Discussion With The Young & Troubled Generation That's Bringing MaShiach

0:14Some other guy that they promised me... You see, they promised me only to have 20 of these guys here. They're going to come. And probably, in a little bit, they are on the way. It was raining today. Probably that's... Okay, no problem. Baruch Hashem. Baruch Hashem. Baruch Hashem. We had a good Tisha B'Av shiur here. And a lot of people online actually liked it a lot also. We got a lot of good questions and... That's what we've been doing lately, instead of preparing a basic subject for the shiur, there's enough Torah that we can cover. We can talk for the next 10 hours. If you guys want to ask questions during the shiur, at the end of the shiur, or at the beginning of the shiur, ask. It's not prepared. So, whatever you ask, we can answer it with Hashem's help. Hashem gives us the words. But one thing I was thinking about on the way here, it took almost an hour and a half to get here, to my house. And B'ezrat Hashem, it's probably going to be an hour and a half to come back home. And I'm thinking, you know, so figure, my average shiur is usually two hours, sometimes three hours. But I think today it's going to be maybe around 45 minutes or an hour. Unless you guys want to stay here all night, I'll stay here with you. If you give me the zechut to study with you, B'ezrat Hashem, we'll study till the morning. My wife already writes me off. She goes, do you have a shiur? See you tomorrow morning.

1:33But I was thinking, okay, you're gonna drive an hour and a half, another hour and a half, it's three hours, for a 45-minute shiur, so I'm like, what does this mean? So then my Rav reminded me, it says Rav Adda, Rav Adda used to travel three months to go to a shiur Torah with Rabban Yochanan, study with him for one day, and then three months back home. So the sages at the yeshiva over there were saying you're wasting your time. You're a rabbi for a day. And Rabban Yochanan says no, you're all mistaken. You're all mistaken. His Torah is more valuable than all of yours. He can curse all of you for making fun of him. And he says, what do you mean? We study all year, he studies one day. Of course, he didn't waste his time throughout a lot of the three months that he traveled back and forth. But he says when you actually want... To get to a high level of Torah, you want to get really close to Hashem, you have to listen to one of the most famous Ba'alei Teshuva in history. His name is Reish Lakish. Reish Lakish in Gemara Masechet Berachot says, anyone that wants to inherit Torah, wants to not just learn from the books, and you know, you learn a few things, you remember 1% of what you learned. You want to get glued to the Torah, he says, it requires you to get to Mesirat Nefesh. You have to be willing to die for the Torah.

2:55So if Reish Lakish was willing to die for the Torah, traveling three months one way and three months the other way for one day, so long as we are not required to travel three months each way but only three hours, Baruch Hashem, it's always great to teach and learn with young guys. One of the things that we did in New York on a recent trip was to gather a group of maybe 40-50 guys in Brooklyn, where we shared personal stories and discussed many other things. The thing that excites me about young people is that I wish somebody had told me when I was your age what I'm going to tell you. The reason why is because when you are at this age—18, 20, 25—you're going into the real world; you're already in the real world, but you're going into the next level. And like the Rav says, you have a choice. One choice is to do whatever you want. Whatever goes, goes. Whatever is in front of you, you take—a survival of the fittest mentality. Or, you think about Hashem and you try to connect your day-to-day life with Hashem Yitbarach. When you actually live like a lion, unfortunately, at some point or another, you realize that the lion doesn't actually have such a pleasant life. But many people only find this out when it's already too late; they already got used to the lion lifestyle and...

4:20Like the Rav says, I have a little bit of experience in that world. I worked on Wall Street for 16 years. I had a brokerage firm, a hedge fund, and an insurance company. I trained over 135 different people to become good salespeople. Some of them became millionaires, some of them quit. But I have a lot of experience with the business world. I was on CNBC, Bloomberg, and a bunch of other news networks, and I also know what money is like, what most people here in the world chase. We got there, Baruch Hashem. We got there. We lost it. But the key is that you have the experience that you can write home about. And when you live a life surrounded by people that are chasing money, and you have the experience, you say, it's not worth it. If I never had any money, and I told you, listen, you really shouldn't invest so much of your time chasing money your whole life. You should invest your time chasing Hashem. If I never had any money, what does he know? But if I told you that one day in my career in May of 2006, I made $1.6 million in one day. Not in a year, not in a career, in one day. So I have a little bit of experience about money. And I'm telling you, shtuyot (nonsense).

5:36Waste of time. You go make a living, work, do what you have to do to survive. You have to eat, obviously. After all, we didn't get to—we're not dor de'ah. We're not the generation of Mount Sinai that gets manna from Shamayim. We have to work, fine, no problem. But there's a difference between working to live or living to work. When you live to work, like most people, you start your day with work, you finish your day with work, and if you have any time in between, you eat and... That was my life for a very long time. Sometimes we do Hashem a favor by going to the synagogue just to, say, put tefillin on for five minutes, like we're doing God a favor. The Rav is saying Kaddish, a few people are talking, they're doing, they're going after the, they're repeating the Amidah, everyone's talking, and what's going on, you see the market today, you see this, you see that, no one's really interested in being there, but they feel like, I have to pay my dues, so I'm part of the community.

6:36Happens your mind's not there, your mind's not there, and the reason why your mind's not there is because something that Chazal used to have all the way until about a few hundred years ago is missing from our day-to-day life. It's called Mussar. Mussar in today's world, in a secular world, is called self-help. It's called self-help. People hire coaches to come speak Hire people like Tony Robbins, Zig Ziglar, and people like that to tell them what to do. If you want to succeed in life, do this, this, this, and this. If you want to have a good marriage, do this, this, this, and this. Now, all of this is available in our Torah. As a matter of fact, it's actually a very critical part of the Torah. But somewhere around a few hundred years ago, a few people made a decision to slow down the Mussar and start teaching theoretical Torah. Theoretical Torah, meaning that we're teaching Torah like, you know, love God, everything's gonna be fine. Learn all the halachot, eventually you're gonna get to a point where everything's gonna be okay. And the reality of it is, in the generation today, unlike Dor HaDe'ah, the generation of knowledge at Mount Sinai, we're the generation of problems and...

7:54Instead of knowledge, we have problems. Why? Because we don't have the cure. The cure that made Am Yisrael go from the 49th level of Tum'ah in Egypt to the 49th level of Kedusha by the time they got to Mount Sinai. What got them there? One of the main things was the Mussar that they actually had to learn along the way. It wasn't just the mitzvot. The mitzvot are there for you to actually improve yourself. So now, Shlomo HaMelech, everyone's heard about Shlomo HaMelech. In Ketuvim, in Divrei HaYamim Aleph, it says, so here we see Shlomo HaMelech became the king of Israel after his father, David HaMelech. And he was right before his Bar Mitzvah. So Hashem says, ask for whatever you want and I'll give it to you. So you would think, average, give me a PlayStation, maybe an Xbox, a nice Ferrari, a new model, not last year's—it's already too old—a nice house, a lot of money. You know, money is just the beginning; you have to want to have mountains of money. That's what you think you'd ask for at 12 or 13 years old. You want all these things. What is says...

9:04newest model, not last year's—it's already too old—a nice house, a lot of money. You know, money is just the beginning; you have to want to have mountains of money. That's what you think you'd ask for at 12 or 13 years old. You want all these things. What it says He said, "Ask for God to grant me wisdom and knowledge so that I may go out and come in before these people, so I can judge them—these great people of Yours. So, in essence, he's saying, 'Hashem, no money, no girls, no houses, no nothing. What I want, I want wisdom.' Why? Because as a melech, I'm going to have to judge these people and tell them what to do. I don't want to judge them based on my opinion because my opinion is flawed. It's human. I..." Human opinion is always flawed. Just so you know, as smart as a person is, it could be Bill Gates, it could be Warren Buffett, it could be Stephen Hawking, it could be anybody, even a rabbi. If it's human, it's flawed. It doesn't necessarily mean it's wrong, but it's flawed. Why? Because our opinion changes over time. About a hundred years ago, a company had an opinion that they should put a certain chemical in...

10:25their drink to entice people to drink their drink, and they were right; a lot of people bought their drink and started drinking it. It was called Coca-Cola. The problem is that the chemical they put in, and where they got the name Coca-Cola, was cocaine. So all the babies immediately drank the Coca-Cola. Little babies — any mom would want to give their kids anything. B'ezrat Hashem, you have kids, you're gonna see, you're gonna be willing to give your kid anything just to stop crying. So moms were giving their kids Coca-Cola immediately. Their kids stopped crying. It's like, "Oh, this is like from Gan Eden." Little did they know it's killing the kid. So this was human logic, and human logic continues today to develop drugs and different systems that are flawed. So... Shlomo HaMelech says, "I want divine logic. I don't want human logic; I want divine logic. I want You to tell me everything to do." So Hashem says, "Because you asked for this, I'm gonna give you wisdom, I'm gonna give you money, I'm gonna give you power, I'm gonna give you everything." So this Shlomo HaMelech is known to be the smartest, the wisest man that ever lived. Hashem gave him so much, Chazal explain it, and if they didn't say it, we wouldn't even be allowed to say it. He got mamash the highest level of chokhmah up to the point where it's like one level below God.

11:46We could even understand what this means. So this very same person had everything: he had money, he had a thousand wives, he had power, no one wanted to fight him; everyone loved him, anything you could possibly imagine. And he tells you this pasuk in Ecclesiastes, Kohelet, Kohelet, chapter 11. Verse 9, he says something very peculiar. He says, "Rejoice, young man, celebrate in your childhood, let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Follow the path of your heart and the sight of your eyes, and..."

12:48First part of the verse in so many words. He's saying, young men, do whatever you want. Go party, go with the girls, go to clubs, do whatever you want. That's what it sounds like. Just do whatever is in your heart, do it. What's in a young person's heart? Only bad things. Anything we want is usually bad. The Rambam says we want a lot of money. It's bad for you. A lot of money—why? You have a lot of money, you have a lot of problems. You start doing crazy things that you wouldn't do if you didn't have money. For example, suicide. not a poor man's problem. Suicide is a problem that rich people suffer from. You don't see the homeless guy committing suicide. It is very, very rare you're ever going to see a homeless guy committing suicide. Who do you see committing suicide? Rock stars, movie stars, multi-billionaires, multi-millionaires. The guy, just a few weeks ago from Linkin Park, the very famous rock and roll group, committed suicide three months after his best friend committed suicide, who was also a rock and roll star. Year after Robin Williams committed suicide, each one of them had no less than 100 million dollars. No less. So, as soon as that is my mashma, it is 100% a rich man's problem. So he says, "Go follow your heart." From both sides, you follow your, you know, chase money. It's not good for you. Chase girls. It's not good for you. Why? You need to have one wife, not a hundred. Today, we can barely handle one. And so on and so forth.

14:17So how could it be that the smartest man, the wisest man that ever lived, is telling us this is what you get when you're really smart? This type of advice seems strange. Seems like somebody from the club is going to tell you how to do that. Go do whatever you want. So then we have to read the rest of the pasuk. The rest of the pasuk says, but be aware that for all the things that you do, God will call to account. He says, do whatever you want. Whatever you want. You want to go to the Knesset? Go to the Knesset. You want to talk in the middle of Kaddish? Talk in the middle of Kaddish. You want to put on Tefillin? Put on Tefillin. You don't want to put on Tefillin? Don't put on Tefillin. You want to be Kadosh? Be Kadosh. You want to be Tamei? Be Tamei. Whatever you want to do. But just remember one thing. There's one major klal in the Torah. You're going to have to pay the bill. You're going to have to pay the bill. The bill will eventually arrive, and there's no turning back. In the Gemara, one of the great Tannaim in history says not everyone is going to be happy when the Mashiach arrives. So they ask him why. He says because it says the Goel, the Mashiach, is coming not to save everyone; he's coming to save the ones who did teshuva.

15:43You did teshuva. It's going to save you. You didn't do teshuva. You're still pushed out. You're still a criminal. You have a problem. You're not going to be happy when the Mashiach arrives. And everyone's worried about this Mashiach for 2,000 years. He's late, like a typical Jew. He's late 2,000 years already. The good news is you don't have to wait for Mashiach. Everyone has their own personal Mashiach. The Mashiach that we have to deal with every day is judgment in Shamayim. Everyone thinks that they're going to live to 120, but it doesn't necessarily happen all the time. My cousin, my... Unfortunately, he died at the age of 26 just several months ago on Rosh Hashanah. He went on a scooter one day, the second day of Rosh Hashanah. He wasn't religious. He decided to go on a scooter—26 years old, who wants to go on a scooter? Cute kid, smart, was very, very good with computers. Good-looking, everything was going for him. His parents have a fortune of money. He could build pyramids with the money that they have and...

16:44Everything was going for him. 26 years old, he goes on a scooter. He falls off the scooter, an innocent fall, but he hits his head. He goes to the hospital. They look at him and say, "No, you're okay. You're fine. 26 years old, life's ahead of you, a minimum another 94 years, minimum." He goes home, he goes to sleep, and he never wakes up. But do you think that when he woke up that day that... his parents, when they woke up that day, even thought it’s part of the equation that today Mashiach is arriving, that today Judgment Day is arriving. At 26 years old, it's a puppy; it's a baby. Just got out of diapers. What does he know? What do you know at 26 years old in this world? Today kids still live with their parents at 35. What do you know at 26 years old? Do you think that he thought today I'm gonna have to pay the bill? No, he thought today I went on a scooter like every other day. Today is another day. He didn't think it was Rosh Hashanah, which was Judgment Day coming up in a month. He didn't know about that. So each and every single one of us needs to understand that Mashiach doesn't necessarily need to come a year from now, five years from now, or ten years from now. Judgment Day can happen on any given day. We have to be prepared for it psychologically, spiritually, and physically in every way, shape, or form. Now, as a youth, someone that's very young, you have an opportunity. You could be...

18:12the greatest generation that ever lived. You can be part of the greatest generation that ever lived, or you could be just the one that missed an opportunity. One of the two chances, 50-50. Because right now, according to our sages, we're out of time. Mashiach has to come; he must come in our generation, whether it's five weeks from now or five years from now, or whenever it's during our lifetime. So whoever is going to be ready for when the Mashiach comes and part of the generation that's going to be remembered forever as the generation that saw Mashiach. Eternally remembered as the tzaddikim that brought the Mashiach. The 20% that left Egypt—everyone remembers them. No one remembers the 80% that died in Egypt. No one talks about them. Everybody talks about the 20% that came out of Egypt. They got what's called Dor HaDeah. It's called the generation of knowledge. They got to Mount Sinai. They all became prophets. It was amazing. We still talk about them today 3,300 years later. Same thing here. Anyone who is going to be alive at the time of Mashiach is going to be righteous and remembered forever. On the other hand, it could also be the one that missed an opportunity of a lifetime.

19:25So now, there are a few things that are affecting our youth today, affecting all of us really. Young guys, old guys, it affects everyone. One of the most important things is that we have no idea what to do, how to actually get close to Hashem. We think that When you see somebody with a kippah, maybe if he goes to the shul once or twice a week, especially on Shabbat, he's religious. This is not necessarily the case. There are many Baalei Teshuva who have been keeping Shabbat for five, ten years, but still have a problem as far as really being considered religious. Simply because in their heart, they're still Chiloni. They're still secular. You ask them one Daf Gemara, they have no idea what Gemara is. You ask them about Parashat HaShavua, it's like, yeah, when I get to the shul, the rabbi says something about some parasha. They don't learn Torah. They don't learn Mussar. They don't learn anything. It's more of a cultural, exterior thing. Now here, I'm not just talking about people that are still wearing tight clothes and t-shirts. I'm also talking about some who have beards and wear black and white but also don't know much. I met many of them. You look at them, and they look like a mini Moshe Rabbeinu. The guy has a beard, which is free.

20:37It's free, by the way. You don't have to get it from Walmart for discounts. It's free. Beard? Free. Osama bin Laden also had a beard, by the way. Doesn't make you religious. Kippah? He got it for free from the Beit Knesset. Sometimes you don't even have to buy a kippah. But if you bought a kippah, a few dollars. Suit? He has to wear it to work anyway. white shirt. Finish, you look religious in today's world. You look not only religious; you look like a mini rabbi. A secular person will look at you and say, "Okay, Moshe." No, no, not Moshe. It's Aharon. Oh my God. Can I ask you what to do? Everybody looks religious with a beard and a hat. The reality of it is that inside, you ask him halacha. He doesn't know what he's talking about. Why? Because he doesn't make time to learn Torah every day. He did not make the Torah part of his day-to-day life and... This is a very serious problem because the only thing that makes you Jewish is the Torah. That's the only thing. Before Mount Sinai, there were no Jews, just Israelites. Yaakov Avinu (Jacob our Patriarch) is also called Israel. His sons were called Israelites and...

21:41After we got to Mount Sinai is when we became Am Yisrael. Before that, we were called Bnei Yisrael. At Mount Sinai, we became a nation; we became Jews. What changed at Mount Sinai? We got the Torah. Meaning that if, chas v'shalom, Am Yisrael had said, "No, we don't want the Torah," and somebody else came along and said, "No, no, we want it," they would be Jews. But if you look at the Gemara in Masechet Shabbat, I believe it's page 88, Hashem didn't give us that kind of an option. When we got to Mount Sinai and it was time to give us the Torah, Hashem wanted to make sure that we knew that it was a no-option kind of option. So what He did is He made Mount Sinai bend and go over the entire nation like a chuppah. And He said to them, "Here is the Torah. If you accept it, good. This is our chuppah, we're married."

22:43If not, this is where you'll die. This is your burial place. So Chazal asks, what kind of wedding is this? This seems more like an ones, like you're forcing them. So the Baal HaTurim says, of course He's forcing them. Because all of the Malachim were shaken. Because they knew that in the beginning of time, when Hashem created the world, He made a deal with the angel that runs the earth. And He says, listen, created this entire world for the Torah. The Torah came before the world, 974 generations before the world was created. I created the Torah with black fire on white fire. The Midrash Sefer HaZohar talks about it. It says I created the Torah, but before I created the world, the Torah was theoretical. It's theoretical. You can't really use it. So, I had to look at the Torah and then create the world. I looked at the Torah and said, "There are kosher laws. Okay, so I'll create kosher animals." I looked at the Torah and said, "There is modesty. So I'll create the human being to look a certain way, whether he can be modest or not modest." I looked at the Torah and said, "You have to have good middot (character traits). So I'll create a character trait in a human being where they have ga'ava (pride). They have pride, and I hate pride. So, I'm going to give him a test that if he has this pride, I don't like him. If he doesn't have it, I love him extra."

24:09tests, why make this theory go into practice? So then He created man, and He said, "But listen, one day they're going to have to accept this Torah. And when they accept the Torah, we're full force. But if they don't accept the Torah, just so you know, I don't need them. I don't need anything. We're going back to theoretical again. We're going back to Tohu VaVohu." So the Baal HaTurim says all the angels were shaking. Why were they shaking? They knew that if Am Yisrael, chas v'shalom, said no, we don't want the Torah, Hashem would have brought the world back to Tohu VaVohu. Why? If it's not for my covenant, meaning the Torah being practiced, being followed, being learned day and night, the rules of the world will cease to exist, Hashem says to the prophet Jeremiah. Only reason you have the world is for the Torah. So now, when you start understanding this, you say, okay, so what's in this Torah that's so important? The best thing about the Torah is that it makes you stay you. You stay, you don't change. Everybody's always scared about changing. No, I don't want to be different. I like who I am. My friends like me. My wife likes me. Don't worry about it. You're going to stay you. You don't turn into some mutant.

25:27You don't turn into Wolverine and start stabbing people. Don't worry. You stay exactly the way you are. The difference is you become super you. You become a better version of you. Right now, without Torah, a typical human being gets upset when somebody cuts them off. Not upset like, "Oh, shucks," like in the movies in the 1920s. Oh. He cut me off. No, no. Today, somebody cuts you off, and you curse his mother, his grandfather, his great-grandfather. You start wishing for him to die because he cut you off. We get so angry because the guy cut us off on the highway. Today, you find out that the guy gave you $20 extra in change. You have to think about it three, four, five times if you're going to go back to the store to give it back to him. Why? Because he has enough. Look at the store. It's half a mile long, this store. He doesn't need the money. So he gave me 20 bucks extra. I'm like a modern-day Robin Hood. I'm taking from the rich and giving to the poor. I was poor, so I took it from the rich. We justify and rationalize our terrible behavior. Without Torah, we are no different than a cow and a lion. No different. We work off of instinct. Torah, especially Mussar, teaches you things about yourself you didn't even know, and it softens you.

26:45It makes you a better version of yourself. So there's not the shame. You want to get married? You actually get married to a decent human being because only decent human beings get decent human beings. But if you go look for a wife in one of the clubs, you'll find a wife. The problem is she'll be a wife of five other guys also. You go into business, you'll find a business. The problem is the business is probably not going to be that kosher, even if it theoretically looks kosher, but it works on Shabbat and Lends money to people with extra high interest rates, like unfortunately, a lot of Jews are going into this lending business. A lot of Jews are going into this lending business. This is the worst possible business for a Jew. Worst possible thing for a Jew to do. Number one, if your client is a Jew and you lend them money and charge them interest, you lose Olam HaBa. You have no share in the World to Come. So now on the application, you have to say name, address, phone number, social security, date of birth, religion. You have to ask your client their religion. Oh, Jewish? No, I'm sorry. I can't lend you money. I'm gonna lose Olam HaBa. Who's gonna do this? No one. No one's gonna put religion on an application. He'll sue you in America. Who'll do such a thing? So you have a problem. You don't know if the client is Jewish or not. So now your Olam HaBa is on the line for a $5,000 loan.

28:14You're going to make 500 bucks? Your entire Olam HaBa is on the line for 500 bucks? You go to shul, you go to Shabbat, you give tzedakah. You give this, you did it. You're nice to everyone. For 500 bucks, you lost Olam HaBa? Some people, $50, because the boss took 450, they took 50. They worked for $50 and lost Olam HaBa. This is the stupidest thing in the world. Imagine you have a multi-billion dollar company, but everything was lost for $50, and... $50 commission. So, lending is a horrible business for a Jew. The second thing is that it's also an unethical business for the most part. These lending businesses usually are charging people twenty-seven, twenty-eight, thirty, thirty-five, forty, fifty percent interest. Eventually, the government's gonna shut it down. It's a matter of time before it all blows up and Hashem actually does us a favor and blows up that business. And I'm telling you from the business world. It's all gonna blow up, not for a while. But for Jews to be in that business, which unfortunately there are many of them, is a very, very bad decision. So if someone is not connected to Torah, they could mamash destroy their world without even knowing it. The guy goes to work every day; he has a kippah, all of a sudden starts giving tzedakah because he makes $10,000 a month now.

29:3720 years old, makes ten, fifteen, twenty thousand dollars a month lending people money. He thinks he is a tzaddik, gives tzedakah for the Rav. "Don't worry, I love you," is a thousand dollars a month. He thinks he's a tzaddik, just feeling good, feeling everything is great. He doesn't realize how much of a disaster his job is. Torah is the only thing that's gonna teach you that. You want to get married to a decent human being? You have to be decent. Your wife is only going to like you if you treat her fairly, if you treat her kindly, if you're generous. A cheap husband is hated by his wife. I can tell you this for sure. Any husband that's not generous with money and with compliments is eventually going to be hated by his wife. Money and compliments. A lot of people are generous with money, but they curse their wife out. And they talk to her and they yell at her. They treat her like she's a slave. This wife is eventually going to kill you, either in this world or the next world. Why? Because you're killing her every day. Same thing with money. Sometimes the wife is raising a kid. You've got three, four, five, six kids at home. She's raising them. It's not easy to raise one kid. Imagine how much of a headache it took your mom to raise you.

30:45What about you, your brother, your sister? She's raising— the mom is raising five, six, seven kids, three kids, one kid— it doesn't make a difference. The husband comes home, and the first thing he does is yell because the food's not hot. He yells at her because she didn't run to the door like she did when she was 20, because she's running the house. So, a husband without manners is destroying himself. I Sometimes you have husbands that are cheap with money. They feel like the wife is not working because she's managing the kids. They're not working. So they pretty much torture until they give a hundred dollars. "Oh, but I need a hundred dollars for shopping for food for you." "Yeah, but can't you do it for less? Can't you get your own money?" "What do you mean, 'get my own money'? I do this job, you do the other job." When you don't have Mussar, when you don't have the divine self-help, you're not gonna know these things until it's too late, until your wife left and... Because she says, "Listen, I've been living off of change. I've been collecting on the street because you don't want to give me $100 every week. I have to beg my own husband for money. You know how many times I have women crying to me every day? 'My husband is cheap, my husband is cheap, my husband is cheap.' Like, what do you mean cheap? The guy makes $100,000 a year." She goes, "Yes, but for me to get $100 more than what the groceries cost, for me to just have money to live, it's like a sipur (story). It's like a story from, it's my mother's living gehenom in this world. Imagine a grown-up doesn't have $100."

32:07So Mussar is the type of stuff that's going to teach you how to become a decent person. You don't necessarily need to be Moshe Rabbeinu. You just need to be a decent person. The Torah is such an amazing thing to add to your life, just so you know, for all of these lefties that always try to go against the Torah, like, no, the Torah is sexist, the Torah is this, the Torah is that. The Torah is the only document in the world that gives special privileges to poor people. What's the special privilege? Hashem says if you have a field, you must give tzedakah every year, and the tzedakah has to come at a specific time. It has to be at the end of the growing season. You have to give the corner. You have to give the last piece of the land as far as what's growing. It's called pe'ah. Pe'ah also means wig. It also means the end of the field. So Chazal in Masechet Shabbat asks: Why the Pe'ah? Why the end? Why can't he give it in the middle? Why can't he give it in the beginning? Why can't he give it whenever he wants? He's the one that's giving the money. Why are you telling him when to give it? I'm donating $10,000. You're going to tell me when to donate? Say, thank you. I'm giving it in the first place. No?

33:21says, "Absolutely not! Absolutely not! You must give it at the end. Why? Because, God forbid, the poor people are going to wait around, not knowing when you're going to give. They're going to waste the whole season, the whole day, the whole month waiting for you to give, and you're not giving for another two months. They can use that time to do something productive. Just because he's poor, you're not allowed to waste his time. Why? Because the Torah treats his soul the same way as your soul, and..." The fact that you have money and he doesn't does not make your soul actually any better at all. As a matter of fact, it puts a kitrug. It puts the onus on the rich person to make sure the poor person doesn't stay poor. This is why when one of the, I believe it was not Ben Ish Chai, I confused the names, about almost a hundred years ago, one of the major sages, His wife decided to buy a lotto ticket. And she told him, "Honey, I bought a lotto ticket." Immediately, he started panicking. "No, just so you know, the whole thing is yours. I don't want half of it. I don't want any of it. It's yours. It's yours. It's yours." You know, one of his talmidim was there. He's like, "What's the big deal? She bought a lotto ticket. She wins some money. What's the big deal? Why wouldn't you? Why is that a bad thing? You win $100 million. Isn't that a good thing? You build a yeshiva, another yeshiva, another yeshiva. You can build a yeshiva until Mashiach comes."

34:51You build yeshivot in every state. You build yeshivot in every town. What's wrong with winning the lotto? And he says to him, "My son, do you know what kind of responsibility you have when you have a lot of money?" He says, "You can build things." He goes, "No, no, no. If I have money and there's someone in my circle, someone..." Doesn't have to be immediate family, doesn't need to be my son, doesn't need to be my cousin, someone that knows me, someone that I know exists and has financial problems, and I have money and I don't help him. It's a chilul Hashem. If you have money and you still have people around you that are poor, you have a chilul Hashem. You have a serious, serious problem in shamayim. Why? Because the only reason Hashem gave you the money is to do mitzvot with it, not to buy a two million dollar house. You want to buy a two million dollar house? Fine. Just make sure nobody else is poor. First, nobody else is poor, then you buy a $2 million house. First, there's a kollel, then there's a $2 million house. You could live in a regular house. You don't have to buy a $2 million house. But today, we buy a $2 million house and a $2 million vacation and a $3 million second vacation. We have so many different houses, we forget that there are people. The Torah is the only thing that's going to remind you of this. That you have to consider everyone. Why? Because his soul came from Hashem just like your soul did.

36:14Same thing. The fact that Hashem gave you a gift of money is just giving you an opportunity to do something good with it. So the Rambam says, anyone who thinks that any material reward, whether it be money, car, house, whatever, wife, husband, anyone who thinks that the material that Hashem gives you is your real reward, your real prize for some mitzvah that you did, is very far away from the truth of Torah. To such an extent, the Rambam calls them a fool. If you think you got a house because you did some mitzvah, you're a fool. If you think you got a nice car for $150,000 because you donate to the Beit Knesset, you're a fool. Rambam says it's not me. Why? He says because all of the money in the world, all of it, for all the people that ever existed from the beginning of man until the end, and... Very far away from the truth of the Torah. To such an extent, the Rambam calls them a fool. If you think you got a house because you did some mitzvah, you're a fool. If you think you got a nice car for $150,000 because you donated to the Beit Knesset, you're a fool. Rambam says it's not me. Why? He says because all of the money in the world, all of it, for all the people that ever existed from the beginning of man until the end, and... Not equivalent of a reward for the smallest mitzvah in the Torah, all of it. All the happiness that ever existed is not enough to pay for one mitzvah. So why does Hashem give us money? It's based on the theory, it's based on the teachings of mitzvah goreret mitzvah. He says, "Oh look, this guy saw a homeless guy and..."

37:40He gave him 50 bucks. He gave him 20 bucks. Oh, he saw that 80% of Am Yisrael are not keeping Shabbat. So he's donating money to get Am Yisrael to start keeping Shabbat. He saw that people don't have a place to study. He's supporting a Kollel. He's supporting a Yeshiva and so on. He's doing mitzvot. I see, I gave him 100; he took 10, he took 20, and he donated for Torah. So if I give him 200, he'll donate 40. I give him 1,000, he'll donate 200. So you know what? Let me give him 10,000. Let's see what he does. Gives him a thousand, the guy donates 200. He goes, "Wow, this is great. Let me give him 10,000 now. Mitzvah goreret mitzvah." You did one mitzvah, Hashem says, "Oh, this is a good investment for Me. I gave him the money, he's actually doing what he's supposed to. Let Me give him more." Meaning that if you really have emunah, you don't stop giving. Doesn't matter what the economy does. Doesn't matter what the market does. Doesn't matter anything. You know that Hashem is paying for it. Gemara in Beitzah and also in Rosh Hashanah says Hashem decides how much money you're gonna make regardless of how much you work. Already on Rosh Hashanah. Rosh Hashanah, He decides Steve's gonna make a hundred thousand dollars. Moshe is gonna make seventy. David's gonna make three hundred thousand. He decides what you're gonna make.

39:02You're gonna make, but he says one thing is excluded: the money for mitzvot. Any money you use for Shabbat, for holidays, for tzedakah, for mitzvot—it's not part of the income; that's added to it. If I promised you a hundred and you actually used twenty thousand for mitzvot, that twenty thousand, I'm gonna give you back on top of the hundred. It's not deducted from the hundred. Which means someone with a very high level of emunah, he doesn't stop giving. He doesn't think about, no, I don't know how much I have. My IRA is getting a little low. The market is a little tough now. The property is not sold yet. Well, you know what, Rabbi? When I finish, when I close this deal, I'm going to give you money then. There are a million and a half promises like this every day here. And I'm sure Kavod HaRav has been hearing it for many more years than me. When I close this deal, I'm going to donate to this, this, and this. When I finish this deal, I'm going to do this. Everybody is promising. Everybody is a Mashiach. Everybody's a Mashiach. When I'm rich, I'm going to build a kollel. I'm going to build a yeshiva. I'm going to build a school. I'm going to become a Baal Chesed. I'm going to be Bar Kochva. What is it? Kalba Savua.

40:10Kabbalah from the Gemara days. He was one of the three people that financed all of Am Yisrael. Everyone, when I'm rich, I'm going to give this, I'm going to give this, I'm going to give this, I'm going to give this, I'm going to give this. Okay, but today you have $50, you have $20, you have $100. Why don't you give that? Hashem is only happy with $100? No, no, when I'm rich, when I'm rich. Why? Because your tzedakah, when you don't have Torah, even the tzedakah, even the tzedakah of someone who doesn't have Torah, is not real tzedakah. When someone does not have Torah and they give tzedakah to Beit Knesset, to Kolel, to whatever, it's not really tzedakah. It's marketing. It's a marketing. Why? As soon as he gives $10,000 to Beit Knesset, when does he give it? Does he come to the rabbi secretly, quietly? For the Beit Knesset. For the call, you start calling it his $10,000. Don't tell him, "Buddy, no." Where does he do it? $10,000 for the office, $20,000. David and Steve and John are all giving $10,000. He tells the whole Beit Knesset, the whole town knows he gave $10,000. Some guy invests $10,000, he invests $20,000 on a billboard to tell the whole world that he invested $10,000. Why? It's marketing. He wants the whole world to know. So, when you don't have Torah, these character traits are...

41:24The natural inclination of a person, because the yetzer hara is in control without Torah, yetzer hara is the only thing in control. This is your opportunity. Every day, you take a little Torah. You go to kevod haRav, you go to the books, you go even if you want to watch the shiurim we have online on our website Be'ezrat Hashem dot org. You have CDs here for free. You have the opportunity to fix your neshama a little bit, just a little bit every day, and... ...a little bit every day. If you do it a little bit every day, Be'ezrat Hashem, you will be the generation everyone remembers forever. On the other hand, if we do it once in a while, then it becomes like eating once in a while. If I told you, "Listen, you can eat as much as you want. What's your favorite food? Steak? You like steak? I don't know, you like pasta? You like whatever you like."... He likes kebab, okay, so I say, you know what, you can eat as much kebab as you want, but only once a week. The other six days a week you can't eat. How long is a person going to survive? You can only eat once a week whatever he wants, but only once a week. The rest of the week, he has to starve. Can he survive? Most likely not, unless he's in very, very tip-top shape. Most likely, he can't survive not eating and drinking for six days and...

42:48You know, drinking for six days, and one day a week you can eat whatever you want, you're not gonna survive. Why? Because your guf, your body, needs to eat every day. Your neshama needs to eat even more. Your neshama requires even more food, spiritual food, than your body. So when we go and we learn Torah only once a week, that means you're starving your neshama the whole week and... So it's no surprise that the whole week you act like Antiochus. You act like Haman. And on Shabbat you're a little mini tzaddik. All once a week. So what would Hashem tell you? Listen, why don't you change it? Be Antiochus once a week, and be Moshe Rabbeinu six days a week. Let's change it. How do we do it? Learn a little Torah. But I don't mean learn Torah where you're just learning things and it just goes through. A lot of people learn Torah, and they become robots. I have a lot of people, avreichim, yeshiva students, that tell me I helped them do teshuva. What do you mean? Your parents, your father's a rabbi. Yeah. Your brother's a rabbi. Yeah. This one, everyone you know is a rabbi. Yeah. So how did I help you? He goes, no, no, the first time in my life I actually got it, I actually have to connect to the Torah, I have to do something about it. For all my life I was a robot. So he knew the halachot, he knew the mitzvot,

44:13But he didn't think that it's something that he has to dig down inside his heart and implement it in such a way that it required him to change his character traits, required him to make himself a better version of himself. A lot of people use the Torah to become robots. This is the worst possible thing you could do because it's poison. It's called hergel. You become used to the mitzvot and it's just like you just go through the motions. That's why sometimes you see people come to the Beit Knesset and The rabbi is saying the chazzan is saying Kaddish and people are talking or they're on their phone. If you're talking or you're on the phone when someone is saying Kaddish, even if you're in a Beit Knesset without any prayer at all, you're in a Beit Knesset and you start talking about baseball, you're in a Beit Knesset and you want to talk about business. You have to understand, in Shamayim they're not looking at you in a very, very pleasant light. Why? Because your Beit Knesset, this Beit Knesset, and any other Beit Knesset that's a kosher Beit Knesset in the world, whether it's here or it's in Israel or anywhere, is a mini Beit HaMikdash. So, you know, in the prophet Yechezkel, in the Tanakh, it says when the third Beit HaMikdash is built, when you enter the Beit HaMikdash...

45:30You have to know there's one rule they're going to enforce very strictly in the Beit HaMikdash. What's the rule? You're not allowed to leave from the same place that you entered. You go into the Beit HaMikdash through one door, you have to leave through a different door. Yeah, but I parked my car in the front. Go all the way around. Yeah, but it's going to take me a half hour to get to my car. That's your problem. You're not allowed to ever leave from the same door that you came through. Why? Because chas v'shalom, you're going to start looking at the walls of the Beit HaMikdash like the walls of your house, Chazal says. Meaning, chas v'shalom, if you leave from the same place that you came in, you will start getting comfortable and used to it. Oh, this is the Beit HaMikdash, it's like my house. It's like my house, yeah, I'm used to it. It's nice, it's my Beit HaMikdash. Don't tell me it's my Beit HaMikdash. Come, come, let's talk about baseball, football. Stock market? No, no, no! Never, ever get used to the Beit HaMikdash. Never, never get used to the Beit Knesset to the point where we just talked about the stock market and this market and that market. No, no, this is a mini Beit HaMikdash. So, when you see people—even more so—you start seeing people playing with their phones, talking to each other about nonsense in the middle of tefillah, outside of tefillah, all of that stuff in the Beit Knesset. It's not very good. Why? Because this is a holy place. Learn Torah from here till next year.

46:56Torah, you could talk as much as you want, but just common language is not good. Only the Torah is going to teach you such a thing. To treat a place that's holy like it's holy. When we treat the holy like it's mundane, then it just becomes like a social club. People come in, they hang out, they do nothing. Instead of reading Torah, they read the newspaper. It becomes like another place. This is not good. So again, the Torah is going to make sure you separate those few things. So the Torah you're supposed to learn is the Torah that at the end of the shiur, whether you're reading a specific Gemara, or you're reading a specific mussar book, or you're reading anything, at some point during the day, you have to read something, you have to review something, you have to listen to something that shakes your heart, that makes you uncomfortable. But not uncomfortable like, oh, I have to get up. Uncomfortable to the point where it's like, I have to change.

47:56Something's wrong. I'm not Moshe Rabbeinu yet. I'm not the best version of me yet. I have to do something. I have to do Teshuva. Some people have to know that they need to do basic things like Shabbat or Tefillin or keeping kosher, and so on. Some people have to do Teshuva on other things, like Middot and other areas. The point is, every day, the Vilna Gaon said you must learn Mussar at least a couple of times a day. And Rav Dessler, in his halacha book, actually said that learning Mussar takes precedence over learning Gemara or Mishnah. It's even more important. Why? He says because that's what's going to change you. Learning halacha is good. It's important. You have to know what to do. But to stick with the halacha, only Mussar is going to teach you. A lot of people know halacha, but they don't necessarily follow it. There used to be a person whose father was Gadol HaDor. His father was Gadol HaDor. But not Gadol HaDor like some people know it. Gadol HaDor, everyone knew. Even the Goyim knew who he was. But this son is the only person that ever had his head buried in one place and his body somewhere else. His name was Esav. Everyone learned of Esav, right? His father, Yitzchak Avinu, was Gadol HaDor.

49:22Esav did not have the merit to get buried in Ma'arat HaMachpelah like Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov. His head, though, was buried there because one of Yehudah's sons chopped his head off and they left it. They said, "Since the head is already here in the Ma'arah, in the cave, we'll bury it here. But the body gets buried outside." Why? Hashem says, "Et Esav saneti." Esav, I hate him. He doesn't say it, Paro, I hate him. He doesn't say it, Nebuchadnezzar yimach shemo, I hate him. But Esav, his father is dor dor, Esav's father is Yitzchak Avinu. His brother, Yaakov Avinu. His grandfather is Avraham. Esav saneti, Nebuchadnezzar saneti. Paro saneti, Hitler saneti. Why it's Esav saneti? He didn't say he hates anyone else. He doesn't hate Nevuchadnetzar. He doesn't hate Paro. He doesn't hate anyone else. Esav, I hate him. His father's G-d, his brother's G-d, great family. Like everyone tells me, no, no, don't worry. Listen, I know I'm not keeping Shabbat. I know I'm not this and I'm not that, but my father is a big rabbi. My grandfather, huge rabbi. He wrote a book.

50:38Great, he's in Gan Eden. Then you have a problem. You can't enter Gan Eden because he's going to be the one who kicks you out. The fact that he wrote a book is helping him, not you. The fact that he was a rabbi, a tzaddik, and did everything, it's good for him, but it doesn't help you. Maybe it's going to give you more time to do teshuva, but it doesn't get you in. No one goes into Gan Eden simply because their grandfather was a tzaddik. Best example: Esav. Esav didn't—there is no better family than Esav's family. In the history of mankind, there was no better family than Esav's family. His father, Yitzchak, a tzaddik; his grandfather, Avraham, even bigger; his brother, Yaakov, a giant. It doesn't get better than that. But Hashem says, not only is he not someone I consider that I love, I hate him. I hate him. He's the only one the Torah says, "I hate him." I And on top of it, the Gemara in Sanhedrin says he has no share in the World to Come. Why? Why so much? Hashem, it's a little extreme, no? He says, no. He knew all the halachot. He knew everything. He knew all the mitzvot. He looked like a tzaddik. Beard all the way to the floor. He would tell his father, "Abba, do we do maaser on salt? Do we give maaser on salt?" He pretended to be righteous.

52:04But Hashem knows he was a rasha. He says he knew everything. He promised he's gonna do teshuva every day. He promised tomorrow he's gonna go to the Knesset. He promised tomorrow he's gonna donate. He promised tomorrow he's gonna do this. He promised tomorrow he's gonna do that. Every day he would promise he's gonna do teshuva, but he never did teshuva. Him, that he knew and he didn't do it, that makes me hate him. And that's why the head is buried and the body outside because the head knew all the halachot. You know Torah? Good, you go to Me'arat HaMachpelah. But the body that's supposed to do everything? Outside, because you didn't do anything about it. So if your father is a tzaddik, if your mother is a tzaddeket, all that's wonderful. What about you? What about us? What about us? What are we doing? Every person needs to look in the mirror every single day and say, what am I doing about me? Hashem comes and actually tells me, "What are you doing about you?" I have to have an answer. I have to have an answer. When each person goes up to Shamayim on Judgment Day, they can ask him to give a shiur Torah for 40 days straight. No jokes. Can't joke around. A malach in Shamayim can ask you to give a shiur Torah for 40 days straight. Today we struggle to do a shiur for two hours.

53:26No one can sit down for more than two hours today. In Shamayim, they're gonna sit down, listen to you, give a shiur Torah for 40 days straight. Do you have 40 days of material? You have to. To pass the test, you have to remember the Torah. You have to learn a lot of Torah to get up to Shamayim and say, "Oh, you pass." They want to listen to your shiur Torah for 40 days. So, when you learn 10 minutes here, 10 minutes there, like you're doing the rabbi a favor... Shamayim says I learn with the rabbi at least 10 minutes every other day. It's good. You have 10 minutes. The other 40 days are missing. So, all of these things Chazal explained to you. Use this, and you become a king of the world, a tzaddik. You're righteous with Hashem. Everything else becomes better. You make Hashem's will into your will and... and He will make your will into His will. Many people ask me, "How do I get a blessing on my business, a blessing on my marriage, a blessing for my kids? Blessing, blessing, blessing." Everybody wants a blessing. Okay, blessing. No problem. You can get a blessing even from someone that's a fool. But the best blessing you can possibly get is from Hashem Yitbarach.

54:47The biggest rabbi in the world can't give you a blessing even 1% of Hashem. And Hashem already told you in Mishnah Avot how to get a blessing from Him. How do you get a blessing? Make His will into yours. He says, "I created the world in order for you to fulfill the Torah. I didn't create the world for you to look at the Discovery Channel and watch the zebra being chased by the lion." I didn't create the world for you to watch the stock market for eight hours a day. I didn't create the world for you to buy a new car, and another car, and another car, and buy $10,000 rims. But the business can't survive a week. $20,000, you know, additions to the car, but there are people still hungry in the streets. Does it make sense? I didn't create the world for that. I created the world for you to fulfill the Torah and... So if you actually look at the Torah, and you say, oh, Torah says I'm not allowed to be angry. If I'm angry, that's the equivalent of idol worship. It says if I get angry and throw a remote control across, it's like Avodah Zarah. It's not good. These are small things that seem like no big deal. It's a big deal in Shamayim. Why? Why did you get angry? Hashem says, why did you get angry?

56:10You got angry because you expect everything to go your way. So if you think that everything is gonna go your way, you think you're gonna be mini-God. That's how it is. Oh, you turned yourself into a god. So these things sometimes are hard to hear because all of us did everything, and sometimes we're still doing it. The point is... That only thing Hashem expects you to do is to try to fix yourself. You don't go to Shamayim and hear them say, "Why weren't you Moshe Rabbeinu?" They're not gonna say to you, "Why weren't you Moshe Rabbeinu?" "Why weren't you Rabbi Akiva?" They're gonna say, "Why weren't you Steve? Why weren't you David?" Why weren't you Reuven? Why weren't you whatever your name is? Why weren't you you? No, I was me my whole life. No, no, no, no. We gave you tools to be Reuven the Tzaddik. We gave you tools to be David the Tzaddik. You were David the Rasha. You violated 26 out of 52 Shabbatot a year. What Tzaddik? We gave you tools to be a Talmid Chacham. You were a Talmid Chacham in the salary cap of all the football players.

57:15We gave you legs and arms so you could drive a car. You bought a car for $100,000. Instead of using the car to drive 15 minutes to a shiur Torah, you drove an hour and a half to a football game. They tell people, "No, come to the shiur, come to the shiur." And the response is often, "No, it's far, it's far." What far? It's 20 minutes from your house, half an hour from your house. "Yeah, it's far." When you come a little local, a little closer to my house, they want me to be inside their house. They're going to come to a shiur Torah. Outside, 20 minutes, too much. But to drive an hour and a half to Disneyland, or three hours to Disneyland, no big deal. To go to a football game, to see a bunch of people beat each other up, no big deal for three hours. Go to a shiur Torah for 20 minutes? No, it's too far. reminded to finish off all of these things are constant reminders of how much work we have in front of us. We have a lot of work in front of us. Only the Torah is going to be the one that's going to remind us of it, and Hashem says if you do it and I'm going to reward you endlessly to such an extent that just the down payment was said in last week's parasha, Parashat Va'etchanan. He says, He pays His lovers who keep His mitzvot for thousands of generations, meaning it's past your life. You have eternal reward. It's not just getting the house and the car and the good wife and the kids. You have eternity. You have eternity. Eternity of reward.

58:43Son of the ones that he considers his haters. He gives them whatever he owes them now to destroy them. He says, "Meshalem el panav la'avido" — I pay my haters cash to their face to destroy them. Why? I take it very personally. I give you tools to be Moshe Rabbeinu. I give you tools to be Yitzchak Avinu. No, I give you tools to be the tribe of Reuven, the tribe of Yehuda. What did you do? You became a Why is Hashem taking it so personally? He says on one end, "I give you a lot of leniency." When we had the korbanot in Beit HaMikdash, the last two points of korbanot in Beit HaMikdash depended on things being done at a specific time. So, the Tamid offering, the Korban Tamid... ...would delay it every day. It was supposed to be at a specific time, but they would do it 30 minutes after that time every day. The same thing every day—so, 30 minutes, there was a time it was supposed to be done, but they would do it every day with a 30-minute delay...

59:54why a 30-minute delay? They said because there's human error. Meaning, already in Shamayim, Hashem expects us to make human errors. There are errors. Okay, I learned halachot Shabbat. I learned this. I learned this. I learned this. Once in a while, you make a mistake. Hashem is not going to beat you up for making a mistake. It's a mistake. You have a mistake, bring a korban. Do teshuva. No problem. If it's an honest mistake, no problem. Teshuva is always accepted. But, The mistake is because you don't feel like learning. If the mistake is because you don't feel like changing, then you're putting everything on the line. Everything on the line. What's on the line for the last 3,300 years? Your grandparents, your great-grandparents, your great-great-great-grandparents—all of them, all the way to Moshe Rabbeinu—suffered in every single generation. Binyamin who suffered, Yehoshua Bin Nun suffered, all the people in the desert suffered, all the people after that, so everyone suffered in every generation. We got attacked, we got beat up, we experienced all types of suffering—pogroms, inquisitions, the Holocaust. The Holocaust that everyone hears about is not the first time. It happened a bunch of times. The Beit HaMikdash was much worse, much, much worse than the Holocaust. Just the Holocaust is the only thing we have pictures of, but it was much worse in the Beit HaMikdash and...

1:01:17But we still stayed. We still continued. We still fought. For what? For you to be here, to learn Torah. For you to be here and say, "I am a Jew." Your grandparents suffered for thousands of years for you to be able to proudly say, "I am one of the chosen people. I am a Jew." So unless we pick up the books and we start learning and we go to Kavod HaRav and we start mamash taking what he says into account. Kavod HaRav, how do I work on my anger? Kavod HaRav, I'm a cheap person. How do I work on it? Kavod HaRav, I don't know. I have some, I can't watch my eyes. I look at everything that walks. How do I work on it? Anything that walks, especially here, Miami Beach, it's not exactly Gan Eden. People walk around naked anyway, here. They have an excuse; they blame the beach. Oh, how do I watch my eyes? How do you watch your eyes? Did you do what the Rav said? I overheard him say, Baruch Hashem, he says, "I was in business from the morning. I haven't left." If you're not working, go to Beit Knesset and learn Torah. Go to kollel and learn. If you're working, go to work. Do what you have to do: work, come home, pray, eat, pray, go to Beit Knesset, and learn Torah. Don't go outside.

1:02:35not going to survive. You're not going to survive outside. You're not going to survive even if you are learning Torah. You're not going to survive. It’s Sodom and Gomorrah outside, not just here, everywhere. People in this generation think that underwear became clothes. They walk around with tank tops and underwear, and they think they are fully dressed. We're one generation away from people being completely naked. Outside, hanging out, going to clubs, going to pubs, going to cafes—you’re not going to survive. Why? Because any Torah you’re going to learn, you’re ruining it with your eyes. You look at things as a man. You look at things that are not appropriate, and then you end up thinking about them during the time you’re supposed to be with your wife. In Shamayim, it’s a very big din. So you go to Gedolim and ask, "How do I work on my eyes? What do I have to do?" How do I work on all these bad traits that I have? I have a list of things. Pick one. In Shamayim, they expect you to make errors. No problem, make errors. Whatever you want, make errors. No problem. At least try to do something. Why do you have to try? Why do you think it's so personal in Shamayim? Because your grandparents suffered for so many years just for you to be here and call yourself a Jew. So please do us all a favor. Take advantage of it and all of us will do teshuva, get closer to Hashem, and may He make His will and may He make our will into His will and His will will become our will.

1:04:03Baruch Adonai le'olam. Amen ve'amen.