Comfortably Numb In Boca Raton ( 10 Minutes)

1:38You're inviting idol worshipers and violating and desecrating the Torah. Where is it? How can you look in the mirror and say it's okay? Are you more confident than Chazal? You're better than them? You could do better than them? You're more righteous than them? Are you just comfortably numb while you're enjoying this world so much? And instead of thinking about Mashiach being around the corner and the world at large being a disaster, you don't really want the Mashiach to come. You just want to continue extending your kitchen, continue remodeling your house, and continue raising money for some other saved cat foundation. Where is your K'vod Hashem? I don't care if you're a rabbi, you're a dayan, you're a small rabbi, big rabbi, none of that stuff matters to me. The only thing that should matter to any of you is K'vod Hashem. Now this is part one of the lecture. If it has to, it will get worse. Because in a place where there's K'vod Hashem, there's no consideration for K'vod HaRav. Yes?

3:03Let's keep it; I told you before. Let's keep it off of... I understand. Anyone that wants to find out more information can find out on their own. This is purely halacha. This is purely Torah. So that way they can't say, "Oh no, it's a personal battle between Rabbi Mizrachi and Ephraim Goldberg, or between Yaron Reuven and Ephraim Goldberg." It has nothing to do with that. Aside from the fact that he caused a disaster of a Chilul Hashem by signing that letter against Rabbi Mizrachi. Furthermore, he blamed Rabbi Mizrachi even before Rabbi Mizrachi knew about this. Before Rabbi Mizrachi was even aware that this was all happening, he was already blamed for conducting this campaign against the whole situation. On top of it, he writes, "Listen, Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi had a debate against a Christian professor several years ago. What's so different about me bringing Matthew Kelly?" He's comparing Rabbi Mizrachi destroying Christianity, which has caused many Jews to do teshuvah, many non-Jews to convert to Judaism, or at the very least, leave Christianity. One of them is in the crowd; I just met him today.

4:25He saw the debate for the first time, and he says, "Obviously, I know that Christianity is nonsense; I left it, and now I'm in the process of converting." He's right here. He watched the debate completely on his own accord. I didn’t plan this, nor did I have any prior connection with him before today. Apparently, he's been following my lectures for quite some time. He's comparing Rabbi Mizrahi to doing a huge Kiddush Hashem that no one's willing to do, really, except maybe a couple of other rabbis like Rabbi Tovia Singer and Rabbi Skobac. But the way Rabbi Mizrahi did it, he excelled more than anyone else, in my opinion. He's comparing that act of fulfilling the mitzvah of criticizing idol worship, insulting it, and destroying it. That Kiddush Hashem, that mitzvah, is being compared to bringing a great white evil shark. to a bunch of little sardines that have no idea the shark is there. What is this like? It's like somebody saying, listen, I'm a tzaddik, I'm a tzaddik, I'm gonna bring more fish into the tank. And he keeps bringing more fish into the tank, and he brings more fish into the tank. He's like, look, I'm feeding them, and I'm feeding them, and they have divrei Torah,

5:32and they have lectures, and they have Daf Yomi, and they have this, and we have synagogue, and it's a fancy synagogue, and we have a Holocaust center next to it, and everything is great, and wow. And then, the next thing you know, after he fed them, and everybody got really fat, and comfortable, and lazy, and comfortably numb, what does he do? He brings the great white shark. It was better off if you didn't build the community; just don't bring the great white shark. Where's the Kavod Hashem? Where is it? What God do you believe in that you think it's okay to bring an idol worshiper? Where does it say it? Where? Show me the halacha. Show me one real Posek. Name the guy. Name the Posek. Name two Poskim that said. You said two Poskim said it? Well, I found out one of them. And he said it's only because you already made a mistake that maybe you allow it. But the reality of it is he doesn't know the size of the mistake. Because according to the article that was written as a rebuttal for everything that we're doing, even the article misquoted everything.

6:34I know how to write also. I've written some things in my life. I know the power of speech. I know how you can twist words. I've fought the government. I've fought major multi-billion dollar companies. I've fought individuals. I've fought everyone. For the first time in my life, I know for sure I'm right because God said so. Where is your Kavod Hashem that you're bringing an idol worshiper to teach a bunch of... Clueless Jews that are just sleeping at the wheel, scared to even respond. Yeah, I know: "I'm just not gonna go. I know you're right, I know. You're right, you're a great person, Rabbi. But I'm just not gonna go." Okay, but why can't you speak out? "Yeah, but, you know, I'm gonna cause problems for my kids. They have to move, change yeshivas. People are gonna look at me funny." I don't want to cause any problems. I already bought the house. We just expanded the house. We just redid the kitchen. We have a bar mitzvah coming up in two months. Everyone is so comfortably numb; they don't want to destroy their lives and disturb them. But asking Hashem for a bigger house, another house, more kids, or a cure for cancer is something different altogether.

8:01They ask, like one of the rabbis, Moskowitz, asked for. Not too long ago, a year and a half ago or so, he had cancer. Hashem gave him a cure. You can't say thank you by kicking this guy out, saying thank you but no thank you. When Goldberg and family got all their kids, baruch Hashem, they told us a story of an unfortunate experience. They had a pregnancy. But when you gave them more kids and they cried on stage and told us, "You can't give them a little bit of thank you back?" So what if you spent money? So what if your honor is destroyed? So what if you look stupid? Better to live a lifetime of stupidity in this world than one minute of being a shande in Hashem's world. One minute. Where's your Kavod Hashem? What God do you believe in? Everyone can see that it's not fake news. The point has already been made. Everyone who wants this information can email me. I would be more than happy to send it to you.

9:24You can look it up online yourself in case you don't trust my sources. You want to look it up. I provided the websites. Call Matthew Kelly yourself. Watch his videos if you can handle it. In reality, you're not allowed to. You're not allowed to. But for the purpose of destroying this whole thing and hoping it doesn't happen, we had to. We used even non-Jews for help as much as we can so we don't have to be tainted by this Chillul Hashem. Please, cancel the event. Baruch Adonai le'olam. Amen ve'amen.