ELIYAHU HaNAVI Is Here (Is it You?)

0:15We're starting off the week, Baruch Hashem, on our Sunday program here in Sha'arei Tzion in Sunny Isles, Florida. For all of the Floridians that keep getting surprised when they find out that I do shiurim in Florida, we actually do it three times a week, Baruch Hashem. So we're here in Sha'arei Tzion on Sundays and Wednesdays. And then Tuesdays we're in Aventura. Locations sometimes change, but generally, they do not. Be'ezrat Hashem, today's shiur will be for a refuah shlema for Avi Mori, David Ben Esria, for my dear mother Doris Bajora, Rabbanit Levana Bat Sarah, Sarah Bat Levana, Ovadia Ben Levana, and Yosef Ben Levana. Also Rabbi Ephraim Ben Shulamit, Rabbanit Nitzara Bat Anat, Dvora Bat Mercedes, Elisheva Chaya Bat Sara, Esther Bat Zipporah, Eliyahu Ben Freda Ezer L'iluy Nishmat, and also L'iluy Nishmat Eliyahu Ben Freda. So today's shiur is on a very interesting topic.

1:43We will say it as we learned it from Rabbi Ephraim, God bless him and all of his Torah, B'ezrat Hashem, and his family. And hopefully, shed some light on some interesting things. I know that people like to talk about Mashiach. And Joshua. Maybe Joshua is the Mashiach. Joshua is the Mashiach. Tzaddik. I love Joshua. Joshua is the best. Surprised me, Joshua. I didn't see you here two minutes ago. So, see if it made me happy. With these people. Don't tell nobody. So anyway, people love to talk about Mashiach. I remember, Baruch Hashem, when we first started recognizing HaKadosh Baruch Hu, one of my personal favorite topics was to talk about Mashiach, the end of days, the destruction, and easily assuming I'm going to be part of the saved. You know, all of us are like assuming, "No, no, I'm for sure being saved. Why? I'm keeping Shabbat now. I didn't even know what borer was. But I'm keeping Shabbat. I'm just not driving. I didn't know when it's nothing, by the way. But I thought I was for sure going to be saved." And unfortunately, many of us think we're going to be saved. But b'ezrat Hashem, we will be.

3:12B'ezrat Hashem, many more will be. But, rabotai yekarim, I can promise you, it's not going to be easy. And the reason why is because in order to be saved by Mashiach, we have to know a few things about Torah, a few things about Mashiach himself and what's going to happen, what it's going to take to be saved at the time of Mashiach. And one of the interesting things that I haven't heard from anybody... is the details of Eliyahu HaNavi because in several places in the Torah, the prophets tell us that the last prophet, Malachi, and also some of the other prophets, mention that three days before Mashiach comes, Eliyahu HaNavi is going to come. Eliyahu HaNavi is going to come and he's going to tell us Mashiach is coming.

4:13And until now, that's generally what we've taught. Three days before Mashiach comes, Eliyahu HaNavi is going to come. Now, the good news is that that's still valid, that's still true, that's still the pshat. But if you look at some of the Chachamim, including the Rambam, you will see that there is a little bit more commentary on that particular verse that talks about Eliyahu HaNavi coming before Mashiach. Now, we're going to start off with a Gemara that is almost like a prophecy, if you will. Even though Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai was not a prophet, he, of course, surely had Ruach HaKodesh and had... extraordinary Kedusha that was second to none. But at the same token, we learned from Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai in the Gemara, in the Zohar, and many other sefarim, that some of the things that he said might as well be a prophecy. Might as well be a prophecy, because it's clear as day. But one of the things that I never knew really was a prophecy relevant to this yul,

5:33until Sani turned on the camera. Fresh chidush for you. So Gemara Masechet Sanhedrin, page 97b, says the following. In the name of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai says to his son, Raiti bnei aliyah ve'en mu'atin. Im elef, ani uveni me'hem. Im me'ah, ani uveni me'hem. I have seen the people of the highest level, the biggest tzaddikim in the world, and they are few. If they are a thousand, I and my son are among them. If there are a thousand tzaddikim in the entire world, my son and I are surely among them.

6:34Okay, if there are a hundred, my son and I are among them. He says if there are two tzaddikim bnei aliyah, there's bnei aliyah, there's a hundred of them in the entire world, my son and I are among them as well. Meaning, with two percent of the people in the world. And if there are only two, there's only two bnei aliyah in the world. Then, my son and I are among them. Somehow, you ask yourself a question. HaKadosh Baruch Hu, what does He hate? He hates a few things. One of the things He hates is arrogance. So, can you in your wildest imagination say that Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, the Baal HaZohar, the Tanna Kadosh that's in the Torah, that's in the Gemara, all over the place, telling us all types of chidushim, chas v'shalom, we can even think in our wildest dreams that he has arrogance? That he says if there are only two Bnei Aliyah in the entire world, we’re them? You can't say that.

7:42So what does it mean? Now, the topic of mysticism and generally discussing the Zohar, Kabbalah, and all types of mystical teachings If you've noticed and you've been around the religious world for some time, or even if you've just joined in the last couple of years, you notice that if you type the word "Zohar" or "Kabbalah," you're going to get a lot more hits than if you type the word "Chumash" or "Parasha" or "Mussar." A lot more. Why? Because Kabbalah and Zohar and mysticism, even the goyim, the heretics, the biggest reshaim in the world, they also want to teach it. They don't even know halachot Shabbat. They don't even know what the Ten Commandments are by heart. But they say, no, no, the most mystical things in the Torah, we are teaching it too. You have a place called Kabbalah Center. It should be called the Kefirah Center.

8:56They teach Kabbalah la'am. What's Kabbalah la'am? Kabbalah to the nations, meaning anyone can learn Kabbalah. The funny thing is, Kabbalah is something that's secret. That's what it means—secret from hand to hand, teacher to student, one to one. That's what Kabbalah is meant for. You receive Kabbalah from one teacher directly to the student, not one teacher to a class of a thousand people. There's even a class that specifically discusses certain things you only teach to a few people, and some things you don't teach at all. Kabbalah is one of those things. It's one-to-one. That's what Kabbalah means. So to say Kabbalah la'am, Kabbalah to the nations, is an oxymoron. How are you going to teach Kabbalah to the public? How? It's not supposed to be taught. Now in Tikkunei Zohar, page 114, it says... Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai tells us when these hidden teachings will be uncovered, many men will gather to learn them and deal with them. So Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai himself is saying these teachings, this entire Zohar, this Kabbalah, this mystical stuff, the Midrashim, all these different things. It's going to be hidden for many, many years. It was written over 2,000 years ago but only discovered in the last few hundred years, and...

10:24Not something that we've had for the last couple thousand years. The Rambam wrote that if he knew about the Zohar at the time that he was writing the Mishneh Torah, certain things would be different. Meaning it was only discovered in the last thousand years, less than a thousand years. It was hidden from the world for over 1,500 years. And Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai is telling us it's going to be hidden, but once it's uncovered, many people are going to want to deal with it. There are four parts to the Torah as far as four classifications. The word spells out the word "Pardes." Pardes is where the Americans got the word "paradise," by the way. But Pardes stands for four words: Pshat, Remez, Drash, and Sod. The Pshat is the... Surface meaning. You read the verse. Hashem spoke to Moshe. Okay, that's what we understand. Hashem spoke to Moshe. Literal meaning. We understand this thing. Peshat. Remez is like the hints, the deeper meaning, the allegory, what you understand from it through looking at different places and so on. If you saw somebody come into a room

11:54There's a person making footprints with mud; you would understand that it's raining outside. You don't understand it's raining outside just because he probably stepped in some puddle or the sand outside is wet. Therefore, you'd see that it's raining right now or that it was raining recently, and that's the reason why he has mud on his feet. So, the allegory, the deeper meanings, the hints—all of the different things that you're going to get from the Torah, and... as the Remez Drash means the Midrashim. But also, different rules within the Torah—there are certain rules the Gemara tells us that were put together. If there is a Vav at the beginning of the word, that means something. If there isn't a Vav, that means something else. If there's the word et in a certain place when it's really not necessary, it means... You know, honor your father and your mother. Why don't you just say, honor your parents? Why say it twice? Chachamim said the extra et means that also honor your brother, your older brother. Anytime there's the word et extra there, that's an additional meaning. So, when it says, when you fear G-d,

13:21But it also has the word et. So one of the chachamim was confused. What does it mean et? Who else should you fear other than Hashem? Rabbi Akiva came and said, oh, you have to fear your rabbi too. Fear your rabbi like you fear Hashem. That's what the word et stands for in that particular aspect. So that's the Midrashim, but also the commentaries, how it talks about Akeidat Yitzchak, and it says, okay, Avraham Avinu nearly cut off his throat. then if you go into some of the Midrashim, it actually says that he did cut his throat And Hashem took Yitzchak Avinu to Gan Eden, healed him Himself, replaced his neshama—he had a feminine neshama—and put in a masculine neshama. There are all types of really, really interesting teachings. The point being is that there are other things beyond the pshat, beyond the basic meanings of the Torah, beyond the things that you can even understand yourself. For example, all of the superhero movies that have made billions and billions of dollars in the world today.

14:22X-Men, all these people—all of them, without exception, every single one of them that's famous, not just the successful ones, not just the fighting successful ones—the Incredible Hulk, all these people, you see them in the Torah. You see them in the Shema Torah. Some people are amazed by the character of the Phoenix, the bird that never dies. That's in the Torah. It's a real bird. There's one bird like that. One bird like that, that's in Parashat Noach. That's the only thing that didn't sin, that and the fish. And Hashem blessed this bird, this phoenix bird, because you didn't sin, you're never going to die. Every thousand years it dies, and then the ashes grow back and it relives. It's a special bird. So this phoenix is not an invention of X-Men. It's not an invention of the goyim. It's an invention of the Torah. It's HaKadosh Baruch Hu. Same thing with the Incredible Hulk. You look at Midrash Ma'am Loez, Midrash Abba Gurion, the wars of the tribes—you see that Yehuda was very powerful. He would roar, beat up people, break buildings just with his roar, and so on and so forth. You see that the tribes were powerful people, powerful beyond our imagination. The point being about this is that...

15:35We see that the midrashim have many, many interesting things. Sometimes midrashim conflict with each other. For example, last week we had one of our new Torah tunes, the cartoons we've been publishing for each parashat haShavua, and it talked about the very famous midrash of how Avraham Avinu saw that his father was selling idols in a store, and he put Avraham as a little boy, ...to run the store while he's doing other things. And Avraham detested these idols and decided to break all of them. A woman came and wanted to give food to one of the idols. Avraham said, "Why are you feeding one of these idols?" She said, "I want him to protect me." He said, "You're an old lady. You're an old lady. This idol, my father made him yesterday. He's going to protect you?" And then he decided to take this food and destroy all of the idols. Actually, it was an old man. Long story short, he was a little boy. But then the same Midrash Rabbah says there's also an opinion that really Avraham was 47 years old. Not 3, 4, 5, or 6 years old. 47. Now, if there's a conflict between Chachamim and the Midrash, you can pick a side, no problem. Why? Because it doesn't affect the halacha.

16:57It doesn't affect whether you're going to drive on Shabbat or not drive on Shabbat. It's not going to affect whether you eat kosher or don't eat kosher. We all learn halacha from them. So sometimes there's a conflict between the Midrashim. Sometimes the Midrashim look like they're conflicting, but they really don't. You just don't understand them. The point being is that Midrash is one of the foundations of the Torah. And then there's the last part, which is Sod. Sod is the secret part of the Torah, the mystical stuff. The stuff that you have to be a very serious talmid chacham to not only learn it, but also to know how to use it. There are certain secretive things that the average person can do, but there are certain secret things that the average person should not do. Now, the Gemara in Masechet Chagigah says that there are two major subjects when it comes to mysticism. that one has to be very careful with: Maaseh Merkavah and Maaseh Bereishit. Maaseh Merkavah is like theology and the heavenly secrets. What's going on in Shamayim? Don't delve into that too much at all. It's dangerous, even if you're a Talmid Chacham. Maaseh Bereishit, the secrets of creation.

18:21Nature, the secrets of nature, what the Rambam calls the metaphysical. Now, the Gemara says don't teach the issues of morality to just three people. The details of what happens between a man and a woman shouldn’t be taught to three people. Why? Because one of them is going to lose attention, and then you're going to focus on one student, and the two of them are going to start thinking garbage in their heads. So the real details of what happens between a man and a woman, don't teach it to three people. Also, don't teach Maaseh Bereishit to two people, one-on-one. But Maaseh Merkava, don't even teach it to one. Meaning, if he doesn't know it on his own, don't teach it. He has to be at a very, very special level to know Maaseh Merkava. Now, the Gemara continues in Masechet Chagigah, page 15. says that four of the sages went into the Pardes. Four of them went into the Pardes, into the mystical parts of the Torah. Some say they physically went to heaven. They did something called Aliyat Neshamah. Aliyat Neshamah is when someone simply takes the Neshamah and goes up to Shamayim without dying. And they saw what happened in Shamayim.

19:50The names were Ben Azzai, Ben Zoma, Elisha ben Avuyah, who is forever known as Acher, the other, and Rabbi Akiva. They all went up to heaven, and so what's going on over there? There is a tzaddik in Eretz Yisrael, Rav Shani. He says that he is able to do it not only for himself, but for other people. It's very hard for many people to believe it. even though there's proof, because this is something that no one has been able to really truly do, at least not publicly, since the days of the Ari HaKadosh. But nonetheless, he is the great, he's the grandson or great-grandson of the Aderet Eliyahu. So he's a very big mekubal. But the point being is that you see that some of his shiurim, if you speak Hebrew, he speaks about this. And it's unbelievable that someone in our generation even has knowledge of this stuff. Point being is, don't mess with it. Why? Look what happened in the story of people much bigger than Rav Shani. Much bigger than anybody in the world today. Much bigger than the whole world together. These four Tannaim. Ben Azzai peeked into the Pardes. He looked into the Pardes. It was so beautiful. It was so delicious over there. His neshama didn't want to go back to his body. He died.

21:15It was so amazing over there. He says, I cannot, I can't go back to this world. Who wants this? He stayed over there. He died. But that's not what Hashem's will is. Hashem doesn't want him to die. He wants him to learn Torah. But he died. Ben Zoma peeked into the Pardes and went crazy. This, unfortunately, is still happening to this day. people that delve into the Zohar HaKadosh, into Kabbalah, into the mystical aspects of the Torah, and they are not at that level, especially when they go into the super mystical things, such as the names of angels, and start saying names of angels, and they don't know what they're doing. These angels, they're not regular beings. If you're not at that level to say their names, they come down and they hurt you. There's one tzaddik that I recently found out about, Was a very, very serious talmid chacham, started delving into the Zohar, went crazy recently, just a few months ago. There's a whole hospital in Yerushalayim, in Har Nof, just for those people. People lose their minds from learning, but learning things that are beyond their pay grade. That's why it's foolish when people say, "Oh, yeah, I'm learning Zohar." Do you know the Shulchan Aruch? Do you know Halachot Shabbat? Do you know Parashat HaShavua? Do you know any of this? Do you know how to spell Parashat HaShavua? Do you know Hebrew?

22:37They don't know anything, but now they're going to the Zohar. They play with an atomic bomb thinking it's a, you know, it's a firecracker. So Ben Zoma peeked into it, lost his mind, Hashem Yerachem. Elisha ben Avuyah is a very interesting story. Elisha ben Avuyah was one of the rabbis of Rabbi Akiva. He went up there and he started seeing things. He saw angels. But he saw the most powerful of all angels. He's so powerful, we can't even say his name. The Gemara says, what is his job? He sits there all day and writes all of the merits of Am Yisrael. Now, when Elisha ben Avuyah saw this, he lost his mind. Why? He said it doesn't make any sense. It says in the Torah that all the angels stand on one leg. What is this angel doing sitting? It turned him into a kofer. Why? Because he saw something that didn't make sense to him, and he became a very big heretic, Hashem yerachem. It took several generations to take him out of Gehinnom. But the only reason he was able to come out of Gehinnom, even though he had all of these aveirot, is number one, he had an enormous amount of Torah, but two, he had an enormous talmid, named Rabbi Meir Ba'al HaNes. If you have a talmid named Rabbi Meir Ba'al HaNes, you can do whatever you want. But until then, you listen to basic Hebrew. Basic Hebrew. You listen to what we say over here. Basic.

24:03So, Elisha ben Avuyah went, peeked into the Pardes, and he lost his mind. He started becoming a kofer, committed murder, and all types of things. Then there was Rabbi Akiva. Rabbi Akiva peeked into the Pardes, and he went in peace and came out in peace. He's the only one that survived. So we see here, rabotai, that dealing with the mystical, with the supernatural, with the things that are above and beyond the norm, is not exactly something that's for everyone. But it doesn't mean you shouldn't peek into certain things. The Rav Chida, alav ha-shalom, says, someone who only learns the pshat, remez, and drash, Meaning the first three levels, the surface, the hints, and the midrashim, are going to be an incomplete talmid, just as the pasuk says. There's a pasuk in Tehillim 32:9 that says, "Don't be like a horse and like a donkey," but it means like a donkey, meaning don't just learn...

25:18The three also go into the mystical at some point when you're at that level. What happens if a person goes straight into the sod, into the secret? That's meshugeh. What's the chachamim say? Someone who goes straight into the secret is a fool. Why? You're going to try to perform your science project on an atomic bomb and... You're going to try to really see if the foundation of the building is good while you're under the building. You don't know what you're doing, but you're going to mess with it. You don't know what you're doing. Point being, rabotai, is that there's a time and a place for everything. So when you see some of these people, whether it's the Kabbalah Center or some other kofer named some Russian guy who outright said to Larry King Live,

26:19Yes, do you believe in God? He said, no. But he teaches Kabbalah to millions of people. The guy says, do other rabbis agree with you? He says, no. He was on Larry King Live, this kofer. Other rabbis don't agree with me. He doesn't believe in God, nothing. But he teaches Kabbalah to millions of people. Very famous. Because he says, this is the secret to life and nature and all types of shtuyot. So if you see somebody like that, you see somebody like the Kabbalah Center, or sometimes you see rabbis, Orthodox rabbis, that are teaching Kabbalah to the public. They tell you, "Kabbalah shiur, press here. Come, we have a new Kabbalah shiur at our local shul. Everyone is welcome." Run away. Not there. Run away. Why? Kabbalah is not something you teach to the public. If he says he's teaching Kabbalah to the public, either he's a liar or he's a meshugeneh. Something's missing. Why? You don't teach Kabbalah to the public. Why? Because the average person in the world does not even know the 39 melachot of Shabbat.

27:31There are 39 melachot on Shabbat that if you violate one of them—not all 39, just one—you go to Gehenom. Meaning, it's not like you violate one of them and Hashem is going to say, "You know what? You kept 38. Good for you. Good for you, kid. You're okay. You're still in. You passed." You violate two, three? No, no. "Good for you, kid. You got 36 right. You're okay." It doesn't say that. You drive on Shabbat... Serious problems. Most people in the world, unfortunately, sometimes including religious people, do not know the 39 melachot of Shabbat. They do not know the real dinim of the laws of Niddah. Many religious women come to me and ask different questions, and I say, "Wait a minute. How long have you been religious?" They answer, "No, I was born religious." I then say, "Wait, and you don't know that you're not supposed to sleep in the same bed as your husband when you're niddah? What kallah class did you attend?" In the church, where did you learn this? Rabotai yekarim, basic stuff people do not know. Basic stuff they don't know. So you're going to go teach people that don't know the basics, Kabbalah? How? How could it be? But they're going, why do they do it? Because mayim genuvim yimtaku.

28:52There's a law in the Torah. Shlomo HaMelech teaches us that "stolen waters are sweeter." We always want something that's not allowed to us, that's not available to us. If you remember, I told you there was a study made about the attraction of men to a married woman. They took two twins, two girls that were identical twins that you can't tell the difference between them, and... And they asked a bunch of guys, which one do you find more attractive? Over 90% found A more attractive than B. But there's no difference in the look. They said, why did you find her more attractive? She goes, no, she's just a lot better looking. She's a lot better looking. After that, they showed them the picture. Same exact person. What's the difference? The difference is the one that they picked, over 90% picked, happens to be married. Now, they didn't know that she's married. But their neshama, the yetzer hara knew she's married. And they picked her. Magnificent tackle. We want stolen waters. We want stuff that's not allowed. So unfortunately, some of the shysters, some of the criminals of the world, also joined the spiritual world, and they know that people want stuff that is not available to them. That sounds really foreign. I remember in Boca Raton, there was one guy. I'm not even sure if he knew what Shabbat was. Forget about keeping Shabbat, I'm not sure if he knew what Shabbat was.

30:10But he went into the sefarim and he picked a book out. He started reading it and began telling one of the guys who actually knows Torah in the shul about some Zohar that he started reading. One of the talmidei chachamim in the shul said to him, "You're teaching it completely wrong. It doesn't mean what you say. You shouldn't be reading it." He tells him, "Alright, but you shouldn't be reading the Zohar. You're not on the level to read the Zohar." All you people say that stuff. Why are you trying to hide it from us? You think that you're better than us? That's why we're not allowed to read the Zohar. Only you people can read it. He goes, no, you're just not understanding it. But the guy doesn't know Aleph Bet, doesn't know Bereishit Bara, doesn't know that, but he wants to go directly into the Zohar. Why? Because it's far away. Another time, unfortunately, I saw a rabbi come into that same exact community and You know they have guests, different rabbis, and then he wanted to entice that kehillah after tefillah, after Arvit, to come learn with him. So what does he say? We're sitting there, everybody finished praying, everybody starts. He goes, "Oh guys, come on. We're going to have a shiur at such-and-such house. Forty-five minutes, pure Zohar. Forty-five minutes, pure Zohar, nothing but Zohar."

31:24Everybody all of a sudden is interested in shiur Torah. Learn parashat haShavua, learn halachot Shabbat, learn halachot kashrut, learn how to make sure that your wife knows how to buy clothes, learn anything? No. But pure Zohar, everybody follows this guy. Now, this guy's a criminal though. Even though he got all these people to go to a shiur Torah, he's a criminal. Why? He's teaching them something that they are not ready for, if he's teaching them a chazara. It's hard for me to believe he's teaching them that, but nonetheless, if he's really teaching them that, it's a mistake. Why? You don't teach it to the public unless it's specific midrashim that are permissible to all. And to know which is which, you have to also know what's allowed and what's not allowed. You have to have a rabbi that's going to tell you what's allowed and what's not allowed. To learn the midrashim of the Zohar is not a problem. But to learn some of the more mystical things, some of the things that are beyond the average person, that's going to confuse you. It can be very, very dangerous for certain people. But nonetheless, you're going to see a lot of people, especially in the Olam HaChassidut, in the world of Chassidut, where they're going to start confusing you, but at the same time, making you feel better about yourself.

32:30I tell you, listen, what are you doing? You touch over here? Oh, that's the chochmah. No, no, that's the binah. No, that's the—start calling all your body parts all types of names. You're like, what is chochmah, binah, what is this? No, that's the malchut, that's the malchut. Oh, it's the malchut, oh, malchut. You start walking around, you're thinking you're a malchut. No, no, people start shaking your hand, hey, that's my malchut. It's not a regular hand, it's the malchut. No, no, but some woman came to me and said, "Listen, I'm having a problem because my Gevurah is very weak." I said, "Who, what? Excuse me, my Gevurah." These types of things aren't Kabbalah, but who are you to say these things? Do you even know what they mean? What, did you look them up on Wikipedia? Unfortunately, sometimes you see rabbis teaching these things, and the average folks start going to people and saying, "Oh, yeah, this is my Netzach. This is my Chesed. This is my Gevurah. Ma nishma Gevurah? Ma nishma Malchut? Who is this Malchut, and who is this Gevurah? Do you even know what you're saying?" "No, I have the whole drawing. I have a poster in my bedroom." "You mean the bedroom that you and your wife are in?"

33:43You have that poster on? He goes, yeah, it's a very expensive picture. I said, Hashem gave you your wife, and she's married to you. So you have this poster. People do not know right or left. But unfortunately, they're learning all types of things. Why? Because it entices the yetzer hara. The yetzer hara loves this type of Torah. Why does the yetzer hara love the Kabbalah center or love the rabbis that teach things that are above and beyond the average folk's pay grade? Because all of that Torah goes to him. Everything that they're learning in the Kabbalah Center, everything that they're learning in these places where they teach the average Joe things that are above and beyond anything that's going to help them do teshuva, all of it gives the Satan more power. Not a single minute of that shiur is a mitzvah; all of it goes to the Sitra Achra. So the Satan loves it, hence the reason why you're never going to see the Kabbalah Center do a fundraiser. Never. Why? They have billions of dollars given to them without them asking for money. You're never going to see the guy that teaches Kabbalah ever short of money. Never short of it. And why? The Satan gives him so much money. He makes him feel good. He makes the people that follow him feel even better. The Malchut, the Gevurah, this one and that one, don't walk around. Why? Because they figure this guy's building a $30 million building every week. He must be doing something right.

35:12You're still speaking out of a $5 shul. He's building $30 million buildings. Of course, Hashem is blessing him much more than you. You're just jealous. But they don't realize that the Satan is very, very rich. So this, Rabotai, is the disclaimer. Disclaimer on delving into some of the topics we're going to talk about on your own. If I didn't learn this from my rabbi, I would not be able to either teach you this or even learn it myself. Now, this is from the parts of the Zohar that are permissible to the average person, especially if it's taught the right way. But nonetheless, you're going to see that some of the things that we're going to say are deep and also a little different than usual. Some are the same, nonetheless. Now, All of us have heard about the Mashiach. It's one of the Ikkarei Emunah. It's one of the 13 principles of faith. The Rambam put together almost 900 years ago the 13 things that a Jew must believe. One of them is that the Mashiach will come. The Mashiach will come on any given day. Chachamim say, wait a minute. How could the Mashiach come on any given day?

36:36if the Prophet says that Eliyahu Hanavi has to come three days before him. This is confusing. How could the Mashiach come tomorrow, if for him to come tomorrow, Eliyahu Hanavi would have had to arrive two days ago? So Chachamim say, It's not for certain that Mashiach and Eliyahu Hanavi have to come three days before. That's one of the possibilities, but one of the other possibilities is also for Mashiach and Eliyahu Hanavi to come at the same time. This we've learned before, but what I'm going to tell you today is breaking news: Eliyahu Hanavi is already here. Eliyahu HaNavi is already here. Does that mean that Mashiach is going to come in three days from now? I don't know. All I can tell you for sure is Eliyahu HaNavi is already here. According to the Zohar HaKadosh, he's been here already for many years. Almost 20 years he's been here. How so? The last prophet that we had was Malachi. And Malachi's last prophecy...

37:58He's the last prophet, and this is his last prophecy. In chapter 3, verse number 22 until the end (verse 24), he says Remember the Torah of Moshe, my servant, which I commanded him at Chorev for all of Israel, its decrees and its statutes. Chorev is another name for Mount Sinai. Hinei Anokhi sholeach lachem et Eliyahu HaNavi, lifnei bo yom Hashem hagadol v’hanorah. He says, "Behold, I send you Eliyahu HaNavi (Elijah the Prophet) before the coming of the great and awesome day of Hashem." Awesome day of Hashem, meaning the day Mashiach comes.

39:11And he will turn back to God the hearts of fathers with their sons and the hearts of sons with their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with utter destruction. So here is why the machloket between the Chachamim says one says three days because a different prophet says three days. But the prophet Malachi says, "I'm sending Eliyahu Hanavi." He doesn't say days. That's what the Chachamim say here. It could be it comes together with Eliyahu Hanavi. It could be it comes three days before Eliyahu Hanavi. But we have another opinion. What's the other opinion? He's already been here for a long, long time. And we're going to find out about that opinion. But this Eliyahu HaNavi first, remember, when it has to do with Mashiach, what's going to save you? Torah and Moshe. You do teshuva, you keep Torah, all that stuff, okay, you're in good shape. Not, read the rest of it. Why? It says I'm going to send you Eliyahu HaNavi. What's Eliyahu HaNavi? Eliyahu HaNavi is going to help people do teshuva, turn the hearts of the fathers with their sons and the sons with their fathers back to Hashem. Or else I'm going to strike and destroy the land, destroy everything.

40:22So here, we have a little bit of an explanation to do. Is Eliyahu HaNavi coming to help people do teshuva? If that's the case, three days is not enough. Anyone that's been coming to the shiurim for at least a few months, if not a few years, already knows that to do teshuva takes a very long time. Teshuva is not something, oh, I'm going to start keeping Shabbat this week. You're baal teshuva now. It doesn't work that way. Okay, good. You're not going to go to Gehinom forever because you said you're gonna keep Shabbat this weekend better than you keep it. But you're not considered a full ba'al teshuva because, first of all, you still have to fulfill the mitzvot. You didn't have time to fulfill the mitzvot in three days. Maybe it's Monday now, and the Mashiach comes already on Thursday. You have time to keep Shabbat even once. How are you a ba'al teshuva? On the other hand, you still didn't stop wasting seed. You still didn't leave the Goya. You still didn't leave the Goy. You still didn't start eating kosher yet. You still don't even know what you don't know. You still didn't even learn Torah for more than a couple of days straight. How are you really a ba'al teshuva? Meaning, in order to fulfill the four steps of teshuva that the Rambam says in Hilchot Teshuva,

41:35It has to take time. First, the person needs to stop sinning. Stopping the sins, all the sins, not only requires you to stop them, but you also have to know what they are. To know what they are takes time. Takes time. To know all of halachot Shabbat takes time. If you're going to read, if you're Sephardi, you're going to read Yalkut Yosef. It's three books just on halachot Shabbat. Even if you're a fast reader, it's going to take you a few months, at best. Memorize it, maybe a few years you have to read it a few times sometimes. What about kashrut? What about the nidda? What about watching your eyes? What about middot? What about all the different things you have to keep? You don't even know anything yet. How are you about to find three days? So that's why the Zohar HaKadosh says that there are three types of arriving or uncovering and revealing of Eliyahu HaNavi. Three different types: one is a man who suddenly gets the urge, a woman that suddenly gets the urge out of nowhere to serve HaKadosh Baruch Hu.

42:51Out of nowhere, he's keeping a few things. He's learning a few things. But out of nowhere, she feels like, I have to do chesed. I have to start giving challah to all of the poor people in the neighborhood. Yeah, but you don't even know how to make challah yet. I'll learn how to make challah just so I can give it to all of the poor people in the neighborhood. All of a sudden, she wants to be the biggest tzaddeiket in the world. From where did this come from? Oh, I'm gonna give CDs. I'm gonna arrange shiurim. I'm gonna get everybody to do shiur Torah. Shiur Torah, do you even know a rabbi? No, but I'll find a rabbi and I'll bring him here. He's gonna help everybody do shiur Torah. Where'd you get this energy from all of a sudden? Where did this come from, lady? You don't ruin anything. I'm gonna keep. You come to the shiur Torah too. All of a sudden, you're the biggest talmid there. But you don't even know why. Where did this come from all of a sudden? She's zealous for Hashem. Why? All of a sudden, the guy's like, hey, rabbi, listen, I want to learn Gemara. Why? You keep Shabbat yet? I'm starting this week. Baruch Hashem, what made you? I don't know, I saw a video, it was three and a half minutes, and I want to do everything now. All of a sudden, the guy, Baruch Hashem, wants to take everything on. Where does this urge come from? Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai says in the Zohar, page 123a,

44:08This is one of the revealings of Eliyahu HaNavi. Personal revealing in your mind. Eliyahu HaNavi is enticing the person to serve HaKadosh Baruch Hu to a high level. Supernatural. All of a sudden he wants to do some things that he didn't want to do his whole life. All of a sudden he wants to do teshuva but 100%. All of a sudden, she throws out all of her clothes in one day. She hears a shiur for seven minutes. The Rabbi says you're not allowed to be immodest. She goes to her house, takes all the clothes that she has in the closet, throws them all in the garbage, and burns them. She makes a YouTube video of herself burning all of her clothes. She hasn't even bought new clothes yet. She wears her winter jacket until she buys new clothes. That's Eliyahu HaNavi. Second, sometimes a person learns. Once in a while, you get people that learn Torah. And all of a sudden, he's learning regularly. He's learning his parashat shavua. He's learning his Gemara, his daf yomi. He's been an average guy for a few years. Nothing special. He's not giving any major shiurim. He's just an average guy. But all of a sudden, his Torah, he's learning. It's two o'clock in the morning. He says, you know what? Instead of going to sleep, I'm going to push for another half hour.

45:24Sleep for an extra half hour less. I'll push a little bit more. He goes another 20 minutes. Another 25 minutes. At 29 minutes, at 2:29 at night. All of a sudden, the whole page that he's been learning becomes like the movie The Matrix. He sees the whole blueprint. He has a chiddush that connects this sefer to some sefer that he read 15 years ago, another sefer that's on the shelf that he barely even delved into, but he happens to know the one page in it, all types of things, and he has a chiddush that the world has never seen before. No one's ever heard these words since Mount Sinai. He has this chiddush. That's another uncovering of Eliyahu HaNavi. The third and highest level is Eliyahu HaNavi mamash, where a person sees Eliyahu HaNavi. Now there are some people that have told their stories, Torah Rabbi Yagen and other Chachamim, where they saw Eliyahu HaNavi.

46:31For example, Rabbi Yagen's grandfather saw Eliyahu HaNavi a couple of times. Also, he had a couple of talmidim that saw Eliyahu HaNavi in different ways. One time there was a guy that told him, "Listen, Kvoda Rav," one of his avreichim in a kollel says, "Kvoda Rav, you got to meet my chavruta, he saw Eliyahu HaNavi." Okay. I like people that say they also want to be. And he says, okay, let me talk to him. So he says, yeah, but he's learning. He's this, he's that. One day he goes to the Kotel, he goes, that's him. Talk to him. So this guy says, I'm going to tell you the story. He says, no, no. I want to know every detail. Don't miss a point. Not too much, not too little. I want to know exactly what happened. He goes, I'm going to tell you exactly what happened. I was born Herzl Kna'ani. The worst possible name in the Torah, maybe, other than Esav. Herzl Kna'ani. That's what this guy, the Kofer, but also Kna'an.

47:35But today I think his name was Jacobi or something. They changed it to a kosher Jewish name. He says he didn't know anything. He didn't know anything. And one day, suddenly, he got some desire to check what else is in the world, and so on. And little by little, he started delving into the world of Torah. And he made a minhag. What is a minhag? Every day at a specific time, he's gonna learn Torah no matter what, and he had this minhag for a few years. You're supposed to make a keviat itim for Torah; you have to learn Torah every day at the same time. But he had this thing where he learned Torah at a specific time like he's supposed to. But one day, as the Satan would have it—he always likes to mess around—he gives this guy a tikkun and tells him he can't learn at that specific time. He has to go somewhere that he really didn't have to go. So he says, okay, I have to go. I can't learn. I mean, I already have this minhag for a few years, but okay, what can I do? So he goes on the bus, and he starts walking to the back of the bus. He notices there's nobody on the bus, and he gets to the back, to the back, to the back, and he sees there's an old man with a baby face.

49:01And he gets scared to death, but he doesn't know what to do. He can't turn around because he's too scared. He's scared to go forward, but he doesn't know it. He just sits down, which happens to be right next to the old man with the baby face. You know, sometimes you have certain people; they're older, but they have a baby face. He said, I was so scared because I knew he's not from here. I'm scared to look up, but then I hear a voice, this beautiful voice. He says to me, You are such-and-such, Jacobi, right? He said, yes. He goes, you weren't born Jacobi. You were born El Teknan, right? He said, yes. He said, you have a shiur today at this time, right? He says, yeah. He goes, why'd you cancel it? All I have to say is never do it again. We like your shiurim in shamayim. We like your learning at this time in shamayim. Never do it again. And he started telling him all sorts of details with specific times of when the Mashiach can come. And he says, just to make sure you know it's real, when you go home...

50:01you go home, you can tell your wife, you can tell people that you saw me, you can tell people that I told you certain things, but not the details of Mashiach. And to verify that you're not losing your mind, your ear, he touched his ear, he goes, your ear is going to blow up. It's going to be really, really big, but don't worry, it's going to go away. And he tells the Rabbi again, I went home, I wasn't sure what happened, all of a sudden my wife screamed. She goes, what happened to your ear? I go to the mirror, I see my ear is five times the size. He says, oh, I guess it's real. I told my wife and so on and so forth. So there's different strange stories like this of different people seeing Eliyahu HaNavi mamash. They saw Eliyahu HaNavi sometimes as a poor man, sometimes in different forms, but the point is that there are three different types of revelations of Eliyahu HaNavi. Now, the Rambam writes in halacha something unique. In Hilchot Melachim,

51:02Chapter 12, halacha number 2. He talks about the days of Mashiach. He talks about something that many people do not know, apparently. I personally have never heard this in a shiur. Doesn't mean that I've seen every shiur, but I haven't heard this before. Our sages taught there will be no difference between the current age and the Messianic Era. except the emancipation of our subjugation to the Gentile kingdoms, in so many words. We're not going to be under the control of Donald Trump, Bibi Netanyahu, the lefty liberals, the homosexuals—all of these reshaim (wicked ones) in the world. We're not gonna be under their control in the world. Mashiach (Messiah) is gonna be a king of the world. You're not gonna see any more gay parades. You're not gonna see all of these filthy, disgusting billboards that you see everywhere. You're not gonna see anybody going against Hashem (God) in the time of Mashiach.

52:11He says, the simple interpretation, the pshat of the Prophet's words of this verse that I just read to you in Malachi 3:22. that says about, "Behold, I'm sending you Eliyahu HaNavi." He says, what's the pshat? The simple interpretation of the Prophet's words appears to imply that the war of Gog and Magog, the final war, the third world war, the war where the Prophets say two-thirds of the world will die instantly, and the last third will be refined like Hashem refines gold and silver.

53:12Meaning not all of the third that are left will survive, but two-thirds for sure are dead. That's what the Prophet says. That's what HaKadosh Baruch Hu says. So this Milchemet Gog uMagog, you want to see details of Milchemet Gog uMagog, go to Zechariah chapter 14. You see the details; it defines a nuclear war and a biochemical war at the same time, and... See how he says that one guy reaches his hand to his friend, the friend reaches the arm and takes off his arm. Another guy looks at his friend while he sees his friend's face melt and the eyes start pouring out like liquid. What is this from? This is a nuclear biochemical war. In the times that this was written 3,000 years ago, the biggest weapon was a spear. What did you have there? You didn't have nuclear weapons, which obviously shows that this is prophecy of the end of days. So this is the war of Gog and Magog. But he says that the prophet talks about the war of Gog and Magog; it will take place at the beginning of the Messianic age. But before the war of Gog and Magog, before the war of Gog and Magog, a prophet will arise to inspire Am Yisrael to be upright and prepare their hearts to do teshuva.

54:36Meaning, there's a prophet, not Eliyahu Hanavi. He doesn't say Eliyahu Hanavi. Eliyahu Hanavi, he says later on. He says there's going to be a prophet. There's going to be Ya'amod Navi. Ya'amod Navi. And there's going to be a prophet that comes. And he's going to help Am Yisrael do teshuva. before the war of Gog and Magog. Once the war of Gog and Magog comes, after all hell breaks loose, eventually the Mashiach will come during the war and win the war for Am Yisrael, but unfortunately, a lot of havoc will happen in between, which we'll discuss momentarily. And then he says, some say that Eliyahu HaNavi is going to come. So why is there a difference here? Once he says there's going to be a Navi, another he says Eliyahu HaNavi. Hence the chiddush. A Navi comes from the word niv, niv sefatayim. Niv sefatayim means someone who's a speaker. Someone who gives shiurim.

55:59and what the Rambam is saying is that as far as the prophet that's going to come, in regards to Eliyahu HaNavi, he's not coming. It's not him per se that is going to come directly to purify the impure or declare the impure pure. He's not going to dispute the lineage of the presumed. He's not going to do the job of the Mashiach. First, it's going to be the job of helping Am Yisrael do teshuva. Then it's going to be the job of declaring that Mashiach is here in three days, meaning that there's two jobs for this prophet, two jobs for the prophet. The job of announcing the Mashiach is the second job, which pretty much at that point is the end—no more teshuva after that point. But before that, during the early days of Mashiach, which is where we are today... There's going to be a prophet that's going to help people do teshuva. What's a prophet? Not someone that says prophecy of the future, but rather someone who's a navi, someone that gives shiurim, someone or someones. Who are those someones? Anyone that helps Am Yisrael do teshuva is called a navi. People that help Am Yisrael do teshuva, not people that help people get their bank accounts a little smaller. People that help people do teshuva.

57:27That's the job of the Navi. Now, Rabbi Ephraim knew a Rav by the name of Rav El-Maliach, who was the rabbi of Dimona. Zekher Tzaddik livracha. This Rav came to Rabbi Ephraim one time and he told him that he brought this Rambam to Rav Ovadia. He says, "Kevod HaRav, you see here, this is you. You're speaking to Am Yisrael to get them to do teshuva. So b'ezrat Hashem, you're going to be the one. You're the one that's telling people to do teshuva. B'ezrat Hashem, we're also going to see the end of this Rambam. It says the Mashiach is going to come and everything is going to be good eventually." So Rabbi Ephraim says, "So what did Rav Ovadia say?" The Rabbi didn't say anything. He just smiled. He just smiled. Now, we don't have Rav Ovadia anymore. We don't have the Lubavitcher Rebbe anymore. We don't have Rav Elyashiv anymore. We don't have Gedolei Yisrael. We don't have Rav Yagen anymore. We don't have all of the Gedolim from the past. What do we have? We have an obligation to still fulfill the verse. We still have an obligation to fulfill this halacha. And what is fulfilling the halacha? To be nofei s'fataim.

58:55to tell people and to do things to help people do Teshuva. That is still our obligation. Now, the prophet Isaiah, chapter 57, verse 19, says, "Shalom Shalom l'rachok v'lakarov." It says "Shalom Shalom," which could mean hello, but also means peace to the one that's far and to the one that's close. Chachamim say, why is he saying Peace will be, or hello, to someone that's far but also someone that's close. Meaning, you're saying someone that's not religious, hello to him first, and someone that's religious second. Why? He says, worry about the guys that are not religious to get them to become religious, get them to be HaKadosh. Meaning, it's not just about worrying about the religious people; you have to also worry about the non-religious people. Why? Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai says in the Zohar, Tikunei Zohar, page 123a, Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai says to Eliyahu HaNavi, "Rise and praise Hashem, and you will arrive before all of the prophets in the generation of Mashiach." He says to Eliyahu HaNavi, "Get up..."

1:00:19Praise HaKadosh Baruch Hu because you are the one that's gonna come before all of the other prophets. Before there's the reincarnation, the resurrection of Moshe Rabbeinu, Zecharia, Yirmeyahu, and all of the tzaddikim from the past, you're gonna come before everyone else. So Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai says, how is this Eliyahu HaNavi gonna come before everyone else? Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai says he's gonna come in three different ways as we described. One, he's gonna be revealed to a person in his own mind by a sudden urge to do Avodat Hashem. Two, he's gonna suddenly appear in a person's mind giving him a chidush, giving him a Torah insight that he got out of his learning, but he knows that under no way in the world would he have gotten it with his own mind. Why? He doesn't have that type of mental capacity. He may be smart. He may be smart, but he's not that smart, that he's going to figure out something that has never been written before, but it's true. A lot of people say a bunch of things that never existed before, but they're all lies and nonsense. But he's saying, you're going to come up with a chidush that's never been said before, and it's true. It's emet. It agrees with all of the chachamim.

1:01:38That's the second way Eliyahu HaNavi could appear. But the third way is Eliyahu HaNavi himself. But just as a footnote, Rav Ephraim says that the second one, that chidush, can never happen to an arrogant person. So if you're arrogant, forget about Eliyahu HaNavi coming. Why? Because In order for it, this chidush, to be from Eliyahu HaNavi, you have to agree that it came from something that's beyond your mental capacity, that you in your natural way cannot figure out such a thing. It's so big. If you're arrogant, you're never going to think that anything is beyond you. You're going to think, well, chidushim, you know how many I have? I have a whole book of chidushim. The Rambam is asking me for questions now. Eh, chidushim, you know how many chidushim I have? People think that everything that comes out of their head is a new insight. An arrogant person can never have such a thing. Now, the way that Eliyahu HaNavi will be uncovered is going to bring a renewed spirit of Heaven and Am Yisrael.

1:02:51Little by little, bit by bit, through these different ways, there will be sudden urges. All of a sudden, your next-door neighbor became a baal teshuva. Last week, he was making barbecues on Shabbat; this week, he's a Chabad chasid. Another guy, last week, he was married to who knows what; this week, he’s in the Beis Midrash asking, "When's the minyan?" Last week, she was walking around, and you weren't sure if it was underwear or actual clothes; this week, she's a chasidah, she's kisui rosh and everything. She's telling, "Did you watch the new wig video? Really, wigs shouldn't be allowed." She's giving you shiurim about wigs. What happened? Where did this come from? This renewed spirit that's coming onto Am Yisrael will come little by little. Different chachamim will come out with different chiddushim little by little. The renewed spirit of heaven will come on Am Yisrael bit by bit, and through this, they will do teshuva and get accustomed to serving HaKadosh Baruch Hu.

1:03:53and prepared for the salvation to be uncovered. As it says by the prophet Amos in chapter 8, verse 11 It says, "Behold, the days are coming," the word of the Lord Hashem, "when I will send hunger into the land, not a hunger for bread and not a thirst for water, but to hear the words of Hashem." before Mashiach comes, there's going to be a sudden hunger in the world—not hunger for food. Why? There's going to be shefa (abundance). Everyone's going to be rich. No one is starving to death in the streets of America anymore. No one is starving to death in modern society anymore. Some people may be a little hungry because they want two burgers instead of one, but generally speaking, no one's dying of hunger in the modern society world. It's the opposite.

1:05:06Right now, the average guy eats what the tzaddikim used to eat for Shabbat, maybe once a month. He eats it every day. People are eating meat every day, like it's Lechatchilah, you should eat it. Tzaddikim used to eat meat maybe once a week for Shabbat. Today we're eating it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. You're going to say, well, what did you have for breakfast? Oh, you only had eggs? You didn't have the bacon on there too? You didn't have the chazir on there? You didn't have the non-kosher? All that stuff? No. You religious people are fanatic. a guy is eating swine in the morning. He doesn't realize what Hashem is, but suddenly this hunger is not going to be a hunger for food anymore. It's not going to be a hunger for water anymore. It's going to be a hunger for HaKadosh Baruch Hu. It's going to be a hunger for Torah. Now you're seeing a little bit now... see in the world who invented the Internet. People like to attribute these inventions to individuals. It's completely ridiculous; Hashem just makes it look realistic by putting a person's name on it. Because who invented the Internet? Now, unfortunately, most people don't know that originally it was a government project, but it went to the public. Why did it go to the public? Pornography sites. The original websites were only pornography sites.

1:06:34That's how it became popular. But why did HaKadosh Baruch Hu let this happen? Let the resha'im do what they want to do. Why? Let them build it, build it, so that tzaddikim can learn Torah today, 40 years later. Do teshuva from YouTube. Do teshuva from bezratHashem.org. Do teshuva from some guy that was himself a ba'al teshuva a few years ago. Somebody in Australia is going to watch you today. Somebody from Morocco is watching this shiur right now. Morocco! Never in your wildest dreams are you gonna meet this guy or this woman in Morocco or in the Philippines, in Australia, in Holland, in all these different places. They're watching the shiur live right now with you guys. They probably have an even better view than you. They're watching the shiur right now from all over the world. Even the Chazon Ish, the Ben Ish Chai, Rabbi Akiva, Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai didn't have such a magnitude. Why? They didn't have internet. Ben Ish Chai, when he taught people, taught 10,000 people. That's a lot of people. He elevated 10,000 people, but he was capped at 10,000. That shiur started and ended at the shiur. Someone came the next day and said, "I want to hear this shiur," so now you have to come next time because the shiur was over today. You have a shiur today, and if HaKadosh Baruch Hu wants, He could spread that shiur to every single corner in the world at a time when suddenly people want to learn Torah.

1:07:58Suddenly, people want to learn Torah. Suddenly, all types of people want to know who Hashem is, want to know what happened before we were here, and know that they're smart enough to understand that we didn't come from monkeys. They know that we're not going to turn into dust because then there's no point to life. There has to be something—this neshamah that's in every single one of us is going somewhere. This is not the end, nor the beginning. People want to know. How is this book still famous? This Torah book is still famous 3,300 years later. Today, a book is not famous for a week. The guy publishes it and before he sells his first copy, the publisher says it's out of print. "Why? We decided to discontinue it; we didn't sell enough." Very few people make it to the market. The only time you're gonna see their books in a library is because somebody just gave it away to them for free and... Nobody wants the book, but the Torah is still the bestseller from the beginning of time until the end of time. How is this book still a bestseller with so many people making fun of it? So many people are making fun of it, but yet it's the bestseller in the world. It's still the only one that motivates people to change their lives. You could read Harry Potter 50 million times; it's still never gonna change your life. You're never gonna be stupid enough to take a broom and start flying on it from your eighth floor and...

1:09:21You're never gonna take a broom and jump out of your eighth-floor window saying, "Go Harry!" You're never gonna do that. Why? Because you know it's a fake, stupid book. You're never gonna start taking your wife's ring and saying, "Honey, give me your engagement ring. Why? I want to see 'Precious, Precious' like in Lord of the Rings." Your wife's gonna divorce you a week later. What "Precious"? You come home and say, "What 'Precious'? Give me my ring back." You're never going to change your life because of the rain. You're never going to change your life because of all the shtuyot. But if you read HaKadosh Baruch Hu's book, you change your life. Anyone that reads, anyone that reads the Torah with an objective mind from beginning to end, with commentary, meaning they understand what the Chachamim said for each pasuk, not trying to translate it from their own foolish mind. They read it from beginning to end. Understand what it says, their life changes guaranteed. Why? That's the power of the Torah. No other book in the world could be like that, no other book. Despite the fact that so many people make fun of it, despite the fact that so many people mock it, that's how you see that there's something divine about this book. It's not just a bunch of ink on pieces of paper. So, who is telling us? Before I'm gonna bring you Mashiach...

1:10:42Suddenly, people are gonna want to read this book. Suddenly, people are gonna be interested. What does this book say? Why is it so special? It's so old but so interesting. There's gonna be a hunger, meaning that Eliyahu HaNavi is gonna come in different forms, little by little, to different neighborhoods and different countries, and different neighborhoods in different cities. No matter where you are, I have a talmid in Iran. Iran. I don't even know how he watches the internet. In Iran. I have one guy in Korea. I'm not sure if it's North or South, but I know neither one of them is so good right now. A few people in China. One guy sent me an email today from China. China. All types of wonderful people, they want to know what Hashem said. I happen to say what Hashem says in the shiurim. Baruch Hashem. We make good friends. Rabotai, there's a sudden hunger for Torah. Now the question is, how come HaKadosh Baruch Hu is not just going to suddenly send Eliyahu HaNavi? Twice I'm here, come with his four wings. He's got four wings, arrive here in four and, well, wherever the Sunny Isles...

1:12:06middle issue see the ceiling open up, everybody with special effects, and Eliyahu HaNavi arrives. Let's go, guys. We should make a movie out of this. They all have you, right? How come not suddenly? Why? Because that's not the way Eliyahu HaNavi is going to come. Why? Why isn't Eliyahu HaNavi going to come suddenly? Why does it have to be... Little by little, little by little, before that great day when he's going to announce, "Finally, Mashiach is coming," or "Mashiach is here." So, the Zohar HaKadosh continues: The reason why Eliyahu HaNavi is not going to arrive suddenly... Because if he arrives suddenly and Am Yisrael did not already do teshuva, they would be judged to death, rachmana litzlan, like all of the haters of Am Yisrael, as it says at the end of that pasuk by Malachi, chapter 3, verse 24: "Lest I come and strike the land with utter destruction."

1:13:26What's destroyed? Mashiach comes, the end. Whoever hasn't done teshuva by that time of announcement, there's no more time for teshuva. No, no, I'm going to do teshuva now. Sorry, too late. No, no, I'm going to leave her. No, sorry. No, I'm going to watch my eyes. Yeah, you're going to watch your eyes drip out of your face. No, but I was a good person. To whom? How could you be a good person but an enemy of HaKadosh Baruch Hu? How? The Zohar HaKadosh says the reason why Eliyahu HaNavi doesn't come suddenly is because if Hashem, if he came suddenly, all of us are questionable. Because who knows if we really did teshuvah yet? Who knows if we really did teshuvah yet? Therefore, HaKadosh Baruch Hu is trying to give us time. The Zohar HaKadosh continues on page 134a in Tikunei HaZohar. And he says some interesting things that are going to happen before this final announcement. In the generation of the end of the exile, the generation of Mashiach, the people will be like the ones from Sodom and Gomorrah. Homosexuality, chutzpah, stinginess, insulting chachamim, insulting each other, disgusting behavior.

1:14:54This is like reading the newspaper. I went to CVS to pick up some medicine for my kid the other day. I saw there was a newspaper on the counter. Hashem Yirachem. It was another school shooting. Right next to it, there's some other garbage. Just the cover of the newspaper makes you want to just say, "Hashem, how are You not destroying the world?" It's already worse than Sodom and Gomorrah. A little kid, a little kid, is shooting up a bunch of other kids for no reason. In America, on average, every week there's a school shooting. One point it was every two, three days. Not sure if that statistic is still valid because last year they had over 300 shootings. No other country in the world has such a thing. Land of the free, a leitzonus (mockery). Free what? Free to get killed just to go to school. You go to school, you learn you came from a monkey. You survived the day, maybe someone's going to shoot you anyway. I'm not sure which one's worse. Imagine your whole life you thought your grandfather's a monkey, but you never went to the zoo to visit him. Zohar HaKadosh says the generation before Mashiach is going to be disgusting—homosexuality, chutzpah, stinginess.

1:16:18A friend of Rabbi Ephraim went to a mayor in Eretz Yisrael, Hashem Yirachem, Hashem Yirachem. This guy was a gevir, had some money, and he would raise money from different people to open a place to feed the homeless. And he comes to the mayor, he says, listen, I'm going to open a building over here. I'm going to buy the building with my money. I'm going to feed the homeless and the poor with my money. I just need you to give me permission. The mayor of the city says, "Over my dead body, you're going to open this place." He says, "No, no, no. I'm not asking the government for any money. I'm not asking the mayor to give me any money. I'm going to buy the building with my money. I'm going to feed the people with my money. And on top of that, I'm going to hire the people from the town. So the town benefits. People make money." She says, "Over my dead body, you're going to open this place." He says, "Why?" Says, "What? You're gonna make a place to feed homeless people so they can bring their other homeless friends into our town and ruin our beautiful city?" Says, "What beautiful city? You have a hundred thousand people that are broke, a hundred thousand people that are homeless here, a hundred thousand people are starving to death in your own city. At least let's feed them." Says, "No, no, then there's gonna be more. Don't feed the homeless; let them die." Who had this rule? Sodom and Gomorrah had this rule.

1:17:48You weren't allowed to feed the homeless. Lot's daughter fed a homeless guy. What did they do? They put her on a pedestal, they tied her up, and they released a bunch of bees until they killed her. That's why HaKadosh Baruch Hu, when He said to Avraham, "I heard the scream from Sodom," what was the scream? Lot's daughter. Lot's daughter was a tzaddeket; she wanted to do something good. She saw a homeless guy and wanted to feed him. They said, "What are you feeding him? Oh, we're going to feed you to a bunch of bees. You want to be sweet? We're going to put honey on you." And from all the akitzot, all the stings from the bees that were poisonous, they killed her. Why? We're not allowed to feed the homeless. Like this resha'it over here. It stopped our friend from opening a beit tamchui, a place to feed the homeless. There's a law here in Florida. My wife just told me the other day, she's an original Floridian. She says, you know, in Florida, there's a law that passed recently. I said, what's the law? She says, if you go to a traffic light, you see a homeless guy, he has a sign, he says, please give me money. You give him money, they give you a fine.

1:18:48If there's a cop over there that has your number, he sees you, you give money to some guy in the corner where the traffic light is, he's going to give you a fine. $500 fine. Maybe even go to jail. For what? For giving a dollar to some homeless guy. You want to be a nice guy? You go to jail. Spend the night in jail. What flaw is this? Sodom and Gomorrah. Sodom and Gomorrah. Sodom and Gomorrah. Now everyone's going to think twice. Should I give to the homeless or not give to the homeless? All of us have this thought right now. Should I give to the homeless or not give to the homeless? Meaning, we may be participants in Sodom and Gomorrah right now. You see a homeless person, give to them. Don't be stupid. HaKadosh Baruch Hu protects you from mitzvot. Now, This filth of a world that will exist before Mashiach, Hashem will get us out of it, will save us from here. But Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai continues, and he says, the sins will fill the land, the filth of the sins will be everywhere. There’s not going to be a single space in the world without sins and filth of sins. Where are these sins coming from? The Erev Rav.

1:20:14are the children of the Satan himself. Wait a minute, but they're Jews! Yes, exactly. There are some Jews that are considered in Shamayim children of the Satan and his wife, and they're called Se'or and Chametz in Shamayim. Chametz meaning something you don't want on Pesach. And before the end, before Mashiach comes, they're going to defile the land. They're going to ruin the land. Now I'm going to tell you some of the things, before we continue with the Zohar, of what the Gemara says about what's going to happen before Mashiach comes. The Gemara in Masechet Sotah, page 49b. Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus, Rabbi Eliezer HaGadol,

1:21:15Rabbi Eliezer was the rabbi of Rabbi Akiva. He says, in a period that will precede the coming of the Mashiach, chutzpah will increase. An average guy comes, sees the rabbi, doesn't even stand up. Sits on his chair. Hey, what's up? Calls the rabbi in yeshiva like he's his boy. Or best yet, calls him by his first name. Hey, Steve, how are you doing? How was your Shabbos? Chutzpah, calls his rabbi by his first name and thinks it's a good thing. The guy calls his father by his first name. Instead of saying Abba, instead of kissing his hand, instead of kissing his mother's hand, what does he do? Calls him by his first name.

1:22:16Hey, Sarah, where's the car? Abba knows. You mean David? David knows. Calls his parents by their first name. Disgusting behavior of this generation. In my generation, when I was a kid, if I ever called my father by his first name, you'd never see me here. I'd still be in the same cage today. Call my father by his first name, sit in his seat. You don't have to be religious to know that. You don't have to be religious to know that. People call rabbis by their first names. No shame whatsoever. They call their parents by their first names. They call their teachers by their first names. One guy came to an interview one time in my office. He wanted the job. So, I'm talking to him. It's okay. So, tell me a little bit about yourself. This chutzpan (nerve). What does he do? He's 20-something years old and... And he sits back. He sees me sitting back, and I'm waiting for him to talk. He sits back and puts his feet on my desk. "Because I want to be like you. I want to be at your job. Like this." I said, "You don't even have the job. Out." Put his feet on my desk. Felt at home. He's probably still homeless today, maybe, with that kind of attitude. Chutzpah. Chutzpah.

1:23:44marketing says that the cost will soar. There's inflation. When I was a kid, for a dollar, a dollar-fifty, you could buy a gallon of milk. Today, it's six, seven, eight dollars. Cookies, a dollar, a dollar-fifty, you could get a pack of cookies. Today, it's $5.99. You feel special if you got a twofer, and Honey, honey, how many cookies do you want? One. Well, let's get 18. Why? It's two for one. We'll just save for the winter. It's already winter. Yeah, for next year. We're saving half price. We're only paying $4 each because it's two for one. The vine will yield its fruit, yet wine will be dear. Wine today, you want to get good quality wine? $20, $30, $40, $50, $100 for good quality wine. Stuff you buy for $7, $8, sometimes it's good, sometimes not. It's a 50-50 shot. You're either going to do kiddush, drink it, and say, "What kind of wine is this?" You're not sure. Why? Because you only spent $8 on the wine. Sometimes wine that is $8 is perfectly fine. The problem is it turns to vinegar pretty quickly though. You want good quality wine; it costs a lot more money. But what if you don't have the money? What if you don't have $50 to spend on wine? Wine is dear.

1:25:06the government will turn it to heresy since the guy was the government. What does the government have to do with heresy? Since the government is going to be a place where people watch the news, and from watching the news, they'll become heretics. Why? They're going to give power to Donald Trump because Donald Trump is... During the time that he existed as a president that Hashem allowed it to happen, it happens to be the best economic shape that America has been in in many years, and people are attributing it to Donald Trump. Or during the time of Bibi Netanyahu, such and such happened in the Israeli economy, and therefore they're attributing it to Bibi Netanyahu. Watching the news will make religious people heretics, and... But even more so, the government will be heretical itself, it says. Like this Rasha Merusha from Tveria, who made it his number one mission in life to turn Tveria into a place that's anti-Torah.

1:26:12He's spending government money, government money, to make sure that everybody drives on Shabbat, to make sure that all the parks and stores are open. He's bringing snow from different places so tourists will come to Tveria on Shabbat, going against the rabbis. Now he's going to have a special event, this Rasha Merusha. This guy who doesn't even know how to say Kiddush. He made a video of himself making Kiddush as if he's semi-religious. He doesn't know how to say Kiddush for Shabbat, this rasha. He made headlines again a few days ago. What? He's going to have a special place in Petah Tikva named after Rav Ovadia. Named after Rav Ovadia. He says, over there, we're going to sell Christmas trees. We're going to sell Christmas trees over there. What do you think, that he's the only one that's a rasha?

1:27:15Our friend Rasha Merusha, Mirvis, made headlines again. Mirvis Amenuval made headlines again. Why did he make headlines again? Chief Rabbi of the UK, Miskenim, Chief Rabbi attends mosque for mitzvah day activity, saying this is what the world should be like all the time—here, mitzvah with a sheikh. Here, Mirvis, Rabbi, Orthodox Rabbi, is with a sheikh. Over here, he says, this is Mitzvah Day. Mitzvah Day, we're going to a mosque. We're making a huge statement. Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis declares, I thank all our brothers and sisters in the Muslim community for joining in the initiative.

1:28:22Sadly, the people that put him in power and leave him in power are worse than him. Why? They keep him there. They keep him there. The Gemara continues. What you just heard, you're not going to see anywhere else. Why? Because the Gemara says, aside from the government turning to heresy, there will be no rebuke. People that tell the truth... Gonna be very few in the English-speaking world. You could count it on a single hand maybe. Single hand maybe. Why? Because even the people that want to say the truth, the Sitra Achra takes revenge against them. Rav Alon Anava, God bless him, almost died a few weeks ago. Satan goes mamash hardcore. You guys have no idea what I have to deal with every day just to make this shiur. If you saw it, you would say, honestly, I don't know if it's worth it. You tell me, I don't know if it's worth it. You have no idea what Rabbi Mizrachi has to deal with every single day just to do a shiur. You have no idea what anybody that's putting their life on the line just to make a shiur Torah has to deal with. You have no idea what we have to deal with. People send you five million questions a day, and then you finally give them all the answers that they want, and they still do the opposite.

1:29:48Or better yet, oh Kvater Rav, you're the best, you may help me do teshuva, I did this, I did this, I did this, and I just donated $500 to a different place. He's saying, Ribbono Shel Olam, are you stupid or just dumb? Like which one is it? I don't understand. You're saying, you're saying, not me I said it, you're saying I helped you, I saved you, I did all this, why are you donating to somebody else? It's people don't even know anything, you lose your mind. You lose your mind. Then the best part is, after you help them, they go against you. Like this menuval that was here in the shiur a few times. He calls different people from the shiur on a regular basis. No, don't come to the shiur anymore. Why? That's what happens. But you keep going. Why? You're not working for him. You're not working for the resha'im. You're working for the people that want to know Torah. But that's also part of the reason why even the ones that say the truth, are hard to find new ones. It's hard to find new ones. Why? Because even if somebody wants to come and tell the truth, you start seeing that they can't withstand the tests. I know a couple of guys, a couple of guys started that were doing really, really good, disappeared off the face of the earth. I said, what happened to your YouTube videos? He said, no, no, I can't do it. Why not? I don't know, ever since I started doing shiurim, all of a sudden I got all these problems, these shalom bayit problems, kids' problems, health problems, that problem, that problem. I said, yeah, but keep going. Salvation is in the Torah; people need you. He goes, no, no, no, can't do it.

1:31:10I got a couple of guys, maybe two, three guys that I know. I tell them, why don't you speak? You speak English. In Hebrew, there's plenty. In Hebrew, there's not that many. No, teach, tell people Shabbat, this, that. He goes, no, I don't know, no, no, I don't know. 500 times I've told him. You have to convince people to give shiurei Torah. Why? He's like, ah, listen, I did it one time and the rabbi yelled at me because I said this about that. I said, who cares what he says? It's the truth. You say it. It's hard. It's hard. Rebuke is not just because people don't want to do it. Even the ones who want to do it are having a hard time. The rabbi comes to a kehillah and tells them, "By the way, Rabotai, from now on we're closing the parking lot for the shul on Shabbat." They fire him the next day. They fire him the next day. A dear friend of mine told me, "Listen, I invite you to come give shiurim at my beit knesset, not because I don't say what you say. I say it, but I only say it to a few people. I can't say it to the whole kehillah."

1:32:10Because if I said it to the whole kehillah, I'd lose my job. If I tell everybody everything you said, they'd fire me the next day. But I bring you. Why? They'll listen to you, but they won't listen to me. They won't fire you. Why? You're only coming for a day, for a few hours. But it's tzaddik. Why? He knows it's kehillah. He's still going to bring the emet to them, just in a different way, in a clever way. A guy asked me the other day, listen, I'm thinking of moving to a different place. I'm not sure if there's enough Torah there, this, that, all these different types of questions. He said, are you going to be the rabbi there? He said, yeah. I said, you go there. He goes, yeah, but there's only one yeshiva there, and it's only one this there, it's only one there. I said, are you going to teach over there? He said, yeah. I said, your head is good. Your head is on your shoulders. You're going to teach, Emes, you go there. Don't worry about everything else. Don't worry about all the other people over there. Worry about, you're going to teach the truth, people need you over there. Go. Why are you going to teach the lies? You're going to try to be popular, tell everybody that they all have a share of the world to come? Stay home. Don't move. Anyway, the Gemara continues and it says, "The meeting place of the sages will be used for harlotry." Sometimes you have places where it becomes like a bar. The rabbi starts befriending all types of women, all types of people, and...

1:33:33It becomes an embarrassment to Judaism for the whole place to exist. By the way, you should know all of these places will be destroyed at the time of Mashiach, just like they were destroyed at the time of World War II. All of the Reform places, every single one of them, was destroyed. The Galilee will be destroyed, and the Gavlan desolated. The people who dwell on the borders will wander from town to town. But they will not be succored. The wisdom of the scribes will decay. There's not going to be as many Talmidei Chachamim, and those who dread sin will be despised. You start telling, Yerei Chet, anybody who has Yirat Shamayim, they're going to start making fun of you. You have Yirat Shamayim, they're going to start making fun of you. Why? Ah, no, come on, why are you scared? No, you have to serve Hashem from love. Serve Hashem from love, love. No, come on, no. What, do you think this is only happening to me? It's only happening—I'm gonna show you a message. I'm not gonna give you the name. I'll show you a message I got from a kid that goes to a yeshiva. Unfortunately, this yeshiva—maybe it's, I don't know, whether it's a soft teaching them or I'm not really sure who's teaching them. But this is the product of the Jews, this cute kid, tzaddik, sent me this.

1:34:54And he wants to tell the rest of his classmates that you have to have Yirat Shamayim. You have to have fear of HaKadosh Baruch Hu. It's important. The guys in school are making fun of him. What is it that they're saying? It's not idol worship. It's just the Torah that he made. He made the zicharon. He's my mom, he's my mom. It's his, it's Hashem's Torah. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that it's... You're so... So first he insults them for even asking questions. Like, how have you been asking these questions? Because he tells them, "Listen, you're praying to the Lubavitcher Rebbe; you know it's idolatry." Then he says that Rav Shach is nothing, and he says I'm nothing also because I'm part of the conversation. This is my favorite part. He says that the Lubavitcher Rebbe is a piece of God.

1:36:21This is Christianity. This is Christianity. This is not Judaism. Just because they put a tzaddik's name and turn it into avodah zarah does not mean it's Judaism. And what is he doing? He sent him 15 text messages insulting him, calling him nothing, calling him stupid, calling him this. Why? Because the Lubavitcher Rebbe, according to this imbecile in the yeshiva, he's a piece of God. Why? Because you're not supposed to serve Hashem from fear and from this and from that. No. We don't learn Mussar. You're gonna serve Hashem out of fear, why would you serve Hashem out of fear? You have to serve Hashem out of love. You're supposed to serve Hashem out of love, right? Don't learn Mussar. One second, let me finish.

1:37:44Meaning, he told me you're wrong. So he told me, "Who do you think you are?" and so on and so forth. Now, the interesting thing is, this not only shows us that they are worshiping idols, but also shows us they're not even worshiping their own idol properly. I Why? Because even in their own books, one of my dear talmidim sent me one of the Likutei Sichot of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. And you see, he talks about some of the tzaddikim from Chabad. And it says the following, on page 59 of Likutei Sichot, Parashat Chayei Sarah, it says there's a, our Nesi'im, he says, have shown us everything, including this principle of awe of Hashem, awe before God. There's a well-known story of the Alter Rebbe, that once in the middle of praying on Rosh Hashanah, or on Yom Kippur, when he came to the words, "therefore put pachdecha," you know, put your fear, we're afraid of Hashem, he fell to the ground, rolling to and fro, saying "pachad, pachad, pachad," meaning he could not

1:39:07Complete the word "pachad" in his prayer because he was thinking about the word. The tzaddik, the Alter Rebbe from Chabad, was thinking about the word "pachad"—the fear he was supposed to have in front of his Creator. He was so scared that he fell on the floor in the middle of prayer. These are the founders of Chabad. Then he continues and says, in another story of the Tzemach Tzedek, that in the early years of his leadership, he once sat in a farbrengen with other Chassidim and and he drank a whole glass of vodka and ordered a third one poured, but afterwards he moved his hand over his forehead, and one could no longer detect any effects of the liquor. Why? Because the Tzemach Tzedek explained that when he concentrated his thoughts on the greatness of HaKadosh Baruch Hu and contemplated the great fear that he has in front of his Creator.

1:40:07And that fear counteracted the effects of the strong wine. Meaning, rabotai yekarim, fearing Hashem, and mussar, and yirat shamayim is not an Orthodox Judaism thing, non-Chabad thing, or a Yaron Reuven thing, and a Rabbi Mizrachi thing, and not everybody else thing. It's a Torah thing. It's one of the laws of the Torah. It's one of the 613 mitzvot. Fearing Hashem is a commandment from HaKadosh Baruch Hu. The Gemara in Masechet Shabbat says HaKadosh Baruch Hu only created the world in order for you to fear Him. That's it. Yeah, what about to love? Because most of you are not going to reach love. I created you, so you fear Me. Why? Because to fear, everybody can do. But if you do it in certain yeshivot, they make fun of you. They tell you, "No, are you crazy? The Lubavitcher Rebbe is G-d." He's gonna save you. And the Lubavitcher Rebbe never said don't study Mussar. He never said that, by the way. He never said it. It's all shtuyot. But that's what's happening, rabotai. The kids are going to yeshivot. They're learning from certain people who are either teaching them wrong or they're not teaching them properly. Whatever it is. If you have Yirat Shamayim, Hashem, yerachem, look where you're gonna have to go to as a Talmid Yeshiva. Just to survive, to wash a shoe and tell your friends about it, you have to be scared of them stoning you by the end of the week.

1:41:35This is a nevuah in the Torah. People that have Yirat Shamayim, people that are going to be despised, they're not going to let you be. They're not going to let you be. The truth will be absent, it says. You're not going to be able to find truth everywhere. You go on YouTube, you type in any Torah, you're going to have five million hits. Out of the five million hits, maybe two or three are going to be emet. You type in Chabad on the internet, maybe one or two of those rabbis are saying the emet. You type in Orthodox Judaism, maybe one or two here and there are going to say the emet on certain topics. Why? Emet is not so good for money. You tell people emet, that means you tell them not to drive on Shabbat, you tell them not to intermarry. A woman sent an email today, she goes, listen, I don't know, I'm a little concerned after I watched your video.

1:42:38Because I converted eight years ago, but you're making it seem like my conversion is not legitimate because it's through a Conservative synagogue. And I don't know, I went, I tried to listen. I went to the synagogue over here, the Orthodox one, and I told them, listen, I want to convert Orthodox. But they rejected me because I'm married to a non-Jew. And he doesn't want to convert. He wants to believe in Yeshu. I said, You're still asking? You're still asking if your conversion is legitimate from the Conservative shul that allowed you to convert while you're married to a non-Jew who believes in Yeshu? The truth, Rabotai HaKedoshim, is going to be despised. Youth will blanch the faces of elders. Young little kids like this one, he sent them three or four voicemails just insulting me. This little chutzpan. Ah, he's a nothing. He's a nobody. He's not even a piece of dust. All types of insult. I don't care. It doesn't affect me one way. But just to show you, if this is a bachur yeshivah, if this is the type of attitude that your talmid is expressing to other rabbis, close down the yeshivah, open up another public school. It's the same thing. They may actually act better.

1:44:03What's the point? If your talmid yeshivah is going to insult rabbis, whether he knows them, agrees with them or not, but so far proven kosher, baruch Hashem, you're going to have them insult people, call them nothing and all types of other words. If that's your talmid yeshivah, close the school, open a public school, open a pizzeria, open a plumbing place, close the place. That's your talmid? This is happening. I get these messages every week. Every week, a different group of kids. A lot of kids want to do teshuva, so they hear the shiurim. They hear the shiurim, but what do they have to deal with? They have to go to school. They tell their friends, listen, I heard this rabbi. He's really good. He said, he said what Hashem said. Instead of saying, wow, you know what? I want to hear it too. What happens? They start throwing rocks at him. Start making fun of them. Why don't you bow? Are you crazy? No, come on. Well, you left your girlfriend. No, come on. What's wrong with you? This is what's happening today, rabotai yekarim. They make fun of older people. The elders will stand in the presence of minors. When I was a kid, you walk on a bus. You walk in the bus...

1:45:25If you sit down on a chair, but there's an older man there, everybody's going to yell at you on the bus. What, are you crazy? Get up, kid. Let the old man sit. What's the matter with you? Chutzpah. Do you have any shame? What's the matter with you? Let the old man sit. They yell at you, "How dare you sit?" Today, it's the opposite. You see kids running to the chair to take the chair before the old man sits down. Sometimes you see situations where they force the old man to get up. "Get up, old man. I want to sit here. You're sitting in my chair." What's the old man going to do? The son derides his father. Kids yelling at their parents, treating them like their friends. One person made a video of... Parents brought their 16-year-old kid a new car. They bought him a used truck. He saw the truck. He was so unhappy, he went back inside the house. And the parents are videotaping this, thinking the kid's going to be happy. To their miserable surprise, the kid was so unhappy, he went back inside, he took a metal baseball bat and started going on top of the car, smashing it to pieces. As a thank you to Abba and Ima for buying him a car. Why? Because it was used.

1:46:47That kid doesn't even deserve a baseball bat. Little does he deserve a car. But this is one of the most disgusting videos I've seen in my life. That's this generation. A daughter rises against her mother and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. Kids talking to their parents. Kids talking to their parents like they're friends. Kids are talking to their parents like they... So the mitzvah protects people. Don't worry, the young women today, if they get instructions from their mother, sometimes they take it, sometimes they yell at their mother like she's their girlfriend. "No, Ima, shut up already with that. Stop it with that already. You don't understand the times, you're like old already." What old? I'm 40 years old. What old? "No, Ima, come on, no with your craziness. I'll come back home when I feel like it." A little buddy side comes home at one o'clock in the morning.

1:47:53young women today, if they get instructions from their mother, sometimes they take it, sometimes they yell at their mother like she's their girlfriend. "No, Ima, shut up already with that. Stop it with that already. You don't understand the times, you're like old already." What old? I'm 40 years old. What old? "No, Ima, come on, no with your craziness. I'll come back home when I feel like it." A little buddy side comes home at one o'clock in the morning. Two o'clock in the morning. Our ima says it's not acceptable while you're in my house. "What are you doing?" "No, Ima, come on. I was out with Steve." Meaning the ima cannot even rebuke her own daughter. She can't even tell her what to do. The daughter is going to break the house. I've got one poor guy, one poor guy, misken. I don't even know what to do. I can't help him. He tells me his daughter has lost her mind. She's 13 years old, 14 years old. She lost her mind completely and...

1:48:59He's calling me. He's calling Rav Mizrachi. He's calling anybody that's going to pick up the poor guy. Misken, he says, I'm so scared of my daughter. We all go and we lock our bedrooms because we're scared she's going to kill us while we're sleeping. Hashem, he saw her phone. She has all types of satanic videos on her phone. This is a girl that went to a Bet Yaakov. She went to Beit Yaakov. She has satanic videos on her phone. He says, "I'm scared of my daughter. We all lock our rooms. Me and all the kids are scared to death." I said, "Call the cops." He says, "No, I'm scared to call the cops. I'm scared to call the cops. Why? This 14-year-old may slice my throat. This is what we have now." He says the daughter-in-law is against her mother-in-law. Many times you see divorces happen. Why? Because of the in-laws. It used to be that the in-laws were good. The mother-in-law was like a mother. It's called mother-in-law because she was like a second mother. That's how it's supposed to be.

1:50:05Today, more divorces are happening because of the in-laws than anything else. Why? The in-laws decided that they're going to move next door. Why? They want to come to your house eight times a week. They want to live in your house. Yeah, but I'm married now. I'm not in your house anymore. You come over once in a while, no problem. Come once a week. Come for Shabbat. I'll come to you. Come to me. But now don't live in my house. No, she's my daughter. Don't tell me what to do. She's my daughter. He's my son. He's my baby. I came here before you. The mom starts yelling at the new bride, Hashem Yerachem, and the new bride doesn't know what to do. And then the mother says, "Listen, no, no, no, son, tell your new wife that I'm the best cook. Tell your new wife I'm the best cook. Show it." And the poor guy doesn't know what to do. He doesn't want to disrespect his wife. He doesn't want to disrespect his mom. He doesn't know what to do. He says, "Yeah, yeah, Ima, you're the best." And his wife takes it personally. Why? Because she's slaving herself seven days a week to cook for this pigul. And he's giving compliments to his mother in front of her and so on and so forth. She doesn't know how to take it. She starts crying all night. She says, "Listen, you know, go marry your mother."

1:51:13marry your mother. I don't want to be with you. I had one woman cry to me once a week. She cries to me once a week. She asks why her husband didn't come home again. I said, why not? He's at his mother's house again. He just decides not to come home, to sleep at his mother's house two, three days a week. He's married with kids. I said, I'm sorry. I have no idea how to help such a thing. I don't know. Should I tell you to find a new husband? I'm scared the next one will be worse. With this generation, you don't know. You don't know. People have no idea what marriage is. In-laws are causing a lot of problems. I had one kid tell me, "Listen, I want to get married. The girl is Bat Yisrael, Kedosha, amazing." I said, "So what's the problem?" He goes, "My father doesn't like her." I said, "Why?" "She didn't say hello right away one time." I said, "It's okay, so say I'm sorry." "She said I'm sorry 15 times already. She bought him a present. She did this, she did that. She's begging him for forgiveness. He won't forgive her." I said, "Your father is an Am Ha'aretz. He doesn't know anything." He goes, "No, my father's a rabbi." I said, "Hashem Yirachem." Your father's a rabbi. He says your father's a rabbi, I said, "Yeah, I don't know. I'm sorry to tell you, but you can't listen to your rabbi. You can't listen to this father of yours. You have to marry this girl. She's a Bat Yisrael." They had the wedding, and the father didn't come to the wedding. Why? Because she didn't say hello one time right away. She said it five seconds later.

1:52:34The stupidity of people is reaching new highs. New highs. That's what the Gemara says. I'm reading you, not the newspaper. I'm reading you what the Gemara says 2,000 years ago. Then it says, a man's enemies are going to be the people of his household. Unfortunately, that happens a lot. People, unfortunately, have no Shalom Bayit in their house. They have wars between them and their spouse. Wars between them and their kids. You think that your family is all going to be one unit. You end up having hatred. I had one client. He founded a big dog food company, made his kids, everybody, multi-millionaires. Made literally hundreds of millions of dollars. Gave a piece of the company to each one of their kids. And then one day, all the kids went against the father. He gave you everything you had. You're going against him. Why? Part of the Gemara. Part of what's going to happen before the... Mashiach is going to come. The face of the generation is going to be the face of a dog. You have a face, you have a generation where people have no shame whatsoever. People are doing their business in the middle of the street.

1:53:44All types of business, their private intimate business, the filth that they do in the street, they relieve themselves, they're with their wife, they're with their husband, they're with their whoever, all types of disgusting things in the middle of the street, and it's normal business. People make a living out of recording this garbage. This would have never happened. Even the sotah, even the prostitutes of previous generations, wouldn't look like a housewife today. They were all covered. Today, you have no idea who is the prostitute dancer and who is the rebbetzin. Why? How they're dressed, you can't tell the difference. Sometimes you see the rabbi hugging the rebbetzin on the internet, giving her a kiss to show people that he has shalom bayit. He doesn't know any halacha. Shulchan Aruch says, you're not allowed to touch your wife in public. Not allowed to touch her. It's funny, but it's not funny. If it wasn't true, it would be hysterical. Unfortunately, all of this is happening.

1:54:48And he says a son is not embarrassed in the presence of his father, that the son is going to do his business in front of his father. The son's going to bring girlfriends to the house. No shame. Abba, what do you think of her? Disgusting, filthy behavior that you're not supposed to have in front of your parents. Bring a girlfriend to the house, you filthy little kid. No, I'm in my room. My room. Your kid's room shouldn't have doors. Why are you locking it for? For what? Want to get dressed? Get dressed in the bathroom. Kids are locking their doors like they have something to hide. Why are you hiding? Only problems you're hiding. Ima, don't come into my room. Don't come into my room. Don't come into my house. You start paying mortgage, then you say something. Don't come into my room. But that's what's happening. Kids have no respect. And he says, finally, this horrible, filthy, disgusting generation before Mashiach, the 50th level of Tumah, what do we have to rely on then?

1:56:02Only thing you have to rely on is HaKadosh Baruch Hu. If you stick to what HaKadosh Baruch Hu said, you're gonna be in good shape. If you don't, you're gonna be in serious, serious problems. Why? Your family is gonna break. Your family's going to have problems. Your kids are going to disrespect you. Your spouse is going to hate you. Your money is going to be unblessed. You're going to make a lot of money, but you're not going to have anything to show for it. All types of things, all of the garbage that we read here will happen to a person. How do we know? That's what Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai says. He says, in Zohar Matok MiDvash, He says, or actually even before, he says that this Erev Rav, all of the sins coming from the Erev Rav, this is all the leaders, the leaders of the exile, this is all coming, all of the sins are being taught by these leaders, by the Mirvises of the world, by the Goldbergs of the world, they're teaching your kids that they can do whatever they want, express yourself. He says that this generation is going to be a flood of problems.

1:57:03is going to be during the pre-messianic days until Hashem will sit on His throne and will rest on the Ark of Ararat. What does it mean on the Ark of Ararat? Ark of Ararat is like Noah's Ark. But what is it really symbolic of? It says Ararat comes from the word Arur. Arur is cursed. Because the mountains of Ararat are representative of the generation of all the wicked people. is full of wickedness that's darkening Am Yisrael in the exile. Because Am Yisrael will be arur. Am Yisrael will be cursed while it's in the exile. Because all of the rebukes and the curses that are in Parashat Bechukotai, Parashat Ha'azinu, Parashat Ki Tavo, all of them will come and become fulfilled, Hashem Yirachem, during the exile. All of the curses that are in the Torah will happen to Am Yisrael, Hashem Yirachem. Now, in the Gemara, it says it could be this, it could be that. It could be that Hashem comes in a good way. It could be that there's going to be war, Gog and Magog. The Zohar says, no, I'm going to tell you a secret. Before Mashiach comes, everything's going to happen. Why? They're not going to do teshuva. They're not going to do teshuva by themselves. Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai is already telling you they're not going to do teshuva by themselves. The war is going to happen. Stop living a dream. Stop imagining that everything's going to be fine. Mashiach is going to come with some wings and everybody sings kumbaya.

1:58:32It's not going to happen. It's going to be serious, serious problems. So much so that the Am Yisrael is considered arur. What is arur? Arur means they're cursed from Shamayim because they haven't done teshuva. And the wicked, the wicked will succeed in a very big way, the Zohar says. Why? Why are the wicked going to succeed before Mashiach comes? To pay them... For the few mitzvot they did in this world, so to eliminate them from Olam HaBa. Rasha Merusha starts a Kabbalah center, billion dollars. Another Rasha opens a Beit Knesset, starts a campaign for a million dollars, raises five million. Another wicked person starts a little thing, becomes a multi-billion dollar enterprise. All of these wicked people are succeeding. You're like, why? Why is anybody listening to this guy? Because Hashem is paying them cash. He's paying them all cash to destroy them. They did a few mitzvot, they gave some tzedakah once in a while, they put on tefillin here and there, they said yes, they said no, whatever, they did a few mitzvot, Hashem pays them cash. A couple of guys that were in a cash advance business, Hashem made them 60 million dollars.

1:59:42Sixty million dollars before they sold the business. So if that wasn't enough, he knew the same. What these two Jewish guys did, unfortunately. But it's not the same. They do teshuvah, but if that wasn't enough, he knew the same continued. Bloomberg made an article about them. They, you know, Rav Ovadia says, Hashem took back His millions, right? It said they gave up God and He gave the millions. That's what the article is called: "They Gave Up God and He Gave the Millions." Why? They're both ba'alei teshuvah, they're both ba'alei teshuvah yeshiva, and... Happens to also be Chabad, by the way. Both ba'alei teshuvah from yeshiva, and unfortunately, they gave up God, and unfortunately, took a lot of people with them, and millions of dollars they got. The yeshiva gave it to them. Why? You don't do teshuvah. This is your price for the few years you were in yeshiva. You're thinking you're in good shape now in Puerto Rico. You think you're in fantastic shape eating pig every morning, being with all of these filthy people around you all day. No, no, what you have right now, that's your end. You should be crying blood that you got this money, you should be crying blood that you have success, because that means HaKadosh Baruch Hu is paying you cash in this world. They made an article about these two boys, two...

2:00:56Mamash, big Chilul Hashem. Big Chilul Hashem. I hope, I hope mamash one of them watches this, gets scared to death, and calls me so I can help them do teshuvah and fix this Chilul Hashem they did. An article written about you, you gave up God, that's why HaKadosh Baruch Hu gave you millions? You should pay 50 million dollars just for them to remove the article. Even though the article is already a few years old. What a Chilul Hashem. You can't even fix Chilul Hashem. Only Kiddush Hashem can fix it. I'm hoping they watch it and get scared instead of get offended, like some of the other imbeciles in the world thinking that I get benefit out of offending people. But if you're in trouble, I have to scream fire because no one else apparently is doing it. Now, this, rabotai yikarim, sounds very depressing. But the Zohar HaKadosh in Tikunei HaZohar, page 130b... in Matok MiDvash 431, it says, "Don't give up." Why "don't give up?"

2:02:01Because, as we already learned, Eliyahu HaNavi comes in several forms. Not just Eliyahu HaNavi mamash, not just Eliyahu HaNavi who is going to tell us Mashiach is already here and it's too late, but also in a way for you to get chidushim, a way for you to get more avodat Hashem. Why? Who does it go to? It goes to people who want to do kiruv. It goes to people who want to do avodat Hashem. They want to do something to help Am Yisrael do teshuva. Which means that each and every single one of you could be a little Eliyahu HaNavi, whether you're male or female. You could be a little Eliyahu HaNavi by taking your Torah, by taking your money, by taking your skills, by taking what you have and publicizing it in order to get Am Yisrael to do teshuva. Because what ends up happening, the Zohar HaKadosh says, is that one who helps others do teshuva, ended up bringing the shefa, the reward, not just in the next world, but also in this world. Why do you get rewarded in this world? Why do you get such an extraordinary reward? You benefit from it in this world; you get protection in this world. You get financial benefits in this world—everything good in this world and the next. Why? Because as long as there are reshaim in the world, we all lose, and

2:03:29By you helping people do teshuva, what are you doing also? Aside from returning Hashem's children back home, what are you also doing? You're eliminating the number of resha'im in the world. Each time you help Steve do teshuva, you help Miriam do teshuva, you help Moshe do teshuva, you help Tzvika do teshuva, you help all these different people do teshuva. These people were resha'im. These people were mechalel Shabbat. These people were ovdei avodah zarah. Now you're going to help them do teshuva? You're lowering the number of resha'im in the world. You're lowering the quantity of tum'ah in the world. There's a special price for that. And it's both a material and a spiritual benefit. So much so that a person who could be learning in yeshiva for 15, 20 years, if he starts taking on himself, putting half an hour, an hour, two hours a day to do kiruv to help Am Yisrael do teshuva, HaKadosh Baruch Hu could literally make him learn more in one day than he learned in 15 years. Why? Benefit of the public.

2:04:39Because what ends up happening, Rabotai, the Chachamim use the prophet Eicha, chapter 4, verse 20, and say, it says that the breath of our nostrils, Hashem's anointed, meaning the Mashiach, was caught in their trap. The Mashiach is being held up because of who? Because of the Resha'im. And there's anger that comes to the world because of it. So when you help people, Chazal says, when you help people do teshuva, there's less anger from HaKadosh Baruch Hu in the world. And we get closer to the salvation. We get closer to the good times. More Torah can come to the world to help even more people. By you publicizing Torah, by you taking money and donating it to kiruv, by you taking time doing kiruv with it, by you doing something to help Klal Yisrael do teshuva that works, you, my friend, are benefiting more than anyone else in the world. You're literally being a little Eliyahu HaNavi.

2:05:51You're becoming a little Eliyahu HaNavi. Male, female, child, adult, doesn't make a difference. You're becoming a little Eliyahu HaNavi. Why? Because that's what the Rambam told us here. He told us, yes, there is an opinion that Eliyahu HaNavi Mamash is going to come. But before he says that, he says that there's going to be Ya'amod Navi Le'yesher Yisrael La'akhin Libam. Before the war of Gog and Magog, there's going to be a Navi. There's going to be a prophet, there's going to be a speaker, there's going to be somebody that's going to help Am Yisrael, what? Become inspired to do teshuva and fix their heart in preparation for Mashiach. Because if the Mashiach already arrives right now, Hashem, the rest of the verse gets fulfilled, Hashem has to punish everyone. But if you help Am Yisrael do teshuva, you're not only helping them, you're helping yourself. Because you become that Navi. Sometimes you're that Navi by speaking. Sometimes you're that Navi by just simply putting a credit card and setting an automatic charge every month, one hundred, two hundred, five hundred, or a thousand dollars a month, whatever it is. Whatever you can afford. The point being, rabotai yikarim, is that every single person is being given a chance to help Am Yisrael do teshuva. Be'ezrat Hashem, each one of us takes advantage of this chance, takes advantage of this zechut, to be a little Eliyahu HaNavi. Because everyone can do something.

2:07:17If each and every one of us, just one example, simple one, each and every one of us takes a few minutes for the next couple of days looking at their phone and sees who could I get to come to the shiur on Tuesday? Who could I get to come to the shiur on Wednesday? And each person brings another five people. We're all going to have to stand up. Why? We're not going to have room. But it's better we all stand up because we don't have room because there's more people than it being so roomy over here that you can pretty much do gymnastics. Because now you're becoming a little Eliyahu HaNavi. Now you did something with this knowledge to keep it to yourself for what? What do you want to be reincarnated by yourself? When you go up to Shamayim, they're going to show you a lot of things. And I promise you, the one thing that everybody who does not do Kiruv is going to be sad about is that they're going to be shown all of the people that are in Gehinnom because of them.

2:08:21Because of them. Why? He was your next-door neighbor. He was your colleague. He was your brother. He was your sister. He was your whatever he was. He was your father. And you never even did anything. One time you sent him a video. And he said, "Ah, this rabbi is scary. I don't want to hear scary rabbis. Don't send me this stuff anymore." And you actually listened to this guy. He doesn't know that it's a cure. He doesn't know that this is the way to do kiruv. "No, it's too scary. It's too scary. It's too scary." So we're going to finish with this. The Torah tells us a lot of things. It tells us how to do teshuva. It tells us who our Avot HaKedoshim were. It tells us who Hashem is. It tells us a lot of things. Now, last week, it told us a little bit about Avraham Avinu. Now, no one will disagree that Avraham Avinu is Kodesh Kodeshim. Even the Christians and the Muslims appreciate Avraham Avinu.

2:09:21Everybody appreciates Avraham. No one in the world says, "Avraham, nah, he could have done a better job." No one says that. Avraham, Kodesh Kodeshim. Now let's see what Avraham Avinu did. Why is he such a big deal? The Zohar HaKadosh says in Parashat Lech Lecha, on Daf Pei, Amud Bet, he says, Why this tzaddik Avraham has so many z'chuyot and so many ma'asim tovim because of his teshuva and his Torah and all the things that he fulfilled. What did he fulfill? Zohar says, what did he fulfill? He says, Avraham was in a hurry to go chase after the teshuva on their sins.

2:10:23That's why he's such a tzaddik, that's why Hashem loved him so much. But a lot of people, how do people do teshuva? What makes Avraham special? Because he chases after them and he tells them what is the din, what is the judgment in the next world, and all of the details of what happens in Gehinnom. That's what makes Avraham Avinu the best kiruv rabbi in history. The biggest mezakeh rabim in history. No one in the world ever did like him. Why? The Mishnah in Pirkei Avot says he was so good he got the merits of all ten generations between Noach and him. Because anyone that did teshuva, good for them. Anyone like Eliezer did teshuva, good for him. But anyone who didn't do teshuva, millions of people didn't do teshuva. They did in the beginning, then they fell off. Avraham Avinu got all of the Olam HaBa.

2:11:28All of their Olam HaBa he got. Why? Because they have Olam HaBa. But their ticket doesn't work if they don't do mitzvot. So who gets it? The Kiruv rabbi that actually helped them. And if they don't want to listen, he told them, "Listen, Shabbat is this." You don't want to listen? Okay, I get your Olam HaBa. I benefit anyway. You, my friends, you go to your friends. You go to your partners. You go to somebody. You tell them about Torah. You give them a shiur. You send them a text message. You invite them to a shiur. Whether they like it or not is not your business. Why? You tell them the truth. Their neshama will know it's the truth. Whether they follow or not is their business. But you win anyway. You win anyway. Why? Because you did what Avraham Avinu did. You do what Avraham Avinu did. Avraham Avinu was the best of the best. Why? Because he chased after people. He went out of his way. Not just sending a WhatsApp message one time hoping for the best. You know some people, they send a blast message to 150 people hoping that's enough. No, my friend. Sometimes you've got to make a phone call. Sometimes you've got to show up at their house. You have to show some effort like Avraham Avinu. Chase after people. Come home an extra half hour early from work on the day of the shiur so you can help a few people come to the shiur.

2:12:34Don't just send a mass text message. Whoever comes, comes. And Shamayim is going to say, "Oh yeah, these are all the people that didn't come. Let me show you the details." And you're going to have to see all these people that you're friends with suffer. That's Gehinom already, watching them. You have to do something. You've got to do a little more than just sending a blast text message hoping for the best. Because, Rabotai HaYekarim... Avraham Avinu, he helped people do teshuva by simply telling them the details, telling them what happens if you don't do it. You don't necessarily need to start the conversation with the details. You don't even need to say it yourself. But you have to try to get the truth to these people. Let them know that if they continue making fun of rabbis, they continue making fun of Hashem, they continue violating Hashem's mitzvot, only bad will follow in this world and the next. We don't want them to have bad. We want them to have good. We don't want them to be part of the Erev Rav that gets destroyed.

2:13:36We want it to be part of Am Yisrael that goes to Olam Haba and benefits and is celebrating and so on. We want all of Klal Yisrael to do teshuva. But unfortunately, Rabotai HaYekarim, there's only one version of teshuva. There's only one version of teshuva. There's only one Torah. There's no two sides to teshuva. It's either you do it or you don't. You keep Shabbat or you don't keep Shabbat. You keep Taharat HaMishpacha or you don't keep Taharat HaMishpacha. You watch your eyes, or you don't watch your eyes. You watch your speech, or you don't watch your speech. There's no, like, you know, half-half teshuva. You're either going to do what Hashem says or not. You either try your best or not. But if you see that your surroundings are a bunch of wicked people, run away. Find a different place. Don't be friends with them. Protect yourself. Don't fall because everybody else is a loser. Get yourself out of the hole. Protect yourself. You could try to help them, but from a distance. This, Rabbi Tayek Karim, is what made Avraham Avinu so special. This is what can make each one of us special. To go out of our way and be a little Eliyahu HaNavi of this generation,

2:14:40Before it's too late, because once Eliyahu HaNavi mamash shows up and says, "Okay, Mashiach is here," that's it. There's no more teshuva. There's no more nothing. Everything is finished. The clock is up, and anyone that didn't do enough is going to regret that day. They're not going to be happy. Why? Because they're going to know their brother, their sister, their cousin, their uncle, their best friend from childhood—all these people... They didn't try. It's not that they tried and failed. If they tried and failed, there's nothing to feel bad about. You tried and failed, they didn't want to do it. It's not your fault anymore. But there's a bunch of people who didn't try. Why? You didn't want to offend them. You didn't want to turn them off. You didn't want to do a lot of things, even though HaKadosh Baruch Hu Himself says that's the only way to help them do teshuva. In this generation of chutzpanim, the only thing that works is by telling people there's sachar and there's onesh. There's reward, there's punishment. The reward is endless. The punishment is also endless. This helps every single one of us do even more teshuva. Get prepared for Eliyahu HaNavi by becoming a small little version of him, by publicizing the Torah and helping Am Yisrael come back to HaKadosh Baruch Hu.

2:15:56In this generation of chutzpanim, the only thing that works is by telling people there's sachar and there's onesh. There's reward, there's punishment. The reward is endless. The punishment is also endless. This helps every single one of us do even more teshuvah. Get prepared for Eliyahu HaNavi by becoming a small little version of him, by publicizing the Torah and helping Am Yisrael come back to HaKadosh Baruch Hu. In the name of our Lord, Amen. Thank you. Thank you.