From Destruction To Rebuilding of Beit HaMikdash (Rabbis Anava, Reuven, Mizrachi)

0:10Here we are, we arrived at Kehilat Bet El, in Queens. Beautiful place, Baruch Hashem. It's a big Kiddush Hashem to have such a beautiful Beit Knesset, just like the Beit Knesset is beautiful. So I, inside tonight, will be just as beautiful as Hashem. So we're going to go inside in a minute, and I'll show you. It's sunny over here, working. We've got our tziud, our equipment. We've got our hosts over here. Thank you for having us. Look at this beautiful place. I love Batei Knesset. They're so beautiful. It's such a big Kiddush Hashem to have such a wonderful place. Look at this. Shabeach Shemo. It's fun. What a chair. Eliyahu HaNavi would want to come to such a chair like this. So this is it. There's a nice Ezrat Nashim upstairs with a mechitzah, a proper place to

1:29Have a nice Ezrat Nashim upstairs with a mechitzah, a proper place to daven. Beautiful place. And Sonny's already getting to work while I'm playing with the camera. Have a nice Ezrat Nashim upstairs with a mechitzah, a proper place to daven. Beautiful place. And Sonny's already getting to work while I'm playing with the camera. And tomorrow. What is the Torah? The Torah is very important. Everybody pray. The Torah is very important. Everybody pray. The Torah is very important. Everybody pray. The Torah is very important. Everybody pray. The Torah is very important. Everybody pray. The Torah is very important. Everybody pray. The Torah is very important. Everybody pray. The Torah is very important. Everybody pray. The Torah is very important. Everybody pray. The Torah is very important. Everybody pray. The Torah is very important. Everybody pray. The Torah is very important. Everybody pray. The Torah is very important. Everybody pray. The Torah is very important. Everybody pray. The Torah is very important. Everybody pray. The Torah is very important. Everybody pray. The Torah is very important. Everybody pray. The Torah is very important. Everybody pray. The Torah is very important. Everybody pray. The Torah is very important. Everybody pray. The Torah is very important. Everybody pray. The Torah is very important. Everybody pray. The Torah is very important. Everybody pray. And tomorrow, what is the Torah? The Torah is very important. Everybody pray. The Torah is very important. Everybody pray. The Torah is very important. Everybody pray. The Torah is very important. Everybody pray. The Torah is very important. Everybody pray. The Torah is very important. Everybody pray. The Torah is very important. Everybody pray. The Torah is very important. Everybody pray. The Torah is very important. Everybody pray. The Torah is very important. Everybody pray. The Torah is very important. Everybody pray. The Torah is very important. Everybody pray. The Torah is very important. Everybody pray. The Torah is very important. Everybody pray. The Torah is very important. Everybody pray. The Torah is very important. Everybody pray. The Torah is very important. Everybody pray. The Torah is very important. Everybody pray. The Torah is very important. Everybody pray. The Torah is very important. Everybody pray. The Torah is very important. Everybody pray. The Torah is very important. Everybody pray. The Torah is very important. Everybody pray. The Torah is very important. Everybody pray.

2:50Matot, Shishah Veshishim Yom, Shem Havaya, Shlachot Eshtavuz, Shloshet Alefim, Taf Shin Ayin Tet, Kant Bechila, Yehoshua, Gilad El, Ametaz Naskaradit, Yom HaChesed, Reshmedot, Zevachim Anu, Zidgred, Gred Aner, Pleasure for us, three important rabbis, all rabbis important, because there is a rabbi more important, it's less, only Hashem knows who is important and who is not. Baruch Hashem, all of them Talmidei Chachamim. According to what we have been told, we will receive a blessing in the coming days from my friend, Rabbi Yosef Mizrahi. We will be with you for a long time. It's very popular. A lot of time we were together in a rabbinical court, in a beit din, because our teacher and our rabbi, Eliyahu Ben Chaim, shlita, and our rabbi, Yosef Mizrahi, shlita, wanted to bring our brothers and sisters, the children of Israel, closer to their hearts, to make them understand that in heaven, thank you, Rabbi Baruch Haba, a great honor to us. I hope that we will have close relations. Of course, the respected rabbi, thank you, HaRav HaGaon, Rabbi Yaron Reuven, shlita.

4:17I say, "Why do you put your name last?" But I’m not waiting for his answer because I know his last name is Anava, Anav. I don't want to make it long. You know, I speak very well Hebrew, very well Bukharian, and Afghani, and Farsi, and a little, more or less, English. But this rabbi speaks very well English. Now the lecture will be in English. Why? Because, I would like to say, if you go to the country of the blind people, you also close one eye. You know, if today we live in America, you come from Bukhara, from Morocco, from Israel, you must try to speak English. That's it. Especially for the younger generation. Thank you very much.

5:36Shalom everybody. Shalom, shalom. Thank you all for coming. Thank you all for having us. It opens in shul always for us. and for all the people who organized and worked so hard to make the events happen. Okay, like this, good? So first of all, I want to thank, first of all, Borei Olam for even making this event happen. Later on, maybe there will be time, I'll share with you what was involved to get this event to happen. First of all, I feel very honored and humbled to be here. Sometimes, when I stand on a stage, I feel big. Now, I feel very small. But this is a very auspicious time, a very auspicious moment. I want to start with a few words and then go to the shiur itself.

7:04First, I want to welcome also the Rabbi of the Knesset, Rabbi Nassirov. Many people were involved in making this event happen. We're not going to start mentioning names because then we're going to have a lecture of names. Very quickly, I want to just wish very personally to a few people, to Shira Shoshana bat Amara. We're not going to mention names now, so with God's help, anybody who needs healing of the soul, healing of the body, can you hear me? I believe today is the 30th. 30th today? Yes, today is the 30th. Also, Ari ben Miriam, Daniel Yaravoi ben Berachah, and Aidan ben Violet Chaya should all have Aliyat Neshama.

8:25And last but not least, a zivug for Elad ben Guris. To find a zivug again. And all the people in the crowd in Klal Yisrael that need a zivug should find their other half, and may they merit to stand under the chuppah and build a bayit ne'eman b'Yisrael. And a general berachah for all Klal Yisrael, that all your wishes should be fulfilled in the best way possible, whether it's refuah, yirat shamayim, ahavat Hashem, healthy kids, chatunah, everything that you wish for yourself, b'zchut this unbelievable night, that we should all merit to not only receive our wishes, but also to merit the ultimate berachah that we see the coming of Mashiach with our own eyes. I quickly want to ask all of you, first of all, to turn off your phones. The world can wait an hour, or in this case, probably six hours. When they organize the events, there wasn't a question of who goes first or who goes last. The question is who's going to speak the least.

9:53I said, listen, when I open my mouth, it usually closes at four in the morning because everybody's asleep. But yesterday I found out, I had seven lectures yesterday, the last one ended at four in the morning, and I get a text message at four in the morning from Maran Yaron Reuven. I said, what, I'm not the only meshuggah? Is another person awake now? So Baruch Hashem, Baruch Hashem. The problem is not who's going to speak, it's when he's going to shut up. So I'm asking a personal request. Please turn your phones off. But before you turn them off, I know this event, you're lucky to be here because there's probably another 50,000 people that are not lucky to be here, and they're watching the videos on their phones. But please, if you can, we want to make an echo in the universe with this event. So take your phone real quick and share this event. Take a picture, send a link of the video. The video is broadcast on the Facebook pages of Rav Yosef Mizrachi and Rav Yaron Reuven. Go to your Facebook, take the link and share it.

11:01that not only a couple hundred people that I hear will be zochim, but rather that the whole world can listen to it. I know many, many people are up now in Eretz Yisrael, three in the morning, four in the morning, we've got text messages and emails from New Zealand, from Australia, from everywhere. Somebody sent me a text today, I don't even know how to pronounce the name of the country. So, Baruch Hashem, share the event so the entire world can benefit, and then turn your phone off. Now, we decided that now is the most appropriate time, since we are in the Three Weeks, to speak about the destruction of Beit HaMikdash. But we already know that Beit HaMikdash is destroyed. It's more appropriate to speak about how we're building it. And while I was driving up today, and I was now a whole week in New Jersey for a tour of lectures, my daughter was telling me, "What are you talking about tonight?"

12:03I don't know. Whatever Hashem wants to put in my mouth, that's what I'm going to say. I can tell you that the theme of the event is a topic by itself. We have a very severe problem in our generation of sinat chinam, baseless hate. We have many problems, but this is one of the big ones. I can talk now about all the problems in our generation, and then we'll speak b'emet till Rosh Hashanah. But I want to focus today on a few things. And the first and most important is that we have sinat chinam that we can't even fathom. Do you know what it took to make this event? I think Rabbi Reuven and I have been talking about an event like this for two, three years. "Let's do an event together." You know, a few years ago, I tried to make an event... And the event theme was to get all the great Rabbanim from all walks of life on one stage. All of them, Sephardi, Ashkenazi, Litai, Chabad, Breslev—you name it, all on one stage. Why? You know, in Hebrew we say, "The fish stinks from the head." If the head is separated, then the body is separated.

13:28But our main problem right now is that there's no achdut. There's no unity. For maybe two years, I was trying to organize an event where we have a stage with many, many Rabbanim. One stands with a shtreimel, one stands without the shtreimel, one's with pe'ot, and one without the pe'ot, and one with a long coat, and one without the coat. Did you see flyers for that event? You didn't, right? Did you see the video? It was supposed to be broadcast. You know why you didn't see this event? Because every rabbi that we turn to said, "When you get it ready, call me." No, but we need you to help us. "No, no, no, when it's done, call me." Then we got the most ignorant comments. "Who's speaking there? Rabbi so-and-so? I'm not coming." Who's going to sit in the center? We don't know yet. I want to be in the center. I want to start. Is that right over there? No, I don't want to be on the same stage with him. We are so close to the coming of Mashiach that people don't even realize. Every time that I land in this land, I live in Eretz Yisrael, Baruch Hashem, Hashem ripped me out of this country four years ago. After 18 years,

14:5218 years, sorry. And every time that I land here, I lose 10,000 miles of altitude in my spiritual level. The plane just lands here. I don't even know how you live here. No offense. I'm not trying to hurt anybody. I do not know how you live here. I was here for a whole week. Doesn’t matter where, doesn’t matter where, but Hashem Yerachem. What do people care about? Some family was throwing a Bar Mitzvah. I was asked, they wanted me to give the berachah to the boy. I told the boy, how many mishnayot do you know by heart? Are you going to give a pilpul at your Bar Mitzvah? Are you going to do a siyum? What do you care about? Which suit? Which hall? Which video? This is your Bar Mitzvah? I have this zechut, unbelievable zechut. In three weeks is my son's Bar Mitzvah, my first son's Bar Mitzvah. Thank you, you're all invited. I know you're not going to come, so I'm inviting you. Some of you are welcome. Listen, you're all welcome.

16:06You know, somebody once told me, when I was in the beginning, I was invited to a Bar Mitzvah, and I saw something that really touched my heart. You know, my point tonight is that each and every one of you leave this room with something. If you came here just to look at three rabbis, then you can do that through the internet. My point is that you leave out of this room with something. Maybe this will be the something, at least for the men. If a person would learn one Mishnah a day, it will take you six years to finish the Shas. So I was like, wow, that's an amazing thing. So every time one of my boys turns seven, we start learning one Mishnah a day. This is private time between me and my son. In three weeks, my son is doing a siyum on his Bar Mitzvah for the entire Shas. That's what people should care about. You care about what suit you wear? Nonsense. The klipah in this country, Hashem yerachem, I hope maybe after tonight, maybe I'll be able to get some of you out of here. The point is that every time that I come here, Hashem yerachem, people are living in some bubble, caring about which car they drive, how big the house is, who makes more money, he did this, he did that, who cares? It's nonsense. And why am I telling you all this?

17:36Because I once said, you know what we're missing here? We're missing Ahavat Chinam. We don't have Ahavat Chinam. A lot of people are trying to, but no, what are you talking about? Look how everybody's getting along. Nobody's getting along. I'm traveling already. For the last 15 years, I lecture all around the world. There's not one community that did not badmouth the other community. Oh, you're going over there? Everybody pretends like there's some type of respect and honor for each other, but there's no respect, there's no honor. There's hate. Everybody hates each other. He's from that group, he's from this group. And once I came to a very big Rabbi and I told him, why can't we make an event where we get a thousand of all the top rabbis in the world, put them all in one room, and say very simply, Rabotai, we all serve the same Borei Olam, the same God. We all put tefillin the same way. We all rush before Shabbat. We all do the same thing. How about I give you my students, you give me your students, we switch students, and we make an effort of unbelievable achdut between everybody. Forget about what shape the hat is or how the jacket is. And I'm sure you didn't hear about that event too. You know why? Because if we would make such an event, who's the chairman? Who's the top? Who's speaking?

19:01Is the president going to be Ashkenazi or Sephardi? The sad reality is that we have such a tear in our generation, in our Am, that there's no chance that Mashiach is going to come. As it looks from now, we're looking at a disaster. A few weeks ago, we decided to start learning Hilchot Lashon Hara. Why? Because every time that a person will try to do something good, everybody will go against him. I'm sure the Rabbanim here can feel, I feel for them, they feel for me. I feel like a target everywhere that I go. Why do you say this? Why do you say that? Don't say this, don't say that. Why are you doing like this? Why are you doing like that? So I decided to make a campaign, let's start teaching Hilchot Lashon Hara, and everything that has to do with Lashon Hara, not just Hilchot Lashon Hara. So we made an introduction, And to my great surprise, I find a Gemara in Masechet Sanhedrin, in the Yerushalmi, that says, why was Beit HaMikdash HaRishon, the first Beit HaMikdash, destroyed? You all know. Every little kid knows. Gilui Arayot, we have a lot of that in our generation. Shfichut Damim,

20:19We have a lot of that in our generation too. And we're flooded with that in our generation. We might not bow to statues, but you bow to your phone that asks you to turn off. You bow to your Mercedes. You bow to your job. You bow to everything. And you think that you're not. You are. That's why Beit HaMikdash HaRishon was destroyed. Since the sin was revealed, then the length of the exile was revealed. We leave Yerushalayim. We know, the Navi says, you're going to be exiled for 70 years. Sure enough, 67 years later, the whole story with Purim, and three years after that, exactly 70 years, we go back to Yerushalayim. 420 years later, another Beit HaMikdash is destroyed. Why? Because of Sinat Chinam. The Talmud says in the Yerushalmi that it's not Sinat Chinam; it’s Lashon Hara. Lashon Hara. Here again, the phone. Lashon Hara. Somebody asked me not too long ago, "You were in Shamayim, no? You made a little visit there. What is the worst sin?" I said, "Listen, I can give you now 50 worst sins. There's no worst sin. All the sins are bad. What, you think I'm now going to minimize the sin for you?" Some people, they have a distorted way of thinking. Some guy calls me. He tried maybe two months to get a phone call with me. Finally gets a phone call.

21:43Baruch Hashem, I dedicate three to four hours every day for phone calls—short phone calls, questions. consulting, he gets a phone call. People wait, Baruch Hashem. I apologize now publicly. People tell me, I sent you an email. Really? Yesterday I got 3,000 emails. You think I check emails? I don't check emails. I sent you a WhatsApp; you didn't answer me. What are you talking about? I have 40,000 people on my WhatsApp. You think I will answer you? Not that I'm some, you know, king of the world, but Baruch Hashem, busy. Nevertheless, A person sends me, asks to talk to me, and he tells me, I have a question for you. Okay. What's the question? Can I do this and this? I tell him, no. Are you sure? I told him, yes, you can't do that. This is a sin from the Torah. Are you 100% sure? Yes.

22:49Listen, I think I know my material pretty well. I'm sure. You know what he tells me? You're the eighth rabbi that's telling me that. What, do you think I'm going to now tell you the answer you want to hear? So, we have a lot, a lot of problems in our generation, but let's go back to what I was talking about. Masechet in the Yerushalmi says that the sin that caused the destruction of the Beit HaMikdash is Lashon Hara. Now, I told you that a few weeks ago somebody asked me, what is the worst sin? I told him, all the sins are bad. Don't minimize any sin. Because then you're going to have a bias towards some of the sins, thinking some of the things I'm going to do, some of the things I'm not going to do. Don't overlook any one of them. The Mishnah says, be very particular with any mitzvah, from the easiest one to the hardest one. Why? Because you don't know what the reward is. So he tells me, okay, so what's the most important or powerful mitzvah?

23:51i said, everything is important. If you're going to minimize the small ones, you're going to minimize the big ones. The point is that all the mitzvot are important and all the aveirot you have to beware of. But I told him, if you want to hear my advice, the Kadosh Baruch Hu created us in a very sophisticated way, but in the front of our head, He put a hole. It's called a mouth. I told him, if you want to be careful of something, it's everything that goes in the mouth, and everything that goes out of the mouth. David HaMelech says, "Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit." He told me, "You want to be successful? You want to be successful, you want to have... Guard this." whatever goes in it and whatever goes out of it. Whatever goes in it, needless to say, this is your kosher diet. And it's not only your kosher diet, by the way. In this country, 90% of what you eat is not really food, by the way. It's all preservatives and chemicals and food coloring, and you're not really eating food. Then people don't understand why they have anxieties, weird dreams, fears, and all sorts of strange reactions. Well, eat like a human being.

25:10But what comes into your mouth, when it comes to kashrut, the gedolim of the gedolim were so particular with what comes into their mouth. Not to say the greatest of all, didn’t even eat. Baba Sali would fast from one day till Shabbat. From Sunday, from Motzei Shabbat till Shabbat. They just eat something on Shabbat. But what comes out of the mouth, Hashem Yerachem, what comes out of our mouth. Sly. Slandering. Cheating. And cursing. You put yourself to a test, and you follow a few instructions. I made teshuva 18 years ago. Baruch Hashem, Hashem zikhar oti, gave me an unbelievable merit to do teshuva. I don't even know why I got such a zechut. I sometimes look at myself and I'm shocked. Me? From all people? How many people get a zechut to wake up to do teshuva? Very few people. I hope tonight maybe some, a few more people will get to do teshuva. But when I became observant, I didn't go to yeshiva right away. It took me about two and a half years till I went to yeshiva. Why? Because I wasn't physically prepared to go to yeshiva. I was 27 years old, with a yetzer hara from here to Tel Aviv. How do you do teshuva?

26:29Besides the fact that, first of all, just start cleaning the junk. So I started developing systems. How do you do teshuva? You know, I was in yeshivot throughout my life. Seven years. Four different main yeshivot from different walks of life. I went to many different yeshivot. This is another thing that bothered me a lot. Every yeshiva that I went to, they badmouthed the other sect. "Don't learn from that book. We don't learn this book." Why? What's wrong with this book? No, no, no, no, no. This yeshiva, we don't learn from this. I go to the next yeshiva. Oh, you were there? I didn't get any good feedback from any yeshivot that I was at. Oh, you were there? Oh, no, no, no. I want to learn this book. No, no, no. In this yeshiva, you can't learn this. So I learn from everybody. Everybody you learn from. Not from one person. Why? Because most people are so narrow. If you're not in the same group, I want to learn this book. This is what's called in the teachings of Kabbalah, the limitations of broadening your horizon. But nevertheless, I had to develop systems on how to become chozer b'teshuva. How do you stop lying? How do you stop slandering? How do you stop having bad thoughts?

27:48So you know what I would do? I bought a 99-cent little booklet and a pen that cost me $1.29. That's my teshuvah. Two dollars and 29 cents. And every act that I did, I wrote in this pinkas, in this little book. And every thought that I had, I wrote it. Every time I would lie, I would write the lie and the hour. Every time I would say lashon hara, I would write it down. So at the end of the day, I would look at it. Hashem, it was a book. To realize how much junk is coming out of my mouth. Most people, if they will bump their leg on the table by mistake, what comes out of their mouth? You know what comes out of their mouth. They don't say "ouch." They say another word. Why do you have to say that word? What benefit do you have by saying that word? You curse the person with every disease that exists. You already know the mother's profession. You know everything. What did the guy do? The junk that comes out of people's mouths. And then they don't understand. Nothing works in my life. You fool. Of course, nothing will work out for you. Not too long ago, somebody came and told me, listen, I have a tzara, I need a bracha. I told him, pray to Hashem. What do you think I'm, the Baba? No, no, I need you to give me a bracha. I told him, I don't need anything.

29:14You need to pray. Oh, I've been praying for five years. It doesn't work. Tell them, of course it doesn't work, because you lie all day long, and you say lashon hara all day long. Why would you think a prayer would work? You know, in the introduction that we did to the course that we started, the series on lashon hara, I pulled different sources. You know that the Zohar says that if a person says lashon hara, his tefillah doesn't even go up. Stay home. Don't bother to come to shul even. Stay at home. You think your tefillah is going to go up to Shamayim with the same mouth that you cursed, slandered, or cheated with? It's not going to work. It's not going to work. This is pearls. Zip your mouth. You know when I became observant? I didn't know what to do. So I would fast three days a week, from morning to night. And then I used to take three weeks, not talking. Four weeks, not talking. I wasn't married, I didn't have kids, I didn't have anyone to talk to. I was talking to the walls. It's better not to talk. Don't talk to Itzi. You can't even imagine the spiritual cleansing when you guard this little horse. I don't know if you noticed, we have two eyes, two ears, two nostrils, one mouth. One for eating, one for talking.

30:38So we have a serious problem that this mouth is destructive. Now, what does it cause? It causes disunity, it causes hate, it causes so many problems, jealousy. Oh, this is, of course, it's rotting everything that exists. If you have to take something out tonight, I told you already, on the way out, you can take CDs, souvenirs, pictures. At the end of the night, we're all going to stand, three of us together, you can take pictures. People already told me, "Can I take a picture with the three of you?" I said, "Yeah, $1,500, you can take a picture with the three of us, no problem. We'll do an auction. We'll stand like dummies." And you stand in the middle, we'll take a shot. So if you came to take a picture of us, then take a picture on the internet. You have to go out of this door with something. Now, I have noticed something very disturbing that I didn't like at all in myself, not in other people. And I'll share with you, maybe you can incorporate it into your life.

31:55The Torah promotes silence in many different ways. You know, last week I prepared one of my lectures. To prepare an hour-long lecture takes 18 hours of work. Five hours of lecture preparation can take up to three weeks. But I found, I stumbled across a Ma'amar Chazal so powerful that it says, you know, a word is worth a lot, but not saying that word is worth much more. I'll say it again for those with ADD and the slow. I see some of you already. Listen, we have another two speakers. Let's just give them kavod (respect) here tonight. A word is worth a lot. Good morning, my dear. How are you? You just made your wife the queen of the world. Good morning, dear. How are you? Honey, you look amazing. But not saying a certain word, ooh, that's worth much more. How many times do you want to say something and... Yesterday I gave a lecture. Not to give too many details, but there was some type of disagreement. And my wife came there, she's a watchdog.

33:12Because she has to get me to the next lecture, and to the next lecture, and push people away. No, no, I want to ask a question. You can't ask a question. Anyway, she got, ooh, she got the Vish. And, ooh, what she got is the Mi Sheberach. And she was so upset. She was crying. Don't listen. Don't be so upset. I say, just say, a person that is accepting a Bizayon, and you cry, I told you, you just went to the washing machine. Because you didn't react. You know what it is not to react? To react is very, very easy. But not to react. So I notice in me something. And I can only talk about myself. I can't talk about other people. But at least my point is that I feel lucky enough to be able to do teshuva. So I like to at least share it with other people. Maybe other people can also do that. Because if I don't share what I have, I'm not going to get anything. At the end of the day, most people are holding everything like this, as if it's not even yours. So I noticed in myself something that I didn't like a lot. And you know what it was? That I behaved one way in public and another way in my room. Now you're all guilty of that, by the way. If we're going to put music in this hall and

34:37blast the music, you know what's going to happen. People are going to be like, put the same song in your room when there's nobody there. Suddenly, you start breaking down. You invent moves that even Michael Jackson can't do. Next to other people, most people behave one way, but in their room, they behave completely differently. Why can't you be real? Don't you know the G-d who is looking at you? Don't you know the G-d who is looking at you and He knows, and He's laughing and saying, "Who do you think you're fooling? You think you behave in a certain way, like a tzaddik, next to other people, but at home, you behave differently." So I noticed it in myself and I was like, how about I start behaving in public how I behave in my room. Or better, how about I behave in my closed room how I behave in public? Should I say it again for the ADD? No? Yeah? You got it? Get a sticker out of it. I hope you're taking notes. I hope you can see the rewind. The point is to take some teaching, to make you better, to make the world a better place. Because the reality is...

36:03We want to talk about Beit HaMikdash and the destruction of Mashiach. The reality is that the situation is worse than what you can even imagine. In regards to how, when, and what the redemption is coming. It's an unbelievable miracle that we're all still existing here and we're still breathing. And we're not under a mushroom cloud. Or that the Kadosh Baruch Hu didn't destroy us already a long time ago. Sometimes, I don't want to say that because then, chas v'shalom, I will raise a prosecution against Am Yisrael. But I'm sometimes shocked. How the Kadosh Baruch Hu doesn't get completely upset at us with what's going on in our nation. So our situation is much worse than you think, by the way. People think, oh, everything is okay. Life is good. Life is maybe good now. You think it's good until the storm will come. And the storm is, like I told you, it's a miracle that it didn't come yet. I'm shocked that we're still in exile. and we're still not redeemed. We have some type of zechut, some type of merit, some tzaddik is praying for us, for the entire Klal Yisrael, that we still have the opportunity every morning to do teshuva. Most people wake up in the morning, you know what they do first thing? Why don't you check your phone? Say Modeh Ani to the Kadosh Baruch Hu. Take a minute to meditate on the greatness of the Kadosh Baruch Hu that He even did a favor to you and brought you back to the world.

37:27Some people even sleep with their phone. Why do you sleep with your phone? Is it your wife? Put the phone in the living room. Turn it off. Shem Yerachem. You know the nonsense that most people... You look at people's faces when they're... You know, I also have a phone. You see it everywhere. I don't carry it on me. I check it once a day, for a few hours. Why do I need to check the phone every second? Most people don't even value the z'chut that HaKadosh Baruch Hu gives them every second. Every second. What a z'chut we have that we are even alive. Most people don't realize that. You know, most people, they jump on the phone. They cover their blanket over their head. From the depression, the sadness, the anxiety, the fear, the worrying, the tzarot. Now, when people call me, email me, or text me about their tzarot in health, marriage, and kids, everyone gets the same answer: Pray for Mashiach. Do something for Mashiach to come. He's not coming? He's coming. Pray. Of course, he's not coming if we're sitting around all day. Why would he come? So, the point we want to get from tonight is that we have a very long night, but the point is how you leave the door.

38:43If you came in and you're leaving the doors the same way, then you wasted your time. You didn't come to Disneyland to watch Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. You came here tonight because I know some people, they just wanted to see the show. They wanted to see these three rabbis on one stage. If you came for that, then you missed the opportunity. It's all about how you're going out of this door. So I hope you sit tight and listen. And I'm sure there are going to be much more encouraging words tonight that you can incorporate into your life. The situation as we speak right now is that we have a sword here, and we don't even notice that. Melech HaMashiach already exists. He's here in the world. He's a human being who lives in Eretz Yisrael. I don't think he knows he's Mashiach. Some Mekubalim say he knows who he is; some Mekubalim say he doesn't know who he is. But if Mashiach has to come tonight, he has to be a human being and at least 13 years of age. So, it must be this: right now, a human being who is Shomer Torah and Mitzvot.

39:43In Eretz Yisrael, ready to get the note. Says the Prophet. He gets the note. But as we speak right now, Am Yisrael has a sword here. And you're worried about your iPhone, if it's the XR or the XS or the XTZ or whatever it is. That's nonsense. And we don't even notice that our life... is in disharmony. Be honest with yourself right now. You don't have to tell me. You don't have to tell anybody else. Be honest with yourself. Take a moment to be honest with yourself. Are you happy with your life? Most people have problems with parnasah (livelihood). Most people have problems with briyut (health), with finding their other half. Their kids are not listening to them. Yirat Shamayim (fear of Heaven), yetzer hara (evil inclination), from here to shem yerachem (Heaven have mercy). Everybody is dealing with something. Why? Because HaKadosh Baruch Hu (the Holy One, Blessed be He) is pushing everybody to a corner... That you have to be pressed. Why? So you can pray for Mashiach to come. The sheker in the world is unbelievable. It's almost unfathomable. It's almost even unacceptable. The sheker that you see all around. In everything. What's good is targeted as bad. What is bad gets all the kavod and all the honor and all the respect.

41:04I don't want to tell you certain things because I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings, but I would share with you things that I had to go through and heard about this event. Some people I kind of wish to know who they are just to tell them off straight to their face with things that I heard. So if you're feeling that your life is on the verge of disaster, and I bet, be honest, don't look at me, no, no, no, everything's great. No, everything is not great, by the way. You can fool anybody you want. You don't fool me, you definitely don't fool Hashem, and if you fool yourself, you are a fool. You can make a shtick out of that. If you fool yourself, you are a fool. Copyright. Yeah. Why am I saying that? Because people live in denial. They lie to themselves. Lie to themselves. If they're in the world of kedushah, then they lie to themselves. I can do that. On him, I can speak lashon hara. Here, I can lie. Stealing from him? He's a thief too. People invent all sorts of rules. They don't have a real Rav that tells them what to do and what not to do. If you tell them what to do and they don't like that, they go choose a different Rav. It's like they're shopping for a rabbi.

42:21People call me, "Can you be my rabbi?" I'm not anybody's rabbi. Don't call me your rabbi. I'm not your rabbi. You can come and listen to a class, but I'm not anybody's rabbi. "No, I want you to be my rabbi." You're not going to be listening to me, even to me. Why would you want to be my student? So you have to not lie to yourself about anything that happens in your life. And the main thing you cannot lie to yourself about is that life is on the verge of destruction. So again, you can be in denial and say, "No, everything's fine." Now again, I'm not talking about a person that has a very good attitude. Everything comes from the Kadosh Baruch Hu, everything that Hashem does is good. Okay, listen, we all have to go through nisyonot. But the reality is that everybody has a rope around their throat, in one way or another, they just don't share it with other people. Last year I was in some community, Very wealthy community. At least it seems like a wealthy community. And for some reason, I look like the Kotel HaMa'aravi. Everybody comes and whispers to me. They put notes in my jacket. Unfortunately, it's not checks. It's just notes. Can you pray for Moshe ben Chaim? I always tell my wife, do I look like a stone to you? Everybody comes to talk to me, as if I'm the Kotel HaMa'aravi. Everybody tells me all their problems. This community, I was there for three days. Everybody came and told me, listen...

43:40My house is in foreclosure. I didn't pay the mortgage for three years. The banks, credit cards, I don't know what to do. But don't tell anybody. And the next one, and the next one, and the next one. Everybody's the same thing. But outside, beautiful Mercedes, beautiful houses, the most fancy watches. I'm not making fun of anybody. I'm trying to make a point. The point is that everybody's life is shattered beneath their feet. but they're pretending that everything's okay, so everybody else can say, no, no, no, life is more than everything's okay. So you have to wake up and realize nothing is okay, and everybody's suffering with something. The Kadosh Baruch Hu chose every person. Every person has at least five problems in their life. And if you disagree with me, you're in denial. You can disagree with me as much as you want. I don't get offended. But if you disagree with me, you're in denial. Everybody has problems. I told you already, I'm not going to repeat it. Parnassah, Yirat Shamayim, marriage, finding your other half. The only solution is Mashiach ben David. Now, what do we do? To talk is very cheap. You know, our sages say, now, we can't do things on a global level.

44:59There are a lot of people who are trying. The yetzer hara is very, very strong. Just to get you in this room, I think it took about 5,000 text messages, 150 hours of going back and forth, just to make a little event. What do we want to do? Teach some Torah? What did we ask? If you make an event of some nonsense, you'll have 50,000 people in one room. That's when I realized, look at that. The yetzer hara, the Samech Mem, is after one thing. A disagreement. He doesn't care if you sin, by the way. The yetzer hara is not here to make you sin. He says, you're going to sin regardless. With or without me, you're going to sin. The yetzer hara, that's not his agenda. He knows you're going to sin on autopilot. His agenda is to make a machloket. This is called mecharher riv. He wants to create a disagreement between two people so that they don't get along. a religious and a secular, Ashkenazi and Sephardi, it doesn't matter, it's all nonsense. But the fact is, you also make an analogy in your life, and you'll see how many machlokot you have in your life, how many disagreements you have in your life, and then you ask yourself, who is the cause. No, no, I'm a symbol of perfection. I'm not the problem, he's the problem. Your yetzer hara is always going to tell you that he's the problem. Most people, they wake up in the morning, their eyes are like this, they look in the mirror, wow.

46:27What you did here, it's unbelievable. The ego that some people have. So when you question yourself if you are the cause of the problem and a disagreement. Me? I didn't do anything. It's false. The point is, like I said before, we are in a very harsh situation. And a very important time. Harsh, I'm saying because there's still din hovering over our heads. And don't let anybody fool you. No, Am Yisrael is not doing great. No, they're not. No, there's no greatness. I'm telling you. I barely see my wife. I barely see my kids. I go from one tour to another tour. I'm in hundreds of communities. Everybody can't stand each other. Everybody slanders each other. Everybody talks about each other. And on the outside, it seems like on the surface it's good. Now, I'm not taking away from what we do have. I know I speak a little bit negatively and harshly, but I'm not taking away from the greatness of our generation. There's never been so much Torah in our generation. Hundreds of millions of hours on the internet of Torah. Yeshivot from here to tomorrow. Shabbat, where I was on Shabbat, was unbelievable. Come 7 o'clock in the morning to the Beit Knesset. 500 people learning Torah. We have access to any book you want.

47:52A hundred years ago, who had books? So, I'm not negating the fact that we have a lot of Torah in our generation. We have a lot of chesed in our generation. We have a lot of good things. But it's so diluted with all the bad, so it's almost nothing. I'm going to sidetrack for a second because a lot of people ask me about my own personal story, my own personal experience. I'm sure some of you heard it, or maybe all of you, and if you didn't, then take a CD and listen to it. But that's not the point. The point is, a lot of people tell me, why in Shamayim they judge you so hard? You are Tinok Shenishba, no? You were born secular. What do they want from you? So first of all, and most important, is they didn't judge me for what I didn't know. They judged me for what I knew. They didn't show me if I put tefillin on or not. They didn't show me that I was ripping letters on Shabbat or cooking on Shabbat. You know what they showed me? Bein adam lechavero. You need the Torah to be a mensch. You need the Torah to tell you not to steal. Go out to the street, take any boy—normal one, a good one. Ask him, is it okay to steal? Heaven forbid.

49:01Going out to any country in the world, you ask a normal human being, is it okay to commit adultery? Do you need the Torah for that? You don't need the Torah for that. And of course, everybody is my Sanegorim. In every lecture that I gave about my personal story, everybody is my Sanegorim. Why are they so mean? Why are they so harsh? Why did they judge you? Where were you when I was in Shamayim, when I needed some Sanegorim? There were no Sanegorim. This is called in Hebrew, a "fae nefesh." Why are you pretending? Now, what is my answer? Yes, I did have a few mitzvot. They showed me a few mitzvot that I had. But my analogy, and that's connected to what I'm trying to tell you, because we do have a lot of good things in our generation. There's a lot of Torah, a lot of chesed, a lot of kiruv. Not enough, but we do have. If you take now a bottle of Coca-Cola and you pour in it a cup of water, would it change the color of the Coca-Cola? No.

50:01But take a bottle of water, like this, and pour in it two drops of Coca-Cola. Two drops. The whole water is brown. And if you put in a cup, the whole water is completely dark. Which means that it doesn't matter how much good you have, you drop in one drop of bad, the whole water is dirty. All the good that you did is already dirty. And if you have a lot of bad, you throw in a lot of good. It's not going to change anything. It's... Not comparison. So don't for one second take my words out of context and say, well, where is this land during the whole generation? Our Israel is doing great. I'm not saying that. Baruch Hashem, we have great Rabbanim and great Chachamim in the Torah. We have a lot of good things. I'm talking about the bad things, not the good things. If you look only at the good things, you don't get better. You have to look at the bad things. Not comparison. So don't for one second take... Now, let's go back a few weeks. We are finishing now the book of Bamidbar. Fascinating book. The book of Bereishit is the creation of the world and the building of our nation. The book of Shemot is being in Mitzrayim as avadim, as slaves, and then going out of Mitzrayim and the beginning of the desert. The book of Vayikra mainly focuses on mitzvot.

51:23And specifically about the building of the Mishkan, the Mizbeach, the Korbanot, and so forth. The book of Bamidbar is exactly how it sounds. Bamidbar, in the desert. Don't you wonder what was going on there for 40 years? What did they do there? I think they were playing sheshbesh in the desert. What were they doing there for 40 years? Okay, the desert. The book of Vayikra, mainly focuses on mitzvot. So first of all, we have Parashat Shelach, talking Lashon Hara. Parashat Chukat, talking Lashon Hara. Parashat Korach, talking Lashon Hara. Anything other than slandering each other? This is what's going on in the desert. Everybody's talking against each other and against whom? Against the Gadol HaDor? Why do you come up with such chutzpah to talk against the Gadol HaDor? The damage that it brings on Am Yisrael to talk about the Gadol HaDor, Moshe Rabbeinu? And you think anything changed in our generation? We are exactly a replica of 3,300 years ago. By the way,

52:2380% of the nation did not leave Mitzrayim. You know why? Moshe Rabbeinu came all excited. "We're going out. I came to take you out. Where are we going? We're going to the desert." 80% asked the same question: "Is there Wi-Fi in the desert? Is there Wi-Fi in the desert?" No. Not coming. Not coming. How am I going to check my messages? Yeah, I mean, you're laughing. You should cry. 80% were left behind. Why? Because they were stuck in their Mitzrayim. Mitzrayim is not a country, by the way. Mitzrayim is a state of mind. The Ari HaKadosh explains Mitzrayim comes from the word Meitzar. Meitzar is a limit. In our generation, they call it by a different name. It's just a very sensitive name and people get very upset when you tell them that. Meitzar means an addiction.

53:24Everybody is addicted to something, by the way. I'm not talking right now about heroin, crack, alcohol, or gambling. I'm not talking about that. That's Hashem yerachem what's going on in our generation. But people are addicted to food, to clothes, to Facebook, to their phone, to I don't know what. And I'm not blaming anybody, and I'm not making a joke about everybody. But the whole point of Yetziat Mitzrayim is that I go out of my limitation. Out of the state that limits me. And you know what's the worst Mitzrayim that everybody has? Being judgmental. Jealousy. Slandering. That's a Mitzrayim, by the way. That's a Mitzrayim. You know how judgmental you are? This Shabbat I was somewhere. There was a big Shabbaton. There were a lot of events. Back-to-back classes. One class I came to. It was me and a few other people. And then you see a couple coming in. Somebody says, who are these? They're not from the community. What if somebody says, ay, look at that, they drove on Shabbat. That couple slept over in somebody's house. Why do you judge them? They got so offended, they didn't come to the class. Why do you judge them? How do you know they drove on Shabbat? And you know, because of you, they didn't come to the class. We're so judgmental. By the way, that's an addiction too. Everything that limits you.

54:48That's an addiction. And again, another state of denial. Most people say, "I'm here, I'm addicted." Yeah, let's see you put your phone down for three days. Give me your phone for three days. I'm here till Monday. Give me the phone. I'll give it back to you on the last lecture on Monday. Let's see you survive without your phone. But why am I saying all that? Because people who are numb or sleeping, you can call it denial too. They don't understand in what state they are. So they need a slap to their face to wake up, to understand, and whoa, what was going on? Well, you are sleeping, my friend. You are in denial. So, 3,300 years, nothing changed. We are still in Mitzrayim. Don't be from those 80% that stay behind, because the Ge'ulah is coming any minute. And none of this means that everybody is going to be on board. I know there's beautiful slogans, כל ישראל יש להם חלק לעולם הבא. These are good for stickers, by the way. Read the rest of the pasuk, by the way. You know, there's a famous story with the Chafetz Chaim. Somebody came to him and told him, "I just read a Mishnah that says, 'כל ישראל יש להם חלק לעולם הבא.' Why should I do anything?"

56:10I have a part in the next world, right? I'll sit here and play all day long, and I'll get to the next world. What does he answer him? He tells him a story. There was once a person who was very, very wealthy, and he had a lot of textile companies and plants, and it's a real story. And all over Russia, that was his business, multi, multi-millionaire. Now, his thing was that he would give a job to any family member. You're a family member, you get a job. Okay. One time he goes to visit some of the plants. You know, the CEO comes with all the entourage. He walks into the plant. He doesn't know anybody. He doesn't know his workers. He comes to one of them. "Hello, who are you?" "My name is so-and-so." "What do you do here?" "I'm the manager of marketing." "Nice to meet you." He goes to another person. "What do you do here?" "I'm the manager of production." "Nice to meet you." He goes from one to another. And he comes to one person. He sees him sitting on the chair and tells him, "What do you do here?" He's like, "I don't do anything."

57:11He's like, "What do you mean? And you get a salary?" "Yeah, of course I get a salary." "You don't do something and you get a salary? How come?" He says, "Well, I'm your cousin." The Chafetz Chaim tells this man, "Do you want to be like a cousin that doesn't do anything? What did you come to this world for? What did you come to this world for? To do nothing? So you'll get a little piece in the next world, who says what piece you're going to get? But you came here to the world to do nothing?" On the same note, there's another story. Hashem yerachem, 80 years ago, there was a Holocaust. Don't think for one second that that's the last Holocaust. We are on the verge of maybe another one. Don't live in denial, by the way. Don't let people tell you, "Never again." Never again. Look how many Holocausts we have had in our history. But nevertheless, a famous story about Rabbi... Elchonon Wasserman, the student of the Chafetz Chaim. He ran out of Europe, he came to America. You know why? Because he wanted to fundraise. He had a yeshiva and he wanted to smuggle people out. To make a very long story short, he found out about a friend of his.

58:22that was in America and happened to be very, very wealthy. Okay. He looks him up. He tries to get an appointment. Of course, he goes through the first layer of filters, the second layer of filters, all the run-arounds. He can't talk to you. I mean, this is like calling now some big macher, some big shot. Finally, he tells them, listen, my name is Elchanan Wasserman. I learned with this individual in cheder, we're friends, okay. Somehow he gets into the meeting, ah, hugging and kissing and hugging and kissing. He's looking at the man. The man is completely secular. Doesn't eat kosher, doesn't observe Shabbat, doesn't put tefillin, nothing. Bekitzur, he tells him, what do you do? He says, ooh, I came here to America, I didn't have anything. And what did I do? To make a very long story short, he says, I had some money. I bought a broken sewing machine. And I was very technical. I fixed up the sewing machine. And then I started fixing people's coats. Then I bought another sewing machine and another sewing machine. Before I knew it, I had a lot of sewing machines, and I started fixing people's raincoats. Then I started making raincoats. And blah, blah, blah. Before I knew it, look, now I'm a millionaire. Okay. Rabbi Elchanan Wasserman was not a fool.

59:37The friend tells him, "Tell me, why did you come to see me?" He says, "I just came to say hello." "You just came to say hello?" "Yeah." "You came all the way from Europe, spending hundreds of rubles to go on a boat, to come and say hello?" He says, "Yeah, my friend from cheder, hello?" And he leaves. Now this guy drives him nuts. He can't go to sleep. He can't work. Why? He came all the way here to say hello. He tells his secretary the next day, "Get this guy. Get him. I need him back. I need to know why he came here." He calls him back and he tells him, "You have to tell me. Why did you come here?" He says, "I came here to say hello." "No, no, no. I'm not a fool. Why did you come here?" He says, "You know what? you see this button here? It's a little bit loose. I thought maybe you can sew it. He says, you came all the way from burning Europe for me to sew a button for you? I don't believe you. He says, yeah, can you sew me the button? Look, it's a little bit loose. Really, why did you come here? He says, I came here for you to strengthen my button.

1:00:51He gets upset. "Tell me, why did you come here?" He tells him, "Are you listening to yourself? You are shocked that I came here to sew a button? You think you came to this world to sew some buttons? That's why you came to the world—to sew a few buttons?" Needless to say, the man broke down in tears. He tells him, "Listen, I didn't learn Torah for years. Sit and learn Torah with me. I want to put tefillin on." Needless to say, figured out how wrong he was and how badly he had gone off the path. And then, of course, he told him, "Listen, how can I reward you?" He told him, "Well, I have a big yeshiva in Europe, and I need a lot of money." What did he tell him? "The next three years of yeshiva are covered, all the expenses." But such a tzaddik went back to Europe and was murdered there al Kiddush Hashem. What do we want to take from all this? I spoke maybe 1% of what I wanted to say. But now it's time for me to, like I told you before, be quiet. But I really want to leave you with a few powerful things that you can take with you as you leave tonight. First, I told you, watch this thing.

1:02:07Second of all, I told you, watch how you behave on the street and how you behave in your home. Don't be a fool. Don't be a hypocrite. Don't pretend. The way you behave in the street, behave like this in your room. Have the yiras Shamayim that the same way the people around you are looking at you, and suddenly you're standing all nice and you're praying like a tzaddik... Let's see how you pray when you're by yourself, if you even pray. Don't be a hypocrite and don't behave in the street one way and in the room another way. But the most important thing we have to understand is that we, as a klal, can make a huge noise. If you have one person screaming, you can hear. If you have a thousand people screaming, you can hear. So everybody has to scream in their way. Am Yisrael is standing in front of a ke'layah, in front of a Holocaust. I'm not joking. That's the reality. We need to scream. We need to scream to the Kadosh Baruch Hu to save us. To send the ge'ulah.

1:03:09You scream with Ahavat Hashem, you scream with Yirat Shamayim, you scream with learning Torah, you scream with spreading Torah. It says in Masechet Sanhedrin, if you want to know about what's going on, we're on the verge of a war. This war is called Gog UMagog. I wanted to talk about that, but there's really no time. You know, you don't feel that maybe here. I live 30 kilometers from the border. Every day the jets are flying everywhere. Every day, you know, we feel sometimes the ground shaking. You don't feel it here. But don't discount for one second that this country is not on the target. This country is not safe. Don't think that people say, "Oh, Eretz Yisrael is so dangerous there." No, it's not. The Meraglim, they spoke Lashon Hara about Eretz Yisrael. Avarin didodeh, Kaddosh Baruch Hu, didn't forgive them. Kadosh Baruch Hu forgave for the golden calf, for Chet HaEgel. Kadosh Baruch Hu forgave for many other things. There's one sin that up until today we never got forgiveness for. And that's Chet HaMeraglim. Hashem says, you talk lashon hara about My land? I'll never forgive you. So don't dare to talk lashon hara about Eretz Yisrael. It's dangerous there. No, it's not. It's safer there than here. But I live next to the border. And I'm not exaggerating. Sometimes twice a day we see the jets flying. What's going on now in Syria. Exactly like all the prophecies.

1:04:29Famous prophecy of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai. This can be found in a book called Otzar HaMidrashim, page 555. He says, here is for you a sign. When you want to know when Ben David, the son of David, Mashiach is coming. When is he coming? When there's going to be a war. There's going to be a war next to Yerushalayim. And when the ruler of Damesek will fall down, will come Mashiach Ben David, Goel Yisrael, the redeemer of the Jews. That sounds pretty familiar. I mean, in English it says Damascus. Now, interestingly, he says the name of the ruler of Damascus is Nero Mizrahi. Nero Mizrahi? I know you're Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi. I don't know. Nero Mizrahi. Nero Mizrahi. Make a quick calculation of the Gematria of Nero Mizrahi: 571. Don't pull your calculators out. Who's the ruler of Syria of Damascus? Bashar Assad.

1:05:32The same numerical value of 571. When Assad is going to fall very soon, that's when the Redeemer is going to come. But don't think for one second we're not in the middle of the war. The war is happening as we speak. And don't think there's no nuclear submarines in front of the coast of Los Angeles and New York. Don't think for one second that you're here under some umbrella of Donald Trump. It's an unbelievable miracle even that we're even here in Eretz Yisrael. I don't know how the other one, somehow, I'm shocked with what I see. I'm sure some of you attended my lecture three years ago, and I told people, run away from here. This Nazi, this meshuggah, the president, he's going to turn this whole place upside down. Unbelievable miracle, I don't even know how, what zechut we had, somehow. And I don't want to get into politics, but don't think I'm a Trump supporter. Now people are like, I support Trump. I'm not supporting any politicians. I support the Kadosh Baruch Hu. Trump is a puppet, but at least he's a good puppet, at least so far, until he will get his janana—I don't know how you translate janana in English, maybe "the screws will go loose." The point is that we are on the verge; we're in the middle of Gog u'Magog. Maybe later we'll have time to go more in-depth on that.

1:06:55But I'm just going to finish with one thing. It says in Masechet Sanhedrin. It talks about Gog u'Magog on pages 87, 88, and 89. A person that wants to be saved from Gog u'Magog. And don't think that Gog u'Magog is just nuclear bombs. By the way, Gog u'Magog is the junk that's going on in your mind. The thoughts that you have all day long. Hashem yerachem on what's going on in people's thoughts. I gave a class not too long ago. Somebody organized a Geula summit. A lot of Rabbanim attended. It was very nice, Baruch Hashem. So my theme was about the thoughts, how the thoughts are very powerful. And I quoted a certain tzaddik, a rabbi from Piaseczno, that has a whole meditation system that is called Hashkata, how to quiet your thoughts. You know what he says there? He says that most people, the junk that's going on in their mind is not different from any lunatic. The only difference between us and lunatics is that lunatics do what they think. You don't do what you think. It stays here. What do you want to do to that person? What do you want to say to that person? So Gog and Magog, by the way, is not only the bombs, it's also what's going on in your thoughts. The Zohar says, war of thoughts. But you want to be saved? Learn Torah. If you listen to my lectures, you know that I always say, if you don't learn a minimum of two hours a day of Torah, this is less than two hours a day and you didn't even warm the engine.

1:08:23What can you do in two hours? And don't tell me, ah, now two hours, what is he talking about? I know people that are busier than you, and they learn five hours. Anybody can learn. Instead of spending three hours on Facebook, spend five minutes on Facebook, and learn the other two and a half hours. And the Torah is everything. Torah is also tefillah, three times a day to be in a minyan, not to pray at home. But Gemilut Chassadim, real Gemilut Chassadim. When you know it's the real Gemilut Chassadim, our sages say Gemilut Chassadim is when you go and you care about another person's well-being, not about your well-being. Somebody else's well-being. And you go out of your way. I'm going to leave you with a short message that we are on the verge of the redemption coming. It's in our hands. Can you imagine how exciting, what a time. Moshe Rabbeinu, Tzadikim, all the Tanaim HaKedoshim, Geonim, Nevi'im, everybody is waiting for Mashiach. And we, we're going to see it. I hope that everybody will see it. I wish for all of us to see the coming of Mashiach with our own eyes. But, you didn't come to this world to polish buttons. You didn't come to this world to sew a coat. You came to this world to change the world, to learn Torah, to spread Torah, and to do Gemilut Chassadim Amitit. Gemilut Chassadim.

1:09:43And there are so many opportunities. You don't have to do it by yourself. You have money, you give your money. You have time, you give your time. You have a profession, give your profession. You have a couch, give it to somebody who needs to rest. It doesn't matter how you do it. If you cannot conclude the day with five acts of kindness, don't go to sleep. With me, by two o'clock in the afternoon, if I can't count ten, fifteen acts of chassadim, what's going on? It's the middle of the day, I didn't do enough chassadim. So, we have an unbelievable opportunity. I do believe that this night is very, very powerful, not because of the message, but because of the fact that there are a lot of people together. And that's our secret: Achdut. The unity. It doesn't matter how I dress, which rabbi I follow, how I pronounce my words. It doesn't matter. Respect me, love me, accept me for being a good Yerushalmi Jew. Stop being judgmental. Stop being jealous. Stop looking at another person, what he is doing. Look at yourself, what you are doing. And if we do one little more act of Achdut, and it starts with you, it doesn't start with the big. It starts with you. And tonight we have a great opportunity to show Achdut.

1:11:02Like I told you in the beginning, you know how many rabbis I tried to get together? Achdut. That's it. And achdut is a big word. We have to have unity. Even if I dislike you. Even if I don't appreciate what you say. As long as it's in the path of the Torah, by the way. Don't take my words and distort them. It has to be in the path of the Torah. I drove in Tel Aviv. I gave a lecture in Israel. I drove in Tel Aviv and ran through Tel Aviv. You have to go like this in Tel Aviv. And then I see this stupid flag. Excuse me that I'm using this language. It just gets me upset when I think about it. This colorful flag. Are you kidding me? Sorry, you're laughing. I'm crying when I see that. And all of Tel Aviv is...

1:12:03So, don't take any of my words out of context. It has to be aligned with the Torah. If you follow the Torah, and you are a true chassid of HaKadosh Baruch Hu, and you are not in my group, אז מה? אז מה if you are not in my group. On the contrary, teach me what your rabbi is teaching. Show me the beauty of your community. Now, I was in a beautiful community on Shabbat; they brought rabbis from a different community. This is a Sephardi community, and they brought Ashkenazi rabbis. I was so, wow, look at this beautiful achdut. Everybody respecting each other. So you come from an Eastern European descent, and you come from Iraq, what difference does it make? Our problem is this: unity. So the same way that you're sitting here tonight in achdut, that has to be applied when you leave for the night. And it can only be done when your mind is clean. No jealousy, no judgmental thoughts, no bad thoughts, and it's all here. All in the mouth. Don't talk for one week; I guarantee you, you're going to be a whole different person.

1:13:08Watch what goes into your mouth for one week and watch what goes out of your mouth for one week. You'll be a whole different person. No more junk thoughts in your mind all day long. No anxiety and fears. I'm going to finish with a blessing. First of all, again, I want to thank Borei Olam, the Master of the Universe, that even allowed such an event to actually happen. My theory, you know why Mashiach, that's my theory. Mashiach is there in Israel, by the way, guaranteed, no question about it. There's no question. And I bet you that every morning he wakes up and he puts his suit on, and he says to Hashem, today is the day, right? Hashem tells him, listen, I looked on Facebook, and I saw that there's about a thousand lectures going to be tonight. you know how many people will be inspired tonight to do teshuva? Maybe if you wait one day, then we'll have another thousand ba'alei teshuva. So Mashiach says, okay, no, yalla, kibalti, you got it. But at some point, he's going to run out of patience.

1:14:14So, don't waste your time. Your time is valuable. Your thoughts are valuable. Your speech is valuable. Your actions are valuable. Don't discount what you do. Don't discount the negative things that you do. Make a huge change. Because if we don't make a change, shever achim what we're looking at. Look at history. Just look at history. So I hope you're going to leave this door tonight with a change of mind, a change of heart, a change of attitude, that you can say, I can be the one that will change something in this world. And you start with your mouth. And that will affect everything. So I'm going to use this mouth to give you a berakha, that we should all be successful in everything that you do, that your task in this world will be clear to you. That you'll be able to reach your ultimate tikkun, that you'll be the one that Mashiach comes and shakes his hand for the men. Not amen, for the men. Somebody sent me a video of some cuckoo woman that is announcing to the world, I am the Mashiach.

1:15:17Lady, I know you're shocked. Of course, I'm shocked by the stupidity. I said men, not amen. But you want to be the one that Melech HaMashiach tells you, Todah Rabbah. Todah Rabbah. Todah Rabbah that you went out of your comfort zone to make me come faster. So you be the one. So tonight, you're going to leave this night with a change in your mind, a change in your heart. I can tell you already that the force that is trying to lighten up the world, the force of Torah and Kiruv, is fighting the powers of impurity with their teeth. We can't do it by ourselves, by the way. People thank me. Don't thank me. I just stand here. My leg hurts me, but I'm standing here. Thank my wife, first of all, and then thank the people behind me who are pushing the system. Because without the people behind me pushing the system, nothing works. So you have an opportunity not just to go like this. I can tell you so many jokes. We didn't come here for jokes. We came here for action. So team up. We have here such a powerful...

1:16:33combination. Then join us. Join the support. Join the effort. I'm telling you, we can change the world. Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai says we all need a small group. One group, and we can change the world. I wish you again great success in everything that you do. Don't discount the fact that you are here. Don't think that you are here because you saw a flyer or you got an invitation on WhatsApp. Because G-d invited you to come here. A personal invitation. You know how many people wanted to come and couldn't come? And I bet you that half of them are watching the recording now and saying, "I wish I could be there." You were invited here personally. So you come out of this room different. And if you didn't, you wasted a chair. We could have given the chair to somebody else. So, make a change. Make a change in your life. Make a change in everybody else's life. Make a change in the status of Am Yisrael and help bring the redemption.

1:17:49Before I give the podium to my fellow friend, I came all the way from Florida. Quick announcements on the way out. I didn't quite see, but I can guarantee you that there are beautiful tables with all of our CDs, books, and pamphlets. Take as much as you can. I came here with 18,000 CDs. My poor back, carrying everything with it. I bring them from Eretz Yisrael. So my money goes to Eretz Yisrael. Take the CDs, they're all for free. I'm sure that all the CDs are free. Participate in everything that we do. We're going to have here a Shabbaton on Shabbat if you want to join us. There are going to be lectures throughout the week. I think I have... Are you staying here? No, just for today. So B'ezrat Hashem, I'm here till Monday. There are many more lectures. You can look it up online. There's going to be here a Shabbaton for Shabbat. We're going to have lectures and a meal and everything. And B'ezrat Hashem, take all this... the videos from here, share them, spread them with your friends. Let's share with the world. Thank you, everybody.

1:19:14first of all, the event really was 2-3 years in the making, and 2-3 years in the making Lots going on, lots of moving parts. Baruch Hashem, HaKadosh Baruch Hu. He gives you everything when you need it, not necessarily when you want it. So apparently we need it today. Why do we need it today? So, Rabbi Nava said the idea behind the theme, behind everything, he thought maybe unity. So, as he said, unity in Hebrew is Achdut. Achdut. Oneness. We have to be united. United to bring Mashiach, united to overcome our obstacles, and so on and so forth. Now, people always ask, how come Mashiach didn't come? Well, first of all, one sign that he's Jewish is that he's late 2,000 years.

1:20:38But more importantly, Chazal tells us that the Mashiach doesn't want to come for a generation of amei ha'aretz. He does not want to come to a generation of ignorant people who do not know Retzon Hashem. Now, why ignorant? Because if you notice, most people know the word unity. Most people know, they've heard the word unity somewhere. Most people have heard the pasuk you read on Shabbat, "Kol Yisrael yesh lahem chelek la'olam haba." Most people have heard this. How many people can actually define either one? Very few. "Kol Yisrael yesh lahem chelek la'olam haba" was said by the Prophet. But then it says, "Ve'amech kulam tzaddikim." But then it says that, Who has the share of the world to come? The tzaddikim. You have to read the rest of the pasuk. That's the trick. The trick is to entice you to read the rest. Achdut is a wonderful thing you can make a bumper sticker on. The key, the trick is to understand what it means. What does unity mean? Now I actually went on a dictionary. Webster dictionary, if people still use it. I think it was the first one in years.

1:22:06Unity does not mean that we both do the same thing. It doesn't mean that. Most people, if you ask them, "What's unity?" they'll say, "Oh, me and you are on the same team." No, it doesn't mean that. Unity doesn't mean that both you and I think alike. It doesn't mean that. I think my way. He thinks his way. Everybody thinks their own way. What, you think Hashem is going to make robots? He already has malachim. Unity doesn't mean we think the same way. Unity does not mean that we're all part of the same chassidut. It doesn't mean that. Unity does not mean that we're all part of the same kehillah. Unity means we have a common goal. How we get there, that's your business. You want to teach Torah and Mussar to get people to do teshuva? Ashrecha v'ashreichem chelkecha. You want to teach real chassidut to get people to do teshuva? You want to tell jokes and somehow miraculously get people to keep Shabbat? I have no idea how that works, I'm not good at jokes. But you want to do it? But the key is, can you get people to do teshuva? Do you have results? Or are you just collecting money? Or are you just here to collect checks?

1:23:28and you won a popularity contest because people pressed like on your YouTube page. What are you looking for? You're looking for likes? So you write a book with anashim teme'im, with unkosher people? Because that's what's going to get likes and people to buy your book? Or you're actually getting results? Achdut means that we all are supposed to align our own actions to have that common goal, which is to get Am Yisrael to finally do teshuva. That's supposed to be the goal of every kehillah, whether you're secular, or you're religious, or you're Chassidic, or you're Litvish, or whatever you are, you're from Mars, that's your job too. Even if you're not Jewish, that's your job too. Why? Unless we do teshuva, nothing good is going to happen. Now, last night, I had a lecture about a very, very interesting topic that no one really wants to talk about except the people on the stage. It's called P'gama Brit. In the English language, you are simply not going to find anything about it. In Hebrew, Baruch Hashem. In English, it's almost non-existent. But according to the Shulchan Aruch, it's the worst sin in the Torah. So how can it be that an entire generation...

1:24:52of Jewish people does not know about something that the Shulchan Aruch, Rabbi Yosef Karo, says is the worst of the worst. I have avreichim. Avreichim who went to Kollel, in Kollel, for 5, 10, 15 years, just discovered P'gam HaBrit from my lecture on YouTube. Rabbis. Rabbis of Kehillot. They have 500 people coming to them every week. Discovered P'gam HaBrit from some guy that did Teshuvah like two days ago. He did Teshuvah so he taught about P'gam HaBrit. How? What happened? How do we have this? How do we have a generation of Burim V'Amey Ha'aretz? I'll tell you my idea, for the two cents that it's worth. As the Rav said, everybody's got such a big ego that if it's not my idea, then I don't like it. Yeah, but is it a good idea? Yeah, but it's not my idea. Okay, it's not your idea. But is it a good idea? Is it emet? Is it what the Torah says? Yeah, it says in the Torah that this is not good, but maybe it's too hard for people. Well, don't you think Hashem knew that?

1:26:09When He wrote the Torah and He said, this is mitzvah, this is mitzvah, this is aveira, then He took it into cheshbon that, you know, somebody is going to have a car one day and he wants to drive on Shabbat, or He just made that rule just because Moshe Rabbeinu didn't have a car. HaKadosh Baruch Hu knew everything from day one. The problem is that our ego sometimes is so big that we forget what's the point of what we're doing. Now, all of us know the first part of this pasuk. Parashat Ekev says, everybody knows this pasuk. This is one of the sources for Birkat Hamazon. Everybody knows this pasuk. Very few know the second half. But I'll tell you. Three. Three. Translation. HaKadosh Baruch Hu says to us, you will eat and you will be satisfied and bless Hashem, your God, for the good land that He gave you. That's the first half. Everybody knows. That's the source of what we know. That's the mitzvah from the Torah, the birkat hamazon of the food.

1:27:34But the second half says, take care lest you forget Hashem, your God, by not observing His commandments, His ordinances, and His decrees, which I command you today. Now, let me ask you guys a question. I'm having a little bit of an issue here. Who is Hashem talking to? Is He talking to the atheist who came to my lecture yesterday and tried to debate me? Is He talking to the Christians that believe some moron died 2,000 years ago and therefore that made him God? Is He talking to, what, the people that have the gay flags all over the world and are doing a big chilul Hashem? Who is He talking to? He's talking to us. He's talking to the people that are trying to be shomer Torah u'mitzvot. He's talking to the religious people. Or at least the ones that are trying to be. And he's telling you, by the way, you ate, you had parnasah, you prayed for it 500 times, parnasah. For Mashiach, not even once, but for parnasah, 500 times. For Am Yisrael to do teshuvah, you forgot. You forgot, but by accident, it's part of your Amidah. But for parnasah, 5000 times. Okay, so you got the parnasah. Good. Okay, now, what about the rest? What about the rest? Did you forget Me?

1:28:57What do you mean, did I forget You? How could I forget You? You gave me money, Hashem. How could I forget? If HaKadosh Baruch Hu wrote in His Torah, "I gave you parnasah, and by the way, don't forget Me," why did He write this? Obviously, it means that it's true. It means that yes, He gave us the parnasah, that $500,000 house you have, or in New York, a million-dollar house you have. I have to, you know, designate where I'm talking to. Florida, 500,000. New York, a million plus. That million-dollar house, Baruch Hashem, you got. The Mercedes, the BMW, the whatever W, all those W's. And your parking lot, that. The six cars you're paying a lease of $5,000 a month, but you can only drive one car. You got that, right? The stock portfolio that you keep looking at 500 times a day, after Facebook. You have that too, the IRA, the 401k, the broker that you called, the broker that you just fired, all those people, you got it, right? How come you forgot me? How could it be that we forgot Hashem? Hashem is saying we forgot Him. Don't forget me. Why? Rabotai Yekarim, we have a generation of burim and amei ha'aretz, not because we don't know who Moshe Rabbeinu is.

1:30:19Everybody knows who Moshe Rabbeinu is, even the atheist. Believe or not believe, it's a different story. We have a generation of ignorant people who don't know who Hashem is. Even the atheist believes that HaKadosh Baruch Hu is real. It's just that he's going to declare it later on when he's on his deathbed. It's not that we don't know Torah. is that we don't know how to use it. We don't know what's mamash, how it affects our lives. We know stories. We know different things about mitzvot. Why? We're not really so sure. So, HaKadosh Baruch Hu told the prophet again, later on, Prophet Yeshayahu, I'm going to give you another sign. I'm talking to the religious people.

1:31:19In their mouth, in their lips, they honored Me, but really, in their hearts, they're far away from Me. He's not talking to the secular, he's not talking to the gay clubs, he's not talking to the Nazarene, he's not talking to all of the atheists, he's talking to us. You say, Baruch Hashem, every time somebody says, how you doing? Baruch Hashem. Where are you going to go? Everybody says those words. You're even going to sing a song. Everybody knows that song. But how many of you actually believe it in your heart? How many of you invest as much time on zikui harabim to help your fellow brother do teshuva as you do researching the next stock to invest in? At least two hours a day. Helping people do teshuva? Yeah, I think I pressed like on our YouTube page somehow. Yeah, I did it, Rabbi. I pressed like. Is that good? We'll see. When you go up to Shamayim, which one can you take with you? The like or the IRA account? So, the reality is, Rabbi, that it's not a matter of just simple knowledge. It's also a matter of ideology. It's a matter of how to apply the mitzvot when push comes to shove.

1:32:50Yesterday, I had a guy come to the shiur, and from the looks of it and the sounds of it, it would be very hard to believe that the guy even keeps Shabbat. But after we had a serious conversation, he tells me he's ten masechtot away from finishing the entire Shas. But the way he sounded, the way he looked, the way the information he portrayed, it seems like I don't know what Shas he's learning. But apparently it's Talmud Bavli. Maybe it's still in Bavel. I don't know. Maybe it's the actual Babylonian language. I'm not really sure. Why? Because the ideology that's in the Talmud and the ideology that's in the person don't match. So I ask him, how is it that you're having this issue? He says, listen, the rabbis told me I should go to the AA meeting in the church. I said, who? What? A rabbi told you to go to a church? He goes, yeah, though, amen. I said, for whatever reason, you can't go to a church. He says, well, the same other rabbi told me that if I have a desire and I'm really about to do something bad on Shabbat, I should call somebody. Maybe they'll give me chizuk.

1:34:13I say, wait, hold on a second. A rabbi told you to be mechalel Shabbat because that's somehow going to help you? A desire has now turned into pikuach nefesh? Who are these rabbis? Where do you go? Is the rabbi in the church also? Is he giving the AA meeting or is he one of the students? So first and foremost, we did a series, and the CDs are outside. It's called, "We did an entire series about, as the rabbis as well have done." We went into each Mishnah; the average lecture is almost three hours. One of the lectures says, "Make yourself a rabbi." What does it mean, "Make yourself a rabbi?" Make sure before you declare anybody a rabbi that you're going to learn from, whether it's directly or indirectly. You're going to listen to the shiurim, or you're going to publicize the Torah. Make sure you use your mind a little bit. Does he say what HaKadosh Baruch Hu said, or does he say his opinion? If he says what HaKadosh Baruch Hu says...

1:35:29You're repeating it; you're just publicizing Torah. If he says his opinion and his version and his, you know, whatever he understood out of it and he's picking and choosing, then we have ourselves a problem. So before you pick a rabbi, you have to make sure that you at least investigate just as much as you investigate the next house you want to buy and the next stock you want to invest in. Investigate just a little bit. In the English language, you're not going to have that much difficulty because you can tell the difference between the two very quickly. One tells you to go to mixed dancing parties and the other one tells you to stay away. It's very easy. One tells you to go to AA meetings in the church and the other one tells you to stay away. One tells you, "I'm going to bring the number one Catholic priest missionary to the actual kehillah to give him chizuk on Shabbat." Like our dear friend Goldberg from Florida who wanted to bring a missionary. And another one is going to say, "Listen, this is assur. It's not allowed. Yeah, but people are going to hate you because you're not politically correct." Okay, so let them hate me. It's very easy to tell the difference. You just have to pay attention. Now,

1:36:48There was one time, a big yeru'ah in Eretz Yisrael. All of the chachamim, all of the people that are important in the Torah world were getting together. One of the Gedolei HaDor was coming, and the Roshei Yeshivot were coming, and one guy that was Rosh Yeshiva... That was known to be extra strict. HaKadosh Baruch Hu wanted to give him a personal shield. So he arrived a little late, you know, like five minutes after they closed the door. And he's where he wants to go inside. And he says, listen, I'm Rosh Yeshiva. I helped arrange the event. I have this. And the guy says, no problem. You have a ticket? No, no, I don't have a ticket. He said, "I'm sorry, I can't let you in." He goes, "What do you mean? But I'm this, but I'm that!" "I'm sorry." He goes, "Yeah, but my son is with me." He says, "Your son? You're not son. I can't help you." And he's arguing with the guy for an hour and a half, trying to get in. He can't believe that he did so much to get this event together, but he cannot see what's going on inside.

1:38:14After an hour and a half, the gadol that was inside finished speaking and people started running out. And one of his friends, another Rosh Yeshiva, saw him and goes, "Hey, where have you been? I didn't see you all night." He goes, "Ah, no, come on, I can't believe you." And he gives him every name in the book. It goes on, this guy, poor guy. "I can't believe you guys. You should be ashamed of yourselves. You didn't check on me. I've been outside." He goes, "Okay, okay, listen, I understand. You finished? You finished?" "No, I'm finished." "Okay, listen. The rabbi is still inside." He's waiting until everybody leaves, but he's still inside. So, come, I'll give you a personal meeting with him to make up for it. You know, you were outside for an hour and a half after all. Come on, come inside. So he goes inside. And the big rabbi says, "How are you?" All of a sudden, everything is okay.

1:39:18And the friend tells him, listen, this guy just went through, he's been outside for an hour and a half, he's one of the guys that helped arrange, he did this, he did that, he's a Rosh Yeshiva, he's an Ish Chashuv, he's so important. So he thinks, he said, Rabbi, why don't you give him chizuk, you know, because it's tough what he went through. So the guy is excited because he wants to hear chizuk from the Gadol HaDor. So the Gadol says to him, can you tell me a little bit about what you felt when you were outside? He says, well, Kevod HaRav, it felt terrible. No, no, tell me a little bit more. I know it's terrible, but tell me more. How did it feel to be outside? He says, well, honestly, Kevod HaRav, I think I don't have to go to Gehinom. That's how bad it was. It was so bad to be outside. It was mamash like Gehinom. He goes, "Tell me more, tell me more. How does it feel to be in Gehinom?" "It's really terrible. I felt alone. I felt miserable. I felt like no one cares. I felt like this, I felt like that." And he starts going into five minutes of describing it. And the Gadol HaDor says to him, "Now let me ask you a question. How many people did you reject this year in your yeshiva?"

1:40:43when they applied. But they were Sephardim instead of Ashkenazim. They were Ashkenazim instead of Sephardim. They were from this Chabad or that Chabad or this kehillah or that kehillah. How many of them did you reject this year? He says, many. He says, so maybe they feel the same way you did. Did you ever think that they also feel that after you reject them, they're alone and no one loves them and no one accepts them, even though they're trying? But just because their grandfather came from the desert and your grandfather came from some country in Europe, that's enough of a reason to reject them. Or maybe because they don't pronounce the words the way you do, or maybe because they don't have enough money or don't have enough of this, but you decided, no, they don't belong among the rest of us. So HaKadosh Baruch Hu gave you a tikkun in this world. You should say thank you. Rabotai HaYekarim, the Sinat Chinam doesn't just come from the Sephardi guy who doesn't like the Ashkenazi guy, the Ashkenazi guy who doesn't like the Sephardi guy, the Yemenite who doesn't like anyone because no one knows how to speak. No, it's not just that. It's even among each other.

1:42:11Chazal tells us in the Gemara that even if you have one kehillah, one minyan of people that actually have achdut, actually have a common goal, actually do not have a machloket, they simply come, they pray to HaKadosh Baruch Hu. The overall mission of the kehillah is the same. Ten people. Mashiach comes on the spot. Ten people in the entire world. This is in the Land of Israel. Anywhere in the world. Now, on one hand, this should encourage us. We should get ten people. On the other hand, it's very discouraging that we haven't been able to succeed for 2,000 years. So when it comes to the Torah and mitzvot, it's not necessarily just learning the Shas by heart, or the Gemara, or this one, or that one. It's not just about that. It's learning how to apply these things to your life, and understanding that when HaKadosh Baruch Hu says something, He's not joking. He's serious. You may not take Him seriously, but for sure He's serious.

1:43:21When he said that someone who gets in the way of Torah, to stop a shiur, to go against the rabbi, to go against the dvar Torah, because his way is different, he should know that he got in the way of the Torah. In Shamayim, they call that person arur, the worst curse in the Torah. So much so, that the rest of Am Yisrael says Amen. Avraham, Yitzchak, Yaakov, Moshe, Aharon, David, Shlomo, all of them say Amen. To what? To cursing this person that got in the way of the Torah. Why would anybody want such a horrible curse? Why? Because you don't like the way he speaks? Or you don't like the way his hat looks? Or you don't like whether he has a beard or he doesn't have a beard? The question is, does he teach Torah or not? Is it true or is it fake? If HaKadosh Baruch Hu didn't want people to know it, He wouldn't write it in a chumash. If He wrote in a chumash that a mechalel Shabbat is mot yumat, that's what He means. He's not trying to sugarcoat it. If HaKadosh Baruch Hu wrote that somebody that goes against Hashem in different ways has a punishment, that means He wants you to know it.

1:44:45So if somebody is teaching about the parts of the Torah that are not so pleasing to hear about, but HaKadosh Baruch Hu decided to write in the Torah, you going against them is not going against the person, it's going against Hashem. You going against people that are teaching Torah is not going against them, it's going against Hashem. Now, of course, nobody here thinks that they're going against Hashem because everybody, Baruch Hashem, is here to listen to Torah. So how is it that still we don't have Mashiach, even though we have, Baruch Hashem, a few hundred people here that all want Mashiach to come, that all want all of Am Yisrael to do teshuvah? Apparently, we're not doing enough. Apparently, we're not doing enough, Rabotai. Whatever we're doing is not enough. How do I know? Two reasons. Number one, salvation hasn't come yet. If it was enough, it would have come. Two, almost 90% of Am Yisrael is still mechalel Shabbat.

1:45:49Almost 90% of Am Yisrael does not even fulfill the basic mitzvah that makes you a Jew. And probably a higher percentage do not even know the meaning of what Yirat Shamayim means, what being afraid of HaKadosh Baruch Hu means. So, that means that it's our job to do something about it. Now, Rabbi Yonatan Eibeschutz, alav hashalom, said that sinat chinam is not just about talking about a different kehillah and you don't like them, you don't this, you don't that. Sinat chinam is when you see another Jew sinning, you see him drive on Shabbat, but you don't say anything. Why? Ah, maybe it's going to turn him off. Yeah, but he's off already. He's off the road, he's driving on Shabbat. How much off can you get? Him and the guy that's buying a Buddha statue are the same thing. What's the difference? No, but maybe I could get him to Judaism by showing him love. What? By complimenting him going against the Kadosh Baruch Hu? So someone went to a gas station one time after his car broke down.

1:47:13He had a tank. He just walked in the desert for three and a half hours. Don't try this at home. The guy comes with the tank and he says, I need some gas. The guy happily comes. "Hey, listen, fill up the whole thing." On second thought, "I'm sorry, I'm not interested." It's something that I said? "No, he didn't say it, but I'm not interested." Gas here is good. He goes, the gas is good, fine. I'm not interested. Where's the next gas station? The next gas station is 10 miles away. He goes, okay, so I'll walk there. He says, what's wrong with our gas? He goes, it's not the gas. I just don't want to buy gas here. I'm going to go over there. He goes, yeah, but it's the desert. You're going to walk 10 miles in the desert? He said, yes. Why? He said, you're not going to understand. He goes, "Listen, maybe you have a beard and a kippah and I don't, but I'm not stupid. Tell me, what's the problem? You're not going to understand." "No, no, tell me, tell me, come on." "Okay, I'll tell you. Let's say somebody decides to go get a billboard in New York, quarter million dollars a month."

1:48:32and instead of putting CNBC's next show, he puts all types of curses against your father. He says your father's this, your father's that, your father's this, your father's that, all types of things against your father. Are you going to do business with him? He goes, "What business with him? Where does he live? I'll find him right now." He goes, "Okay, sir, that's my point." He says, "What are you talking about? I don't even know your father." Because maybe you don't think you know my Father, but you have a sign over here that says that you do business 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. That means that you are not only violating Shabbat, but you're advertising it to the public. You are going against my Father in Heaven, and you want me to do business with you. It's very easy to give everybody a compliment: all of the rich people and all of these people and all of those people. But Rabbi Wasserman and Rabbi Shalom wrote in one of his answers in a letter that if you are complimenting the wicked, you're wicked too. His makor was not only Shaarei Teshuva but also Shlomo HaMelech himself.

1:49:56The point is, Rabotai, it's not about trying to bring people closer by complimenting them. You have to bring people closer by telling them what HaKadosh Baruch Hu said. How they decide what they're going to do once they have that information is not your business. It's not your business whether they're turned on, turned off, turned neutral, or maybe they're going to reverse. It doesn't matter. It's not your business. Your business is to simply deliver the Torah to them on a silver platter. Now, if they're really close to you, I recommend you don't tell them anything. Don't talk. Why? You'll ruin it. What do you do? You let us talk. You give them a CD. You give them a link. Why? If they know you, they're not going to listen to you. If they're your father, they're your mother, they're your brother, they're your sister, they're your workmate, they're not going to listen to you. Why? They know you since you were in diapers. How are they going to listen to you now? Why? Because you have a beard now? Okay, so you have a beard with diapers. They know you from a long time. They know you when you used to go out with the goya. They know you when you used to go to the bars. They know you when you used to be a promoter in clubs. Hashem yerachem on those people.

1:51:21They know you when you used to sell clothes to women that weren't exactly bat Yisrael. They know you had the store for those women that work in those places. Wow, you made a lot of money. They know you since then, before the beard. The beard comes for free. That's why the goat has it too. But the point is, they're not going to listen to you. So what are they going to do? They're going to listen to a stranger. Why? That's the only version of you that they know of. So you give him a CD. You give him a link. You press share. Right or left finger, same price. The point is, you try to be mezakeh rabbim. Try to help the public by bringing them the truth. Not your version of the truth. Not what you think is too hard or too weak or too this or too that. Just the truth. Uncensored truth. What did Hashem say? Share. That's it. Nothing else. If you have more than just a finger, you work for a living, you make a few shekels above your bills, which is rare in this day, but you actually do, you can actually use money too for that. Not just to buy stock, believe it or not. Money is not just for buying stocks. You can actually do other stuff with it. It's not even buying houses too. You can do other stuff with it. Like Kiruv. Like helping Am Yisrael do teshuva.

1:52:44The point is, rabotai, that you could all become little messengers of HaKadosh Baruch Hu by simply taking a little bit of time from your day to publicize Torah. Now, the Mishnah in Avot says that kol hamezakeh et harabim ein chet ba'al yadot. someone that encourages the public to get closer to HaKadosh Baruch Hu, HaKadosh Baruch Hu has special treatment of this person when it comes to giving him different tests. He also says to the Prophet Yirmiyahu, if you bring somebody that used to be a criminal, somebody that used to drive on Shabbat, somebody that used to do all types of other sins. And you get this person close to Hashem, you get him to start praying every day, put on tefillin, listen to Torah, learn Torah. Real teshuva, not fake teshuva, like he did a few mitzvot, but he's still going out with the goyot. Real teshuva. He changed his life. Not that he's going to pray all day, but that he goes to clubs on weekends. Somebody that changed his life. Somebody that's an emet to Hashem, not the fakers.

1:54:09There are plenty of those. They put on tefillin before the pork sandwich. No, Rabbi, it wasn't pork. Where was it? Where did you get it from? It was a Subway tuna sandwich. Oh, Subway is kosher now? Well, no, not really. Okay, so it's pork. What do you mean? Well, the bread. Do you know what's in the bread? Oh, I didn't check. It's pork. Yeah, but it's a tuna sandwich. Yeah, the tuna is fine. The tuna is a fish. Until they put pork on it. Yeah, but it's salad only. Okay, so the salad is worse than pork. Why? It has worms. Not Borei Pri Ha'adama. All the worms that are on it. So there's plenty of those. But those people, they give tzedakah, they put on tefillin, they come for minyan once in a while. There's plenty of people doing mitzvot. We don't need people doing mitzvot only. We need people doing teshuva. Teshuva means changing your life. Changing your ideology. Putting the screw that's missing back in. That's what teshuva means. Changing your life. Now, changing your life takes time. But it takes a second to decide. One second to decide. Am I going to change my life or not? Am I going to try my best to do what Hashem wants or not? One second.

1:55:28The process could take years. But one-second decision. Each person could be that button. That button that causes the person to change their ways. That's what you can do. In a million different ways. For free, for money, for efforts, for skills. Plenty of different ways. Plenty of different ways to do it. Each person can do it. But in order to do such a thing, you have to understand what it's going to take. Well, first we need to know the reward. HaKadosh Baruch Hu says, if you do it and you get people to do teshuva, you're going to be like My mouth. If you bring the criminal and you make him something precious, you make him a baal teshuva, you're going to be like My mouth. What does it mean to be like Hashem's mouth? To be like Hashem's mouth means, you pray, Hashem says, check. You ask for something, Hashem says, no problem. You need something, check. Why? That's how we live.

1:56:44All three of our lives are living miracles. I don't know the financial situation of everybody. All I know is that it has to be a miracle. Why? We're here. We're all supposed to be in businesses, running a bank, running a company, running this, running that. But no, we're doing this. For what? For free. For free. How? How do you pay for the mortgage? How do you pay for the rent? How do you pay for the car? How do you pay for $52? For Heaven's sake, gas just to get here. I don't know, Hashem sent it. Why? Did you fill in some clock somewhere? No. Did you collect it? Did you do something? Did you charge for a lecture yesterday? No. So, how did you do it? I don't know, Hashem paid. Hashem paid. There are plenty of people that charge for lectures. But that's also why they don't necessarily tell you the same thing. Why? Because if you pay, you could also make the decision of what they say. So you see, Rabotai HaYekarim, HaKadosh Baruch Hu says, if you help people do teshuva, you ask for something, HaKadosh Baruch Hu is simply going to fulfill it. You don't need to be a speaker. All you need is to have ratzon. Just the will to help other Jews do teshuva. That's all you need.

1:57:58But in order to do that, in order to have success at doing kiruv, at helping Am Yisrael do teshuva, you cannot just have willpower by simply exercising your arms by giving CDs away. You cannot have willpower just by pressing the button on the internet for your PayPal to press, yeah, send money, send money, send money. That's not enough. You have to have merit. You have to have merit. Meaning, HaKadosh Baruch Hu needs to want your kiruv. And the only way to get that is with Torah, by learning and fulfilling the Torah yourself. You cannot be a kofer with a nightclub and expect to help people do teshuva. How do I know? Experience. I had a guy come to a shiur one time. After the shiur, I never saw this guy before. After the shiur, he says, "Can I talk to you for a second?" I said, "No problem." I was doing the lectures at my house at the time. We go into my office in the house. And he looks, I have a whiteboard with all types of numbers on it and different plans. You know, like some math formula. It just means money, though. That's what I need to do what I want and so on and so forth. But at the end of the day, he's like, "How much am I missing? Total."

1:59:24100%, 99%, 98%, that's how much is missing. But then you have the goal though, so you have the ambition. So the guy says, Oh, so this is what you want to do, this is what you want to do. I said, yes. He goes, well, I can help. I said, okay, fine, welcome. Welcome. He says, I'm going to look at the numbers and I'll get back to you. I said, no problem. So after he left, I didn't ask him what he does. I couldn't care less what he does. The guy says he wants to help. Oh, Chabad, he doesn't want help. Money doesn't fascinate me simply because it doesn't move me, as I was in the business of money. So you could tell me a million, take a hundred million, it's all the same to me. You're not going to impress me. So the guy says he wants to help. Oh, Chabad, I don't want help. Honestly, I should have given just ten dollars. It would have been better off. A hundred dollars, even more. To help next week? Who knows what's going to happen between now and next week. So I said, call the numbers, do the numbers, whatever you want, no problem. Anyway, Rabotai, a few days later, a week later, I had another lecture, I see the same guy again. And now this time he brought his partner. Both he and his partner were impressed. For a second, I thought I was Mashiach, given how much they were impressed by me. Oh, who, how, he, him. Okay, okay, I’m not really that good, but fine, no problem.

2:00:41So if you look at the numbers, yeah, yeah, that's why I brought the part, we're looking at the numbers, and for sure, guess what? Korach, the ground swallowed him. I think they took this guy too. Why? I never saw the guy ever again. Namash, the ground swallowed him, disappeared from the face of the earth. So one day, one of the people comes to me and says, you know that guy that keeps coming to you? I said, yeah. He goes, you know, that guy's worth at least a hundred million dollars. I said, great. So he goes, is that impressive? No, no, no, not really. Not, not particularly. No. It's a lot of money. I'm like, good for him. What does he do with it? He says, well, he has nightclubs. Ah, now I understand why HaKadosh Baruch Hu swallowed them up. Why it's impossible to be a machti arabim and a mezake arabim at the same time.

2:01:45There is no way in the world that HaKadosh Baruch Hu is going to allow someone who causes people to sin to also help them do teshuva. What, you cause 25,000 to sin every night by going to your nightclub? But at the same time, you think He's going to allow you to actually do real teshuva and get other people to do teshuva? What do you think of Hashem? Meaning, Rabotai Yekarim, it's not just about doing something kosher as far as helping other people. It's also being kosher ourselves. We have to rebuke ourselves. We have to work on ourselves. We have to look in the mirror and see ourselves instead of everything behind us. So, if you want the blessing that can literally give you anything and everything you ever need, HaKadosh Baruch Hu says, "available." but there are certain requirements. There are certain things that are needed. It's not so hard. All it requires is the willpower and effort to do teshuva yourself and to help other people. This, Rabotai Yekarim, is my message today to myself. Hopefully, you learned something from it as well.

2:03:43Many of you, Baruch Hashem, came here tonight and have been sitting here for almost three hours or maybe more. And now, it's the time that probably some of you are tired already. Usually, you go to sleep around now, and that's when you begin to earn ten times more every minute. You sit and enjoy, now you're nervous. I can see from the body language of the people, they're already moving to the edge of the chair. And their hands are on their knees, meaning, when will this nightmare be over?

2:04:46There is a very big difference between people that watch us now online, all over the world, to people that came here tonight from very far, or even from close, and listen here, and listen directly from the mouth of the speakers, what they have to say. What is the difference? L'chaora, you should say, what's the difference? Here I heard three hours on Facebook. or tomorrow on YouTube. And here I have three hours live. What is the difference? The Chafetz Chaim says, every hour 60,000 mitzvot. Three hours, 180,000 mitzvot. Whether I'm sitting here in Beit El synagogue, or whether I'm sitting anywhere else in the world watching at night, 180,000 mitzvot. The answer, in your dreams. And I'll tell you why. Why in your dreams? Because we have a rule, and the Gemara speaks about it in Masechet Bava Batra, to explain the concept. The concept is that HaKadosh Baruch Hu wanted the nation of Israel to help each other, to live in unity, and to have a brotherhood, and everyone should push each other to do mitzvot. So He created...

2:06:10a very interesting multi-level marketing system, but it's a spiritual one. Meaning, if you start, everyone that comes after you benefits you as well. And those who come under them benefit everyone on the top. Everyone benefits everybody else, as long as they had a share in the mitzvah. So the Gemara says, gadol ha'ma'aseh yoter min ha'oseh. If you make other people do something positive, your reward is even greater than theirs. Meaning, whatever reward Hashem is going to give them, you are going to get a little bit more than them. Just by encouraging them to do the mitzvah. Come, put tefillin. He's going to sit now five minutes, he did nothing. It's a few words. You get more than him. Now, when you make an event... If nobody comes, the speaker has nobody to talk to. There's not going to be a lecture. If everyone would sit home on a screen, waiting for the lectures to start, no one would come. So everyone who physically comes to lectures, even though it's broadcast live at home,

2:07:25He becomes a partner in creating the lecture. And since now there are many, many thousands of people watching live, everybody that sits here earns millions of mitzvot every minute. And then later, it's going to be on Facebook, on CDs, and on DVDs, and maybe some of it will go into the next book. You will get an eternal reward for sitting here and not at home. So what you get in the three hours, it's a peanut compared to the real profit. Why? Because Hashem wanted to make the world so that everyone would be busy doing kiruv and saving souls. And the way to do it is to contribute. And that's why it's called schar halichah. You come to the lecture, you get an extra reward for the effort to arrive. So that's fantastic. It reminds me that one speaker in Israel, you know, there are all kinds of organizations that call speakers and pay them for the lecture. It's a common thing. They ask, "How much do you charge?" "Whatever you charge, okay." So now one speaker came to a place, a big place, an auditorium. Only one person showed up. A big auditorium, and one person sits in the middle.

2:08:49So he said to me, "Listen, before I start the lecture, I have to give you great gratitude. You know, I really, really appreciate you. Thanks to you, I'm getting my paycheck tonight. Imagine if you wouldn't show up, they would say to me, 'I'm sorry, there was no lecture. Who would I talk to? The world?' So at least there is an audience. Thanks to you, I'm going to get paid tonight." So the guy said, "By the way, if you can make it quick, because I'm the next speaker after you." Speaking about the auditorium, it reminds me of a very big miracle I had about a year ago, or maybe a little more, in Israel. I was speaking in the auditorium. It's a college for music. A nice big auditorium, lots of people. At around 11:15 at night... I ask the people a question: Can anyone here tell me why it's better to be a human being and not a cat?

2:09:57Everyone looks at me. "Where did this guy come from? I don't want to be a cat." I started to give an example of some cats that inherit a lot of money, and they get massages, great food, a special doctor, and they take them on trips. They run in the backyard. They have the best life. They don't sit in traffic for four or five hours in LA, three hours every day, working ten years to pay... from the back room of their house. They have a great life, these cats. As everybody is trying to think, to convince me why it's better to be a person than a cat, all of a sudden, I see hundreds of people get up like this in the middle of the lecture. You remember, I sit on the stage, and when everyone gets up and looks at the floor, I cannot see what happened. So I was wondering what happened just now. Everyone goes like this, "Oh my God, oh my God." a big fat cat walked in from the street. You have it on video, I know. If you won't see it, you'll think I made it up. Go and watch it; live, you can see it. I mean, not live, you can see the recording. At 11:15, just when I was speaking about the cat, a cat walked in from the street, a big fat cat. It walked by the stage and sat next to me. I said, they probably lecture for the neshamah in this cat.

2:11:23And then people ask, "Rabbi, do you believe there is a God? What are the odds?" So before I start my lecture, I will relax, and we’ll be sure to start the lecture. You know, I one time gave a lecture from 8 p.m. until 7:30 a.m. in Washington Parkway, straight. It was sunny when I came out. After two months in Washington Parkway, sunny, my last day. People waited until the morning, nobody went home. As you can see, I'm holding a very important book that my very dear friend, Rabbi Yamin Golan, from the Beit Midrash here in Queens, we know each other for years. And the reason I decided to make a promotion for this sefer, which I never do, is because it's very important. There are hundreds, or maybe thousands, of Gentiles that are in the process of trying to convert or learning about Judaism and begging to join the chosen people. Plus, there are many Jews that have no idea about Judaism and they're starting to keep the first mitzvot in their lives, not knowing what to do.

2:12:44So, as an experience, we had many hundreds of converts over the years in Beit Din, and he wrote an amazing book that every one of the people who wants to join Judaism, and every Jew that needs to learn the basics, it's fantastic for them. And you have it already in different languages. It came out already in a few languages: Spanish, Russian, Korean, and other languages as well. Bezrat Hashem, it will be translated into more. The name of the book is "Welcome to Judaism," as you can see right here. Baruch Hashem, the reason I wanted to promote it... It's because anyone who would like to sponsor or help him bring this book to the public can do so right here, or you can reach him through me. You can email me, and I'll provide you with the information. people will be able to order in advance so that you will be able to finish the job, and they get 50% off because it's in our interest that every one of these righteous Gentiles wants to join the Jewish nation. And every Jew who begins to keep the first mitzvot in his life will read this book. It comes with colors and pictures, and it's fantastic. And the reason that it's important for us is because the Gemara says that one of the reasons

2:14:05that Hashem spread the Jewish people all over the world is to make many converts. To bring the goyim and make them join the Jewish nation. To take the righteous goyim and make them join the Jewish nation. And today, I want to tell you a secret. You don't work with the public, so it will look very strange what I'm telling you, but I can tell you that from experience. It seems to me that in the last 20-30 years, there is a process in the world that, on one hand, many of our brothers and sisters, what we call Jewish people from birth, are giving up on Judaism, not knowing what it is, but they're giving up on it. There's 70% intermarriage, horrible assimilation, many people basically left their religion by choice. Not that they know what they left, but they did it. They went, they married other people, and they basically left their identity. And on the other hand, since HaKadosh Baruch Hu (the Holy One, Blessed be He) doesn't want the chosen nation to disappear,

2:15:23He brings a lot of righteous Gentiles who, in their past life, wanted to accept the Torah. But the majority of the nation from where they came voted against it. That's what the Zohar, the Kabbalah, says. That every Gentile wanted to accept the Torah when Hashem offered the Torah to all the nations. they made a vote and the majority said, "No, what's in it? We're not sure." But some of these goyim said, "We want, we want the Torah. Nothing can go wrong after what Hashem did for the Jewish people. All the miracles of Egypt, the Exodus from Egypt. How can we not want to be a part of that nation?" But they were the minority. And the Zohar says, no one is neglected by Hashem. Everybody gets what he deserves, for good and for bad. And therefore, if some goy 3,300 years ago wanted to be Jewish, wanted to join the Torah, in the next generation HaKadosh Baruch Hu will send them to different parts of the world.

2:16:26to give them the opportunity to do teshuva and to join the Jewish nation and convert. And some of the greatest rabbis in history came from converts, like Rabbi Akiva, Shmaya and Avtalyon, and many others, as we know. And this is part of our obligation, to be a light for the goyim. Now, I would like to basically continue with something very interesting. that we all have challenges and tests, many nisyonot in life. The Gemara in Masechet Megillah, page 15, the words of the Maharsha. Maharsha was one of the important commentaries on the Gemara. He brings the words of the Gemara in Bava Batra, page 57. The Gemara says... A person has two ways in his life. It's an intersection. When there is no other way, how do you define such a situation? You're stuck in a situation now. There is no other way. You're stuck on a road. There's no reverse, no right, no left. You're stuck on a highway. All you have to do is to go straight. There's no other option. That's called an ones.

2:17:49You are forced. There's no way out. You are forced to be in this situation. A person was born with no hands. He's forced into a situation where he cannot put tefillin. Will he be punished for that or no? What do you think? He was born without hands. Every day he comes to the synagogue, and you see everyone putting on tefillin. His heart is breaking. Why? I wish I had a hand for one day that I could put tefillin at least once in my life. Every day it eats his heart. And in the end, imagine when he passes, Hashem says, okay, now let's see how many times in your life you did not put tefillin, and see what kind of punishment we have to give you. Make sense? Does not make sense. Why? Because he's anus. Anus Rachmana patrei. You're blind, you cannot read. Nobody is going to hold you responsible. You're poor. You want to give tzedakah, but you don't have. You barely pay your rent. Will Hashem hold you responsible for not giving tzedakah or not? Yes and no. No, I know. You already know the answer for no. But who can tell me the answer for yes? Yes? Everyone can give one thing.

2:19:12One penny won't make any one of us do the right thing. The PayPal fees will be 35 cents on that penny. So we'll be bankrupt with one penny donation. Yes, that's very interesting. Give some of your time. But I'm talking real money. Yes. That's what he says. Time contributes in different ways. Remember what I said two minutes ago? Make other people give. Whatever they give, it will count as if you gave more. You can be poor, broke, in bankruptcy, barely pay for a sandwich, and you can give more tzedakah than a very rich guy. If you convince your rich uncles and friends and who knows where to come and help to do good things, everyone who will follow your advice counts as if you gave. So a poor person in this world can leave the world with more tzedakah than a very rich guy. Why? Because he affected others to do it.

2:20:24You understand? So now let's see. One way you have, if there's no other way, anus. If there is another way, then what do you call this person? If there was another way, and he chose the wrong path, what did he become? Rasha. There's no in-between. You are either anus, or you're rasha. That's what I'm going to say. I'll give you an example. What does it mean, Rasha? If we would see now, on a camera, you know one of these security cameras? A religious guy walks now in the street, somewhere in Queens, Manhattan, I don't know where. And there are two ways to go to his destination. He can go straight, shortcut, Or you can go around the park, which is four times longer. Instead of five minutes, it's 20 minutes. The problem is that in the shortcut, there are a lot of women sitting on chairs with their children, you know, playing, but there are a lot of women. So if he takes the shortcut, he's going to see a lot of women. Maybe he's going to get ideas in his head, he's going to start looking, thinking, I made a sin.

2:21:45Or the long way is clean. No one is there. Some forest, trees you can go around. Safe. But four times more walking, especially in the sun or in the snow. Now you see this person took his hat, went like this, blocked his view, and turned his face to the left, and quickly walked, cut through the shortcut, and did not look at one of the girls there. Not even one of them. and turned his face to the left, quickly walked, cut through the shortcut, and did not look at any of the girls there. Not even one of them. And we saw something like this on a candid camera. And now we know where this guy is. We come to the shul and we see him praying now. What is the first thing that comes to our mind when we see him praying Shemoneh Esrei? After yesterday we saw him on a candid camera closing his eyes and cutting through the shortcut. What's the first thing you wait until he finishes to pray? What's the first thing you want to do?

2:22:45Run away. You want to run to him? Kiss his hand. Excuse me. Chacham. Chacham. Please give me a bracha. Please, please. Can I drive you? Can I do something for you? Tzaddik like you. Wow. Finally we found Tzaddik Echad Besdom. Give me him. Put your hand on my head. This guy is wicked. I don't know what's going to be with us. Let's calculate. If they're a rasha, what's going to be with us? We can walk in the street today based on this. Why is he a rasha? Because he dared to put himself in a minefield. He got lucky, he did not explode. Today he didn't explode, tomorrow he didn't explode, but the third day he will explode and you will die. The fact that you put yourself in such a place already shows you do not have enough fear of G-d. No Yirat Shamayim. Because somebody with Yirat Shamayim will never dare to put himself in a test. Based on that, allow me to understand something here. The Gemara in Sanhedrin, Kuf Zayin, the Gemara says, Le'olam...

2:24:09A person should not bring himself into a test. One of the greatest ten people who lived in the history of the world, David HaMelech, that the Mashiach will come from him. It's enough just to read Tehillim once in your life to understand that a soul like this comes once in a lifetime to this world. Such a neshama like David HaMelech, such honesty, such emunah, such confidence, such anavah, such everything we can dream about he had. I once gave an example of David HaMelech. How many people pray to Hashem to help their enemies find them and kill them if they're guilty? When we know the police are chasing us and we're hiding somewhere, we read Tehillim and pray all day, Ribbono Shel Olam, save me from this wicked police, this anti-Semite, they hate me because I'm a Jew, please save me, save me from the Aravim, save me from the Arabs, save me from the neighbor. We never say to Hashem, save me if I'm innocent. And if I'm not, make them find me right away and give me what I deserve. How many people in the world pray like this? Who prays like this, raise his hand.

2:25:29Do you ever pray that someone else will succeed at your expense? No. You want to be the first one. You don't want anyone who is after you to find you. It doesn't matter who is right. Even if you know you are the thief and he is the policeman, you are still praying to Hashem to save you from this evil rasha who wants to kill you or arrest you. But David HaMelech didn't pray like this. If I am guilty, make Shaul HaMelech and his soldiers find me quickly and kill me. But if not, save me from them. This is the level of emet he had. Why do we have to admire such a person so much? Because the level of his emet was the ultimate emet. The ultimate. It cannot get any higher than that. The emet of David HaMelech. David HaMelech had a test. One time in his life, he put himself in a test. The Gemara says, not me. The Gemara didn't say who can open up his mouth. The Gemara says...

2:26:45The person should not put himself in a test and fail. But we have a question. David HaMelech had only one test in his life? I can name to you a thousand tests that I learned in my life about his life. Shaul, his son, his other son, Amnon and Tamar. Oh, so many problems. His father threw him away. He said, listen, you may not be my son. Go take care of the sheep. Don't be around too much. Everyone called him a mamzer, poor, isolated. That's a horrible life he had. That's why in Tehillim, what we read in the Hallel, he says, "Ani avdecha ben amatecha." He doesn't say, "I am the son of Yishai, the biggest tzaddik in the world." One of the four biggest tzaddikim who lived in history and never made one sin in his life.

2:27:46That's his father. And instead of giving the credit, "I am the son of the biggest tzaddik in the world, and one of the biggest in history," who does he give the credit to? To a housewife. His mother, who washes the dishes and goes to the laundry by the lake. How is it possible? If your son is Gadol HaDor and your mother is working in a kitchen making eggplant salad, you come and say, who are you? Moshe ben Miriam. Who is Miriam? Miriam, the one that's working in a laundromat. Excuse me, you're not, by the way, the son of Rav Elyashiv, or Rav Shternbuch, or Rav Kanievsky. Yeah, yeah, it's my father. So why don't you say that you're his son? What's the comparison? The answer is gratitude. Gratitude is the most important thing in the life of a Jew. That's why if somebody asks you to define in one word what Judaism is all about, one word. The word is modeh. That's it. Four letters. Modeh means in Hebrew, modeh meaning thank you. I thank you. Modeh means...

2:28:58I admit, I admit, and I have gratitude. That's what Judaism is all about. Pay attention. Mitzvot, levarech, berachot, beracha before, beracha after, everything, thank you Hashem, we appreciate, praising Hashem, tefillat Shemoneh Esrei, everything is requesting, gratitude, admitting, and what did Maran say? someone who tries to cover his sin will never succeed. It's just a matter of time until Hashem will reveal it. If you admit and stop with the sin, then you get mercy. Meaning, as long as you are stubborn and full of ego, saying, "I'm good, I'm a tzaddik, I did nothing wrong, I have nothing to apologize about"—the American way, you know... I'm perfect. Who, you know, why criticize? Don't be judgmental. I made a lecture two weeks ago about the obligation of being judgmental every minute of your life. It sounds tricky until you listen. The Torah says you have to judge the situation. Someone, a rasha, comes to your house, goes into your bedroom. What's the first thing you have to assume?

2:30:19He's looking for your wife's diamonds. Ah, it's not fair. Why suspect him? Every person, on one hand, you look at him like he's Rabban Gamliel. On the other hand, you have to look at him like he's a robber who came to rob my life. You have to be careful. There's no mitzvah to be stupid. Some people were stupid, and a big destruction came later on. There's no mitzvah in Judaism to be stupid. It's a mitzvah to give the benefit of the doubt to those who have chazakah kashrut in this specific matter. But you're not supposed to give chazakah kashrut to someone who's known as a big rasha. The whole world knows he's a murderer. He's the first suspect. That's what the Torah says. You have to learn the halachot. Many people scream all kinds of statements. It makes my ears fall when I hear their nonsense. Sometimes even famous people. The basic foundations they don't have. Right away they shoot statements. Who told you that? It's not true. Sometimes they make an entire hour-long lecture on something that, to begin with, is wrong. A whole hour is a waste of time and misleading the public. We have to know that, Rabotai. Not everything is feelings. The Torah is brain.

2:31:37The Torah says who you should have mercy on and who you're not allowed to have mercy on. And what happens if you mix? If you have mercy on people that Hashem Himself doesn't have mercy on, and He says that you're not supposed to have mercy on this kind of people, you know what the consequences of that will be? That when you need to have mercy on a big tzaddik, then you're going to go and stab him in the back. Why? Because you wasted your mercy on the wrong people. Just like in Israel. Half of the Israelis have mercy on who? On the Hamas Palestinian filthy murderers. And who do they hate the most? The Talmidei Yeshiva, thanks to whom the world exists. You ask them, Yitzik, come, tell me, I want to ask you a question. Who do you love more, Ahmed? Look at Ahmed from Gaza with the donkey. And look at Yitzik with the Gemara like this. Who do you want to get rid of? What do you think would be the answer? You can ask Rabbi Anava after the lecture. He's from Israel, he'll tell you.

2:32:44That's what's going on. The Gemara says, the hatred the amei ha'aretz have for the talmidei chachamim is the highest level of hate. They hate the talmidei chachamim, those who, thanks to them, they are alive, more than anything you can imagine. That's reality. It's a fact. A very sad fact. I wish I wouldn't have to say that. But it's reality. That's what it's about today. Today it's a struggle; it's a war. It's a cultural war in Israel. Everything you hear—election, this, that, politics—behind the politics, there is ideology here. Behind this whole politics is ideology. If we're going to have yeshivot or chas v'shalom, we'll have to close them. If we're going to be able to open the mikveh when we need or not. If the people that sit and learn Torah will be able to continue to learn Torah for more years, or are they going to have to go to the army? That's really what it's about. Behind that policy, behind that politics, we have a Jewish ideology behind it. What do you think? Why did the biggest rabbis in the world get involved in politics?

2:33:59That's the last thing they want to waste their time on. Because it's not politics; it's a fight over whether we're going to be able to keep the Torah and the mitzvot, or chas v'shalom, Israel will become like London. That's what it is. That's what the fight is all about. So I started to give an example here with David HaMelech. I can give you thousands of tests that he had in his life. Many of them. Why did the Gemara say David HaMelech put himself in one test and failed? We said before, when there's no other way, you are an anus. When you are an anus, HaKadosh Baruch Hu is with you in a sin, or He leaves you when you commit the sin. You're committing a sin right now. But you are an anus. You're in a situation that there's no way out. You try, you're begging, you're crying, you're looking for a way out. But you're stuck in that situation. So the question is, when you are in a sin, or in a filthy place, or they locked you in a place of avodah zarah, you're not supposed to be there. Every second you're there, it's a sin. But the goyim locked you there. What are you going to do? So HaKadosh Baruch Hu is with you or not?

2:35:26it's written, in the filthiest place, Hashem is with us. The filthiest place, we're not going into details. But on the other hand, it's written, If I see that you behave improperly and immodestly, or you do not dress properly, meaning women, or the men do not behave modestly, immediately I run away from that place because I'm holy and I cannot be in such a field. So which one is the truth? What's going on? So like this, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. And there's no other way. Hashem is with you, holding your hand. But when there is another way, immediately Hashem leaves you. You have two ways. You chose the dangerous way. Immediately Hashem left you. No siyata d'Shmaya and no supervision.

2:36:36If you are forced, I will save you, I will protect you, I will help you to overcome the situation. Every day the Satan is trying to put you down and kill you. Not physically. Physically, it's not in his hands. He can only kill you when Hashem sends him the message. But every day he's trying to kill your soul. If he kills your soul, it's for eternity. And if Hashem would not help, there is no chance to overcome the evil inclination and the Satan. So how can it be, if Hashem left me, how is it my chance to overcome the nisyonot? The answer is, once you enter there, you're finished. The idea in life is not to put yourself in the test. If the test was forced on you, don't worry, you're a noob. Hashem is with you. Everything is supervised.

2:37:51So now we have a new understanding in the words of the Gemara. A person should not bring himself into nisayon. Just like David HaMelech one time asked Hashem, "Test me." David HaMelech said to Hashem, "I want to be the fourth wheel in Your carriage. You have Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov. I want to be the fourth one. You have one missing. One wheel. Make me the one." Hashem said, "No. You're not on that level yet." What do I have to do to be on this level? They had very serious tests and they survived, and you did not have a serious test and survived. So what did he say? So put me in a test. Not supposed to. What do we say every morning in a tefillah? I'm begging you, don't give me tests. Please, I'm good the way I am. Don't give me any tests. I give up. I know who I am. I know myself. A person knows himself the best. People live in denial, like Rabbi Alon says, we all live in denial, some more, some less.

2:38:59But in reality, nobody knows you more than yourself and Hashem, of course. I'll give you a proof. One person was on trial for murder. Trial for murder. The jury in America, they're about to rule in his case, guilty or not guilty. Just before, it was already a done deal. Everybody saw that this guy is a filthy murderer. That's it. Everybody understood that. The audience, the jury, the judge. A minute before they concluded the closing statement. the lawyer of the defendant got up and said to the jury, "Ladies and gentlemen, before we conclude this trial, I have a very important message to give you now." Everyone got nervous. "What? In exactly 10 minutes, the real murderer will walk through that door, and..."

2:40:08And all of you will have the shame of your life when you see that you were about to send to a dead world an innocent man. Your Honor, ten minutes, please. I'm asking for a break for ten minutes. Everyone's name, what? Yes, just wait ten minutes and you'll see. Ten minutes, everyone is talking, lots of noise. Nine, nine and a half, nine fifty-five, fifty-eight, fifty-nine. Ten minutes. Everybody looks at the door. What do you think happened? A cat walked in? Who walked in? No one. The lawyer got up and said, "The law in America says that you cannot convict a person unless you have reasonable doubt. You cannot release a person unless you have reasonable doubt."

2:41:23If you have a reasonable doubt, how are you about to convict a person? All of you looked at the door for 10 minutes, which shows that you are not 100% sure that he's a murderer. You want him to be executed when you have such a doubt? The knockout he gave them. The judge said, "A break. Everyone to my room. Sit now for hours and make a decision." After a few hours, they came out. The lady came with a note. "Did the jury reach the verdict?" "Yes, Your Honor." "What is the verdict? If you're the jury, what would you do?" She said, "we found the defendant guilty." Everyone was shocked. "Guilty? After all this shock? He just proved to you, all of you are not sure."

2:42:25They said, "The truth is that all of us were convinced by the lawyer's words, and we were about to dismiss him and set him free. But there was one woman here who did not give up and convinced all of us that he is guilty. Why? She said, 'When everybody looked at the door...'" i did not take my eyes off his face. I looked at him non-stop and he's the only person in the courtroom who did not look at the door even one time. Because he knows he's the murderer. If he was innocent, he would be waiting for the mashiach. We know who we are. You can put on a show here; the world is a stage, and everyone is an actor. We know all this. The question is how we get out of there. And since we don't have the whole night and time is about to finish, I just want to conclude. This is what is written. I'm in a worse place. I'm not worried. I'm not afraid. Because You are with me.

2:43:52Why? Because I did not choose that path. It was forced on me. That's why I'm not worried. But when I chose it, I'm very worried. If I chose to go to the club in Manhattan tonight and hope I'm not going to marry Christine tomorrow, there's no guarantee. But if it was forced on me, I'm counting on You to help me. Because it wasn't my choice. It's all about choices. That's what it's all about. This is a very important principle, Rabotai. Very important. Most people are not aware of this: that there are two different kinds of tests. There are tests that we bring on ourselves. You go to the casino, and you lose money. Oh, okay, listen. It says that... So whatever I'm supposed to get—house, food, car, children's tuition—I'm going to get anyway. So what if I'm lost in a casino? No, my friend. Hashem already gave you what you need for this year. You decided to go and burn the money. It's a problem. But sometimes a person can force Hashem to do something that He doesn't want. He literally forces Hashem to do something He doesn't want.

2:45:18If a person goes and opens a business that is shady, it's not a kosher business. He has seven children to feed. He has a wife; she's a righteous woman. Now Hashem is thinking, what is going to happen now? If I make him bankrupt, these children will be on the street. There will be consequences. This lowlife is forcing me to give him money through this business. And I have no choice. He put me in that position. This is what Hashem said to a person: "You made me; you brought me a lot of bother. You bothered me a lot. I had to take care of you before you came out to the world, and since you were a baby, and to do so many things for you, and give you so many things. And what do you do? You take it from me, never say thank you, and use it against me." And I am forced to continue to give you more, knowing you will use it against me tomorrow also. Because I have to give you 80 years of life. That's the test of your life. So I have to give you more oxygen tomorrow, knowing you're going to anger me again. More money, knowing you're going to drive on Shabbat and put gas in your car and drive to your picnics. I'm giving it to you, and you use it against me.

2:46:46And never say thank you. So this is what it means: You choose the path. No one chooses it for you. That's what you chose. You made me your partner in everything you do. I'd rather be your partner when you learn Torah, when you do mitzvot, when you do kiruv, when you give money to poor people, and when you support yeshivot. For that, I'm very happy that you make me your partner. I give you oxygen for a good cause. I give you money for a good cause. I gave you a brain for a good cause. I'm happy with what you do with the gifts that I gave you. But when you use it against me, I see that I am a partner to a crime against me and against the truth. Why is Hashem the partner? Because that's the rule of creation. I give you oxygen for X amount of time, even when you make sins.

2:47:50I don't force you to make mitzvot. I don't kill you when you make a sin. If that's the way it was, that every person who makes a sin will die right away, after one Chilul Shabbat, everybody would be dead. How many people would be left in the world? Two million, maybe. So why does Hashem give a Mechalel Shabbat millions of dollars and success, and he's the Prime Minister of Israel or a judge in the Supreme Court, and everybody bows down to this Rasha? Why is it Because if everyone would light a cigarette on Shabbat, it would explode in his face and he'd die. Not one person would ever break Shabbat. But nobody deserves a reward. With a gun to the head, even Arafat would keep Shabbat. Do you want him to get a reward for it? That's not a way to become religious, with a gun to the head. The idea is it would eliminate free choice completely. Completely eliminating free choice. So Hashem says, I'm giving you, I'm helping you. But at the same time, everybody will be judged. You are recorded by video. You are recorded by audio.

2:49:15And everything will be analyzed word by word, every second of your life. One person came to the Rebbe of Kotzk, and he said to him, "Rebbe, you and the religious people are too fanatic. I'm also traditional. But you're too much! Too much! I can't! I try to be Baal Teshuva, but believe me, I ran away." "Why did you run away, Yitzik?" "I'll tell you why." Everywhere I go, the religious people say there's no one but Hashem. Hashem is in front of my eyes every second of my life. I cannot live with such intimidation. It's intimidating. What is this? I'm walking around with a video camera recording me. I'd rather die. By the way, do you really believe yourself when you say that? Do you really believe that a person can think only about Hashem all his life? Do you really believe it? I want you to prove it to me. The Rebbe said, no problem. He took two big Chasidim, took him to the lake. They grabbed him and took him to the lake.

2:50:32The Rebbe came over there, and he goes like this, like by the mafia, like this with the finger. The two Chasidim grabbed his head, right, drowned him in the water. Ah, he's fighting, put him inside for 30 seconds, the Rebbe goes up. He comes up, the Rebbe goes down, pushes him down again, up, down, up, down, for 20 minutes. Every time he comes up, they push him down again. After 20 minutes, the Rebbe said, "Finito." It took him a minute or two to breathe. What is this? You ask a question, you got your answer. What is the connection? What's the connection? I'll tell you what's the connection. When you were under the water, what is the only thing you thought about? Air, right? When you were down, did you think about your business? Did you think about your beautiful wife? Did you think about the new car you bought yesterday? Did you think about the watch you ordered from Amazon?

2:51:46the new tie, the new suit, nothing. There's only one thing you thought about: air. This is what Hashem is for us: air. We can't breathe a second without it. We thank Him for every breath we take. This is what it means. I would like to finish, and then we will have a panel of questions and answers. You can ask all three of us any question you want about what we spoke about or what we didn't speak about. We'll be more than happy to answer. Then we will have some pictures, and we'll have Tefilat Arvit. And B'ezrat Hashem, we will conclude this beautiful night. Last thing for tonight. You know we have an addiction. The name of the addiction is 10-10 news. Not necessarily 10-10 news, because over there you're only a commercial. I'm talking about the person who is connected to the news like it's Torah miSinai. Every second President this, President that, he says this, Bibi says that, Iran says this. Constantly pushing fear into our heads. Everybody is in panic.

2:53:02That's called news. In Shamayim, in heaven, they also have news. In Israel, every hour since I was a baby, they have an interesting custom. Every round hour, news. Tut, tut, tut, tut. Only the tut gives you a heart attack already. Like ten times. Tut, tut. Here is the news of today. Every hour repeats news. In Shamayim, they also announce the news. Who can tell me what is the difference between the news in this world and the news in the spiritual world? There's one main difference. Who knows? Over here, 99% of the news is fake news. We all know that. Over there, it has to be real; it's the world of emet. But there is one main principle that is the difference. Over here, the entire news is speaking about what? What Hashem does. A war over there, financial collapse over here, Wall Street collapse over there.

2:54:26Everything they announce, it's all in the hands of Hashem. They're not admitting it. They call it nature, they call it all kinds of names. But everything you hear on the news, whatever happens in the world, it's all Hashem moving the soldiers on the game. Over there, the news is the exact opposite. It's what the people do. That's the difference. Over there, there is a special news for every one of us. What Moshe did today. What Yitzchak did today. And at the end of the day, when you go to sleep, they take your soul, they bring you into the report of the day, and you sign over here. That's it. That's why we say in the morning, He gave me back my soul. Why? Because my soul was up there, signing on what I did today. That's it. Even though there is news for every one of us, there's also a general news channel. that talks about unique people in the world. Who do you think are the stars of the divine news channel of Hashem? The Talmidei Chachamim, the Tzaddikim, the Gedolei HaDor, Rabbanim, Mekarvim. Okay. But there are three more people that Hashem announces about every day. Three people.

2:55:50The first one, by the way, this was written 2,000 years ago. Today, multiply it by a million. This was relevant 2,000 years ago, when every woman was covered from head to toe. And there were no problems like we have today, no social media, and no nisyonot like today in the world. The world 2,000 years ago compared to today is nothing to compare with. Three people Hashem announces. One, a single guy that lives in a big city and does not make sins with the girls. "I didn't touch a woman for three years. I'm going crazy already. What does Hashem want from me? I want to get married." But he doesn't break. "What's with you, Yitzchak? You alone? Why don't you come for a cup of coffee?" He doesn't put himself in a nisayon or not. He knows his limitations. "No, no, I have to go. I'm sorry. Goodbye." Black, tzadik. The city, why do they say city? Because if you live in a forest, there's nobody there. There's no nisayon. The whole idea is he lives in Manhattan or Queens or Kings Highway, and over there he doesn't make sins.

2:57:14The Gemara says, like who? Like Rav Chanina and Rav Hoshaya. What's special about them? They were shoemakers, fixing shoes. In a big city, every day women bring their shoes to fix. It wasn't like today, made in China, you press a few buttons and tomorrow Amazon Prime, it's by the door. Fifty bucks, brand new shoes. It was a different world back then. You wore the same shoes for forty years. And not one time did they raise their face to look at the women. "Give me the shoes, take, no problem, come tomorrow, I'll fix it." I say, I'm very impressed that they watched their eyes completely, obviously. That's what the Gemara tried to say. But I'm impressed with something else. There's one thing that I'm just as much impressed with. That you can be the biggest rabbi in the world, and instead of driving in a Mercedes or helicopter, and your shamash is holding your hands and your boots, you sit in a shop and fix shoes.

2:58:25Biggest problem I know. Imagine Rav Ovadia himself sitting in Shuk Machane Yehuda fixing shoes. What would happen in Israel? Every one of the Chachamim, one walks in the field, one walks in shoes. Hard to believe? They did not want to live from anybody's favors. Let me work two hours a day, make enough to eat, and go right away and learn 20 hours every day. They don't look at the women. And HaKadosh Baruch Hu starts His news announcement with them. Rabbi Chanina and Rabbi Hoshaya, they're still innocent, meaning perfect. The second kind of people: A poor person who found a big diamond ring, five karats, enough to live for two years. He barely has what to eat. Every day people come back and give me two dollars, three dollars. Finally, I got bread. Ah, a relief for five years from my stress and my agony. I found it. He runs. They told him, oh, that belongs to that billionaire. Ah, what does he care? He has hundreds like that. Big deal now. So let me keep it for myself. He won't even care.

2:59:48He runs, "Mr. X, I found your diamond ring." And he gives it back. To return a lost object is an obligation from the Torah. If you're not doing it, it's like eating chazir. We’re not going to eat chazir. We’re not going to break Shabbat. So what's the big deal that he returns it? No. When you’re rich and you return a diamond, okay. When you barely have what to eat, a poor person whose children cry at home from starvation, and you run and give it back to the rich person who lives in the mansion, and he barely says thank you, thank you, shkoyach, shkoyach. And you go back, and he didn't give you five dollars for your time. That's a very big test. And the third one, a rich person that gives his maaser hiddenly. Not in big noise. Nobody knows. Everything undercover. Don't put my name. Don't put my name over here. Don't put my name on the board. Don't announce. I will sponsor the lecture, but please don't say my name. Not only that, sometimes he does and you don't even know. Like he puts money under your door and you don't know from whom. It can be for years.

3:01:09One guy in yeshiva, for more than 20 years, was putting coffee and sugar in cups. There were no cameras back then. Everyone was asking, "Who has been putting tea and coffee for 20 years?" "Not me, not me." Nobody knew until they called him, coming in the middle of the night, bringing it. Now imagine how many students from that yeshiva were drinking coffee thanks to him and spitting at him. Why are you fighting with him? While you're drinking his coffee, you fight with him. He doesn't want to tell you. He won't tell you, "Hey, you're drinking from me for 20 years and this is how you're talking to me?" He doesn't want to. Because he does it 100% for the sake of Heaven. Now the Gemara asks, When a person gives tzedakah in public, he gets a lot of honor from the people. People respect him. It helps the business. It helps him in the shul. He gets a better seat. He gets aliyot. People that wanted to sue him, they think twice. How can I sue such a generous guy that helps the community? It gives him a lot of benefit. His children get the best shidduchim usually. It comes with a reward in this world.

3:02:28The Rashba says it's no problem to publish the generous people that give. Why? Why? Because all the other people that hear about it get encouraged also to do. He's helping the yeshiva. Oh, you know what? I'm also going to help. By the way, we're very lucky that they sell the Aliyot on Yom Kippur. Imagine if they say anyone who wants to buy an Aliyah on Yom Kippur has to put a bid anonymously, meaning only the Gabai will know. No one in the shul would know. How much would be the aliyah? 52. 101. Now there's 500 people in the shul. 25,000. We're finished with the joke. One guy came to a place. He said to the gabbai, I want to raise money. Do you mind?

3:03:37You say, you know what, believe me, the people here are stingy, like crazy. You're going to waste your time. Why do you care? Let me try. I have this kameya (amulet). Anyone who will donate Chai, I'll give it to you. So one person says Chai. Another person says Pa'amayim Chai. 52, 60, 72, 80! The guy is thinking, this Gabbai didn't want me to collect money over here. Look, they're nice. They're already at 80. Let's keep going. Then one guy says, one dollar! That was all he said. I told you. Next time I should listen to you and not suspect you. We're going to give thanks.

3:04:42Please, any questions you have, we're going to be sitting here with your permission and answer some questions, and then B'ezrat Hashem we will do our video right after. I request the young adult, please, please do a big favor, a mitzvah. All gold chairs, take downstairs to the yeshiva. When you go downstairs, right side, okay? Because tomorrow morning, we're coming for Shacharit. Thank you, God. Any questions, please? Don't leave. Please, quietly. Any questions? Yes. Thank you.

3:05:49When you have two paths, when you drive, you miss driving. You have to stay on highways. Once you're going into the street, you have a serious problem. Any more questions? I know it comes to three hours, but please go ahead. Very good question. I repeat the question: The lady here is trying to find out where did I get my statement that children who have birth defects, it comes from sins that they made in their previous life, right? That's the question? Okay. When we give lectures, when rabbis give lectures, rabbis that are not afraid to say the truth, because today rabbis are trying to be very careful, they're very politically correct, because they're afraid of what people's reaction will be. But I made myself a rule from day one to speak the truth regardless of what people think about it.

3:07:09That's the truth of Hashem. That's the truth of the books. That's what I teach. It never comes to me to teach to gain money or popularity. That's not the direction I ever went with. That's why, from me, you hear a lot of statements that get some people angry. The anger comes from a lack of knowledge. If they only read the books I read, they would understand it perfectly. By the way, it was already proven scientifically, but before we get into that, first, I answer it from the books. We have principles in Judaism. The 13th principle of Judaism. One of them is that HaKadosh Baruch Hu punishes the wicked people and rewards the righteous people. A second principle in Judaism, as the Gemara says, the Gemara says that there is no suffering unless there was a sin prior to it. Hashem is not sadistic, sitting and enjoying torturing people. If someone suffers—losing money, getting sick, having accidents, all kinds of things like that—that's as a result of a previous sin. A third principle in Judaism is,

3:08:33that we are all in reincarnation here. None of us here is here for the first time. We were here in different bodies. The books are full of examples, like Moshe Rabbeinu is Hevel, and Yitro is Kayin, and Tzipporah is the gift that Kayin had to give Hevel for killing him in a past life. And there are thousands of examples. And the Torah says that... we are here to fix what we damaged in our previous life. The source for it is in the most important Kabbalist in history, the Ari HaKadosh, in his legendary book, Sha'ar HaGilgulim. You can find it over there. He shows what sins cause a person to come back in reincarnation in animals, in raw materials, in plants, and in fruits and vegetables. And sometimes in different forms of people. For instance, people whose brains are not functioning, what the Gemara calls them, Shoteh. Shoteh means they cannot tell the difference between good and bad. If you give them a stack of cash, they're going to give it out. They're not understanding, so they give it out.

3:09:50Today we call it Down syndrome or autism or different kinds of names. But we know what the Gemara is talking about. Now, since the principle is that nobody ever suffers unless he committed a sin first. And the other principle, which I did not mention yet, is that all the punishments of Hashem are measure for measure. There is no random punishment. If a person stole $100, he is going to get a damage of $200, because that's the punishment of a thief in the Torah. You stole, you're going to lose money. You insult a person, someone will insult you. You kill someone, someone will kill you. That's how it goes. And it's written in Pirkei Avot that the president of the Sanhedrin, Hillel HaZaken, saw a skeleton in the water and he said to the skeleton, "Someone killed you because you killed someone. And the one that killed you will be killed by someone." That's the principle of life.

3:10:55Everything that happens to us is a result of what we did. Now, when a kid is born, we all know that we are not responsible for our sins until we become Bar Mitzvah or Bat Mitzvah. So if a baby is two years old and he's blind, or a baby has Down Syndrome, or he has all kinds of other birth defects, we all know he did not make any sin in this life. He never made a sin because he was just born. He doesn't even know to tell the difference between good and bad. He was just born. Why is one baby born blind and another born healthy, or one born with brain damage and another without it? The answer to that is because of sins from a past life. It's not random. Hashem does not make mistakes. It's not made in China; it's made in heaven. Made in China, there are mistakes. Made in heaven, there are no mistakes. So if a baby is born blind, there is a reason for it. Now remember what I said before: the Chachamim teach us...

3:11:59that everything that happened to us is mida ke-neged mida. I have a whole lecture, two and a half hours, where I maybe show 20 different examples from the Tanakh, how everyone got exactly what they deserved based on their sins. For instance, Samson was a nazir, holy from birth. holy from birth. The Ari HaKadosh explains that Samson is the reincarnation of Nadav, the son of Aaron. Nadav and Avihu died because they did not want to get married. They looked down upon the Jewish girls. He died single. The Ari HaKadosh says, if you play with the order of the letters... It's hinting that this Samson is the reincarnation of Nadav, the son of Aaron. And what was his punishment? He fell in love with a non-Jewish girl, Delilah, and she destroyed him. And because in his past life he made fun of Jewish girls,

3:13:00in this life, who buried him? A non-Jewish girl, because you put down my daughters, I'm going to put you in the hand of this Goya. But, the Gemara says, why from all the punishments in the world, did the Philistines poke his eyes? Why didn't they cut his hands? Why didn't they cut his legs? Why didn't they burn him? Why did they poke his eyes? The Gemara says, the eyes that looked at this beautiful Goyah, when you are not supposed to look at her and enjoy her beauty, and the eyes followed the sins after this Goyah, those are the eyes that must get punished. Not the ears, the eyes. Because it's all in the organs where you committed the sins. So now, it's very simple. It's simple math. Nobody gets a punishment unless he committed a sin. Children don't commit sins. If they come to the world with a punishment, it's from a past life. What kind of punishments they have shows in which organs in their past life they made a sin. And if you're still not convinced, I put on my Facebook page a film, a video, a five-minute video, of twins that were born in Israel. A girl and a boy. The girl is perfectly normal.

3:14:16Her brother is autistic. They were born together, and now the girl is speaking at some kind of seminar, and she says how her autistic brother made the entire family religious. And how? They connected the brother to a computer keyboard, they bring his hand to the keyboard, and they ask him, and you can see it on the video, you know, autistic kids, they're not exactly actors on Broadway. They don't know how to fake and pretend. So they ask him, why did you come to the world like this? So he started to type. I did things in my past life that got Hashem very upset, and as a result of that, He sent me to the world like this. They asked him, what exactly did you do that Hashem sent you to the world like this? And he typed, I spoke things that I was not supposed to speak. They asked him again, what exactly did you speak? He said, I spoke about people and that's my tikkun. This is the way of me fixing my past life's sins. Right in front of your eyes, an autistic person who doesn't know how to put on a show. Why am I autistic? One reason. I destroyed people with my mouth. Today it's keyboard and internet and comments.

3:15:44and all kinds of fake identity, and we destroy people's lives. So, in our next life, if we will have a chance to come back, we will have to pay for what we did in our past life, and it's going to be 100% measure for measure. You understand? So I gave you now five sources, put them all together, I think it's pretty clear. Yes? I have a question back to that. What do you feel about any of those teachings that tell us to follow Mishnah, and they teach us to hate Shavuot? Who? Who? First of all, I said many times in my lectures, they are the most righteous people in the world. Some of the big rabbis used to stand when they come into the room. There are people that already fixed 99%. They have very little to fix and they go to heaven. I went to speak to an autistic kid 20 years ago in Boro Park, a son of a big rabbi. He was 12 years old back then. I told him, he said to me, I suffer 1,000 tortures every minute. I told him, I feel very bad for you. He said to me, don't feel bad for me. Feel bad for yourself. I am very close to my final correction. You people have a long way to go. That was his answer to me. Meaning, I don't have that much to fix. I'm almost there. I just have to fix lashon hara.

3:17:01This is all righteous people that have one or two things to fix, meaning sins they made with their mouth or ears. That's why they're mute and deaf and cannot communicate with speech, because it's all midah k'neged midah. There's no random punishments by Hashem. I never offended anyone. People chose to be offended. I taught them what the reality is, you understand? If people chose to be offended by that, that's their problem, not mine. I never said something that I made up. I only said what the Torah teaches. Unfortunately, most people have no idea what the Torah teaches. So some of the things that they hear in lectures sound strange to them. But if they were intelligent enough... They would know that the problem is with them, not with the speaker. Because the speaker learned for many, many years, and he comes and he teaches something that he's a specialist in. Just like I wouldn't debate a big doctor about brain surgery, because I know that I don't know anything compared to what he knows. If I criticize him and get upset at him for telling me things about the brain, that shows that I'm not so intelligent. An intelligent person knows his limitations.

3:18:11When people hear a speaker say something that they don't like or don't understand, the right way to approach the problem is to send him an email privately without attacking him online and all kinds of things that people do. And many people, by the way, did it. They said, "I'm upset or I'm offended by what I just heard. Can you please explain?" Just like you ask me now. And I gave them the explanation. i could say that 80 to 90% of the time, people get the point and they apologize. But some people have a high ego, and they choose to be offended for the rest of their lives. There's nothing you can do about it. Yes? I just have a question about mentally ill people. Like, why are they mentally ill? Who is the cause? And what is the purpose? That's one of the hardest mysteries in life. Mental issues, some of them we don't know the answer for, but some of them we know come from sins. When people make a lot of sins, when they look at things they're not supposed to look at, when they eat certain things, when they behave in certain ways, it can cause a person to have, Hashem yerachem, mental issues. For instance, some of the anxiety attacks, panic attacks, all kinds of things that happen to people, can come either from a way of life that is totally against the Torah,

3:19:32lack of confidence, no emunah in Hashem, living with fear constantly, until the mentality of a person breaks down. He has a nervous breakdown. Why? Because he was never attached. Also, his soul is very impure. People that eat whatever they see, make a lot of sins, and don't keep any mitzvah of the Torah, constantly have on them marah shechorah, fear, panic, and suicidal thoughts. The proof to that is that many of the people who went to big rabbis, they got them out of their depression, out of their mental issues. I made a whole series, "The Psychology of the Mind and the Soul." You should listen to it. It's based on the biggest psychologist we had in Israel, who was a big rabbi, Rabbi Avraham Twerski. Unbelievable series. It's worth billions to listen to this. It changed the lives of many people. He shows psychology according to the Torah. And many of the answers that we all look for, you can find in his books. However, I admit that not all the mental diseases and phenomena that we have, we know the source of them. Not all of them. Today, there are more mental issues than ever in history.

3:20:44It's probably because of our lifestyle, because of the way people behave, and dress, and eat, and what you can see in the world, and the news constantly putting panic in people's heads. But not everything we know, but a lot we do know. So if we address what we know, believe me, we're already going to cure a lot of people. More questions to the Rabbi, please. Please, there are other Rabbis here. Please. You can ask them, please. I thought we're keeping it short. When we talk about it, we'll be here for a while. I'm just going to elaborate on something that Rabbi Zechariah said. Baruch Hashem, I have a midrasha for women in Tzfat. You're all welcome, by the way. The minimum age is 40. It's for mature women. Why are we saying that? Because we learn from a certain book once a week. The book is called Sha'ar HaGilgulim, The Gates of Reincarnation, written by Rabbi Chaim Vital, the student of the Ari HaKadosh. One time I was teaching a class, and in this book, he gives a lot of sources.

3:22:00What will affect a person in a certain way? And many times, why will a person come back in a reincarnation? You do this sin, you'll come back in this form. You do that sin, you'll come back in that form. This is, in one way, one can look at it as a punishment. I look at it as though you won the lottery. Because when the neshama is standing in the heavens, and it's found guilty, the neshama is begging, "Let me correct the sin." Don't let me lose my Gan Eden. Don't let me lose my eternity. And in some cases, the neshama, the soul, will beg, "Let me correct the sin." One time, I was reading one of the chapters and explaining, and I just read. I don't invent things. And I read out of the text that a certain sin will cause a person to come back into this world and suffer from a disease called epilepsy. A woman in the crowd stood up and went bonkers, cursing me. "How dare you?" It's all on video. Forget about what she cursed me that morning. She went out to the world to make a campaign, exactly like Rav Mizrachi said on Facebook—that I'm a liar and a fake, slandering me left and right. Lady, what do you want from me?

3:23:25I just read the text and I give it out to you. I didn't invent anything. I didn't twist it to make you get upset. I did you a chesed to read it and to translate it, not to put you down, but to educate you. I told them, why are you getting upset at me? I'm here to give you an answer to your problem. You have a problem? Humble yourself and understand, wait a minute, I came to this world with baggage. You think I'm here attacking you? I'm here to give you a solution. And you think that helped? Up until today, you can find her comments on social media and the junk that she's talking about me. I don't care about that. I have a very thick skin. I'm Israeli. I can take a lot of abuse. What bothers me is the innocent people that read these comments and believe them. The reality is that many people don't want to go into the territory of Kabbalah and Chassidut and Zohar. We have numerous, numerous books that explain to us exactly what happens in this world, exactly what the Rav was saying. I don't need to repeat, I don't want to sound like a broken record. The point to take from that, that nobody, I can speak for myself, nobody is here to hurt anybody.

3:24:47I'm not here. I do not sit at night with myself and rub my hands like that. How am I going to hurt somebody tomorrow in my next lecture? Do you have an idea for me? I want to hurt that person. Come on. We're not bored men. We are here. And again, I'm speaking for myself. I think they'll agree with me. I'm here with a pure will to say, you know what? There's a lot of problems in this world. Between us, again, and it's not about hurting anybody, I agree and disagree with what Rav Mizrahi said. Most of the mental issues are because of how we live our lives. You eat non-kosher, don't think your mind is going to be sharp. You eat junk that crawls on the bottom of the ocean; don't think that your thoughts are going to be normal. Most of the mental illness—and I'm not making fun of anybody, I wish everybody the best—and you know, the Torah has the solutions for everybody. And exactly like Rav Mizrachi said, I've seen with my own eyes people changing their diet, changing what they're looking at, changing the music they're listening to.

3:25:53Suddenly, many of the mental issues pass. Now, I'm not talking about something that is congenital, like autism, mental retardation, or Down syndrome. I'm not talking about that. To make a long story short, God is so merciful that He says, "Okay, you messed up. I'll give you the option to correct." And you know what? In most cases, the soul says, "Please help me." And Hashem says, "Where do you want to go?" Do you want to correct this problem? Choose where you want to go. You can go to this family, to that family. The reality is that the fact that we are here in this world is a zechut, it's a chesed, it's a gift, that Hashem allows us to correct our problems. Now if I let my ego lead me, I will never do a tikkun. That's the problem with most people. Because their ego doesn't allow them to do a tikkun, a rectification of their soul. If you're smart, humble yourself. Accept the slap that you're getting in the face. The person who's slapping you is helping you—in some cases, of course. I'm not talking about somebody coming now to degrade you; I'm talking about a learned individual, a rabbi.

3:27:00The slaps that you... And again, I can only speak for myself, but I think the rabbis will agree with me. The slaps that you're getting from us, these are... Wake up. Here, I'm giving you a solution to your problem. Not you, but other people. The reality is that the holy books... Tell us exactly what's going on in this world. Many people don't want to get into this territory. I was invited to a certain community. They told me, "Don't talk about the Zohar. Don't talk about Kabbalah. Just give us basic things." Don't talk about Kabbalah? Okay, no problem. I'll tell you the same thing with different words. I'm not going to say the Zohar said. I'll say what our sages will say. You still get the same thing. The point is, a lot of people don't want to hear the truth. Why? Because in our generation, people just want a pill. Give me a pill, let me swallow something of deception. I don't want to work hard. I don't want it to hurt. I don't want to face my own reality. I don't want to look in the mirror and say, I am bad, I am wrong, I have sinned. Give me a pill. Do you have a pill? You know, when people tell me, "Listen, I have this problem," I tell them, "Do this mitzvah." They respond, "Give me something else." What do you think, it's an auction? No.

3:28:14Not too long ago, a lady in a lecture told me, "I have a serious problem with parnassah. Can you give me a bracha?" I told her, "Why don't you sit every day and say Birkat Hamazon?" "No, it's too long. Do you have something else?" What do you think? I'm Krusty the Clown? I'm going to pull something out of my pocket here. You don't like what I told you. So the reality is that the holy books tell us exactly how to reach a tikkun. Most people don't want to deal with it. I don't want to deal with the fact that really, once I did something bad, I have sinned. Me, the symbol of perfection, yeah, you sinned. Say thank you to the Kadosh Baruch Hu who is even letting you come down to this world and correct what you did. So, I don't think either one of us here is here to offend anybody, to hurt anybody. And yes, this lady in the class, up until today, and how many times I tried to appease her and make her calm down, she's still angry, and she's still attacking me, she's still slandering me, and I keep telling her, "Lady, I have the cure to your problem."

3:29:17So, until you're going to continue slandering me, you're not going to have a cure. Why do you think you came into the world? To do a tikkun. So, I don't think any of us here are trying to hurt anybody, or to make fun of anybody. Everybody has problems. I can definitely strengthen that the reality is that the majority of mental illnesses and emotional illnesses... is from what we eat, what we see, what we listen to, how we talk, how we behave. A person lives a certain life, so yeah, it's going to affect you. The Ari HaKadosh, the Holy Arizal, Rebbe Yitzchak Luria, says that if you eat certain things that are not kosher, it will cause timtum ha-sechel. Timtum ha-sechel means that your mind is not balanced. So it will cause anxieties, fears, depression, and all sorts of different side effects. Now, will a pill help? I didn't see one pill that helped up to now. The whole pill industry failed. Why? Because it doesn't cure. You know what it does? It numbs. Everybody's numb. You go to schools, all the kids are numb. Why are you numb? Because they just got a dose of something. Whatever it is. The pills don't help. Hard work helps. Getting the truth slammed into your face, yeah, nobody wants to hear the truth. But that's what helps.

3:30:39So, a lot of people do not want to hear the truth. So, unfortunately, there are not enough people that will come out and tell you, "That's the truth, what are you willing to do about it?" And I know I'm looking at you, but it's for everybody. I mean, I'm looking at you because you asked the question. I just want to make a comment. In my line of work, if you don't have enemies, you're not doing the right thing. I can't hear you. I said, in my line of work, if you don't have enemies, you're not doing the right thing. It's not only in your line of work; it's everybody. It's in the whole world. Yeah? It's the right thing. the bottom line is that the fact that you are sitting here, if you are wise enough—I'm turning to everybody, not just you—if you are wise enough or humble enough to humble yourself to understand what you did wrong, you'll be able to correct yourself. And if you are ignorant, then you'll never correct yourself, and you'll come back here again and again and again. The problem is that there are no more chances. That's it. Mashiach is coming; this is the last chance. I'll tell you one thing before we take other questions: two things. We don't know how ridiculous we look. That's why we have mirrors. There are two stories. One story is that one time I gave a class, and the next day, I looked at the video, and what do you know? I looked like Gargamel. You know Gargamel? The... What do you call him? The Mechashef. The Mechashef. The sorcerer of the Smurfs. Why? Because one of my antennas was like this.

3:32:06That's how I looked. Okay? And I'm looking at the video. Oh my gosh. And I look like Gargamel. Static. Pulled out. And my kids. Ah! And I tell the editor, "Why did you put it online? Take it off." It's like, "You can't take it off. Do you know how many places the video is on? The links and the sharing and the..." And I'm like, "Look at that. What is that? Is that the number? Is that 7,000 views? 7,000 people looked at me like that?" But you know what? I was like, "You know what? 7,000 people had a good laugh. They had laughter at my expense. It's okay." The next day, I go to the class and I tell the ladies, "Why couldn't you go like that?" You couldn't tell me, "You look like an idiot. Tuck your peyot behind your ear." You couldn't say that. Forty women are sitting there. You couldn't just throw it like this. So I depend on other people to show me how ridiculous I look. Now if I tell you how ridiculous you look, you're going to slap me across my face.

3:33:11...Unless you're smart and you say, "Thank you so much for making me look normal." Next story. A certain individual has worked for our organization for many, many years. We consider this individual a friend, a follower. The individual calls me "Rabbi" and so forth. One time, a person came and told me something that I don't do so nicely, something not so appropriate. Now on the outside, it looked like that. On the inside... A volcano of anger. How dare she say this to me? Me! And inside, an earthquake. Outside... for five hours, I had steam coming out of my ears and out of my nose. I was so upset I couldn't do anything. At some point, I told myself, "Why are you upset? Let's analyze now why you are upset, Mr. Anava." And I sat with myself and I said, "You know, I'm upset because she's right. That person came and pointed out—do you know what courage it takes to come and say you do this act?"

3:34:21So instead of getting upset, I called her up and said, "Thank you so much. I so appreciate what you told me because nobody had the nerve to come and tell me, by the way, this is what you're doing. It doesn't look so good. A person cannot see his own afflictions." I depend on you. I depend on you telling me my hair is sticking out, I have breakfast in my beard. You know, on Shabbat, I was giving a lecture, and I sat on a chair, and I sat on somebody's meal. So when I got up, the meal was on my back. Now, do you think I saw that? Somebody told me, you have lettuce on your back. I don't know what... Now most people didn't see it. Moshe comes down to the rabbi, and he just gave a speech. I'm going to tell him that he has lettuce and tomatoes on his tuchus. So I depend on the courtesy of other people to come and tell me, you look like a clown. Now, what would my ego tell me? Go away from here. How dare you talk to me like this? You know who I am? So, my hero is Moshe Rabbeinu. You know, it's very mind-boggling. Why do you call him Moshe Rabbeinu? You know, he should be called Moshe HaNavi. Look, come to me as a prophet in Israel. Why is Shmuel called Shmuel HaNavi? He's called Moshe HaNavi. He's the prophet.

3:35:38Why don't you call him Moshe HaMelech? We call David HaMelech. He should be called Moshe HaMelech. He was a king. How do you call him? Rabbeinu. Why? Because he's our teacher. You know, now when you walk in the street with a beard, everybody's Rabbeinu. This is not the Rabbeinu. Moshe is the only Rabbeinu. Look at his life, look at his behavior. We just read Parashat Noach, Parashat Korach. Korach comes and argues with him. Now, Korach was not some shmoe from the neighborhood. Korach was powerful, rich, a politician, a Talmid Chacham, everything. A cousin. And he goes and rebukes Moshe Rabbeinu. You would think that Moshe Rabbeinu would cut his head off. Right away, flick his finger, cut his head off. Goes against the king. What does the Torah tell us? He fell on his face and he started crying. Moshe Rabbeinu says, "Maybe Korach is right. Maybe I did something." So the reality is that we're all born into this world, I'm going to say a harsh word, don't get offended, with defects. If you're humble, you fix them. If you're arrogant, you will leave this world with greater defects. Then you're going to come back here again. It doesn't mean that you're bad. It means that you blemished something, and Hashem gives you an opportunity to fix it, and it will come in millions of ways. And yes, we have holy books that will come and say, you do this sin, this is what's going to happen. You do this sin, this is how you're going to come back here.

3:37:03Who created the world with rules? With a set of rules? And that's it. You can't digest the rules. The point is to be humble and to understand that I came here to the world to reach my tikkun. If I don't reach my tikkun, I come here in a rerun. And another rerun. And if I don't do my tikkun, by the way, life is hard. A smart person, he accepts the emet, the truth. And how do I change it and apply that? And I think I speak for the name of the three of us. Nobody's here trying to hurt anybody. If I come and tell a person, this is the situation. And I had thousands of cases. The people came and told me, that's the problem. That's the cause. And they got upset at me. Why are you telling me that? Because that's the cause. A woman came to me not too long ago with a certain issue. I was debating how to give her the slap, like this, or like that. So I just told her, you don't cover your hair. "What kind of a rabbi are you?" I said, the rabbi will tell you what's the solution to your problem. Damn it, hurts. Truth hurts. But if you're smart, then the truth makes you go out of this world with flying stars.

3:38:19That's what you need to focus on. Again, I don't think any rabbi that talks the truth is here with an agenda to hurt anybody. I did not fly 7,000 miles from Eretz Yisrael to offend you. I have enough work to do. And I don't think Yaron Reuven flew 1,800 miles to Florida to offend anybody. He came here to inspire, to teach. Why? I know it sounds like a cliché. We saw the light. Now I want you to see the light. I feel bad. I look at people, I feel real bad for them. Why don't you get it, Habibi? Do teshuva already. Get your act together. Every day is valuable. People take time to crank an engine. 40 years. No, start already. What are you waiting for? So I feel like the luckiest man in the world, because the Kadosh Baruch Hu not only opened my eyes, but allowed me, and still allows me to do teshuva. You know that most people, when they do an act, a mitzvah, they say, bracha, asher kidishanu b'mitzvotav v'tzivanu l'haniach tefillin. Very nice of you. You know what I say before I do a mitzvah? I remove any, any, any, and I say, "Hashem, thank you, Hashem, thank you that you allowed me to now put tefillin on. Thank you that you allowed me to say Birkat HaMazon, because most people run to the pizzeria where it's mezonot. Say the Birkat HaMazon." I thank G-d, but when many men call me, they ask, "Can I still put tefillin on? It's quarter to five."

3:39:44Yeah, yeah, you still have a few more minutes. It's not Shkiyah yet. I thank Hashem, Baruch Hashem, that you didn't activate the Yetzer Hara today, here or here or here. Be appreciative that G-d included you, and you gotta start the engine faster. I feel bad when I look at people, and another problem, and another headache, and another challenge, and another failure, and they don't get it, don't get it. Get your act together, your days are numbered in this world. So again, to conclude at least this question and take many other questions, I speak for myself and I'm sure for the other rabbis, nobody's here to hurt anybody. Maybe some people, yes. That's why I'm speaking for myself. The truth is the only way to correct yourself. And yes, I wasn't here, I had to run out for a second to the bathroom. I didn't hear exactly what Rabbi Mizrachi said. No, in regards to the autism and the kids and special needs, It's all the kindness of Hashem. And yes, there are so many sefarim, but these people don't like reading the sefarim. Or worse than that, they don't know how to read the sefarim. So they read the sefer and they understand it however they want to. Either they don't know Hebrew, either they don't know Aramaic, or they don't like what the person says in the sefer. Like this woman who, up until today, slanders me all over the place. I wanted to tell her, why don't you go down the hill? I live in Tzfat; go down the hill to the kever of the Arizal, complain over there. Write a comment on his kever. Why are you writing a comment on my Facebook?

3:41:12He wrote the book. I just read the book and I tell you, the Torah has the answers for everything. A smart person looks in the Torah and finds all the answers to all their problems. Next question. Do you want me to answer the question, or do you want a new question? New question. Everything is long. You have three speakers who each speak an average of three hours per lecture. and then take a breath and speak another three hours. You had a post regarding a certain rabbi who's commenting regarding homosexuality. What's that? Basically, you know, from all of his posts, or things that I'm not supposed to be doing, why is homosexuality such a big deal to a Christian person? Okay, so... Shmuel Yibotei Hashem Rishayim Yarkav, just to emphasize on my previous video, is a person that's a Machti Harabim. And not only that, he's a Machti Harabim on a regular basis in the biggest public forum there is. He writes books with people that are enemies of Hashem.

3:42:29Like, for example, this pornography star, Pamela Anderson, or he writes books in a way to manipulate the Torah, like Kosher Jesus, making Avodah Zarah as if it sounds kosher, as if you could kosher the pig. So he's been doing this for over two decades. And the Torah says, someone that's tameh, someone that's impure, all that he produces is impure. Unfortunately, recent news came out that his daughter opened a sex shop in Tel Aviv, and she called it "Kosher Sex." Okay, this is the name of the store in Tel Aviv. And she goes on the news. They asked her, "Wait, you're a rabbi's daughter, aren't you worried that the public is going to be against you?" She goes, "No, I already got the rabbi's approval." He said, "Which rabbi?" She goes, "My father." That's what she said in a TV interview. So now, HaKadosh Baruch Hu has 613 mitzvot. The rabbis have 7 mitzvot. Believe it or not, most people think it's the opposite. They think 613 the rabbis, 7 Hashem. No, it's 613 mitzvot Hashem, 7 the rabbis. Now, when it comes to the din of homosexuality, HaKadosh Baruch Hu calls it to'eivat Hashem. He calls it, I see it as disgusting. How disgusting? Sometimes you see an animal while you're driving, especially us three, sometimes we drive 2-3 o'clock in the morning to go home.

3:43:57And sometimes, by the time you saw the animal, you already ran it over. It's too late. Now, the next day, people are going to walk by that animal, and its liver is going to be here, its lungs are going to be there, the teeth are going to be all over the place. And the stench that's going to come out of it. After eight, nine hours of being in heat, it is disgusting. So when you walk by it, you're going to say, "This is disgusting. Call some department, some department, get this disgusting animal out of here." That's what To'eivat Hashem means. When HaKadosh Baruch Hu sees the act of homosexuality, He says, "That's disgusting. How disgusting?" Now, normal human beings find bestiality disgusting. HaKadosh Baruch Hu says this, and homosexuality, same thing to me. So when a so-called rabbi of America, self-proclaimed rabbi of America, decides to say that homosexuality is no big deal—there are 613 mitzvot, so you don't do one.

3:45:05This is disgusting. And it's our obligation as Jews, not speakers, as Jews, to fulfill the mitzvah of limchot et Amalek, to destroy Amalek. Amalek is not a person per se. Amalek is safek, is a doubt. So I had Amalek show up to my lecture last night. Baruch Hashem. Gave me the mitzvah. Why? I was able to go against Amalek and destroy him until he ran out. until he ran out. Why? Because what Amalek does is not that he tells you, "Listen, you should drive on Shabbat." No, he doesn't say that. Amalek doesn't say that. Amalek says, "Maybe the driving is not allowed, but playing on the phone is rabbinical. It's rabbinical, so maybe that's allowed." No. Maybe the rabbis are really saying this because of, and he starts manipulating the Torah in such a way that he puts a doubt in your mind on the mitzvot that you're doing. And that's what "Yimach Shemo VeZichro" is doing, in the name of a rabbi. If he was some guy, if he was some Buddhist, saying that homosexuality is a thing, we wouldn't pay attention to him.

3:46:14But because he's doing it in the name of the Torah, and he's saying that this is not a big deal, this mitzvah. So you have 612 other mitzvot you can do. In essence, what you did is you pretty much gave permission to the English-speaking public to just pick and choose which mitzvah you don't think is a big deal, so you can make an aveirah here. You could just decide, oh, that's why Boteach says this one's not good. Well, this one is not relevant to me. But Shabbat is relevant. Okay, wait. So Shabbat is not relevant? Okay, so stealing. So murder. So this, so that. In essence, you just destroy the entire Torah. So that's why it's our obligation as Jews to fight against it. The fact that many people don't, that's nothing to say. I have an obligation. Rabbi Mizrachi has an obligation. Rabbi Anava has an obligation. You have an obligation. That's it. Anyone that wants to fulfill the obligation... is simply rewarded for it. Anyone that does, Hashem finds something else. And that's where I'll finish and go to the next question. It's not that we have a merit, that we're great, or that we're special, or you're special. No. The only thing that we have is free choice to choose whether we are going to be the vessel that Hashem does whatever He wants anyway. Hashem is going to run the world with or without us. He's perfect. Anyone that tells you otherwise, go fail.

3:47:33Hashem is going to bring point A to point B regardless, whether I exist or I don't exist. The only choice I have is whether I choose to be the vessel that Hashem is going to use. Use me as the donkey to bring the message to Bilaam. I'll be a donkey. Why? Donkey is in the Torah, not in the Torah. I want to be a donkey. Why? Because a donkey... So, if Hashem opens my mouth and gives you the message, that's what my choice is. You have the same choice. The point is, Rabotai, everybody has the same choice. Are you going to be the messenger? Are you going to be the mailman that delivers the truth? Or are you going to say, "Ah, somebody else is going to do it. Somebody else is going to do it. Somebody else is going to do it." But you're not going to get the zechut. So that's, in essence, what our job is in the world. All of us. Any? Okay, just one last question because we have to pray. One final question for tonight. You're too young. You're too young for our seminary. You're too young for the seminary.

3:48:52The seminary? No, no. The seminary has daily classes. The seminary has daily classes that the local women come and enjoy every day. There are women who come for a month, for three months, for two months. And there are women who come in organized groups. If they come for a week or ten days, that's usually every two months as a group. And the group is private. Excuse me? Yes, some people, some ladies come and they rent an Airbnb for three months and they come to classes whenever they want, however they want; they build their own schedule. The seminary is built for mature women. Today, a young lady that wants to learn Torah goes to a seminary in Yerushalayim. If you're 28, 35, 62, you have nowhere to go. It's a fact, no? Yeah. You have nowhere to go. A lot of our students are in their 60s, 50s, and 70s. We have a student, she's 79 years old. Where does a 79-year-old woman go when she wants to learn Torah? She's one of our best students. And, of course, there are young ones in their 50s. We have the exact same thing for men also. But a lot of the women, they come and they live there and they come every day to classes. Some take two classes a day, some take ten classes a day. A lot of the classes are not taught by me. Now I'm gone for two weeks. The classes are still running. A lot of women, they come, they can't take too much time off. They come for ten days a week. There are organized groups.

3:50:15When I'm gone, there are other teachers, there are other rabbis, and there are other female teachers. The sad reality is that people come because they want me. If I'm not there, people are upset. But whatever, listen, I have an obligation also for the rest of the students, b'ezrat Hashem. Who's next? Who wants one, Tziti?

3:51:22Amen. Amen. Amen.