinai. They were mistaken by six hours. That's why the verse over there says 'Boshesh.' 'Boshesh,' if you use the vowels differently, it's 'Bishesh.' So the Torah says that Am Yisrael thought that Moshe Rabbeinu was supposed to come back from Mount Sinai six hours earlier. And because of that, they started questioning whether he is alive or not. The second the Satan saw that Am Yisrael was weakened, he took advantage. Hashem says to Kayin, if you leave an opening for the sin, you leave an opening for the Satan, he's gonna break in. He's gonna break in. If you have a doubt about Hashem, Satan comes in. When you have a problem believing that Hashem will help you, that means that you now have given permission for the Satan to enter and give you all types of thoughts. So, because they had doubts about Moshe coming, they had doubts about Hashem. The Satan came into their minds and said, okay, so that means that we need somebody else to represent us to God.

1:03:04They conjured up in their own minds that, okay, since Moshe is probably dead, we have to start with the fix—who's gonna help us? So the Satan took advantage of this. The Zohar HaKadosh says that the Satan showed them a movie of the angels carrying the body of Moshe. He's like, "Yeah, you're right, Moshe did die," and he showed them the angels carrying the body of Moshe. Fake movie, fake news. Why? Because they allowed him to enter. They allowed the Satan to enter because of their doubt. They forgot that Moshe Rabbeinu was the go'el, spoke to Hashem, was the one that brought the plagues, took them out of Mitzrayim, Kriyat Yam Suf, and so on. They forgot, as if nothing happened. Six-hour mistake, six hours by their mistake, not by Moshe Rabbeinu. Already they had doubts and they let the Satan in. So the Satan came in there and told them, "Hey, Moshe is dead." So that made them think even further. Okay, so now their doubt became almost a confirmation. So they went to Aharon and told him, "Build us an idol, build us an idol, build us a sanctuary that we can serve Hashem through it."

1:04:21they weren't actually praying to the idol as if the idol was God. They wanted to build a sanctuary. They needed some type of intermediary, but no one was like Moshe Rabbeinu. They said, "Build us some type of thing." that we could, in essence, use as the key to connect to G-d, which is a violation of one of the 13 principles of faith. You can never think for a moment that anyone, anyone is needed for you to connect to G-d. Not your rabbi, not a statue, not money, not anything. If you want to connect to G-d, you can connect to G-d by simply speaking. He's not gonna talk back to you, but He will do things in your life if you pray hard enough to show you that He's listening. The point is that they wanted to build some type of sanctuary, and Hur did not want to do it because he knew this is idolatry. They ignored him, and they ended up killing Hur. So then they went to Aharon, Aharon HaKohen, Moshe Rabbeinu's brother. They said to him, "Build us a sanctuary, build us something." So Aharon didn't have even one doubt.

1:05:32that Moshe was still alive. But he also knew they just killed one of the Gedolei HaDor. They're already, there's blood on their hands. They're not gonna hesitate for a second to kill him too. But he knew that they needed him. Why? Because as soon as Moshe Rabbeinu comes down, they're gonna have to do teshuva. But how are they gonna be able to do teshuva in those days? They need a parah adumah, a parah adumah. They have to be purified. They touched a dead body. They need a kohen for that, a kohen. He's the only kohen. He's the Kohen Gadol. If they kill him, they can't do teshuva. So he said, okay, no, let me buy some time. He said, "Listen, guys, okay, you know what? You want something? Fine. Give me all your gold." Usually, you ask people for money, they start walking out. Have you ever noticed anytime I talk about money, people start walking out? The views on the internet start dropping precipitously. One guy, God bless him, today, he sends me a message. He says, I don't know, there's a video I watched of you, and you talk about the end of days. And I don't think that that conversation of scaring people about the end of days should be talked about at the same time you talk about tzedakah.

1:06:46So, I said, why? I said, generally, the tzedakah is not for me to pay my rent. Tzedakah is for people to do teshuva. And that's why, you know, it says tzedakah tatzil mimavet. It's just the opposite. Tzedakah tatzil mimavet. Tzedakah is going to save you from death. He goes, yeah, but maybe that's only times where there is a turmoil within a nation. I said, what do you mean? Parashat Bechukotai, Parashat Ki Tavo, Parashat Ha'azinu, Moshe Rabbeinu is rebuking the people to do teshuva, or else Hashem is going to destroy the world. One of the ways for people to do teshuva, needless to say, if you're going to give tzedakah for the sake of helping people do teshuva, that's the greatest thing in the world you can do. I said, which video are you talking about anyway where I talk about the end of the world and tzedakah at the same time? I don't remember my videos. He goes, no, no, you didn't talk about it in the video. It's just that on the bottom of the video there was a donate button. I said, Hashem yishmor v'yatzil. Hashem yishmor v'yatzil. This is like, this is like the FBI, FBI of Facebook, FBI of internet. Like how come you don't go to Chabad or Hidabroot or Chazaq or Aish or any other organization that sends you 5,000 emails a second about donating to some type of cause? But you found me because you saw a donate button at the bottom of the thing, why?

1:08:03So, I don't know, maybe someone's gonna donate 18 cents or 18 dollars. That's why you're trying to make sure that nobody says we stay broke. Well, I don't understand some people, God bless them. But anyway, you talk about money and people get scared. They start running away. Why? Because, chas v'shalom, nobody's gonna become a millionaire again. That's wrong, guys. No, he has to stay poor. He has to stay poor. I got one kid, a cute kid, in Canada and... He came to me. He's a longtime friend, God bless him. And he says to me, "Listen, a friend of mine has been listening to you for a long time. But then he stopped listening to you." I said, "Why?" He said, "Because somebody asked how you make money or how you survive and so on. And you answered the question in a way where it wasn't really understood. So he thought that maybe you were, like, I don't know, lying about it." What he thinks I'm living off of? Off of what? You think I'm making millions of dollars off of business or something? You think I said, you know what? I won't even talk about it. I just took my phone and said, "Here, let me show you my bank account." I showed my bank account: $2,500, and $1,800 of it was deposited that day by some miracle. I said, "Here you go. Here's my bank. You take a picture of it and send it to your friend. Here's the millions of dollars that I have—the $2,500, of which $1,800 came in seven hours before that." Hey, here you go.

1:09:23people are simply crazy, crazy. If I wanted to make money, I would quit tomorrow. I could make a million dollars in my first year on Wall Street without doing anything. Without doing anything! I'd go to any Wall Street firm, sign up, and they'd give me a hundred thousand a month just for my mouth, without even making sales. People are simply crazy, crazy. Why? Yetzer Hara is looking for you, looking, looking, looking. I wish I could advertise my bank account on the website live. Where it stays low, it kills the ayin hara. If it gets high, it kills the ayin hara also. If you become a millionaire, they die anyway. If you stay poor, they die also. Maybe somebody can give me like a button. I can put my bank account live on the website as one of the buttons. How much people care about my pocket! My whole life, my whole life, people are counting my money. And all the lack of it. Anyway, when you ask people for money, they get scared. They don't get scared when Manis Friedman collects $5,000 for a half-hour speech. They don't get scared when other speakers collect $25,000, $30,000 to come to your beit knesset for a Shabbaton. They're going to speak for two hours. They don't get scared about that. But if Yaron Reuven puts a donate button that maybe someone's going to get $18...

1:10:41Just look at the feed for all the YouTube live videos. Look at the feed. There's like a handful of tzaddikim that beg people to donate. At the end of it, one of the guys, you know, sends me an email. "Oh, you raised $116." I said, "Wow, amazing. That's half a salary for one person for a day." Like, people are simply insane. Insane. The yetzer hara over there is insane. But what can you do? You have to laugh at it. You have to. You have to. Why? Because it's their yetzer hara. Miskinim, they have such yetzer hara. So when Aharon HaKohen told people, "Go give me your money, give me your gold," he thought that people were going to start doing what they do to me. "No, you're crazy. What are you all about? Money, Aharon." To his surprise, their yetzer hara was even bigger than the people that deal with me. In a second, everybody started taking off all their earrings, all their rings, everything except the women. The women didn't give up. The women were tzaddikot. The men, unfortunately, started taking off all their jewelry and started throwing it in the fire.

1:11:52And Micha, as I told you, the young boy that followed Moshe Rabbeinu, had the mateh, the piece of metal with Hashem's name on it, and the verse on the other side, also threw that mateh into the fire. Aaron thought that even though they gave me all this gold, it's going to take hours and hours, maybe even days, to melt this gold and make it into something. But to his dismay, when Micha threw that mateh into the fire, it brought kedusha. The fire and actually the whole that's why it says in the verse that the bull came out of the fire wasn't made. It came out of the fire, meaning it was made by itself. It came out. That's when Moshe Rabbeinu said to Aharon, "Why did you do this to the people? We hate them." He says, "You know I didn't hate them. You know that they're stubborn people. The bull came out by itself." Rashi says in the place over there, he says, "What do you mean it came out by itself?" And he tells the whole story that I told you guys about how Micha threw the mateh. So now the bull came out, and the bull came out speaking, saying, "I am the God that took you out of Egypt," saying the first commandment. So when they worshipped this bull, they weren't worshipping the bull as if the bull was God. They weren't stupid.

1:13:12They weren't crazy, but they were mistaken. They thought they needed the bull. They thought they needed something. But I would still consider it idolatry. If you know a Jew that prays to his rabbi, that's idol worship. If you know a Jew that's praying to some rabbi that died or someone who is alive, that's 100% idol worship. Even if the rabbi was the biggest rabbi in the world, even if it was Moshe Rabbeinu himself, it's idol worship. If you have a guy, if you have a Jew that says, no, if you want to connect to God, you have to do it through my rabbi, that's idol worship. Go look in Masechet Avodah Zarah or the Rambam Hilchot Avodah Zarah. You see it's 100% idol worship. You cannot think even for a second that you need a middleman to connect to God. This is one of the reasons why Christianity is idol worship. It's not just one reason that they're idol worshippers. The fact that even if they're messianics... Even if they call themselves Messianics, which by the way, even the Messianics believe that Yoshke is God. Just news for anybody who doesn't know. But even if they're Messianics, they're telling you that in order to connect to God, you need Yoshke. That's idolatry. 100% idolatry. So when they did that, that was idolatry.

1:14:24but it wasn't because they wanted to go against God, but rather because they thought they needed something in order to connect to God because of the mistakes that I mentioned. Now, the other time, part two of the answer—sorry for it being so long, but hopefully entertaining. When they performed idolatry at the time of the Beit HaMikdash, it wasn't the same thing. And where do we know that from? Gemara, Masechet Sanhedrin, says that at the time of the Beit HaMikdash... No one was doubting that God exists. There weren't atheists walking around like today. No one was doubting. Why? You have the Beit HaMikdash, you have a fire in the shape of a lion coming down to the Beit HaMikdash every day. A fire, a giant cloud of fire, blue fire in the shape of a lion coming down to the Beit HaMikdash every day to burn the Korbanot. 410 years, 410 years with millions of sacrifices—bulls, calves, doves, all types of birds, and so on—sacrifices to the Beit HaMikdash, blood everywhere, yet not a single fly or mosquito ever had a wing inside the Beit HaMikdash. You go to your local butcher shop, there are 500 million flies there, parking, having lunch.

1:15:49Sacrifice—not a single fly. No woman, for 400 years, no woman had a miscarriage. No woman had a miscarriage. How many miscarriages happen today? Sometimes on purpose. The amount of miracles that they had at the time of the Beit HaMikdash had no end. So no one had a doubt that Hashem was running the world. The Gemara says that the reason why they performed idolatry was not because they wanted to worship idols, but rather because they wanted the rabbis to leave them alone. Stop telling them to come to the Beit Knesset. Stop telling them to keep Shabbat. Why? Because they wanted to go hang out with the Goyot. They wanted to commit acts of immorality. Everyone knows, the Gemara says, that they didn't believe in these stupid idols. So why did they perform this idolatry? They performed the idolatry because they knew that as soon as the rabbis, the sages, saw them pray to some statue, they wouldn't come back to their house to try to do kiruv anymore. It's like, "Ah, this guy is a mikreh avud, this is a lost cause, this guy is an idol worshiper." They would leave them alone, so then they would be free to go out with their non-Jewish girlfriends and commit every crime under the sun.

1:17:02So the second one is for immorality. They wanted to commit immoral acts, and that's why they, in essence, pretended to worship the idols. But nonetheless, they were still charged with idolatry in heaven. They were still charged with idolatry in heaven, but it wasn't because of the idolatry, but rather because of the immorality that they wanted to commit. Next question. Good question. Next question. Chavrutah. Good. Yeah. Ah.

1:18:08Ah, so yes, the mistake actually was due to Moshe's error. The Midrash Me'am Loez and the Gemara also talk about it, saying that HaKadosh Baruch Hu told them that he was going to go up there, and apparently they knew it was going to be a certain amount of time, but Moshe Rabbeinu wanted to extend it by a day. He didn't want to leave Hashem. I mean, imagine, you're learning chavruta with HaKadosh Baruch Hu. You want to leave? I'd never want to leave. I'd tell Him, Hashem, why don't You send them an email? Send them an email, a text message. What do You need? I don't need to go. I'm studying with You, HaKadosh Baruch Hu. Who has a better chavruta than that? He didn't want to leave. He wanted to stay there for an extra day. And because he stayed that extra time, because he wanted to delay it, if you will, that gave them enough time to have this this thought in their head, which in essence led to the sin. That's part of the reason why HaKadosh Baruch Hu said to Moshe Rabbeinu, you know, "Go down there, look, your people, your people, not My people, your people sinned."

1:19:17Your people sinned. Chazal say for a few reasons. One of them is because, in essence, it was Moshe's mistake. But the other reason also is because it all started with the Erev Rav that Moshe brought to Mount Sinai because they said they wanted to convert, and in reality, they weren't really good converts. So Moshe took the initiative to bring them on, had mercy on them, and wanted to bring them on, and it was really their fault. So, this is why it's always good for a person to not only read Rashi when he learns the Chumash, but also, after you've covered Rashi a few times and you're pretty well versed in what Rashi says on the Torah, you should start looking into the Midrashim. The Midrash HaGadol, Midrash Rabbah, Midrash Me'am Lo'ez, Yalkut Shimoni—there are many, many Midrashim. There's no end to the Midrashim. In English, for example, the Midrash Me'am Lo'ez is something out of this world because Rav Culi, 300 years ago, would fast

1:20:29for a week straight, learning Torah and writing his Midrash. He would fast from Motzei Shabbat until Shabbat, learning Torah and writing this Midrash. Unfortunately, he didn't complete it by himself. He only finished the first two books, Bereshit and Shemot, and then it was completed by other Chachamim later on. But nonetheless, that Midrash uses sources from all across the gamut of Torah. It's from the Gemara, from the Zohar, from all types of Midrashim, from Shulchan Aruch, all types of things. And it not only tells you the behind-the-scenes, the behind-the-scenes of what happened behind all of these stories, if you will, but also teaches you the mitzvot inside it, and why we have this mitzvah, and what's the detail of this mitzvah. So it's very, very in-depth. Midrash, I believe the Midrash Me'am Lo'ez has 45 books that go across the board of the entire Tanakh. When I tell people to study it, I usually recommend buying one book at a time rather than buying the entire 45. First of all, to see if you like it, and second of all, it's much easier to deal with your Yetzer Hara when you have one book in front of you rather than 45 that you haven't read.

1:21:52When you have 45 that you haven't read, it becomes overwhelming. You figure, oh, there's so much to read, I'm never going to finish. You end up not even starting. So to beat your Yetzer Hara, buy one at a time. Get close to finishing, then order the second one. by the time you finish the first one, the second one has already arrived. Or, if you want, buy two at a time. That's, you know, a little trick. You want to buy 45 books? Buy 45. I don't care. It's your money. It's not that—it's just that you have to know how to deal with your Yetzer Hara. Many people have bookshelves and bookshelves in the house full of books they never read. You know, they have lots and lots of books, but they haven't read all of them, yet they keep buying more books. because the cover looks good and the idea that it says that it has in the book also looks good. But they have so many books they don't know where to start, so they end up either not reading anything at all or they just read the first, you know, 20, 30, 40 pages of every book. So they end up knowing a little bit about nothing. They have just enough to hold a conversation, but they really don't know anything. If you want to understand what an author wrote, you have to read from beginning to end.

1:23:03You have to read from beginning to end. When we talk about Torah, it's different. As for secular books, you shouldn't read them at all. For secular books, you can read the first sentence and the last sentence of every paragraph, and you'll understand the entire paragraph. But with Torah, you can't do that. In general writing, secular writing, the first sentence of a paragraph and the last sentence of a paragraph give you the entire idea of the paragraph. That's how people who read many secular books generally do it. Because you pretty much got the whole idea. You don't care about the details. Once you get the whole idea, the first sentence and the last sentence tell you pretty much the overall idea. If you want details, you have to obviously read the whole thing. But with Torah, you can't do that. Because when it's real Torah, every sentence is more than an entire book's worth of information if you read it correctly. That's why the Chachamim go over the same books over and over and over again a thousand times. You know, for example, Rav Moshe Feinstein, alav hashalom, what's known is that he completed the Shas, what's known, we don't know how much is not known. We know for sure he completed the Shas no less than 400 times. The Sha'agat Aryeh, a few generations before, completed the Shas no less than a thousand times. A thousand times, no less than a thousand times.

1:24:30what's the Shas if you have, let's say, if you're an English speaker and you're reading the Shas from, let's say, the translation of ArtScroll, which, in my opinion, is the best translation for English. And really, even people that speak a little bit of Hebrew should read with the English translation because the goal of learning Gemara is to understand what it says, not to learn another language. You can learn another language throughout reading, but the key is to understand what it says, not to just break your head understanding the language. So it's best for you to read your first language. If your first language is French, read it in French. If your first language is English, read it in English. There are many guys that study Gemara but don't know anything. Why? Because they understand Hebrew to a certain extent but not enough to really understand the Gemara. So they'll read the whole page and they'll read the daf yomi and they'll finish the masechet. You ask him, "Okay, so give me a chiddush that you learned from this Masechet Shabbat or Masechet or whatever masechet you just finished. Give me a chiddush that you learned." Blank. your first language. If your first language is French, read it in French. If your first language is English, read it in English. There are many guys that study Gemara but don't know anything. Why? Because they understand Hebrew to a certain extent but not enough to really understand the Gemara. So they'll read the whole page and they'll read the Daf Yomi and they'll finish the Masechet. You ask him, "Okay, so give me a chiddush that you learned from this Masechet Shabbat or Masechet or whatever Masechet you just finished. Give me a chiddush that you learned."

1:25:28Nothing. What do you mean? You just learned this thing over the last few months. You don't know anything? You have to keep Shabbat. Thank you. Thank you. That's what you learned. Masechet, 156 pages. You learned you have to keep Shabbat. That's what you learned. So, why? In reality, they don't understand completely. They understand a little here, a little there. A lot of misunderstandings. Many times they go to the wrong conclusion because they don't understand the language. So, it's very important to learn Gemara in your first language. There's no embarrassment. There's no shame there. And anyone that makes fun of you, send them to me. These people are fools. They're fools. You have to learn what it says, not learn a language. I've talked about this in the past. Anyway, when you're reading the Gemara, if you're reading the ArtScroll version... The ArtScroll version has something like 73 or 76 books that make up the Gemara because each masechet is not one book for them. It's, you know, it's like Shabbat is four books, Avodah Zarah is two books, and so on and so forth. Berachot is two books, and so on. So that means that Rav Moshe Feinstein read those 73 books and much more. No less, each book, by the way, is close to a thousand pages and...

1:26:51Small print, not like the textbooks they have in school today. There's six words per page and a lot of pictures. Small, tiny little print. Small, tiny little print. The whole page from beginning to end, both sides. Almost the equivalent of somewhere in the neighborhood of 5,500 pages, which in English is something in the neighborhood of probably 73,000 pages. 400 times. So when a person asks themselves, why would you read the same thing 400 times? It was enough of an accomplishment for you to read it once. Why 400 times? Why does Rav Kanievsky read the entire Shas every single year? Why? You read it already for 80 years, 80 times at least. Why are you reading it again? Because if it's real Torah, each verse, each line from the Chachamim, you could learn it a million times. Not a thousand times, not 400 times. A million times and still learn something new from it. A million times, you still learn something new from the same verse.

1:28:04I'm not talking about the verse from the Torah, which has no end. I'm talking about Gemara. Gemara. Each line they wrote in the Gemara, you can learn that one line, one sentence in the Gemara, a million times to learn something new. Needless to say, that's why they read it many, many times. So it's important for a person to read some of these Midrashim. Because those midrashim are going to complete the missing pieces of the puzzle and disregard stupid people. And I have to use the word "stupid" because "foolish" is not enough. I have to insult them a little extra. Those who tell you that midrashim are simply fairy tales. or they're just optional to even take into consideration or believe, you know, like some of these clowns that you have on the internet that make fun of Midrashim, make fun of the Zohar, pretty much make fun of everything other than whatever they think they like. Midrashim—if you do not learn Midrashim, you're simply not going to understand anything. You're not going to understand why the story even makes sense.

1:29:10Every time I learn a new Midrash, it adds so many more pieces to the puzzle that, wow, wow, I can't believe I survived without this piece. Then you learn another one, it's like, wow, I can't believe I survived without this piece. You realize there's so much more to the story. There are so many different things. Till now, for 30, 40 years, you thought that the Jewish people were idiots and they prayed to some bull that they bought in Chinatown. Then you find out, oh, wait a minute, no, the bull spoke. Oh, wow. Then you find out the bull came out of the fire by itself. Then you're like, oh, wait, you know what? I think I'm going to pray for this one. Then you hear that he said, "I'm God." Oh, wow, this guy, where is he? Can I find him? Then you hear that, no, I wasn't really praying to them. I was thinking that he was a sanctuary to connect to Hashem. Now you realize they're not stupid, but they're actually making a sin that we would have made five times more. ...five times more. But without the context, you're not going to know that. So that's why it's important to learn. Next question: Okay, Jews missionizing, why not? The thought of Jewish missionaries...

1:30:32was an unheard of concept for most of history. And the reason why is because throughout most of history we have been the persecuted nation. So to go tell people, listen, go become a Jew and join us in the Holocaust. Go become a Jew and join us in slavery in Egypt. Go become a Jew, keep Shabbat, and they'll kill you in Spain for doing absolutely nothing. Go become a Jew, keep Shabbat, and they'll murder you in England. Why? Because your cousin that's a loan shark lent them some money. It was a completely ridiculous concept to tell people to become Jewish because, in essence, what you're telling people is to commit suicide. What are you telling them? So now that's why the Gemara in Masechet Yevamot discusses the conditions for converting someone. It says, what are the conditions for converting somebody? Now, if you want to go tell somebody, go become a Jew, you can. There's nothing wrong with it. There's nothing wrong with it. But until recently, it was a ridiculous concept. Why? We were persecuted. Why would you tell somebody to go join you, number one? Number two, why would they want to join you? Exactly. They're trying to kill you. Why would they want to join you? And even if they're not attacking you, why would they want to join the guy that's being attacked?

1:31:51It's insanity. It's like a guy that's a homeless guy telling the rich guy, "Hey, listen, why don't you join us in a homeless shelter?" It doesn't make any sense because they don't understand the Kedusha, the holiness, Hashem is one, and so on. So now, only in recent history and throughout history in general, in periodic times, like the time of Moshe Rabbeinu, the time of Shlomo HaMelech, David HaMelech, a certain amount of years in Spain, a certain amount of time at the Beit HaMikdash, a certain amount of times we had pockets of good. We had pockets of time that we had peace, we had pockets of time, a certain amount of years that we were okay and we weren't persecuted. But that generally, if you calculate how many years out of the 3,300 years that we were a nation, it's small pockets of time. It's a small fraction of time. If you look at what's happened to Am Yisrael, let's say over the last, I don't know, let's say 30, 40 years, it's an anomaly. The fact that Jewish people are prospering all over the world in all types of professions and achievements is unheard of. Why, just 75 years ago, they were killing us like the Chinese are killing dogs in the streets, with no one saying anything about it—not the Americans, and not anybody else. They were killing us by the millions, and that wasn't the first time. They did it in the generation before that, and the generation before that, and so on and so forth. So...

1:33:16Freedom that we have now, the prosperity that we have right now, is just another pocket of time that we're doing okay. Going in missionizing would make sense. Why wouldn't you want to join the army? Right now, Nobel Prize winners per capita are the highest in the world. Jewish people, as far as Jewish success in... It's not a it's not a secret. Everybody knows that Jews are very successful as far as intellect. Baruch Hashem, we're smart people. Whatever it is, you know, so it makes a lot of sense to go missionize now, but until now it wasn't exactly a concept to even think of because it didn't make any sense. It is 100% allowed, but it is not something that we've done. And the other part of the reason why is because the Jewish people were always afraid of missionaries. So to go and missionize other people, we were afraid that we would let in the monster. We would let in someone that would say, okay, you know, I want to be Jewish. Okay, I'll be Jewish. And in reality, he doesn't want to be Jewish.

1:34:21But he wants to go into your Beit Knesset like they did in North Miami Beach. The missionary went to the Beit Knesset, no one said anything, and while they're all eating cholent, he's missionizing one of their kehillah members to go believe in Yoshke. So Jewish people were always afraid of missionaries, stealing their people, leading them to idolatry. So now, what would they do if somebody came to them? So the Gemara in Masechet Yevamot, page 47a... Has a Baraita. Says the Rabbi is talking about Baraita. If someone comes to the Jewish court, comes to the Beit Din and says, I want to convert to Judaism. What do you do? So the court, the Beit Din says, why do you want to convert? Why do you want to convert? he's gonna tell them all, "I love the emet. I love God. I love the Torah. I love mitzvot. You know, people tell me 500 times a day, 'I love, I love, I love.' They don't know much about it many times, but they love it." So then the court says, "Do you not know that nowadays the Jewish people are afflicted, oppressed, downtrodden, and harassed?"

1:35:41and that hardships are frequently visited upon them. Meaning, don't you realize they're killing us in the streets? Don't you realize the Romans are killing us just for being Jewish? Don't you realize the Greeks are killing us just for being Jewish? Don't you realize that the Egyptians almost killed all of us? Don't you realize that they're trying to kill us constantly? And if it's not with the sword, then it's with taxes. And if it's not with taxes, it's with other laws. And if it's not with the laws, it's all types of things. They're constantly torturing us in every community. No exceptions. At the time of Rashi, 900 years ago, One of the Christians sent a request to Rashi's city for his commentary because he heard that Rashi had made a commentary on the Tanakh. And he says, "I wanted to see the commentary." Rashi says, "No, don't show him the commentary." Why not? Because if they learn from it, they're going to use it against us. And he didn't want to do it. He didn't want to give him the commentary. But then they started getting threats: "If we don't get the commentary, we're going to kill everybody."

1:36:48so Rashi agreed to give them part of the commentary. But when the Christian showed up to get it, he thought he was going to meet Rashi himself, and he got very, very upset. He got very upset that Rashi himself didn't come. But then they saw in the book that, in reality, Rashi's commentary destroys their religion. That's why the Christians, to this day, don't read the Old Testament, what they call the Old Testament, which is our Torah, with commentary by us. They read it by their jokers. They read it by their clowns. Why? Because if you read the Torah with Rashi's commentary, there is no chance in the world that you will remain an idol worshiper. It's impossible. There's no chance because now you finally understand what the Torah says. But if you read it with the commentary of clowns, then of course you could believe whatever they want you to believe. So now they tell this convert, a guy that wants to convert, this candidate, "Don't you realize they're killing us?" Listen to this, rabotai. If he responds, this potential convert, if he responds, "I know, I know about all these hardships, I know that there was a Holocaust and there will be a Holocaust and all this, I know about all this stuff."

1:38:07i am still unworthy of joining them. Meaning, I know about all these hardships, but the Jewish people are so holy I'm not even worthy of being part of them. Please let me in. With all of these hardships that they have, they're still the greatest people on the planet, and I'm not even worthy of being part of them. Then the Beit Din says we accept him immediately. Immediately, we accept him. Why? Because he got the point of what it means to be a Jew. What does it mean? It's not about whether you know Torah or you don't know Torah. There are plenty of goyim that can tell you verses from the Torah by heart. It doesn't actually mean they know anything, but they know some things by heart. It doesn't mean just because you like the mitzvot or you don't like the mitzvot, therefore that qualifies you to be a convert. You know what qualifies you to be a convert?

1:39:08that you know that there's nothing on earth greater than Am Yisrael. Nothing on earth greater than Am Yisrael. They are the chosen people. They are God's firstborn. There's nothing better than them. Yeah, but what about all the sins? Yeah, where are the sins? Yeah, but all the... Oh, in all of that, they're still the greatest of all. Why? Who is like you? Who is like Am Yisrael that prays to Him like we pray to Him? That worships Him like we worship Him? That does every single thing we do involves HaKadosh Baruch Hu? I'm not talking about the sinners of Am Yisrael. I'm talking about the righteous of Am Yisrael. The righteous of Am Yisrael. I'll give you an example. The time of the Holocaust. The Nazis were not only looking to destroy the flesh, but also the neshama of the Jewish people. The morale of the Jewish people as well. So they took a school, a school of girls, and there was a teacher

1:40:28With a few other teachers and a bunch of young girls from the ages of 14 to 30, 93 total girls. They were especially beautiful and they kept them on the side. They didn't send them to the Holocaust camps, didn't sell them into slavery, didn't send them to the gas chambers. Instead, they sent them to a hotel to wine and dine them. Why? Because the evil Nazis wanted to be with them intimately. Whether they were 14 or they were 24, it didn't make a difference. They wanted to be with them intimately. But they knew that these Jewish girls are not going to do that. These are Bais Yaakov, Kodesh Kodashim, B'nos Yisrael. So they figured they'll wine and dine them and then eventually if they don't want to, they'll just simply rape them. So the teacher knew all of this and wrote a letter which was only found after the war, published in many books. She read this speech to the girls, little girls, little 14-year-old girls, 15-year-old girls: "We are God's daughters. We are princesses. We are different."

1:41:59We keep the Torah and mitzvot. We will die before we let a goy be intimate with us. It's better to die than to be intimate with a non-Jew for a second, for a Jew. Non-Jew with non-Jew, perfectly fine. Jew with Jew, perfectly fine. It's a match. Jew with non-Jew, you have to die. Because HaKadosh Baruch Hu says there are three sins for which you must die rather than transgress. One of them is Giluy Arayot. Another one is idolatry. A third one is murder. Giluy arayot is a sex crime, immorality. They want to be with us, with or without our will. "It's better to die," she says to them. Even though halakhically, they say that technically if it's a woman and she's not enjoying it, she technically doesn't have to die. She could just sit there, and Hashem yerachem. She doesn't have to die.

1:43:03But the Beit Yaakov Tzadikot, Kodesh Kodashim, they listened to their teacher. The teacher says, it's better that we die than let one of these Nazi evil Imach Shemam V'Zichram touch your finger. She arranged poison for every one of them, and by the time the evil Nazis walked in thinking they're gonna have a good time, they saw 93 women dead. Yishtabach Shemo La'ad. There's a gan in Eretz Yisrael called Gan 93. Kindergarten 93, after these girls. It's in Bnei Brak. Gan 93. This is a very famous story. Why is it such a fantastic story? Why should you be happy with the story, not sad? Because at the time, of Avraham Avinu. When he was a young boy, he believed in God by himself; nobody else in the world believed in God. Nimrod wanted everybody to believe in him. So when he found out that Avraham, this little boy, didn't want to believe in him, he said, "I'll throw you in a fire." Avraham had no problem. "I'll go in a fire before I believe in anything but God."

1:44:30The people, the two cops, two generals, that threw Avraham into the fire, they themselves, the fire was so strong, they themselves burned just by being next to the hole. Avraham jumped into the fire. The angels, the Malachei HaSharet, ran to Hashem, "Hashem, Avraham, your only believer, is going to get burned. Let us save him." Hashem says, "No, no, no." He's alone down there. He's the only one that believes in Me. I'm alone up here. I'll save him Myself. HaKadosh Baruch Hu Himself saved Avraham Avinu. But it says that HaKadosh Baruch Hu smelled the Reach Nichoach. He smelled an aroma. So Chazal over there say, what did He smell? What did He smell over there? Well, He smelled Avraham being burned. Says he smelled the smell of Avraham. What does it mean, the smell of Avraham? The smell of Avraham's descendants. Chananiah, Mishael, and Azariah at the time of Daniel. They wanted to throw them into the fire.

1:45:39Anyone that didn't believe in the idol, all of the goyim, all of the other nations prayed to the idol. They told everybody, "Listen, if you don't pray to the idol, we're gonna kill you, throw you in a fire." And these three tzaddikim, they could have just run out of the city and that's it, saved their own lives. No one would know. But they said, no, no, no, it would be in the papers tomorrow that the Jews ran away. Maybe, you know, something's wrong over there. Maybe they really believe, maybe they don't believe. It would leave doubts. No, no, no. We're going to tell everybody in the world, we don't believe in this idol, we believe only in Hashem. But before, they went to the prophet Yechezkel. He said, ask Hashem if He is going to save us tomorrow. We're going to go to the fire. We're going to tell the king that we don't believe in him. We don't believe in his idol. We're not praying to any idol. We only believe in Hashem. And we're going to jump into the fire. Is Hashem going to save us like He saved Avraham Avinu? Yechezkel says, one second, let me talk to G-d. That's how it is. He goes, one second, I'll talk to G-d. Like you guys tell me, you have an answer, I say, let me talk to my Rav for a second, I'll get back to you. One second, I'll talk to G-d. Yechezkel says to them, one second, I'll be right back. He goes, talks to HaKadosh Baruch Hu. HaKadosh Baruch Hu says to Yechezkel, Yechezkel, tell them, no, I will not save them. If they want to die on Mesirut Nefesh, they want to die on Kiddush Hashem, let them die.

1:47:07No problem, not going to help them. Yechezkel comes back to them. He says, you're on your own. Hashem says, you jump in the fire, you want to die al kiddush Hashem? Go ahead, do it. Big mitzvah. But He's not going to help you. They leave. And Yechezkel says to Hashem, after they leave, Hashem, you're really not gonna save them? Like why not? You saved Avraham. Hashem says to Yechezkel, you really think I'm not gonna save them? Of course I'm gonna save them, but I didn't want to tell them I'm gonna save them and steal the mitzvah from them. Now they're gonna go and jump into the fire thinking that they're gonna die. That's a real mitzvah. Even if I save them, it's a huge mitzvah, it's kiddush Hashem. They'll be read in the Tanach forever. But if I told them, listen, you can jump wherever you want and I'll catch you, then what kind of mitzvah is that? You already have the winning lotto ticket. What kind of mitzvah is this? It's not kiddush Hashem. Nothing. You already know you won. So that's why I didn't want to steal the mitzvah from them. HaKadosh Baruch Hu at the time of Avraham Avinu was smelling the fire of these three tzaddikim. And guess what, rabotai? He was also smelling the fire of all the tzaddikim that died al kiddush Hashem at the time of the Beit HaMikdash.

1:48:26Instead of converting to false religions and idolatry, they killed themselves. HaKadosh Baruch Hu was smelling the fire of the people that died throughout the last 3,000 years just for you to be Jewish, including these 93 tzaddikot that were willing to die and not be intermarried even for a minute. Intermarriage does not require a court; intermarriage is just simply being intimate. with someone that's not Jewish. That's intermarriage. When a Jewish girl goes with a non-Jewish guy, doesn't matter if they're married, that's intermarriage already. A Jewish guy with a non-Jewish girl, that's already intermarriage. They lost their share of the World to Come. They went against Hashem. These girls say, even though we have an excuse, even though we technically even have a biblical permission—a Torah permission—to save our lives, we'll just sit there and let this filthy pig finish what he wants to finish, and then we'll go back to our lives. No, no, no, my friends. We're not going to ruin our kedusha. We're going to go and kill ourselves, get burned, die, just so we don't even ruin a little bit of kedusha, a little bit of Hashem's name, even a little bit.

1:49:48HaKadosh Baruch Hu smelled their fire 4,000 years ago. 4,000 years ago. Right now they're in Gan Eden with Rabbi Akiva and his friends. That's Kiddush Hashem. For anyone who wonders what's Kiddush Hashem, that is Kiddush Hashem. That's Kiddush Hashem. Someone who dies for the sake of protecting the Torah. There's a very big difference if someone dies just because he's a Jew. That's called Arugei Malchut. Someone who dies for the sake of protecting the Torah. There's no one higher than him as far as Kiddush Hashem. There's something that's beyond belief. The only thing that's higher than dying al Kiddush Hashem is someone that lived al Kiddush Hashem and did kiruv, meaning helped people do teshuva. That's the only thing that's higher than that. But the point is, rabotai... These 93 precious neshamot understood what it means to be a Jew. Understood what it means to be a Jew. And that's the beauty. So now when this guy says, "I want to be a Jew, and despite the fact that they're burning you, despite the fact that they're killing you, I'm not even worthy," then he got the point.

1:51:03Because that means he's willing to die for the sake of Judaism. He's willing to die for the sake of HaKadosh Baruch Hu. So then the Gemara continues, does he know anything? He doesn't know anything. The Gemara says, we inform him of some minor mitzvot and some major mitzvot. We tell him some small things: do Netilat Yadayim, say a bracha before you eat, say a bracha after you eat. Some small stuff, easy stuff. And then we tell him some big mitzvot: you have to keep Shabbat, you can't worship an idol. Basic stuff, but not overwhelming. Not overwhelming, but what do they delve on? More than teaching them the minor and the big mitzvot, because this is all happening on the spot. It's not like I'm sending you to a course for six months. It's all happening on the spot. Listen. What do they delve on specifically? What's the next page and a half about? It says, and we inform him of the sin of failing to observe the laws of Leket, Shikhecha, Pe'ah, Maaser Ani. We inform him of the punishment for one who violates the mitzvot.

1:52:11we tell him, be aware that before you reach this level, if you ate chelev, which is a fatty part that we're not allowed to eat as Jews, you would not have been punished at all as a non-Jew. If you desecrated Shabbat, if you drove on Shabbat, you wouldn't be punished with stoning. But if you now eat chelev, if you now violate Shabbat, you will get the punishment of stoning. And then we inform him of the punishment for transgressing the mitzvot. After that, we inform him of the reward for following the mitzvot by telling him, "Be aware that the World to Come is made only for the righteous." And in the present era, the Jewish people are unable to receive reward or good in this world. So, or an abundance of punishment, but we do not overwhelm him. So, you see here, Rabotai, that although they tell him a little bit,

1:53:34Few mitzvot keep this, keep this, keep this. What is the biggest focus on? Don't sin. Don't sin. Why? It's much worse to sin than to miss out on the mitzvah. Yes, if you sin, it's much worse than missing out on the mitzvah. Meaning, if you ate, let's say, you forgot to do a bracha, it's not good. But it's much, much worse if you light a fire on Shabbat. Oh Not that we're supposed to necessarily measure the mitzvot, but we understand it based on the punishment. If you ate something without saying a bracha, that's not good. It's not good. But you can do teshuva for it. Simple teshuva. If you drove on Shabbat, it's the death penalty. There's no teshuva for that. They kill you. If you drive on Shabbat knowing it's Shabbat, and you have witnesses and everything, they kill you. But if you ate without saying a bracha, no one kills you. You get punished, but no one kills you. Drive on Shabbat, you get killed. So that's what the main focus is. So that means that if a convert who hasn't even converted yet

1:54:45The first thing they teach him is a few minor mitzvot, a few big mitzvot, but mostly focus on staying away from punishment. Needless to say, we have to teach that to every single Jew in the world. A few mitzvot, a few big ones, a few small ones, but most importantly focus on not sinning. Why? Because if you sin, the punishment is heavy. And then they do the brit milah on him. But if the brit milah had a mistake, either because he did it already in the past at, let's say, the hospital, or they simply made a mistake, then they do another brit milah, a second brit milah. This happens, unfortunately, sometimes. But the point is, Rabotai, that the convert is not expected to be a rabbi. by the time he converts. He's expected to love Am Yisrael more than anything else, and to believe that Am Yisrael are the greatest among all creation. Secondly, he needs to know some basics, but most importantly, he must know the consequences of not following the Torah.

1:56:09Why? Because if you know the consequence of not following the Torah, you're much higher and much more likely to follow the Torah. Last question. I want to go. Chavot. Right. How would you discern in this situation whom to help?

1:57:13Who to help, whether to help a sinner or to help... So, if you see, for example, that there is a... I mean, what he's explaining over there from the verses is a little different from the situation today. So, for example... It says that if there's, let's say, a hole in the ground, and your friend's donkey falls into the hole in the ground, and you know that if you don't save this donkey, he's going to die, and your friend's going to lose money, don't just walk by and make it like, oh, it's not my donkey, so I don't care. You know, like people sometimes see garbage on the floor here in the Beit Knesset, and they just walk by like they didn't see the garbage. Why? Because the Rabbi can pick it up. You know, they don't want to pick it up. They see the girls slaving over bringing food every week, but everybody pretends like they didn't eat. So the girls pick it up, the girls make it, the girls do everything, but the guys just eat like pigs. No one wants to help. You know, like that. Have you ever heard of such a thing? It happens sometimes.

1:58:14So that's called selfish. That's what it's called. The Torah says don't be selfish. But don't be selfish not only with your friend but even with your enemy, someone you don't like. Why don't you like him? Oh, he's a sinner. Oh, this guy's a sinner. This guy, you know, he steals in his business. This guy violates Shabbat. So I shouldn't help him? No, no, no, my friend. If he's a Jew, you have to help him unless he's an idol worshiper. he's an idol worshiper or he's someone that leads other people astray, then it says let his donkey die, let him die, too. If he's stuck in a hole, the idol worshiper is stuck in a hole, let him die, don't save him. But how do we actually act in the world? We act in the world when we save them, too. Why? If you are a doctor and you get a call on Shabbat that someone is at risk of dying unless you come to the hospital and save their life with some type of surgery. If it's a Jew, it's a mitzvah for you to go save this person's life. It's a mitzvah for you to drive in a car on Shabbat to go save somebody's life. Mitzvah. It's not like it's not a sin. It's an actual mitzvah to drive on Shabbat and perform anything to save a Jewish life. But what about if it's not a Jew?

1:59:37What about if it's not a Jew? If you're a doctor, you still have to drive on Shabbat to go save the non-Jew. And the reason why is not because it's a mitzvah to save the non-Jew, but rather because if you don't save the non-Jew, then what's going to end up happening is that the non-Jewish doctors are not going to save the Jews, and you're going to indirectly hurt other Jews. Therefore, you go save the non-Jew also. It's not a sin, though. No, it's not a sin. No, because you're doing it for the betterment of Am Yisrael. But the point is that in this specific example, you have to make sure that your judgment of other people, even if they're sinners, is not too heavy and not heavier than God's. You're not allowed to hate the sinner; you have to hate the sin. The Gemara Masechet Berachot has a debate between Rabbi Meir Baal HaNes and his wife, Bruria.

2:00:37Bruria was a Talmidah Chachamah, a very wise woman, who knew a lot of Torah. She saw that her husband, the Gadol HaDor, Rabbi Meir Baal HaNes, was being insulted and bothered by these avaryanim, these gangsters outside. Every day these little gangster kids would bother him, call him names, and do all types of things. So they bothered him so much every day, every day, every day, that one day he found himself starting to pray for them to die. And Bruria, before he finished the prayer—because had he finished the prayer, they definitely would die—heard this and stopped him in the middle of the prayer. She said, "My dear husband, don't you know that Hashem doesn't want them to die? If He wanted them to die, they would already be dead. Don't you know that you're supposed to hate the sin and not the sinner? Rather than praying for them to die, pray for them to do teshuva."

2:01:40Rabbi Meir says, you're right, you're right, I should pray for them to do teshuva. He prayed for them to do teshuva, and they ended up doing teshuva. So that means, Rabotai, that if you see a Mechalel Shabbat driving on Shabbat, you see someone that's married to a non-Jew, you see a Jew married to a non-Jew, you see a Jewish guy going to a casino gambling, you see a Jewish guy eating pork on Yom Kippur, don't hate him. The sin, of course, you should hate the sin. But him himself, his personality, don't hate him per se. Why? He's not, normally speaking, I'm not talking about all the situations. Normally, he's not making the sin because he hates God. Generally speaking, most Jews are dear people and they're simply sinning because they're ignorant. They're clueless of the law. And even if they know the law, they don't know the consequence of violating the law. So they're eating pork because their belly is of higher value to them than the Torah is. If they're into arayot, that's because their private part is their brain, instead of their brain being their brain. If they're stealing in business, that's because they've turned money into a god, which many religious people do also. So don't hate the sinner, hate the sin. Unless...

2:03:04unless the sinner is a machti arabim. If the sinner leads other people astray, if the sinner makes fun of the Torah, if the sinner leads people to Christianity or to idolatry or to atheism or to Muslims or Islam, or he leads them away from God altogether for no reason, or he leads them to nightclubs, or he leads them to commit all types of crimes against Hashem, knowing that this is a sin and not caring, leading them astray on purpose He makes fun of the Torah. He writes things against the rabbis that are tzaddikim. He makes fun of God, things like that. Then he's a machti harabim. Then he's a meisit. And a person like that, somebody that leads people astray. And a person like that, it is a mitzvah. Again, it's a mitzvah to pray for that person to die. Not true. It's a mitzvah to pray for that person to die.

2:04:09You pray for him to die without even knowing it, three times a day in Amidah. This is in your Amidah three times a day. You pray for such people to die. Why? Because they lead people away from God. Every Jew that prays Amidah, this is part of Amidah. If you're a woman, you pray this once a day. If you're a guy, you pray this three times a day. Why? Because these people are enemies. So, those people, it is a mitzvah to hate them, a mitzvah to wish for them to die. But as far as a regular average Jewish guy who is clueless and just doesn't follow the Torah, no. That guy, you pray for him to do teshuva, and b'ezrat Hashem, he will, hopefully he will. You know, I'd say sometimes they don't, like my cousin, unfortunately. But nonetheless, it's somebody that you need to help. But again, if you see a person like that who violates Shabbat or other things, but not on purpose, not to make God mad and so on, you see his donkey in the hole, go help him.

2:05:24Go help him. Why do you go help him? Because that could potentially be your opening to not only show that you don't hate him, you hate his sins but not him, but also, further than that, it could also be a way for you to connect to this person and show him the beauty of Judaism. I know that many times, when people learn the beauty of Judaism, the true beauty of Judaism, their entire perspective changes. When they actually understand that we have rules for everything, but that's to mankind's benefit, they realize how beautiful Judaism is. Just look at the kindness that's done by religious people; it is unprecedented. No one can challenge it. No one can say that they even come close. For example, if you have any type of medical problem, Anytime you have a medical problem, you have an organization like Hatzalah that volunteers for free and doesn't send you a bill. They save lives 24 hours a day with a bunch of volunteers. You have organizations that give food for free every Shabbat, and sometimes every day. You have organizations that help with all types of things from the religious people that are unheard of and

2:06:41medical issues, medical bills—all types of things that religious people do that are just simply unheard of in the secular world. So that's because they are doing it because it's a mitzvah from the Torah, whereas the non-religious or the non-Jew are not doing it because it doesn't make sense for them to do such a thing. It doesn't make sense for a non-Jew to work for free; it doesn't make sense for a secular person to work for free. You know, they'll volunteer from time to time, but not make it their job. Whereas for a religious Jew, it's normal. Why? It's my chesed. This is how I fulfill the Torah. So, if you see a sinner, you have to know what kind of sinner it is. And as far as him being a meisit and so on, someone that's an enemy, you have to know this, not just think, oh, I think he is. you know if he's done something that you know of that is well-known, like if he has well-known websites that are against the Torah, if he's constantly talking against rabbis and things like that, then you know he is

2:08:00Understand they're Jews. You know my Jews. That's called... There are many of them. It's called a self-hating Jew. These people... But in the meantime, he's a Jew. So what are you saying about yourself? No, he doesn't consider himself Jewish. These are self-hating Jews. There are many of them. They're liberal, lefty-minded, that are anti-Torah. To give you an idea of how anti-Jewish they are... the time of the Holocaust, there was a shortage of resources in the Nazi army. They needed medicine, they needed trucks, they needed weapons, and they came to the Jews, the Zionists

2:09:20and they said, "Listen, we're willing to free 1 million Jews from the concentration camps. One million! We're talking about almost 20% of the people they murdered. We want to free 1 million Jews if you give us some trucks." And Ben-Gurion and his friends said no. In fact, the one guy that tried to do it and tried to get it done, they actually trapped him and sent him to jail. They sent him to jail while they let those million Jews die. These are self-hating Jews. Even more so at the time of the Holocaust, many people in America... tried to get it done. They actually trapped him and sent him to jail. They sent him to jail while they let those million Jews die. These are self-hating Jews. Even more so, at the time of the Holocaust, many people in America and did not know, Jewish people did not know that the Holocaust was happening to the extent that it was. The reason why is because many of them depended on the resource of the New York Times, and the New York Times, throughout all of the years of the Holocaust, barely reported anything about the Holocaust and intentionally hid the information.

2:10:35intentionally hid the information from the American public to minimize the damage and let more and more people die, even though it was run by a Jew—a Reform Jew. Until this day, they are still run by liberal, left-leaning, self-hating Jews. So further, just to complete the equation for you guys and show you how they don't just go away after the Holocaust was finished. During the Holocaust, The New York Times and their friends were trying to make sure as many people died as possible. Towards the end of the Holocaust, the Zionist evil monsters, you know, were making sure that all six million died, not just five million, because five million is not enough. We want to make sure it's a round number, six million. And if you read some of the letters that Ben-Gurion and some of his friends wrote during that time, which I've read them, I have a whole book of it in my house, they said, listen, what's the point of saving these people? The more that die, the more we're going to get sympathy from the world to get a country.

2:11:47They wanted more people to die. They wanted people to die. And they loved the New Testament, by the way. They said, listen, Zionism and Judaism have nothing to do with each other. In fact, they're polar opposites because where Judaism is destroyed, Zionism begins, because Zionism is something to destroy Judaism. not like people think that Zionism is in line with Judaism. It's the exact opposite. And this is in their letters. I have a whole book of letters, if you'd like. They're kind of boring, a lot of them, but nonetheless, it's a lot of information. And some of this stuff, obviously, is available online. Now, if that's not enough, if that's not enough, because they don't teach this in Hebrew school, or not here, or not in Israel, if that's not enough, after the Holocaust... Baruch Hashem, we survived. Fewer, but nonetheless, we survived, right? After the Holocaust, you figure, okay, now we'll be fine. They just murdered a bunch of us. Finally, we got a country, right? In 1948 of the Christian calendar, people arrived from all over the world. All over the world, they arrived. These Zionist monsters took

2:13:05countless Yemenite kids and other Sephardi kids and started testing, doing medical testing on them, ending up killing them. And when that wasn't enough, they wanted to make some extra money, they sold them to Americans. Five, $10,000 a clip to Americans. They sold them either to do tests on them it would be off the books because it's not an American citizen or to people that wanted to adopt them, people that couldn't have kids or so on. They would buy these kids but not with the parents' permission. The parent would have the kid and then wait for the kids. "I'm sorry, ma'am, your baby died." What do you mean my baby died? Let me see the baby. No, no, it's gone. What do you mean it's gone? Let me see the baby. I want to see it. I want to see it. I want to bury it. If it died, I want to bury it. It's a proper burial for religious Jews. We're not animals. I want to bury it. No, no, no. We took it already. Till this day, till this day, they're hiding a lot of classified information in the Israeli government about these kids that they sold and they murdered in cold blood. Till this day, there are trials. This is not like a conspiracy. This is real. It's verified.

2:14:20you could type in Yaldei Teiman, Yaldei Teiman on the internet, you'll see websites and congressional meetings and newspaper articles and so on and so forth. Till this day, there are actually Yemenites that are discovering who their real family is 50, 60, 70 years later. Now they're discovering it. You know, sisters that didn't know, that thought that the other one was dead, or parents that thought the kid was dead, but ended up being alive in America, in other countries, and so on. Who did all of this? The Zionist monsters, self-hating Jews. self-hating Jews. So they're not just Mesitim and Medichim, like I said, the Christians. They're the Satan itself. They're the Erev Rav. These people are monsters. Monsters. And unfortunately, they still exist. Some of them are actually running to be the Prime Minister of Israel right now. Benny Gantz, what do you think, he's a tzaddik? He's one of these monsters. If he had an opportunity to kill, everybody who doesn't look like him.

2:15:30There's these people are no different than Hitler, no different. Anyone who thinks otherwise is mistaken. But they are the predominant controlling power in the government in Israel today. Does that mean we're anti-Israel? Chas v'Shalom! We love Israel. It doesn't mean we agree with the government. It doesn't mean we agree with the secular law. We love the Jewish people. Jewish people have nothing to do with the Israeli government. Would I live there tomorrow if I could? It doesn't mean I agree with the law; it doesn't mean I agree with the government. But the point is to know who is your enemy and who is simply an ignorant sinner. If he's an ignorant sinner, doesn't know Aleph-Beis, doesn't know anything, then you don't need to hate him. In fact, you should bring him closer, like we do every single day. What do you think, all of our students are all tzaddikim and... Usually they start off ignorant, then maybe, b'ezrat Hashem, they become tzaddikim. So if someone is ignorant, you help him. That's what the Rambam says, that's what the Torah says, and so on and so forth. You help the ignorant, but if he's a murderer, if he's a person that's outright looking to destroy the Torah, that is an enemy, and it's a mitzvah to hate that person. It's a mitzvah to pray for that person to die, and even if you don't realize it, you are praying for that person to die. So your political correctness—it was already done.

2:16:56dealt with by the sages of Anshei Knesset HaGedolah. Anything pertinent or should we continue next week? We're finished? Next week, b'ezrat Hashem, I'm going to be in New York. I'm going to New York, I think it's Monday and Tuesday. Monday and Tuesday. Last week I got it wrong, I thought it was different. Yes, so next week I'm going to be in New York, Monday and Tuesday, b'ezrat Hashem. We have a shiur in Five Towns. And then we have a shiur in Queens. It's going to be two big lectures over there. But I will be here to see you on Sunday. So you guys prepare some questions if you have them at that point. also contemplating giving you a shiur that I've been wanting to give about this, uh, business with goyim and, uh, interest and so on. Maybe we'll do that on Sunday. We'll see. Thank you very much for learning with me.