HAPPINESS In A World of Lies (MUST WATCH)

0:20you see, everything is made from atoms. Now, these atoms are really, really small—you can't see them with the naked eye. But if you take a microscope, a really fantastic and expensive one, you can see the atom. Now, you're going to look into the atom itself. The atom, what is this atom? It's a couple of little dots—a proton, an electron, a neutron—all these few different things, scientific terms. In essence, they're spinning, spinning, spinning really fast. everything is made from atoms. Now, these atoms are really, really small; you can't see them with the naked eye. But if you take a microscope—a really fantastic, expensive microscope—you can see the atom. Now, you're going to look into the atom itself. Now, the atom, how come you know what is this atom? It's a couple of little dots, a lot of a couple of dots: proton, electron, neutron—all these few different things, scientific terms, all these things—and in essence, they're spinning, spinning, spinning really fast and spinning really fast in order to connect to each other and make up what it is now. But if you look

1:26Inside the actual atom itself, you'll see that 99% to 99.9% of the atom is actually empty space. The only reason it looks solid—this phone looks solid, this CD looks solid, I look solid, everything looks solid—is because the atom is spinning so fast that you cannot tell; you cannot see the emptiness. What is it like? It's like a fan. Have you ever seen a fan? When it's working at full speed, it looks like a single blade. But once you stop it, you suddenly discover it had five blades. Now, when it spun, it looked like a single blade. So what happened? Did it change to five blades? No, it was always five blades. But because of the speed, it looked like a single blade. It's the same thing with us. Because of the speed of the atom spinning, it looks like we're really solid. When, in reality, all of creation is 99% completely empty. Nothing. To such an extent that scientists have theorized that if you actually take the real mass that actually exists in the entire universe, you could put it all into a box of matches. That's what actually exists. Most of it is completely empty space. Now, even when they discovered this and discovered the atom, it was a breakthrough; it was extraordinary. Wow, empty space, great. They figured they found one of the secrets of creation. But then you fast forward to recent times, and better microscopes and technology came out and discovered, guess what? Those few dots, that electron, that neutron, that proton, all that stuff that you thought was spinning, if you look inside them, meaning you need an even better, better, better microscope, you look inside those pieces, you will see that those pieces themselves have little spinning things and that whole thing repeated again, and they themselves are 99% empty space.

2:50...and better microscopes and technology came out and discovered, guess what? Those few dots, that electron, that neutron, that proton, all that stuff that you thought was spinning, if you look inside them, meaning you need an even better, better, better microscope, you look inside those pieces, you will see that those pieces themselves have little spinning things, and that whole thing is repeated again, and they themselves are 99% empty space. Meaning we even have less. Less than what we thought. Much less. Why does it all still look the same? Because HaKadosh Baruch Hu calls this world Alma Deshikra. The world of lies, everything is an illusion. Everything is an illusion. You think that you're in love, the next thing you know, you hate her. You think that you're rich, the next thing you know, you're broke. You think that you're smart, the next thing you know, everything you believe is a lie. Everything is false. Everything is upside down. The people that are the most wicked sometimes are leading the show. The people that are the most righteous look like they're homeless. Everything is upside down in this world. For a moment of pleasure, a person is willing to give everything up for it, but when he realizes that it was a mistake, it's already too late.

4:00It's already too late. It's a world of lies. This, Rabotai, is one of the most important lessons to understand: that everything in this life is an illusion. Meaning that you shouldn't fall for it. Don't fall for these desires where in your mind it seems like it's worth it to be with that person without marriage, to take that stuff that doesn't belong to you, to say that stuff that shouldn't be said. All of that stuff looks... like it's delicious, looks like it's pleasurable, but Hashem says it's all an illusion. It's all an illusion. When you're going to find out, the second you do it, you're going to realize it's not worth it. Every single time a man or a woman acts immorally. the second they start, okay, they're in their crazy place. But the second they stop, all of a sudden, all the questions come. All the doubts come. Ah, should I have done that? Should I have let him touch me, this person who is not my husband? Should I have let him? Should I have eaten that? Should I have gone there? Why do you have all those doubts? Why do you have all those doubts? How come you didn't have those doubts beforehand? Because beforehand,

5:15Your mind was clouded by all of the illusion. Ah, but it's really good. It's really delicious—animal instinct. Once you got it out of the system, all of a sudden, that illusion's gone because you saw what it is for real. So now you got clarity. Now you can finally think, "I'm not going to let this person touch me. No, I'm not going to do this. No, I'm not going to take that. It's not mine." Now you have clarity. So, HaKadosh Baruch Hu created this world in a certain way where you have the opportunity to see the creation itself and appreciate the Creator, but also learn about the Creator. He tells you this world is full of lies, meaning that it's full of things that are going to tempt you to go against Me. Why? That's where free choice comes in. I'm going to give you all of the opportunities to go against Me. just as many opportunities to go with Me. You'll have just as much chance if you go against Me. You think you'll enjoy this life if you go with Me; you're definitely going to enjoy this life and the next. And that's why it's a very, very important question.

6:33that is in the minds of everybody that has done teshuva or is doing teshuva, and if they haven't done it completely, they always look at their past. Uh, before I started keeping Shabbat, I used to go here, I used to go there, and... They start sometimes doubting their life, their religious life, because their Yetzer Hara only gives them a memory of the good parts of their secular life. They remember when they had money. They don't remember the part when they lost all of it. They remember when they went on vacation. They don't remember that when they went on vacation, they got sick, and they were vomiting six out of the seven days they were away. They remember that they worked for this company. They don't remember when they got fired and embarrassed in front of 500 people. So the Yetzer Hara gives you the illusion about your past, making you think that maybe your past is better.

7:37Then you're present. Maybe your past, when you were secular, going against Hashem every day, but you didn't care, you enjoyed the world. But in reality, you had just as many, if not more, problems than you have today. Judaism did not increase your problems. In fact, it did the opposite. But many people give themselves the illusion, or they think that before they did teshuva, their life was better. This is the opposite of true. Opposite of true. Why do you have this? You have this because you still have not committed. You still have not committed to abandon your past. As long as you have not committed to abandon your past, you're always going to have regrets. You're always going to have this shtuyot, this dust in your mind of the past, but only the good parts. You know, it's like people who put in their Facebook profiles and different online profiles only the good parts of their life. They're never going to tell you about, they're never going to give you a picture of when somebody smashed their car and ran away. They're never going to give you a picture of when somebody embarrassed them

8:43Or they got into a fight with their spouse, or their kids cursed them out. They're never going to give you a picture of that or a video of that. What are they going to give you? Oh, they went on vacation. Oh, it's a family picture. Everybody looks so happy. Everybody's dressed up. They're not going to show you the picture of five minutes later when the kids spilled ketchup all over their clothes and ruined everything. They're not going to show you a picture of that. They're going to show you a picture of the nice stuff, the moments. That's the Yetzer Hara. The Yetzer Hara only gives you the memory of the moments. The moments of good. Now you are, in essence, enabling the Yetzer Hara by not committing a hundred percent, by not getting to a point where you realize, listen, in the past, all of it was bad. Even the good was bad because even the good was against Hashem. There's no good without HaKadosh Baruch Hu. The good you had was against Hashem. How could it be good? They say, oh yeah, no, but I was, you know, I was eating. I was eating. Okay, what about if you find out that you were eating your kid like they did in the Holocaust? It's still good? Delicious? You got satiated? It's good? No, right? No, but I was, you know, I was making money. What if you find out that all the money you were making was actually because people were selling bodies from Planned Parenthood?

10:01selling abortion babies and you realize all the money you made came from that. Still good, that money you're making? Still delicious? You still like it? No, right? What about the rest of the things? Oh, she was so good. We had such a good time. What if you find out that she was somebody else's mother, somebody else's wife, and she was ruining her marriage with you? Still good? Still like it? Are you still happy about the relationship? Oh, I love him so much. We had such a good time. What if you find out you ruined his marriage that he had while he was with you, and you ruined his kids, and one of his kids committed suicide because his father cheated on his wife, and he jumped off a bridge because he couldn't handle a divorce? And you're the one, you cute little girlfriend, who caused this. Are you still happy about this relationship? No. How come? Because once you find out that it was all an illusion, and the only memory that you have was of the small little tiny good moment, but in reality, even that good is bad. Even that good was bad. There is no good without Hashem. There is no good without Hashem. There is no good without Hashem. So once a person understands that their entire past was a complete lie, nothing good,

11:13Everything was against Hashem. Now I can start living. Why? Because every day I wake up, I say, I have Hashem. Hashem is with me. Hashem loves me. Hashem gave me life. Another word. Okay, so there are a few things that are a problem. A few things, this doesn't work, that doesn't work, this is annoying, that's annoying. Okay, but this is good too. What? I'm with Hashem. People always say, oh, do you still have any money? I tell them, you didn't watch the end of the show; I lost everything. Ah, wow, that's too bad. I say, no, the best thing that ever happened to me is losing every single penny. She goes, what do you mean? How does that make any sense? I say, I didn't have Hashem; don't you understand? Don't you understand? Don't you understand? All the money in the world, you tell me right now, I'll give you a hundred million dollars, go back to Wall Street. I say, thank you. Give it to somebody else. A billion dollars, I wouldn't go back to my life. Billion, give me a billion cash, put it on tons and tons of tables, on top of tables. Go back, violate one Shabbat for a billion dollars? I tell you, give it to your mother. You insulted me like this. You think I'm going to go against Hashem for a billion dollars? Go back to being Mechalel Shabbat. Are you insane? Until you get to a point where you're disgusted with your past.

12:24You're always going to have these doubts in your mind. Ah, but I used to have this boyfriend. Ah, I used to have this girlfriend. Ah, I used to have money. Ah, I used to have this. You still never left. You're like, you know, you're like a half, you know, you're like a fish that's half-cooked. You're not sure if you're going to get sick or not. You're not sure. And that's what happens until you get to a point where you have a clear understanding... A life without Hashem is not a life. Hashem says it's called death. It's death. If you are jealous of secular people, you haven't completed your teshuva. You haven't even begun your teshuva. You haven't begun your teshuva. You're impressed by these rich people that are rich Jewish people that are famous celebrities and they're going against Hashem? You're jealous of them? You haven't begun the teshuva yet.

13:24Because you still think a life without God is an option for you, which means you have no idea what you have. You have no idea what you have. Being in the loneliest little environment in the world, by yourself in a room, with a little bit of bread to eat every day and a Sefer Torah, is much better to the infinite power than the richest man on the planet. The richest man on the planet doesn't have Hashem. You're in your little room. Every day, all you eat is one little, you know, three-day-old piece of bread. That's what you eat. But you have a Sefer Torah with you. You keep Shabbat, you keep Mitzvot. You have a little room, a little shack, nothing. Bottom of a barrel. You live in like a half a sewer, half a house. You have a much better life than the guy that has a hundred billion dollars a month. You don't realize it? You're poorer than dirt. Even with the money, without the money, you have no idea. You have no concept.

14:26Why? Because you still think that the illusion is true. You think that this is really solid. I just told you, it's not solid. It's all 99.9% nothing. You want to go verify, go on Google, they'll tell you too. Rabbi Google is good. Knows science, knows everything. But Rabotai, you have to stop. You have to stop believing the illusion. Now, this takes work. This takes time. This takes a lot of reflection. Analyze yourself. You have to know yourself. Most important, you've got to stop. Stop looking everywhere. Stop looking at everybody's pocket. Stop looking at everybody's face. Stop looking at what everybody else has. Stop. Stop looking at everything. Grass always looks greener. Always looks greener, but it's an illusion. It's an illusion. Everything is an illusion. You look at yourself. You look at your Sefer Torah. You look at HaKadosh Baruch Hu. Nobody in the world is happier than you. But that's why you're going to see people that have trillions of dollars, billions of dollars, all types of things that people think are good, and they're the most miserable people on the planet.

15:37commit suicide. They are addicted to drugs. They're addicted to alcohol. They're addicted to all types of things. Why are they addicted? Why are they absolutely addicted? Because all of these addictions are forms of escape from their reality. Because their reality is not like the illusion. Their reality is horrible. You're going to see them laugh in a picture, but not in life. You're going to sit and celebrate for a moment, but not in life. In life, they're addicted to a bunch of different things. They're constantly looking for new hobbies and new things to do to occupy time. I know this. I used to be one of them. You do stuff just to keep yourself busy. Oh, I'm going to go to the mall. Why? Oh, I'll just go shop around. What do you mean shop? You have nothing to do in your life? Go shop around? That's it. No, I'm gonna go to my friend's house for what? To have some coffee and chitchat. That's it. What are you talking about? Oh, I talk about another friend who didn't show up. Wow, I'll talk about politics. Thank you about politics. What do you think? Your opinion matters? That if you guys have a really good conversation, a really good debate about who should be president, they're gonna give you a call. Ah, we chose him. We're gonna pick the next president because he won the argument.

16:50People have all these discussions about politics, about this, about that. For what? Wasting their life. There's nothing smart coming out of their mouths. I was on the way back from shul on Shabbat, and I heard these two teenagers who were walking in front of me. They were having a conversation between themselves. Hashem, I didn't know what to do with myself. But, you know, their father was behind me, so I didn't necessarily have an opportunity to talk to these two kids. But the two kids are walking back from shul. Now, what are you going to talk about? You just finished shul and Shabbat. You were in shul for three, four hours. At the least, what are you going to talk about? Talk about parasha, talk about, you know, talk about food. I don't know, talk about something, you know, connected to Shabbat. You were in shul for three, four hours. Or parasha, Gemara, something. What are you going to talk about? One kid tells the other, he goes, you know, when you sleep a little too much, the more you sleep, the worse your breath becomes. This is the conversation of two kids from yeshiva. They're going to talk about Shabbat.

17:51And I couldn't help myself. I'm reading a little book, but I hear this. You know, they're next to me. So I'm reading a little thing. I walk around, I read a little book. And I'm thinking, what? Did he just say that? And that's the conversation between two kids: "The more you sleep, the worse your breath becomes." I said, I think I just became stupider. I have to use this in a lecture, so at least maybe Hashem will, like, unpunish me. Because now it became, you know, for the purpose of shiur Torah. Give these two boys something. Their stupidity was used for Torah. But this is what people talk about. Oh, you want to come over for coffee? Sure. What do you want to talk about? Oh, we'll talk about, you know, the next door neighbor. We'll talk about the economy. We'll talk about all that type of stuff. For what? Nothing. No purpose. No form of wisdom whatsoever comes out of people's minds. No form of wisdom. It's just do nothing, act about it. It's sad. It's sad. That's why, rabotai, when you have HaKadosh Baruch Hu for real, you know how you know? You know how you know that you have HaKadosh Baruch Hu? You become like David HaMelech, a small version. David HaMelech says, Hashem, I love your Torah so much, all day it's my conversation.

19:12All day it's my conversation. All I talk about is You. I talk about Hashem all day. I talk about Torah all day. Now, of course, once in a while, you've got to take care of the bills. "Oh, honey, we've got to take care of this bill." And there are little mundane things you have to do to live, to survive in this world. "Okay, did you buy some salt? Did you buy some milk?" You have to do that just to live in life. But the majority of your life is not this. What do you do with the rest of the time? What do you do with the rest of the time? You talk about baseball. You talk about the stock market. You talk about the money you don't have. You talk about the... What do you talk about? Shtuyot. Okay, so you don't have Hashem mamash. How do you have Hashem? You have Hashem when all you talk about is Him. That's when you know you have HaKadosh Baruch Hu. All you want to talk about is HaKadosh Baruch Hu. All you want to learn about is HaKadosh Baruch Hu. You don't care about all the shtuyot in the world. All you care about is HaKadosh Baruch Hu. And that's why... The closer you are to Hashem, the further you become from the people that are not. And that is one of the growing signs of your teshuvah. When you see that the closer you become to Hashem, the less you have in common with the people from your past. Even if you grew up with them for 20, 30, or 40 years.

20:29Your best friend, your brother and sister, even your mother and daughter, whatever it is. But until that point, before you started doing teshuvah, you guys were on the same level. But then, you started progressing. All you want to talk about is more shiurei Torah, another shiur Torah, another chidush, another parashah, another gemara, another story about tzaddikim, more about Hashem, more about emunah, more about bitachon. All you want is this. The more you get, the more you want because you see how beautiful it is. It gives your life a meaning. You're developing your mind, you're developing your life. You start feeling there's a purpose to your creation. Everything starts making sense, everything starts having a value, and then your friend still wants to talk about the weather. Ah, so, you know, it took me 15 minutes to get here today—not 14 minutes like yesterday. Why? Because I took the I-95 last time, but this time I took the turnpike. One of the lowest forms of conversation is talking about your traffic, of how you went from one place to the other. This is like the number one conversation that starts off, you know, when you get to somebody. Oh, so how long did it take you to get here? Ah, 45 minutes. Ah, 45 minutes? Crazy. Took me 30 minutes last time. 30 minutes? How'd you go? Turnpike. Ah, no, I took I-95. Ah, sheesh.

21:41You know, you should listen to me. You should listen to me. I took the turnpike. No, so next time, oh, this time I took the turnpike and it took me an hour. Oh, yeah, because on Thursdays there's traffic. You should have asked me. And that's what they talk about. They talk about traffic. They talk about traffic. You should go to my guy. He knows the road. You should use this app. Use this app. What, use Google? No, I use Maps. And they talk about nothing. Nothing. Empty like the atom. Nothing. Why? They have no HaKadosh Baruch Hu. How could you have anything? How could you have anything if you don't have HaKadosh Baruch Hu? It's like a little mouse running around. Even the mouse is like, you know what? I'm going to sleep. Heck with you. You won't even talk about traffic. You don't need me for traffic. Do it yourself. The app you downloaded this week, you're running out of space on your phone that you're talking about.

22:42Talking about running out of space on the phone? David HaMelech says, "I love Your Torah so much. All day I talk about it. All day. All day I love Your Torah. All day." Okay, so I have to take care of the bills, and I have the kids, and you have the wife, and you have the husband, and you have basic stuff you have to do. But, at every single free moment that you're not dealing with the mundane... All day, HaKadosh Baruch Hu. All day. All day. Sometimes you're talking to help somebody, give them chizuk. Sometimes you're talking about it for yourself. Sometimes you're learning something new. Sometimes you're repeating something again that you've learned already. Sometimes you're telling something to somebody else. Whatever it is, but all the time you're involved in it. That's a life. That is priceless. Priceless. If you know what it feels like. People that live in the world of lies think that if you have money, or you have a house, or you have a certain woman, or a certain man, or certain possessions, that that's better. Well, once you get to that point and you have all that stuff, you realize it's not only not better, it's actually worse. Because the poor guy has the hope that one day when he's rich, he'll be happier; the rich guy knows that the money means nothing and...

24:08And he has nothing to look up to, nothing to look forward to. That's why rich people are the only ones that have a problem with suicide. Poor people usually don't commit suicide because they still have hope. HaKadosh Baruch Hu is telling us, you don't have to commit suicide, whether you're poor or you're rich. You don't have to become addicted to drugs, whether you're poor or you're rich. You don't have to become addicted to immorality, whether you're poor or you're rich. The only addiction, the only addiction that you should have that's highly recommended is HaKadosh Baruch Hu. Become addicted to Hashem. Learn as much as possible about Hashem and you will see a life that everyone is going to become jealous of because you're going to be the only one that's going to walk around like you know what's going on. Everyone is in a panic. 30 missiles. You're walking around like, what? What are you guys scared of? What's happening? What? You didn't hear? Iran declared war. So, why are you so scared? Why, you come to your house? No, but maybe it's going to come. Why are you not scared? It's my Father who did it. What do you mean why I'm not scared? Why would I be scared when I tell my Father what to do? My Father is the one that shot the missiles.

25:34What do you mean your father's Iranian? No! HaKadosh Baruch Hu, you moron! HaKadosh Baruch Hu! HaKadosh Baruch Hu shot the missiles. HaKadosh Baruch Hu shot the missiles. What do you mean? Why am I going to tell HaKadosh Baruch Hu what to do? When you're with HaKadosh Baruch Hu all the time, none of this stuff, none of this anxiety exists. There's no existing anxiety. You may get annoyed here and there, but anxiety doesn't exist. You're annoyed because you're not 100%. You're less. You have issues. But the point is, Rabotai, I'm telling you, I'm telling you, I'm telling you. The only thing in the world you need is HaKadosh Baruch Hu. The more HaKadosh Baruch Hu you have, the richer you are. Everything else becomes meaningless. Whether you have money or you don't have money, it doesn't make a difference. You have money, you start looking at it like it's a hammer. Okay, so we have money now. Let's buy more mitzvot. More HaKadosh Baruch Hu with this money. Let's bring more HaKadosh Baruch Hu with this money. You have a car, okay, how can we use this car to get close to HaKadosh Baruch Hu? Can we drive to heaven? No, we can't, but we'll drive to the shul to get other people to come closer to heaven. Okay, we'll use this car for HaKadosh Baruch Hu. Oh, this house, okay, how can we use this house for HaKadosh Baruch Hu? Oh, put Torah pictures all over and get the kids to start repeating, start singing in the house, Adon Olam. You know, that's what you do in the house. What do you mean? That's what you do in the house, for the house for HaKadosh Baruch Hu. You start looking at things, thinking, how can I connect to HaKadosh Baruch Hu?

27:02That's what you do. Why? Because you realize it's the best thing in the world. But when you don't have HaKadosh Baruch Hu, you start, you look for emptiness. You're looking for a car. You get the car. Okay. Now I have the car. What do I do? Oh, drive the car. Yeah, but I was really a lot more excited about this car before I bought it. Now I want to return it. Why? I don't know. I want a new car. Because I already have this car for a month. That's what happens with rich people. You buy a car. You get the car. You're excited. You're excited before you get the car. You finally get the car. You waited a year for this car because it's like one of those fancy-schmancy cars. You're on a waiting list for a year. You tell all your friends you're on a waiting list. Oh, you're not on a waiting list? Oh, you should be on a waiting list. Wait, wait, wait. Finally, you get the car. Ten minutes after you get the car, you're bored already. Why? It still drives. nothing changed, okay? The house took you three years to build. In the kitchen, you got the marble from Italy and the floor from Jamaica. And the ceilings are from various parts. Finally, you built the house, and next, you know, okay, you still sleep in a bed, you still go to the bathroom in the toilet, and you're still using a little stool to eat. That's it, same thing. House finished, yeah? What about all that fancy stuff you have? You have a...

28:17fountain that comes out and the lights and the beams and the movie theater. You go, I don't use that stuff. I don't use that stuff. Why don't you use that stuff? Who has time? Who has time to use the fountain and the bowling alley? Who has time for that stuff? I go to sleep in the bed. I go to the bathroom in the toilet. And you eat on a little stool with a little plate, a plastic plate because you don't feel like washing your dishes. The whole house, a million-dollar house, five-million-dollar house, ten-million-dollar house becomes meaningless a week after you're in it. A week after you're in it. I know I had it. I had a $4 million apartment on the 35th floor, with a 400-square-foot balcony. My apartment was bigger than most people's houses. It meant nothing. So little it meant to me. Even at that time, I never really cared for that stuff. I didn't even care to buy window shades. Who has time to buy window shades? People came to me and said, "Oh, you just moved here?" I'm like, "No, I've lived here five years already." Because where's the furniture? I said, "Well, it's time to buy furniture." Nice house, though. Yeah, nice house. Nice house. Meaningless. Meaningless. It's all meaningless. People chase their whole life. They chase. They chase money. They chase girls. They chase guys. They chase cars. They chase. And they chase the emptiness of the atom. They chase nothing. That's the worst part of life without HaKadosh Baruch Hu. Your whole life, you're chasing nothing.

29:42Your whole life, you're chasing nothing, nothing. You chase money, you have it, so what? You have money, what do you think? If you have money, you have $10 million, $20 million, what do you think? You count the money all day like Uncle Scrooge in the cartoons? One, two, what do you think? You swim in it, you have a little cave, and you go and jump inside it with a gold coin? No, it's in a bank, it's digital. You have an account on a computer, look on your phone, okay, whether you have $3,000 like me or you've got $400 million, you can still have the same account on the phone. It still means nothing, it's still digital. You don't even have the cash anymore. Who walks around with a million dollars? Nobody's nothing, okay? You need to buy stuff because you use PayPal, use the credit card to use some application to go buy something, or you buy something, big deal. But what did you give up for that money? You give up your wife, you give up your kids, you give up your life, you give up everything. You're 80 years old by the time you want to spend the money, and you die meaningless. That's the worst part of the alma de'shikra. That's the worst part of the world of lies. Your whole life, you're chasing nothing. And you only realize it's nothing when it's too late. On the other hand, you could be like Yehoshua here. He already started doing teshuva three, four years ago. Four years ago when I met him, Baruch Hashem. He has Torah already right now. He already knows what the emet is right now. He already knows what he wants right now. That's what we gotta be. We gotta be like Yehoshua.

31:06We gotta keep learning Torah all day, all night. Why? Because the more you learn, the more HaKadosh Baruch Hu you have. The more HaKadosh Baruch Hu you have, that's the point, that's life, that's everything. Money, no money, okay, it's another adom. It's another adom, that's it, that's all it is. That, I think, is the most important question and important answer. That you have to understand. Without HaKadosh Baruch Hu, HaKadosh Baruch Hu says you're simply walking dead. There's no life. Why? Whatever you're chasing, you're going to find out that once you get it, it was a trap. It was nothing. You chased it, you got it, you're bored. You need something else. Rabbi Yochanan says, there's an eiver katan, In the body, there's a small member in the male body. Someone that feeds it is always hungry. Someone that starves it is full. He says, what is that? It's the male sexual member. It's the male member. Why? He says, the more you satiate it, the more you use your male member, you're always going to need more and more and more and more girls, more you, more this, more and more. It's never going to be enough until you kill yourself.

32:32If you starve it, you only do it at a time with your wife, and she's kosher, she went to the mikveh, and so on. Guess what? You're always going to be happy. You're always going to be content. You're never going to complain about that part of your life. Every time you're together, it's going to be like you're the happiest person in the world. Yeah, but how come this superstar in Hollywood is replacing wives every other day? What happened? Because he's constantly satiated, he's constantly seeking more, he never has enough. And that's what the Gemara says, and that's what Rebbe Nachman of Breslov says. A person who is promiscuous, a person who is immoral, what happens? First, he starts with himself, then he's promiscuous with the opposite sex. When that's not enough, when it's not taboo enough, he starts engaging with the same sex. Then, when that's not enough, he starts attending these protests, these gay pride parades. And after he realizes that's still not enough, he starts engaging with animals. There are over 3 million people, 1% of the U.S. population, who admit that they're with animals. They're intimate with animals, like Bil'am HaRasha, like Nebuchadnezzar. In the Torah, in the Tanakh, there's nothing new. Homosexuality is nothing new. Bestiality is nothing new. It's in the Tanakh. All these reshaim, Nebuchadnezzar would go with a homosexual constantly and, on top of it, with animals. Belshazzar, his wife was a dog. Bil'am, his wife was a donkey.

33:54Why would a king, so powerful, a multi-billionaire, go with a donkey? Why would he go with a dog? Why? Because, Rabotai, the Torah says, if you don't have emet, you're going to constantly look for more, more, more, more of nothing. More of nothing. When in reality, all you need is HaKadosh Baruch Hu. You have HaKadosh Baruch Hu, you listen to His rules, you're going to know how to treat every part of your body, every part of your mind, every part of your life, and you're always going to be happy. Always. Stress is only something that people who do not have the God of Israel experience. If you have stress, it means you have a little less Hashem. It doesn't mean you don't have anything at all, but the more stress you have, the less God you have. The more God you have, the less stress you have. It doesn't mean you don't have any problems. No, you have problems. But you know, God's the one that gave them to you. So it's a little more God today. You have extra God today. You have extra Hashem today. Why? Because I gave you more problems today. Stop asking me for more. That's what you've got to get to. You've got pain? I've got more pain, I've got more Hashem. Hashem wants my attention. I'm suffering in pain. Baruch Hashem. You care enough about me to remind me that I have an arm, that I have a leg, that I have a back, that I have a stomach. Because it all hurts. I forgot. I forgot I had a stomach until it hurt. I forgot I had a back until it hurt. Who thinks about their back? Did any of you think about your back today? You thought about it. You know why? Because it hurts you.

35:21That's why. That's why he thought about your back. But the average guy didn't think about his back. Why? Because it didn't hurt. You have pain, say, I have an arm. That's why. I know I have an arm. Why? It hurts. Sometimes HaKadosh Baruch Hu gives me such a present, it makes my entire body hurt. I say, I have a body. I have a body. It hurts. How many people wake up in a day and say, Baruch Hashem, I have a body. Most people are like, I need to lose some weight. We need to lose some weight. Lose some weight. You have a body. You have a nose, and it works. You have ears; you have eyes; they work. More HaKadosh Baruch Hu. More HaKadosh Baruch Hu. All of this, Rabotai, starts with recognizing that HaKadosh Baruch Hu is everything. As soon as you realize He's everything, you start fearing. You fear HaKadosh Baruch Hu. Why? Because He's in charge of everything. But the more you have, the more Yirat Shamayim you have, you start getting to know Hashem more. Hashem is involved in every part of your life. You start falling in love with HaKadosh Baruch Hu. You can't skip steps.

36:29You can't skip a step. It starts with the basics and then you, little by little, go up and up. B'ezrat Hashem, one day we'll go up. B'ezrat Hashem, one day we're going to graduate. We're going to do something good in our life. But the reality is you have to start little by little. Little by little. You start with yirat HaKadosh Baruch Hu. The more you have of HaKadosh Baruch Hu, The less you're gonna need from this world. That's why you see the biggest tzaddikim in the world. You see Rav Kanievsky. You see Rav Kaduri. You see his father, the Steipler Gaon. You see Baba Sali. All these big tzaddikim, you see their houses? You'd say maybe a homeless shelter looks better than this house. But you look at them, you look at their face, happiest people on earth. I saw one time, I saw a picture, my friend sent me a picture of a... of Rav Kanievsky learning Torah. And now Rav Kanievsky, you could get a lot of pictures of him learning Torah. But once in a while, you see Rav Kanievsky, he gets a chiddush, and you see how his face lights up. You see his face, and it's like, that's happiness. You're not seeing any parties, any bells, any funny hats. No, no. You see happiness. I said, that's what happiness looks like. Why?

37:45He has HaKadosh Baruch Hu. He has. That's his whole life. It's HaKadosh Baruch Hu. That's it. Now, do you think he got there by not being afraid of Hashem? Do you think he got there by breakdancing in the middle of the streets with his truck? Dun, dun, dun. Rabbi this, Rabbi that. No. He got there by learning Torah, doing mitzvot, and adding more and more of Hashem into his life. The more you have HaKadosh Baruch Hu, the less you care about the house, the jingle bells over here, all the lights, and what light and what shade and what this. Who cares about that stuff? Because you realize it's all nothing. It's all nothing. Can you enjoy stuff? Sure, go enjoy it. No problem. But remember, the more you enjoy this world, the less room you're giving for HaKadosh Baruch Hu. This will give us a little needed lesson. Perhaps I needed it, you needed it, somebody needed it, because I said it and Hashem gives me the words to say. Just give us a needed issue of really what's important in life, because all of us have had these questions either today, yesterday, or tomorrow. All of us have these questions: What's the point? What's the purpose? Why am I here? Why is it so tough? Why is it not tough? Why is it tougher for him? Why is it easier for him? Everybody looks at all types of things. It's reality. This is the answer of all answers. It's the purpose of life. Now you can try it the hard way.

39:09Keep chasing nothing, or you can listen to somebody that had a few things in his life. I tell you, whether you get it or not, nothing is gonna change. Money does not change your problems; all it does is allow you to arrive at your problems in a limo. That's it. The only thing that's gonna change your life in a positive way is that God is going to make you happy. The only thing that's going to give you a purpose is HaKadosh Baruch Hu. That's it. Everything else is a trap. Everything else is emptiness, like the atom. But it looks full. It looks complete. You can keep trying to chase it, but you're wasting time. Why? Why waste time? Learn as much as you possibly can, add HaKadosh Baruch Hu to as many parts of your life as you possibly can imagine. And I promise you, you will not only be the person that's happier, but you'll be the person that everyone admires and everyone wants to be like. Because everyone is looking for what you already have. And that way you could be the biggest...

40:13kirov personality just by your existence. They see you and they want to be like you. They're going to ask you, how are you so happy? How do you manage without money for rent? How are you so happy? Why don't you have any anxiety? Say, I have HaKadosh Baruch Hu. When He wants to give me the money for rent, I'll have the money for rent. Until then, He helps me in different ways. What's the question? Let's give ourselves enough chizuk. Hopefully, you guys enjoyed it as much as I did. Baruch Hashem. Baruch Adonai Le'olam. Amen.