Hurricane Irma EMUNAH SPECIAL. LIVE Facebook Questions & Answers with Rabbi Yaron Reuven

0:16Let's see, let's see. Okay, so, let's see who's live. I'll give you guys some time to get on. Let's see, okay. I see Rebecca. Hi, Rebecca. Hi, Yossi. Baruch Hashem. Ramesh. Tzaddik. Okay. So, hi everyone. Shalom Aleichem. So I'll give you guys some time to get online. I know it takes a little time for everybody to get the notice. But the point of tonight is going to be, I'll repeat this again probably. Hi, how are you, Leah? Leah. The point of tonight, B'ezrat Hashem, is going to be to answer any questions you have. B'ezrat Hashem, Hashem will give me the answers. I know people are worried, whether they live in New York, they live in Florida, or wherever they live. They know somebody, they live here. This whole Hurricane Irma is taking a lot of people by surprise. And we know that the only way

1:40The only way in the world for us to really have no worries, to eliminate worries, is two ways. One, go crazy. Not recommended. Two, connect to Hashem. Much better. Much healthier. So, with Hashem, more Torah, more Torah in the world. That's the most important thing. And I'm going to try to, b'ezrat Hashem, answer all the questions that everybody has with divrei Torah, not my opinion. My opinion doesn't really make a difference. My opinion means absolutely nothing. Hashem's opinion, on the other hand, means everything. Means everything to me. Should mean everything to all of you. And I know it does, because obviously you're here online with me, b'ezrat Hashem. So, we'll wait another minute or two, and then, b'ezrat Hashem, we're going to answer questions live. Whatever questions you guys have, just type them in, and b'ezrat Hashem, I'll do my best to look at everything and try to answer everything. Okay. Let me see. So, just to make sure, I have... Okay, how do you see all the questions?

2:58How are you, Michael? Long time no speak. Everything okay? Let me see if I can answer anything for you. Okay. Just give you guys some more time to show up. I know, Baruch Hashem, we usually have a bunch of people. So it's good. Let me see.

3:59All right. Bechavod, anyone has questions? I mean, I could start with a few things, and then you guys could ask questions maybe about what I'm saying. So, as far as the halachot of being in danger, you know, on Shabbat, also I know that some people are confused about what Rav Kanievsky, shlita, said. I think there's a lot of confusion about that that's really scaring people. Okay, Bechavod, anyone has questions? I mean, I could start with a few things, and then you guys could ask questions maybe about what I'm saying. So, as far as the halachot of being in danger, you know, on Shabbat, also I know that some people are confused about what Rav Chaim Kanievsky, shlita, said. I think there's a lot of confusion about that that's really scaring people. um and uh it's very, uh, quite frankly, it's actually a very irresponsible act by the journalists, whoever was the journalist of that article or that whole release at Yeshiva World. I think what they did to get headlines and to get people to, uh...

5:05to get people to show up and listen to their, you know, go to their website, I think was very irresponsible because what the headline said and what Rav Chaim Kanievsky said were two different things. So I think that's a good way to start. First and foremost, everyone needs to know that pikuach nefesh, when someone is in life-threatening danger, it puts the entire Torah on hold. Everything is on hold. There are only three things in all of the Torah that someone is obligated, not should, but obligated, to die for and not sin. Let's say, for example, someone tells you, "Go murder someone. Go murder someone and then you'll live." You're not allowed to murder anyone. It doesn't matter even... If it's pulling the plug on somebody on their deathbed, and you know they have for sure five minutes left, and they say, "Go pull the plug and eliminate the last five minutes of their life for the sake of saving your own life," you're not allowed to do it. Why? Because your blood is not worth any more than their blood.

6:16Number one. And number two, no one decides other than Hashem who's going to live and who's going to die. Even if the doctor says you only have five minutes or you have five million years, it doesn't make a difference. So, murder. You are not allowed to commit murder under any condition, not even to save your own life. The second thing is idol worship. Someone says go to a church. And pray to JC. Go pray to Buddha. Go pray to some other statue they bought for 15 bucks in Chinatown. Go to, you know, make sure that you include JC in your tefillah. Or we'll kill you. Die. Why? Not allowed to say it. Not allowed to pray to JC. Not allowed to pray to Buddha. Not allowed to pray to idol worship. Meaning that if someone tells you, "Die or pray to JC," die. That's what the Torah says. That's the second thing. So again, the first one is if someone says, "Murder someone or we'll kill you," you have to let them murder you. Why? Because you're not allowed to murder anyone. Next is

7:29Gilui Arayot. Gilui Arayot is a sex crime. This is more relevant to men than women because men, regardless of whether they want to or not, end up enjoying intimacy. And so if someone says, "Go have sex with a married woman who is not your wife, or we'll kill you," you must let them kill you. Let them kill you. Why? It's not allowed. It's not allowed. Go have intimacy with someone forbidden by incest. Go have intimacy with a non-Jew. Anything like that, it's not allowed. Why? Because this is one of the worst sins that you can do against Hashem. So here we see that there are three major sins in Judaism that you're not allowed to commit and you have to die for. But even though Shabbat, for example, is one of the covenants of Judaism and is one of the most important mitzvot in all of Judaism and all of the Torah, that's one of the three things that Hashem said is the covenant between Me and Am Yisrael,

8:35someone tells you either you'll die or you have to go drive on Shabbat. Drive to the hospital to save your life or die. Drive to the hospital to take somebody else to the hospital, not even yourself, or they'll die. Drive to do the mitzvah. Why? Because you are putting Shabbat on hold in order to save a life, and For the purpose of giving this person more time so they could end up keeping more Shabbatot down the road. And this includes saving the life of a Jew and saving the life of a non-Jew. So now, when the people in the video that Yeshiva World made with Rav Chaim Kanievsky, when they asked him a question, many people that watched the video don't speak Hebrew. So apparently they didn't understand. And even some people that speak Hebrew didn't really understand the tone that Rav Kanievsky took. It was really more of answering a Torah question than he was answering something else. Where the guy was telling him in so many words, the first guy said there was one major hurricane a couple of weeks ago that killed a lot of people because they didn't leave in time. Now there's going to be another one.

9:55But it's going to a different place instead of Texas; it's now in a place called Miami. Then the second guy continues, and he says it in Hebrew this time, in clear Hebrew, and he says, you know, people didn't leave, so now if this wind is supposed to come, it's supposed to come on Shabbat. And if they don't leave, they would be in danger. Can they leave? Rav Kanievsky was answering, can they leave on Shabbat? Meaning, can they drive on Shabbat in order to save their life? And the answer is, of course, yes. You didn't even have to go to Rav Kanievsky to get this answer. You don't have to go to Gedolei HaDor. You can just open any halakhic book on Shabbat. It's not a big chiddush here. And that's the question that Rav Kanievsky was answering. He's not saying that you have to leave Florida by default. The only other additive that you could potentially understand out of it correctly is that if the experts...

11:00government officials, meteorologists, scientists, and so on and so forth, all the experts, the known experts, are saying this is an evacuation zone, you must leave, then you have to listen to them and leave even if it's on Shabbat. Even if it's on Shabbat. Why? Because you have to save your life. You must save your life, even if that means that you're going to violate Shabbat. So that's the question that Rav Chaim Kanievsky was answering. He was not saying that everyone who lives in Florida must leave. He definitely did not say that. Any Hebrew speaker would say it. And the only reason why people understood it that way is, number one, because they don't speak Hebrew. And number two, they read the headline from Yeshiva World that was completely irresponsible because they were looking for headlines. They were looking to scare the hell out of people so they can read their article and go to their website and so on and so forth. This is a chillul Hashem. And the fact that something is called Yeshiva World does not mean they're righteous. Because as you guys remember, there are many, many articles that are not very good on their website. For example, the chillul Hashem that happened with Rav Mizrachi less than a year ago. Who publicized it and made a big deal out of it more than anyone else? They did.

12:22So, just because something is called Yeshiva anything, doesn't necessarily mean by default it's tzaddikim. We live in an awful world, surrounded by people that are not exactly what they say they are. So, this is mamash absurd. Absurd that you're putting millions of people in panic already from the hurricane. On top of it, the people are trying to be righteous with Hashem. They go to, where do they go? They're not going to go to a Wall Street Journal website. They're not going to go to a New York Times website. They're not going to go to all these, you know, websites that are against Hashem. What are they going to go to? They go to Yeshiva World. They go to a frum website. A frum website. Figure you're going to get, you know what? I'm going to go to a frum website. I'm going to get real kosher news. What do you get? To'avat Hashem. That's what you get. You get something disgusting in the eyes of Hashem. Why are you lying to people? To get headlines. People are already scared as it is. It's not enough. It's not fair. It's not fair. And I have to call it out as I see it. I had an endless amount of emails and phone calls today and texts and so on from people asking me, "What happened? What's this? What's this? What did he say? What did he say? What did he say?" That's exactly what he said. So, again, halacha, if you're in danger, if you're in an evacuation zone in Florida or anywhere else, you're in an evacuation zone, you must leave. You're not allowed to put your life in danger.

13:48or rely on a miracle. So then people ask me, "Why am I staying in Florida?" The reason why I'm staying in Florida is because I'm not in an evacuation zone. I'm not putting my life at risk. So when you're not in an evacuation zone, you can choose whatever you want. You can choose to stay, you can choose to leave. It's up to you. There's no one thing over the other that you're forced to do based on the laws of the Torah, laws of Hashem. If you want to leave, ashrecha, enjoy, leave. But if you want to stay, stay. I have emunah that Hashem is the same Hashem that's creating this wind, this hurricane, this craziness. And that same hand that created the craziness is also going to protect us. But I'm not relying on a miracle. If you want to stay, stay. I have emunah that Hashem is the same Hashem that's creating this wind, this hurricane, this craziness. And that same hand that created the craziness is also going to protect us. But I'm not relying on a nes. Let's not misunderstand. I'm not in an evacuation zone. If they told us, listen, you must evacuate, my family and I will leave right away, no questions asked. It's not about emunah anymore. It's about not being allowed to put your life in danger. Once the experts say you're in danger, you have to leave. But right now, we're not. Right now, it's a possibility if it's going to arrive here, if it's not going to arrive here, how hard it's going to be once it gets here, and so on. So, this is the important part that we have to start with: everyone has to understand that if you're in an evacuation zone, you must leave.

15:05If you're not in an evacuation zone, then you have a choice. You can leave, you can stay, either way, Hashem understands. So, now that I answered that, let me answer some of your questions. I see there's a few. Baruch Hashem, there's a lot of people that started showing up. So, let me see if I can actually get all these questions. How do I get all these questions? Ah, here we go. Here we go. Okay. Okay. uh... earth, water, wind, and fire. These elements are in control. Please make the question shorter and don't give me a shaylah, please. Thank you, uh... True, people tend to click. Yes, yes, you're right. You're right. Okay, questions. Please make them questions. Rav Mizrachi says that religious media are the biggest slanderers. I agree with Rav Mizrachi. And I agree with you, Jason Kessler. Thank you, by the way. I always see you in the shiurim, ashrecha. I agree they are the biggest slanderers because, again, remember, media is still a business.

16:14Business, unfortunately, is a big yetzer hara for a lot of people. And on the dollar bill, I don't know if you guys have heard from some of my shiurim, on the dollar bill, I don't have a dollar bill on me, but if you look at a dollar bill, it says, "In God We Trust." And unfortunately, many people are confused. They think that the God they're talking about on the bill is the dollar. So, media is a business. And unfortunately, people do anything for this dollar, even if it means lying, cheating, killing, whatever. So, this is a very sad thing. I saw a lot of it on Wall Street. People who used to be friends turned into enemies. For what? For a dollar. Miskenim, poor people. What can we do? Okay. Yes, Yosef, thank you for being with us. Shaul, can you tell me about the toenail of a pregnant woman losing her baby if she steps on it? Oh, okay. So, I mean, this doesn't have much to do with the hurricane, but I'll answer the question quickly.

17:15So the Gemara says that each one of our nails is cited in the Gemara in Masechet Shabbat, page 32b. So it's in one of the Mefarshim. The Gemara says that there's something called a Ruach Ra'ah, which is like a, I guess the literal translation would be an evil spirit, on each one of our hands. Okay, each one of our hands, but it specifically has power. After we wake up, because when someone goes to sleep, according to Gemara, it's the equivalent of 1/60th of death. Part of your neshama leaves your body and goes to Shamayim. It reports all the things that you did today. You tell the Beit Din of Shamayim, "Today I made sins, today I made mitzvot, today I gave tzedakah, today I stole money, today I cheated, today I wasted my time reading the article on Yeshiva World." You know, you tell them what you did.

18:15So that's what happens in Shamayim. So they send you back with, oh, you did all these things, tomorrow's going to be a good day, tomorrow's going to be a bad day, and so on. That's why sometimes you wake up in the morning in a bad mood, nothing happened yet. Why? Because your neshama already knows what happened in Shamayim. You say, tomorrow you're going to have a bad day. That's why, by the way. But anyway, since technically you died, to some extent, this ruach ra'ah... And her name is Bat Melech, the daughter of the king. But what king? Not Hashem Yitbarach. The daughter of the king, meaning the daughter of Satan. And she has power because you, in essence, died to some extent. So what Jews do when they first wake up, and this is really recommended for all people to do, is say, in so many words, "Thank you, the Creator, for bringing back my neshama." bringing back my neshama. You didn't have to, you didn't have to bring back your neshama. So after we say Modeh Ani, we go immediately and we wash our hands

19:24We wash our hands. You have this little jug or cup that Jewish people have. You fill it up and you pour it once on the right hand, once on the left hand, once on the right hand, once on the left hand, once on the right hand, once on the left hand. You know, a little bit on each side. And that way, you rid yourself of this Ruach Ra'ah, this evil spirit that's on your fingernails, by the name of Bat Melech. And that's one thing. Now... one place that you can't get rid of this is on your nails. Your nails have, regardless of what you do, a limited amount of impurity, but especially when they're separated from your body. So when a person takes off their nail... they cut their nail and it falls on the floor, this Ruach Ra gets, in essence, more power because it's only connected to Tumah, it's only connected to something impure, nothing. Whereas at least when it's connected to you, if you're doing mitzvot, it overcomes it. So now if a pregnant woman, who is already considered someone at life risk because being pregnant, just for all men to know, being pregnant is not exactly easy. I've never been pregnant, Baruch Hashem, I look pregnant, but I've never been pregnant.

20:36But, Baruch Hashem, my wife, Baruch Hashem, she gave birth to two kids, and it's amazing. You see, it's not easy. And all men should mamash every day, when you say the morning blessings, when you say, "Thank you for not making me a woman," you should really mean it. Why? Because you cannot carry a baby for nine months. I promise you, you can't. What women do for us to bring children into the world, it's amazing. So a woman is mamash risking her life to create another human being. So she's already at life risk. So when she passes over, she walks over fingernails, that increases the risk and could potentially lead to the woman having a miscarriage. So a person that cuts their nails must not drop them on the floor. They must throw them inside the toilet and flush the toilet. That is the best thing to do. The least you can do is at least throw them in the garbage. But what you're supposed to do is throw them in the toilet and flush the toilet or bury them. No one's going to bury them unless you live on some farm. So the best idea is to just flush them down the toilet because it will be irresponsible for you to cut your nails and chas v'shalom, a woman walks over them and she could be in danger because of you. Again, this is the spiritual, mystical part of the Torah, but nonetheless, it is very much real. Okay, next question.

22:03Shalom from Texas. Shalom. Oh, a lot more questions here. Okay, so there's the question from the top or the bottom? Which ones are the most recent? Okay, 75. Thank you, Torah, I meant for sharing it with 75 people. Someone told me to say, in times of danger. Yes, listen, saying Hashem's name, saying His prayer, saying Tehillim during times of danger is always good. Of course, saying Shema Yisrael is also very good. Learning Torah is very good. A few things you should be doing during this time, any time of danger, but specifically now, because when you're in danger here, you're at home.

23:05Learn a lot of Torah. Less sleep. Even though sleep is part of the Oneg Shabbat, in times like this, you should have a little less sleep and more Torah. More learning Torah. Open your Mussar books. Open your Gemara. Open your Midrashim. Open your Torah. Learn more Torah. We need to bring much more Torah into the world in order to give Hashem. excuse an additional excuse to have mercy on us, can you leave the TV on Shabbat to track the hurricane Michael? I heard some rabbi or someone that calls himself a rabbi say that people can watch TV in order to track the hurricane. Listen, the truth is that as far as TV in general... You're not supposed to have it in your house. Why? Because it's full of shtuyot. If you already have the TV and you have cable, that's already a yetzer hara that you have in your house. That's one. You should know, just as a disclosure, if you have TV, it should not be connected to cable. It should be connected to shiur Torah. But if you already have TV, you already have cable, and you already watch TV and cable, you should know, disclosure number two, you're not allowed to watch it on Shabbat.

24:29Not allowed to watch it ever, especially on Shabbat, because it's not going to help the oneg Shabbat. It's not going to help the oneg Shabbat. It hurts the oneg Shabbat. Now, changing the channels is a strict violation against the Torah. Not allowed to change the channels on Shabbat. But if the TV, let's say for example, Chas V'Shalom, somebody forgot the TV on, on Shabbat, not just now, in general, they forgot the TV on when Shabbat came in. You can't turn off the TV. So what do you do? Nothing. You can't do anything. Why can't you do anything? Because you can't turn off the TV. Don't watch it though. Don't watch it, because it's against the Oneg Shabbat. Now if you happen to watch it, you're looking, oh there was some news that got your attention. News article got your attention: journalists from Yeshiva World that lied about Rav Kanievsky get fired. Let's say the news journalist says something like that. Then you saw it. It's not a violation. It's against Oneg Shabbat, but it's not a violation. Why? Because you didn't do anything. It's like watching, looking at an electric clock. The same thing. So the question of can you leave the TV on for the purpose of knowing where the wind is and

25:46The answer is the following. What's going to save you? You have to ask yourself this question. Let's say you have from 0% emunah to 100%. I'm not talking about you specifically, Michael. I'm talking about everyone. All of Am Yisrael is watching. You have 0% emunah to 100%, let's say. Let's say we're at 1% emunah. We're a little, tiny, little baby emunah. Little baby emunah. At the baby emunah, you just started. Just doing Kriat Shema, first time in your life. Baby emunah. You have TV, you have some newscaster who makes $5 million a year for saying the news that is depressing everyone. And you know that there's a God in Shamayim. Who's going to save your life from this 400-kilometer wind? The newscaster tells you, "Oh, it's next door. Oh, it's next town. Oh, it's coming at 120 miles an hour," or the God that created it. Who's going to save you? Is the newscaster going to save you because he tells you where it is? Does it make a difference where it is? If you know it's next door, if you know it's next town, if you know it's 400 miles, if you know it's 300 miles, it doesn't make a difference. It's not going to help you. It's not going to help you. So all you're going to do is ruin your Shabbat. That's all it's going to do.

27:08So when it comes to emunah, baby emunah, not big emunah, not small emunah, baby emunah, you already know, the same Creator that created this giant wind is the One that can protect you anyway, not the newscaster. So whatever the newscaster does, all he's going to do is get you to ruin Shabbat. Why? Why ruin Shabbat? Turn off the TV. Turn off the TV, have Kiddush, learn Torah, enjoy Shabbat, celebrate extra, sanctify Hashem's name extra. That's the right way to do it. Watching TV, what's it going to do for you? What, you're going to watch people's houses flying near? That's going to help your Shabbat? That's going to help anything? What's it going to do for you? Nothing. So, I am 100% against it. Anyone turning on their TV on Shabbat, number one, because it's already safek as it is of whether it's allowed regardless. No real posek would say yes or no. But two, it serves no purpose. All it serves is you're confirming you have zero emunah. You're not even the baby emunah. You're the zero emunah. You're like, you know, you're like the idol worshiper.

28:25Praise to the idol, and you're watching TV? Why? Because you believe in a newscaster? That's my opinion. This is, again, everyone can do what they want. My opinion is this is a time of danger. We need to convince Hashem that we do believe in Him. We need to convince Hashem that we do have emunah in Him now. We don't have emunah in Him because we want Him to save us. So, watching TV on Shabbat and ruining Shabbat—I don't see a purpose. Next. Okay, so I see it's coming from the top to the bottom. Okay. 90 other people, Baruch Hashem. Hashem has promised that there will be no more Mabul. How come all these hurricanes happen? Oh, it's a good question. Okay, so it says in the Torah that Hashem promised Noach... There's no more Mabul. So why are we having all these hurricanes? Well, the beauty is that this is not a Mabul. This is not a flood. This is just a hurricane. The Mabul destroyed the entire world. This, maybe it's going to destroy a town, maybe it's going to destroy a house, maybe it's going to destroy a Q-tip, you know, that's laying on the street. It's not even close to the Mabul. The Mabul was a flood of water coming from heaven and a flood of water coming from the ground, all in the heat of lava. Meaning anything that touched it, melted it. So all the giants, all the animals, everything that existed at that time, melted into nothing.

29:26This may destroy a town, maybe it's going to destroy a house, maybe it's going to destroy a Q-tip, you know, that's lying on the street. It's not even close to the Mabul. The Mabul was a flood of water coming from heaven and a flood of water coming from the ground, all in the heat of lava, meaning anything that touched it melted. So all the giants, all the animals, everything that existed at that time melted into nothing. This is a wind. This is a little baby. This is a little baby of a baby next to the flood of Noach. So it's nothing to compare. Natural disasters happen. Natural disasters happen. And the reason why natural disasters happen is a couple of things. Number one, it happens because Hashem has to remind us. In the Gemara, the Oral Torah, it says, why did Hashem create thunder? What purpose does thunder serve? It says to scare you. That's actually the reason why Hashem created thunder, to scare you. Why to scare you? Because when you hear thunder, it doesn't matter if you're a big guy, small guy, it doesn't matter who you are, you hear real thunder, you're scared automatically. Because it reminds you how tiny you are. How much of a tiny, tiny little pipsqueak you are. Nothing.

30:43So, natural disasters, in essence, serve the same purpose because it says in the book of Yeshayahu, "The fear of the Almighty, that's His treasure chest. That's His treasure." In essence, the purpose that Hashem created the world is for you to fear Him. So now some people are going to tell you, no, no, I love Hashem, I love Hashem, I want to love Him, I don't want to fear Him. Well, my friend, according to the Torah, it's impossible. It's impossible to love Hashem without fearing Him first. Why? Because as soon as you know that He's the one that created the thunder, as soon as you know that He's the one that created Noach's flood, as soon as you know that He's responsible for the cells that make your eyes work, make your blood work, make your lips work, make your brain work, where if one tiny little protein folds the wrong way, brain dead. If you know, you understand this, you comprehend that Hashem is responsible for all of these atoms in your body, in your universe, continuing to rotate so you continue to function, you know that He's responsible for all of it, of course you're going to fear Him. Who wouldn't? You'd have to be insane not to fear Him.

31:53You'd have to be insane. So, of course, fear comes first. Now, the sages explained to us that the lowest level of fear is the fear of punishment. This is not ideal, but it is a fear nonetheless. And Shlomo HaMelech, the wisest man of all time, says, meaning the beginning of wisdom is fear of the Almighty, meaning you can't even call yourself wise. You could be smart; you could be an architect; you could be a scientist; you could be a doctor; you could be a lawyer; you could be whatever you want. But as far as wisdom is concerned, it is very different than intellect. You cannot consider yourself wise at all until you have fear of the Almighty. The beginning of any wisdom must start with the fear of the Almighty. And now, you have yourself a situation. Fear of the Almighty, I don't want Him to punish me. I don't want the Irma to show up in my house. I don't want anything to happen to my family, to my friends, to this, to that. I don't want anything to happen. So, that's the beginning of fear. The highest level of fear is fear like a marriage fear, like a relationship fear, where, let's say, for example, between a couple.

33:00Normal couple, that's a healthy relationship. They're not scared of each other because they're scared that one is going to beat up the other. That's an unhealthy relationship that should end. But a normal couple that's not abusive is afraid of each other in a sense. They're afraid of offending each other. They're afraid of hurting the relationship. So the husband is not going to disrespect the wife, not because he's afraid she's going to slap him, but because he's afraid to offend her, and if he offends her, it's going to hurt the relationship. So he doesn't want to do that. Same thing with a wife. A wife is not going to want to disrespect her husband because she doesn't want him to be offended by her. So that's the highest level of fear of the Almighty, fearing disrespecting Him, fearing hurting the relationship, the connection you have with Him. And that, the Sages explain to us, is the beginning; the highest level of fear is the beginning of loving God. So all of those people that say, "Oh, I love God, I love God," that means that you're already at the highest level of fear of God. The reality of it is, you didn't even know what the highest level of fear of God is until probably you just heard it now most of the time because 99% of people out there don't teach this. It's just not part of the curriculum, apparently.

34:10Anymore, so this is something very important for people to understand. This whole "I love Hashem" mentality and teachings that you have certain people with peyot teach; it's completely against the Torah. It's just not realistic. It's an unrealistic expectation for someone to be born with love of the Almighty. It's impossible because you have to have both. The sages explained to us that you could have fear of the Almighty but no love, but you can't have love with no fear. It's impossible. So that's when it comes to fear and love of Hashem. Okay, let's actually move on to the next question. Let's see. Okay, so that's the Mabul issue. The latest questions are on top. Oh, okay. So let's see. Two, two, two, two, two. Hi, Jesse in Puerto Rico, how are you? Okay, here, Leah Sosa. If the power goes off by chance, how can you tell it's Havdalah time with no clocks? Okay, so generally the way they used to be able to tell how Shabbat ends is if there are three medium-sized stars in the sky. It's in the Gemara, Masechet Shabbat. It says if there are three medium-sized stars in the sky...

35:32Then that Shabbat ended. Now, today, we don't have the skill set to know what's considered a small star, what's considered a medium-sized star, and what's considered a big star. So, we don't go by this. We go based on the clocks, which the Rabbanim have already fixed for us. We already know when Shabbat will begin and end. pretty much for a very long time ahead of time. So if, let's say for example, Shabbat, if somebody lost power, and they're wondering when Shabbat ends, I would say to be safe, you make sure that there are at least 10 or 15 stars in the sky, Statistically, even if I would say 15 stars in the sky, you know that statistically you should have at least three of them be medium-sized stars. It will probably be later than when Shabbat came in, but it's better to be safe than sorry. It's better to keep Shabbat for an extra half hour or even an hour than to violate Shabbat. The other easier solution is to have a watch. Just have a watch.

36:34That's the other easiest solution. I know people don't wear watches anymore. They have the phone. Like me, I don't have a watch. But if you have a watch, you already know before Shabbat what time Shabbat is going to end. Therefore, you don't have to worry about what someone just made a comment: "What if it's cloudy?" You don't have to worry about stars because the watch solves all those problems. Where is reincarnation in the Torah? I'm Catholic. I never heard of it. Okay. In Catholicism, unfortunately, they believe in idols. They believe in JC as being divine. They believe that Mary was, you know, they believe that JC is God. But Mary was the mother of God somehow. But at the same time, she was the daughter of God. so with all due respect, Timothy, and I appreciate you logging in with us, unfortunately you're in the wrong religion. You must be a wonderful soul that Hashem loves, God loves you, but you're in the wrong place. You have the right amount of worry, but you're worried about the wrong thing. You're worried about the wrong thing because what happens in Christianity and Catholicism is they tell you that the New Testament is a continuation of the Torah, which they call the Old Testament.

37:52The problem is they only teach you the new part because they say that the old part is no longer valid. This, by default, should tell you that the New Testament has something wrong with it. How could it be right and the old be wrong? It cannot be. If it's wrong, then why are you basing it on the old? So everyone knows there's something called a postulate. A postulate means that there are certain things that cannot be, in the sense that, for example... it could potentially be. There are things that everyone agrees to, and certain things that cannot be. So everyone agrees that it's possible that both Judaism and Christianity are right. It's possible. Not likely, but possible. Meaning it's possible that the Torah and the New Testament, the Old Testament and the New Testament are correct. It's possible. Not likely, but possible. It's possible for the Torah to be correct and valid, but the New Testament to be complete toilet paper. Worth nothing. It's possible. It's not possible

39:01For the Torah to be wrong and the New Testament to be right, that's not possible. Why? Because even the New Testament and the believers in the New Testament claim they agree that the Old Testament is correct. So it's not possible for you to say it's correct and then say it's wrong. It's not possible. So... In Catholicism, to finish off this question, you're not going to have the issue of reincarnation simply because they believe that as long as you believe in some guy that died 2,000 years ago, that somehow was God, but he died. I don't know how God dies, what kind of God dies, but I don't know, their god died. As long as this god died, somehow you could do whatever you want. You could be Hitler, murder 50 million people, no problem. As long as you believe some guy died 2,000 years ago, Alaynu alagasi, they say in Arabic. Meaning, on my head, don't worry about it. Bring it all on my head. Whatever you want. This is craziness. This is craziness. So, precious soul, please, Timothy, leave this craziness. Learn Torah. See what happens. You could be a Jew if you want. You could be a Noahide. Keep the seven laws of Noah. That's all common sense. Don't murder. Don't commit adultery. Don't have idols, and so on and so forth. The seven laws of Noah. We love you. We'll help you. You'll get blessed from Hashem. You have the real God. You're not going to have crazy questions like this. Why? Because if there's no reincarnation,

40:23If there's only one shot at this world, if there's only one shot in the world, then you can't see that God is merciful. Because even a parent, even a teacher, even a police officer, as wicked as they are these days, everyone knows there has to be some type of second chance. If a kid breaks something, you're not gonna put him in a box and... If a kid makes a mistake, you're not going to put him in a box and say, you know, everyone knows. So, to say there's only one chance at life... There's one chance at life, and if you screw it up, that's it. To hell with you. It's not right. Of course, there are certain sins that put you in a really, really bad situation. But a merciful God, of course, is going to give you a few chances at least. Unless you made certain sins that are just, you know, horrible, horrible, beyond horrible. So, this is the problem that you have with the New Testament, is that, in essence, they're giving you one chance to do nothing. Which is the reason why they tell you to do nothing.

41:26Because if you actually had to do something, other than believe in Jesus, then by default, everyone would fail. Because even Shlomo HaMelech, which you believe in also, King Solomon, says there's no such thing as a righteous person who doesn't sin. So you see, these are just some of the things that are contradictory between the New Testament and the Torah. and the Old Testament. This is the difference between the Old Testament being divine and the New Testament being man-made. That's why there are over 200,000 copies of it and different versions of it. Okay, next. I can only hope Mar-a-Lago gets cleaned from... Okay, whoever you are, I have no idea what you're saying. Hi Rabbi, what's going on in the world right now? The hurricane catastrophe we're experiencing now is a sign that Mashiach is going to come soon, and we should do teshuva before his arrival. Well, Gabriel, whether the hurricanes are a sign of Mashiach or not, we're not sure. We do know that in the Gemara, it does say that there are going to be certain strange events that happen at the end of times. Natural disasters, ruchot, which are big winds, kolot, which are big sounds, both of which I'm sure all of you have heard of before. There are strange sounds around the world. There was just one recorded in Iran.

42:55where there was the sound of a horn, like a shofar, just in the middle of the sky with nothing. And this stuff has been reported already for a couple of years all over the world. So regardless of whether there's a hurricane or not, it's definitely messianic times. The Mashiach is definitely around the corner. Whether he's going to show up on Monday morning, in five years, or in ten years, we don't know. We're not allowed to specifically pinpoint a time. We are expected and obligated to expect him on any given day, meaning we are expecting him every day. We're repenting every day for all our sins. We're trying to get closer to Hashem every day. We're trying to fix ourselves every day. The most important part of fixing yourself, according to the Torah, is to work on your character traits. Because you can't be righteous with flawed character traits. You can't be righteous if you're an angry little Hulk. You can't be righteous if you're a stingy little Scrooge. You can't be righteous if you're an immodest woman. You can't be righteous if you're doing things that are specifically against Hashem.

44:03cannot be righteous. So the most important thing is you have to start working on your character traits. You have to see what it says in the Torah—what's good, what's bad—because that's the only definition that counts. Little by little, work on one of them at a time, one at a time. This is what we teach Musar for: to develop this. In the secular world, this is called self-help, and But in the Torah world, it's called Mussar. It's already been around for several thousand years. It wasn't created by Tony Robbins or his friends. This has already been around for several thousand years and is much deeper. We have a series right now, over 60 lectures so far, that we've done specifically about Mussar, focusing on different character traits in every lecture. Each lecture is a couple of hours. And this is definitely something I recommend for people, simply because it's going to help you fix your neshama. Next, what's the difference between shiur Torah and learning from a sefer? We mentioned this the other day, and we'll try to limit it. The answer, as far as learning from a sefer, is, for example, learning from—depends on what kind of sefer. If the sefer is just a midrash that's literal, it's a basic level sefer. If it's a Gemara that gets you to use your brain,

45:18You have to figure things out. It's higher-level Torah, so there's more merit for higher-level Torah. If it's a lecture, which is also plain and simple, then it gets a certain level of Torah. If it's a more sophisticated shiur, not necessarily just by the level of Torah, but even if it requires—it's like Musar, where it gets you to question yourself, gets you to change—then it's a higher-level shiur Torah. So there are different levels. Now, what's better? Learning from Gemara, let's say the highest level of learning in a sefer, or going to a Mussar shiur, which is the highest level of learning? Shooter, which one's higher depends on who you are. For most people, the vast majority, a Mussar shiur is much better. The reason why is because you could learn from your sefer at any given time, but you can't go to a shiur that's real Mussar at any given time. Attending the shiur, according to the Maasai, has a much higher merit simply because you get a bigger merit for going and for...

46:23putting some time into going versus just, you know, sitting there and watching it at the convenience of, you know, your microwave and popcorn that's being ready while you're watching it. So that's that. So as far as shiur Torah is higher if it's Mussar. If it's a regular shiur Torah about, I don't know, halachot of etrogim and things like that and just basic stuff, then it's better off you sit at home and learn your Gemara. Rav Chaim Kanievsky, shlita, says people should evacuate. Are you, and most people, we already answered this question. We are not evacuating because we are not in an evacuation zone, but people that are in an evacuation zone should evacuate. And by the way, that's not what Rav Chaim Kanievsky said. He said, if you're in an evacuation zone, you have to evacuate on Shabbat. He was specifying the issues regarding the halacha of violating Shabbat to save your life. had nothing to do with just automatic evacuation like Torah, like... Yeshiva World reported, rewind it to the beginning of the lecture, and you'll see what I said about it. I want you to know your opinion on the word Elohim. See, we're not allowed, as Jews, we're not allowed to say Elohim. We're not allowed to use the He. Just like that, that is desecrating Hashem's name. That is violating one of the Ten Commandments. You're not allowed to use His name in vain. So, even in English, you're not allowed to say Elohim.

47:48Together see a separation, so you say Elohim. That you can say. That's also why we say Hashem. Hashem literally means "the Name." So please, Jews and non-Jews, stop using these words like you know what they mean. They use the word "Adonai" and they use it as one word. All these words, just use Hashem's name like they’re saying "Mikey." You're causing problems for yourself. So now we'll continue with the question. I had to say it because this, again, has to be said. I want to know your opinion about the word mentioned in Bereishit 1:1. Why is it in plural form in Hebrew? It's not in plural form. So that's the problem; you don't know Hebrew. So it's not in plural form. Elohim is not a plural. Elohim is singular. um, so let's make, uh, let's make man in our image. Again, it is in plural. Okay, here is plural. Uh, you're probably either Christian or new to Judaism, um, and I'll answer the question just simply because it's an important question to know. When God says, "Let's make man in our image," He's not, chas v'shalom, if you read Rashi, if you read the commentary, instead of translating things literally.

49:09then you’d see that the answer is very, very simple. God created the angels before He created man. Man was the last creation. So, why did God create angels? Because that’s the way of a king. It’s not the way of a king to serve himself. So He created angels to serve Him. He created man also to serve Him. Now, but since He’s a merciful and a loving King, and the King of all kings, He wants His creation to feel like they’re also something, not just pure slaves. If you want just pure slaves, you wouldn’t need to give us free choice. So even the angels, He wants to give them some type of feeling, if you will, in their level, whatever feeling means to angels. So in essence, He asks them their opinion. He wants His creation to feel like they're also something, not just pure slaves. If you want just pure slaves, you wouldn't need to give us free choice. So even the angels, He wants to give them some type of feeling, if you will, in their level, whatever feeling means to angels. So in essence, He asks them their opinion. What do you think we should do with man? Should we do this? Should we do that? Not because He needs their opinion, but to give them some type of significance. Like when you go to school and the teacher that knows the answer, he asks the class, "What do you think the answer is, kids?" He doesn't need your help. He's just trying to make you feel good about yourself.

50:15You understand? So when Hashem said, "Let's make man in our image," He's in essence trying to say, "Oh, we're already here before man, so you feel important," number one. It shows the grace of Hashem. It shows the love of Hashem for all of His creations. But also, He's in essence giving man, who's going to read this Torah later on, some type of concept of the difference between them and the Almighty, being infinite. We are not the same. Like our image is not... The same as us. It's not the same as us. So it gives man some type of idea. Next. Okay, Michael, thank you for answering for me. Right, Rav, thank you for the chutzpah. Okay? Fear your Lord and tell us the truth. Does Netanyahu fear God? Does Netanyahu fear God? I have no idea whether he fears God or he doesn't fear God. If he keeps a kosher house, if he keeps mitzvot, then at least it's an indication.

51:22that he fears God, not necessarily a guarantee. If he doesn't keep Shabbat and the rest of the mitzvot, then obviously not only does he not fear God, he doesn't care about God and probably doesn't believe in Him either. Okay, but so what advice do I give to people who are hosting others from their community who are less fortunate than they are during the time of a hurricane? Okay, first and foremost, Chayecha kodmin, meaning your life comes first. You cannot host people if you don't have enough food for yourself and your family. It's not chesed. It's not even a mitzvah. Why is that? You're not allowed to put your life at risk for other people. Not allowed. So that's something that's very important for you to know. That you're not allowed to put your life at risk for others. So you have to make sure that you and your family have water, have food, have things for yourself. Chayecha kodmin. It's a rule in the Torah. You must have enough for your family first. I'm not saying you need to have steak every day. But you can't have one bottle of water for a family of six and then you're inviting five more people.

52:27Not allowed. That's crazy. So that's number one people need to understand. It's not a mitzvah to put your life in danger. Being stupid is not a mitzvah, okay? So that's important to know. Number two, as far as hosting people, sure, host within your means. Make sure that everyone who comes to your house knows that there are rules to the house. Everyone has to respect them, everyone has to honor them, and everyone has to help. Don't just come there as a guest and feel like you're in the Taj Mahal, asking the woman or the man, whoever comes, "Oh, can you give me some water? Can you give me some of this?" No, no, no. Help yourself. Help yourself. Help yourself. Wash dishes. Fix something. Help the kids. Play with the kids. Let them sleep a little bit. Help. Don't act like you're showing up to the Taj Mahal. Sometimes people come to other people's houses and act like they are Donald Trump waiting for the servants. "Oh, do you have some? Can you put some spice on it, please?" What is this? Who taught you manners? Satan? Who gave you manners? Who taught you manners?

53:31People need to have manners. So, people that are being guests, have manners. Also, contribute. If you have money, contribute. Why? It's not free. It's not free to host people. Especially at a time like this. No one is really prepared. Even the ones that started being prepared a few days ago are not prepared. So, contribute money, contribute time. I'm not saying you host people for money. I'm saying that people need to be reasonable and thoughtful. That's the way of the Torah. To just go to people's houses and, you know, put one foot on top of the other, like you're in the Taj Mahal and people need to serve you. That's not the way. That's not the way of the Torah. That's Chilul Hashem. So, that's the two things. Next. Eliyahu HaNavi. No, hold on a second. Wait. This thing keeps moving, so I think I'm missing some questions. How long is the period of warning before Mashiach? Technically three days, three days before Mashiach comes, Eliyahu HaNavi is supposed to come, or one of the Gedolei HaDor. According to some Mefarshim, it's one of the Gedolei HaDor, not one, all of the Gedolei HaDor, all the Gedolei HaDor agree that

54:51Someone is the Mashiach, and they announce it. But traditionally, Eliyahu HaNavi comes three days before the Mashiach. I'm sorry if I'm missing your questions. This is just the first time I'm actually answering my own questions, like from the shiur. So I think I'm missing some questions, but I'm going to do my best. Okay, I have the same conversation with gentiles. Most agree about the Old and New Testament. Very true. Okay, good. To say the New Testament is a replacement. Okay, good. I've listened to you and Rabbi Mizrahi for many years. I don't believe in JC. What prayers should I say? I love Hashem and Israel. Wendy, you should say prayers purely from your heart. You know, mentioning Hashem, saying Hashem, and your own words. That's the best prayer. The best prayer is to pray in your own words. saying thank you to Hashem before you eat for the food that He gave you, saying thank you to Hashem after you finish eating for being satiated, saying thank you to Hashem for waking up, thank you to Hashem for any good that you see, and even sometimes when you see bad, thank you Hashem for giving me an opportunity to see goodness even in something that's bad. Why? Because there is no such thing as bad; everything is a test.

56:11Everything is an obstacle for a greater good. No one becomes very muscular without lifting weights. No one can make a diamond very beautiful without cutting it a few times. You understand? No one can build a house without lifting stones or pieces of wood and putting them together. So, everything requires some type of hardship. So, hardship is also another thing we have to thank Hashem for. And that's what builds us. That's what builds character. How does the country feel about Zion Oil and Gas drilling there for oil? I mean, I think that the oil issue with Israel is more of a political issue than a religious issue. So, politics, to be honest with you, don't interest me whatsoever. I spent 16 years on Wall Street dealing with this nonsense of politics, and it was a waste of time then. It's even more of a waste of time now. So, I don't see oil being any relevant to what we're dealing with. Sorry. Hi Rabbi, what's going on in the world right now? Okay, I actually did this already. So, as far as the Mashiach, as far as Teshuva, of course, the bottom line is that these signs of the Mashiach have been happening already for some time. 50 years ago, we had very few of the signs of the Mashiach coming.

57:28Today, we have nearly all of them. The main one that we're missing is the Mashiach himself. So, 50 years ago, we didn't have a red heifer. Today, we have at least two. 50 years ago, the generation was still relatively well-mannered, if you will. Today, it's almost like finding a perfect pink diamond in the middle of the desert to find a well-mannered human being. especially when they're teenagers. There are many different signs. These are just a couple of small, tiny ones. And there are various things happening in the world and so on. So, 50 years ago, we had very few signs. Today, we have nearly all of them, with the exception of the main one being the Mashiach himself. So, regardless of this wind, war or anything else that's happening in the world. We are definitely in messianic times. Whether he comes tomorrow or in five years from now, we don't know. Either way, we want to be ready. Being ready takes a while. Why? Because it means you need to work on your character traits and perfect yourself. Be the best version of you.

58:30If you're Michael, be the best version of Michael. If you're Jesse, be the best version of Jesse. If you're Tom, be the best version of Tom. If you're Alexandra, be the best version of Alexandra. If you're Sarah, be the best version of Sarah. What does it mean, best version? Best character traits. You can't be angry. You can't be cheap. You can't be, you know, ill-mannered. You can't be immodest. You can't be all these things that are just not acceptable to Hashem. You understand? So, it takes a while to fix those things because some of them we got used to. Some people got used to being angry. They think it's a good thing. They even show off that they're angry people, which is not good. I don't know what YOLO is. Oh, you only live once. Yeah, you only live once. Unfortunately, yeah, it's not good. It's actually a verse in the Torah. It's a verse in the Torah. In the book of Yeshayahu, that you only live once, actually in the Torah, it says, don't worry because let's eat meat because tomorrow we're going to die. That concept that you only live once is already in the Torah. What does that prove? It proves what Shlomo HaMelech, the wisest man of all time, said: nothing new under the sun. Everything that's any good must be from the Torah. Remember, the verse in the Torah says, "let's eat because tomorrow we're going to die." That's the "you only live once" mentality. How do we differentiate results from our actions and God's doing? Is it possible to...

59:57These weather patterns are caused by our disregard for the planet and not necessarily God acting. There is no such thing as something being not God acting. Everything is God acting. If there's a simple example, if there's a tree and the tree has a little 10, 20, 30, 40 thousand leaves, it has a lot of leaves, and one leaf is... One leaf wants to fall. Everything in creation has an angel overseeing it. Even the grass on the ground has an angel telling it to grow. Everything has an angel. Your nails have an angel. The planet has an angel. Everything has an angel responsible for it because that's the way of a king to rule his kingdom. There are angels. He puts angels that are responsible for things. So we don't have to see them to know they exist. It's a reality. So, as far as the world, there's nothing that happens in the world without Hashem saying it's okay for it to happen. This doesn't necessarily mean

1:01:01Hashem is asking us for permission. This just means that Hashem runs the world, and He wants certain things to happen and certain things not to happen. It doesn't necessarily mean that Hashem wants people to die, but He wills it to happen; meaning that He's not going to allow anyone to die unless that person deserves to die, and everyone around them that's going to suffer deserves the suffering of that person dying. Okay, so this is also why it's a very good idea to be friends with righteous people. Sometimes we make a mistake and we deserve to get punished from Hashem, but if we're friends with a righteous person and they don't deserve to suffer, that could save our life. So that's that. As far as the tree, going back to the example of the tree, if if, for example, the tree wants one of its leaves to fall, that tree has to ask for permission from God. It can't just fall. So it asks permission from God. God says, "No, not today." The next day it asks permission to fall. "No, not today." The next day it asks permission and God says, "Okay, today you can fall." This means that the tree cannot let go of a single leaf without God saying it's okay. Do you understand? God has to okay everything. So whether it's the wind or

1:02:26That's huge, or it's the leaf that's tiny. Everything has to get authorization from God. So everything has to do with God. As far as whether it's due to our actions or not, the reality of it is that everything is a combination of the two. Meaning that Hashem runs the world. with a certain rule book, and the rule book is called the Torah. The Torah says there's no such thing as suffering without sin, no such thing. Even the most righteous person in the world that is suffering had to have sinned at some point in order for him to suffer, unless he asked for the suffering, which is a conversation for a different time. It's mentioned that certain people that are on a very, very high level ask for suffering in order to take the suffering away from other people. But this is not normal. I'm talking about normal people. Normal people, everyday people, even though they may seem like the nicest guy in the world, nicest woman in the world, nicest baby in the world, nicest whatever in the world. The whole concept of our neshamos, our souls, being here before we were here, helps us understand that even if we

1:03:38we're righteous in this world. We did everything right. Everything God said, we did it. Like little perfect robots. Amazing. Even if someone suffers now, and it doesn't seem like they did anything wrong, it could be that they're suffering for a sin in a previous life. So, everything that happens in the world happens due to this rule of suffering and sin. So, Hashem allows us to suffer and lets us suffer, and in essence, gets us to suffer for our own benefit. And the reason why is because suffering here is much better than suffering in Gehinnom. We're not going to elaborate on the topic of Gehinnom too much, but just to give you an idea, there is a book called Iyov. In the 24 books of the Tanach, there's one book called Iyov. And Iyov was a very righteous prophet, non-Jewish prophet, very righteous prophet. And he had a very big test. Iyov lost all ten of his kids. They all died in one day. Lost all of his money. He was a wealthy billionaire. Lost all of his money in one day. Lost everything. Lost all the respect people gave him. Lost all of his health. Everything. He went from top to bottom literally in 24 hours.

1:04:47And he suffered to such an extent, health problems to the point where worms were coming out of his body, not just going in. Really, really suffering a lot for a year. According to the sages, he suffered for a year. According to the Torah, he suffered for a year. And then, after that, he passed the test. Then Hashem gave him new children and rewarded him, and so on and so forth. It's a phenomenal Mussar book that we have in the Torah. We learn a lot from it. But the point is that the sages in the Gemara say, It's better to suffer like Iyov (Job) suffered for 70 years, not for one year, for 70 years. He suffered like that for one year; there's a whole book in the Torah written about him. To suffer like him for 70 years is better than to suffer in Gehinnom for one hour. Seventy years like Iyov (Job), then one hour in Gehinnom. Meaning, that when Hashem gives you a little bit of suffering here in this world—you lost some money, you got into an accident, you, I don't know, all types of disasters that happen in the world. Somebody broke a nail, they lost their job. Any type of suffering that's removing could be hundreds of years of potential suffering in Gehinnom. Why? Because the suffering here is worth a lot more.

1:06:00It's inconvenient, but if you actually know the value of suffering, you realize, hey, listen, I just lost $100,000, but that just removed a thousand years of Gehinnom because of the sins I used to do before I did teshuva. Oh, Hashem, you start celebrating in the middle of the street. Hey, hey, hey, thank you, Hashem, for suffering. Why? Because you know you just removed a thousand years of suffering. But the problem is, why do people get upset about suffering? Because they don't know this. They think that suffering is bad. They think that suffering means that, you know, Hashem is not fair or it's unreasonable. It's completely not true. So that's the other thing. Hold on a second. Okay, so that's the other thing. Okay, let's see the next question. Sebastian, where can you ask questions? Here, I guess. I think I'm missing some questions because they're going fast and I'm answering slowly. Or I'm answering in an extended manner. The more I learn about Torah, the more I see wrong Christian teachings. Yes, I agree with you. Christian teachings are complete nonsense. They copied a few nice things from the Torah and then they added their nonsense to it, ruining it.

1:07:11So if you want to be righteous with Hashem, run away from Christianity and all other types of human Mashiachs, even if it includes a Rabbi. Jonathan, the Rabbi can be Mashiach based on sources. This is absolutely false, Jonathan. The Rabbi cannot be the Mashiach. If you look at the Gemara, I know you looked at the Gemara because all of Chabad looks at the Gemara and uses the Gemara. Masechet Sanhedrin, I believe it's page 82 or 88, I believe 82, and they use the sources as that, as a potential that the Rebbe could be Mashiach because there's somebody called Menachem that could be the Mashiach. But this is not true because it says Menachem, and it gives the last name for this Menachem. so this is not true. Anyone that believes the Rebbe is Mashiach is simply wrong. Now, the problem is that this has gone too far. The reason why I'm even commenting on this question is not that I have anything against Chabad, because the original Chabad is full of righteous people. You look at Rabbi Zilber...

1:08:17and you look at his book called "To Remain a Jew," and he talks about Chabadniks of that time. You look at some of the greatest minds in history, and they were Chabadniks. Unfortunately, after the Lubavitcher Rebbe died, he left no leaders. So now many, not all, but many, went crazy, and they turned the Rebbe, who died and is in Gan Eden right now, into a Mashiach. And yes, Michael the Tzaddik is a Chabadnik. Chabadnik, and he's a tzaddik. He doesn't believe the Rebbe is Mashiach. So the point being is that people that have turned the righteous Rebbe into a Mashiach are mamash desecrating his name. Not only desecrating Hashem's name, which is the worst thing in the world, but desecrating the Rebbe's name. Why? Because he never said he's the Mashiach. He never said he's the Mashiach. Mashiach can't die. If you say the Rebbe is Mashiach, then you might as well say Jesus is the Mashiach also. Say Buddha is the Mashiach. Say whoever. Say whoever you want is the Mashiach. I'm the Mashiach now. This is stupidity. Stop it. Believe in God, not in Mashiach. We're not supposed to believe in Mashiachs anyway. Even if someone is the Mashiach or not the Mashiach, stop praying to Mashiachs. We're not praying to Mashiachs. We pray to God.

1:09:30Stop it already. You're leading people astray. People are praying to the Rebbe. Enough with this craziness. Enough. People are struggling all over the world. There's a hurricane coming, and you guys are talking about the Rebbe being Mashiach. That's the question you give me now? We're trying to honor Hashem, sanctify His name, not desecrate His name. Come on, no? Enough with this Rebbe being Mashiach stupidity. Lynn Ortiz, whoever you are, you're doing something wrong because the tzaddeket Elisheva is saying you're doing something wrong and I believe her. Oh, you're a missionary? See, I know Elisheva is right. What is your opinion about building a Third Temple? Why would you build something that's going to come down ready from Shamayim? Can you build something better than God? The Torah says that Hashem is going to bring a Third Temple ready. Can you do something better? No, you can't do something better. So, we don't build Temples. We wait for Hashem to do it.

1:10:45Hannah, I can see, oh, she's also talking to Lynn. Lynn Ortiz is annoying people. Please, Lynn, leave. If you can't be quiet, leave. Michael, Rambam says there are certain requirements from Mashiach. Yeah, Michael, honestly, I already said enough, I think. Don't even waste time with these Messianics, whether they're Christians or they're Jews. It's mamash, it's talking to crazy people. It's mamash, really. This is very patronizing, Hannah. Okay, I don't know if you're talking about me patronizing you. The good news is you're not obligated to listen; you can go about your business. There are probably other Facebook channels out there that are talking about, you know, other things you may like to talk about. Toot-toot-toot-toot-toot. Okay, you're false. Okay, so this is the same Jonathan that's saying about Chabad being Mashiach. Okay, fine. Hundreds of Chabad rabbis paskened. Paskened what? Again with this Mashiach thing? Come on, no? Including our Beit Din.

1:11:54Jonathan, please, please, if you're going to continue with this craziness, just leave the thread or I'm going to block you because I'm trying to sanctify His name. Talking about the Rebbe being Mashiach is desecrating His name. I don't need you here. If you continue with it, I'm going to kick you off. I can't do it. I can't. I can't let His name be desecrated on a regular basis with this Chabad craziness. You want to be a righteous Chabadnik, fine. No problem. I love you. You want to desecrate His name, do it somewhere else, not in my presence. Not in my presence. Enough. Please, please. Jonathan, so far we talked a few times. We had a good talk, you know, an exchange on taxes. I have nothing wrong with that. But if you're going to start telling people that the Rebbe is Mashiach, it is unacceptable. Unacceptable. Do it in your own time if you want. I don't suggest it. Not in my time. Please explain Isaiah 52 and 53 along with Psalm 22. Okay. You could open a Midrash Me'am Loez. Midrash Me'am Lo'ez. Buy it on Moznaim.com. It gives you a full midrash on Isaiah chapter 52, Isaiah chapter 53, and Psalm 22. Because for me to do it now is going to take hours and hours and hours of time. And I'm sorry I don't have that kind of time. Lynn, the, oh again Lynn. Wow, this Lynn is really a pest.

1:13:11The Rebbe agreed to the proclamation. The Rebbe agreed to the... Yeah, these are the people saying that when they said the Rebbe nodded, when they said Mashiach nodded, he couldn't speak. He was already sick. He couldn't speak. What nodded? He couldn't speak. Nodded. People are dying to make idols, like dying to desecrate Hashem's name. I don't know. I don't know. You have to be crazy. The Rebbe nodded. The Rebbe agreed. The Rebbe didn't say anything. The Rebbe was a tzaddik. He never said he's Mashiach. This is craziness. God is coming. God is not coming. God is here, William. God is always here. Tyler, the funny thing is that any Christian who says Yeshua was equal to the Father doesn't even understand the New Testament. Yeah, I mean, Yeshua was a wicked Jew who is now bathing in very, very hot excrement. So, not only was he not the Father, he was not even a decent human being.

1:14:31The Rebbe did say, again the Rebbe, one last time, if I see one more coming, I'm kidding. Enough. The fake wall behind me. Yeah, William. Oh, okay, so you're one of these also Christians. Okay, William, go away. Go away. Go back to your idol worship. Go worship some statue. It's $15. Go. What do you want from my life? Robert Goldman, hi, Frida Masri. Oh, Frida, hi, Frida. How are you? I'm keeping Halacha because I read the Rebbe's writings. Case closed. Ah, craziness. A lot of craziness. Ah...

1:15:32Can we say a bracha for all of our loved ones in South Florida, adding a donation? Yeah, of course, you should say a bracha. And it says, we learned this from Shlomo HaMelech. Shlomo HaMelech says that, you know, someone that's a gift, in essence, can save their life. You're doing a good deed, saving their life. So you give tzedakah in the honor of someone. Of course, Hashem knows who you're giving it in honor of. Or you could text it over here. Text the name if you're giving tzedakah to me or to anyone else out there. You could write the name. But in essence, Hashem knows who you mean when you give the donation. That's the most important part. And that definitely could help and improve their merits in Shamayim. Yeah, go on. Very funny, Levana. Timothy Gibson again. Does the Torah believe in evolution? What do you mean? Does evolution lead to... Well, evolution, the way scientists say it is, meaning that, you know, man came from monkeys. No, only monkeys believe that man came from monkeys. But actually, I don't even think the monkey believes that he used to be man.

1:16:47But as far as evolution, a sense of certain things developing over time, yes, that's something that we can see to a certain extent. To a certain extent, we can see it, not about fossils, but the fact that humans have changed over time to some extent. We used to be much bigger, we used to be much smarter, our vision was much stronger. The Oral Torah talks about this. So, yes, there are definitely certain types, certain elements of evolution, but not like scientists say where we came from monkeys and lizards and all that craziness. I'd like to thank the Rabbi for his lectures. Well, thank God, Miguel, we have the zechut to give lectures and bring Am Yisrael and all the lovers of Hashem closer to Him. So, is the current Israel forced as either... What? Jose, I'm not really sure I understand the question. Is the current Israel forced to build the Third Temple? If you're implying, is Israel supposed to build the Third Temple? No, they don't have to build anything. Hashem is going to do it. Actually, it was already created. It's just waiting. Is a Jewish male obligated to go to yeshiva for many years? No, a Jewish male is not obligated to go to yeshiva for many years. He is obligated to learn Torah his whole life.

1:18:06obligated to learn Torah his whole life. I enjoy your lectures. I want to know everything. Me too. Rogue, me too. We both want to know everything, so that obviously puts us on the same page, but it's not a shame. We're going to continue learning together. Rabbi, unfortunately, my Jewish friend is involved in Buddhism. How can you disprove it? Okay, let's see. I'll disprove Buddhism right now. We'll disprove Buddhism right now. Okay, now, this is a stamp. This is a stamp, okay? I'm going to disprove Buddhism right now. It's a stamp. It says my name on it and my phone number. I usually put it on my books. Anytime I get a new book, I put my stamp on it in case somebody wants to borrow it. They know that if they forgot to return it to me, one day they'll open the book and be reminded to give it back. Or if I lost the book, someone would open the book and they would say, "Oh, it's Yaron Levin's book. Let me call him and give him back the book." Why? Because my books are like my little babies. I like my books. So anyway, this stamp. Now, if I said, "Stamp, stamp, make me rich. Stamp, stamp, make me taller. Stamp, stamp, make me lose weight." Is it going to do anything? No. Why? Because it's a stamp. Same thing with Buddha.

1:19:22End of Buddhism. To say, hmm, hmm, hmm, I'm making music in the background, still not gonna, if I put music in the background, I said, stamp, stamp, make me rich, make me rich, make me tall, make me this, make me that. It's gonna change anything? No. Okay? Buddha, same thing. Put music, say, hmm, bend your body in certain ways, nothing happens. Nothing happens. Hannah, you can't hear anything. I'm sorry you can't hear anything, but apparently everybody else can hear it, so maybe you pressed a button on your phone, perhaps that put the volume off. I don't know. Not my department. Tyler, no universe, only the earth is physical, stars, sun, moon, put it in a firmament. I have no idea what you're saying, I'm sorry. Dorit, can you please explain King Solomon "Buy truth, but do not sell"? "Buy truth, but do not sell. I'm not sure. Give me the verse. If you can give me the verse, I could... I think I know what you're talking about. Buy truth, meaning... If it's the verse that I'm talking about, meaning it's okay to pay for Torah, because truth, or emet, is another word that signifies... Oh, good, you can hear now, Hannah. Baruch Hashem. Truth also signifies Torah."

1:20:40Okay, so pay as much as you need to learn Torah. Why? Because it's your life to know what Hashem wants from you. It's worth anything; it's worth everything because that's the point of life. But to sell it, don't sell it, meaning don't go and start teaching Torah... for the purpose of making money. So this, we talked about it actually in lecture number 61, Mussar series this week. Sometimes you have people that give lectures for money. Now they, again, everyone has a right to make a living, but there are certain laws of making a living when you're teaching Torah. So this is the very strict laws, the Rambam talks about them, and he's very, very much against making a living from Torah, but this is different than donations. It's different than donations. Meaning, a donation is somebody decides they're going to donate, it's their own will. They can donate, not donate; it's up to them. But for me to say, I'm only going to come to your Beit Knesset if you give me $10,000. Look, I used to work on Wall Street, and at some point in 2006, I was making $3,000 an hour.

1:21:52Let's say if I told you I'm going to come to your business, and I'm going to give a lecture. It's going to take me two hours to get to your business, driving two hours to come back, four hours so far. The lecture itself is three hours, let's say. So now you have seven hours. Seven hours times three thousand dollars, my former paycheck, is twenty-one thousand dollars for a lecture. If I say, "Give me twenty-one thousand dollars for a lecture, or I'm not coming." That's what Shlomo HaMelech is referring to. And that's also called Siyata Dishmaya, because I remember the verse that you're talking about, and that's what Shlomo HaMelech is referring to. He says, buy truth, meaning pay for Torah, pay for yeshiva, pay for books, help the rabbi if you can. Not obligate, but you can. Pay. Pay as much as you can to learn the truth of Hashem. But don't go in it to sell it. That's the thing. Uh, two, two, two, two, two. No, okay. We did this on the universe thing already. I agree with the Rabbi. Good. What do you agree with me about? Uh, that's why I don't understand what people want to build a turn. Oh, okay, upside down. Why don't these debaters open up their own channels and express their ideas? I agree with you, Shlomo. Why don't they open up their own channels and leave me alone?

1:23:06I don't understand why. Why are they insisting on coming on my channel and bothering us? We're trying to learn Torah. What are you telling me about some Mashiach? Leave me alone with this craziness. By the way, this is just the answer to your question. It's actually a good question, believe it or not. Anytime anytime there's purity, there's something that's good in the world. Satan has to try to interfere. So you see, if we were just talking about Care Bears, nobody would come and interfere. We're talking to you about Donald Trump. Nobody would interfere, or maybe they would interfere because they don't like him. But the point is, we're trying to honor Hashem. What happens? You bring the Satan, and his friends are gonna come and interfere. And sometimes they do it on purpose, sometimes not on purpose, but sad. Sending, I think, Rav Ruma, some here are antagonizing you on behalf of the Satan. Oh, see, Robert. Tzaddik. See, you knew the answer before I even knew the question. Tzaddik, Robert. Ashrecha. Jonathan, again, I'm sending you material privately. I already read all the material about the Rebbe and all that stuff. You don't have to send me anything. By the way, what you should be doing is reading the Baal HaTanya. The Baal HaTanya, you should read it. And you should see the Baal HaTanya. Michael actually showed me this chiddush in the first chapter. In the first chapter, he actually says that a Chabadnik who doesn't rebuke a person is considered a rasha.

1:24:35why? Because they're not fulfilling the Torah. You must rebuke your people. You must rebuke your people, and um The last time I saw a Chabadnik rebuke someone was never. Why? Because they let everyone drive to shul on Shabbat. They let everyone desecrate Hashem's name. They let everyone do whatever they want. They don't say anything. Nothing. The ones that I've met in my life, especially the ones that came to my office for 15 years, two to three times a week. So please, I know a lot about Chabad, I know about the righteous ones, I know about the wicked ones. And if you don't stop, I'm going to read this, which is what the Rebbe before said. This is something I have. You don't want me to read what the old Rebbe said about Chabad. Please, he said this about his own Chabad. Please leave me alone; I don't want to desecrate Hashem's name now. I want to give a shiur Torah. Leave me alone. I have something that Chabad said about Chabad. Chabad said about Chabad. I have it here. This is the father-in-law of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Father-in-law. Father-in-law of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. It's what he wrote. It's in books. I can give you page numbers. I can give you names. I can give you a lot of things. Leave me alone, please. You don't want me to put this out to the public. Chabad's not going to look good. Leave me alone. I know Chabad has some good things they do. Some things they're not good. But enough with this Rebbe being the Mashiach stuff. Enough. Go away.

1:26:13uh, where are we? You're making me tired. Can you send me a message after the shiur, Michael? Maybe, maybe. Uh, you like my term "Care Bear Rabbis"? Me too. Unfortunately, I don't like the fact that they exist, but yes, there are many. Uh, where are we on the questions? This thing keeps moving, and I think I keep losing the people. All right. I'm sorry if I missed your questions. There's just, Baruch Hashem, a lot of comments. Bezalel Mark, maybe. Okay, I don't think it's a question. Please don't be so sensitive as we're trying to learn. Do not judge. I'm just trying to understand, not criticize. I don't know who you're talking to if you're talking to me. I'm not sensitive, Baruch Hashem. I just want to honor Hashem's name. That's all I want to do. Leah, why can't we get the letter from a chief rabbi about Chabad Rebbe issue? You don't need to get the letter because we already have it. Some of the biggest of the generation put cherem on Chabad to such an extent they said you're not allowed to marry their kids.

1:27:38And we're not just talking about now. We're talking about a few hundred years ago even. We're talking about now. It doesn't look good. If you go into the Gedolei HaDor, it doesn't look good. It doesn't look good. Listen, it's nice that there are as many Chabad centers as there are Starbucks. But... The big rabbis in the world outside of Chabad are not exactly the biggest fans of this craziness that happened even before the Rebbe died. Even before. So... No one outside of Chabad thinks that the Rebbe is Mashiach. No one. Because, Baruch Hashem, they're normal. Um... Let's see. Tyler, okay, Tyler. Is it a sin for a Gentile who loves Hashem to keep Shabbat as a day of rest and study Torah?

1:28:39Keep Shabbat meaning don't work. Yes, you're allowed to not work on Shabbat as a non-Jew. But to refrain from the 39 melachot (restrictions) that Jews are not allowed to do on Shabbat, you're not allowed to do because that, in essence, would be you stealing the mitzvah that Hashem gave the Jews alone. There are two or three short lectures that I made about the topic, and... If Ramesh would be so kind as to send them to you and put them on the page about why non-Jews are not allowed to keep Shabbat, he gives the details and will answer your questions instead of me going into the details now. He just said it's a sin to speak for money. Yes, if you're teaching Torah purely for money, it's not what you're supposed to do. You're supposed to teach Torah for the sake of Torah. We learned this from Moshe Rabbeinu. The Gemara says we learned from Moshe Rabbeinu. Moshe Rabbeinu said to Am Yisrael, you know, I taught you all of it in the book of Devarim. I taught you this Torah for the last 40 years for nothing. He says to Hashem, hey, they're saying all these things about me, but you know,

1:29:45They didn't even pay me for my donkey. What donkey? The donkey that I used to go to Egypt to save them, to be the Mashiach of his day, the original Mashiach. He's greater than the Mashiach, by the way. No one's ever going to be as great as Moshe Rabbeinu. Another proof against Christianity and everything else, by the way. But anyway, Moshe Rabbeinu says, they didn't even pay me for my donkey. You taught Torah for free, and that's the way we're supposed to teach Torah. Again, donations are a different issue. You're not donating to a rabbi, per se, for him to go expand his kitchen. If you're donating for him to help people do teshuva, you're donating for him, not taking the thing that... if, let's say, a rabbi has two options. you can go work and make $100, or you can pay him $100, but instead he's going to use that time to teach you Torah. Then yeah, that's $100; it's replacement cost, opportunity cost. So that's fine. The problem is that sometimes you get certain rabbis that are a little excessive. They charge $10,000, $15,000, $25,000 for a lecture, and with all due respect, they used to be on Wall Street, your time is now worth $25,000.

1:30:58Your opportunity cost is not $25,000. So definitely not to teach Torah, and definitely not for what you're teaching. So, as far as charging money for Torah, you have to be very, very careful with it. There are specific, strict laws on how to do it, and what to do, and when to do it, and so on. The first thing I see on Facebook is Yaron has raised $200. Again, like I said, it's donations. I'm not charging you guys. You don't have to donate anything. You've been on this thing for, I don't know, an hour? Did you donate anything? I guess not. So, I'm not charging. You want to donate? Donate. You don't want to donate? Don't donate. One way or another, Hashem is going to pay my bills. It's not going to come from you. This is, again, and anyway, just for anyone to know, for some reason, people think I'm still a millionaire because I used to be on Wall Street. I don't have any money. I lost all the money. I say this in my story. But aside from that, anyone that works closely with me knows, I've never taken a penny out of the organization. Not a penny. All donations you guys give to the organization go to the organization for the CDs, for the free kiruv packages, for everything that we give out for free non-stop.

1:32:06I don't take a salary from the organization. I don't take a penny from the organization. So anyone who thinks I'm getting rich off this organization, this non-profit organization, can look at our financials when they come out. I don't know, I guess in a few months after we finish the year. You see Yaron Reuven's salary? Zero. Zero. Nothing. Some people donate to me privately. Donation directly to me. That's how I survive. I don't get money from Shamim. But this $200 is not going to me. Don't worry. None of the money you guys donate goes to me unless you donate specifically to me, Yaron Reuven. You want to donate to me? Check it. You don't want to? Don't. So, I'm gonna send it anyway, but I'm not charging either way. Even if it was going to me, hypothetically, it's still not me charging. You see, people are choosing to donate, so you should know the difference. Okay, I think we went over all the questions. No? Oh, I'm going the wrong way again. It's so difficult. I need an assistant just to manage these questions. Mark, maybe you should unfriend the Rav. Mark, you're even my friend? Why are you my friend if you don't like me? So strange. I would never be friends with anybody I don't like.

1:33:24I'm friends with people I don't know, but not people I don't like. Does every Jew have a share of the world to come? This is the first Mishnah in the Pirkei Avot series. It's called, Does every Jew have a share of the world to come? And the answer is, no. No, not every Jew has a share of the world to come. The Mishnah in Masechet Sanhedrin, Gemara Masechet Sanhedrin, It says, "All of Israel have a share in the world to come." That's the Mishnah. And then it uses a verse in Isaiah. The book of Isaiah says, "And all of you are righteous." Meaning, if you're a righteous Jew, yes, you have a share in the world to come. If you're righteous, that's the condition. So that's why the rest of the Mishnah says, and the following sins remove you from the Olam HaBa, remove you from the share of the world to come. And it's 10 pages like that, talking about all the people that lose their world to come. So that's the answer. Listening attentively while being quiet helps a lot with understanding, Mark. Yes, Betzalel, you're 100% right. Listening is better than talking. I wish I was one of the friends listening to somebody talk.

1:34:37Violators of Shabbat have no share in the world to come. Yes, Michael, you're right. Please, guys, no New Testament here. We don't study Matthew or Mark. Yes, we don't study idol worship here. We only study Torah. Thank you, Linda, for reminding them. Isn't the Rebbe a tzaddik? Yes, the Rebbe is a tzaddik, but that does not make him a Mashiach. There's a big difference between a modern-day tzaddik and a Mashiach. How is it a sin to keep Shabbat and the feast day? In so many words, one of the laws of the Torah is that you're not allowed to create a new religion. And Shabbat was a mitzvah that was specifically given to Am Yisrael. There's a verse that says, this is a covenant between Me and you. "You" referring to Am Yisrael, not referring to the world. Hashem is talking to Am Yisrael. So the covenant of Shabbat is between God and Am Yisrael. So by a non-Jew keeping Shabbat, keeping the laws of Jews themselves, they're, in essence, creating a new religion. Because there's no other religion that keeps Shabbat other than Judaism based on the words of Hashem.

1:35:52So that's one of the ways that you're sinning. Another way is that you're stealing and so on and so forth. The point is there are two shiurim, two short lectures that I made about it that talk about a few more details. Stay safe, Rabbi. Baruch Hashem, Hashem is with us. No worries. The same Hashem that created the wind. and the earth, and the stars, and me, and you, and everything else in between, above and below, Hashem is going to protect us. Nothing to worry about. Thank you, Ramesh, for putting the lectures on. Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri reveals Yeshua as the Mashiach. Does that negate the fact that he was Jewish? Jack, Rav Kaduri did not reveal Yeshua as the Mashiach. That is the biggest falsehood in history. It's shtuyot, nonsense, a lie, a filthy, disgusting lie of the Christian world where they just decide to write a letter and just decide to sign it in Rav Kaduri's name after he died.

1:37:02This is complete stupidity for anyone that believes it. Rav Kaduri was a holy man. He was a Kabbalist. He was Kodesh Kodashim. And trust me when I tell you, if he knew who the Mashiach was, regardless of who it was, he would have told us when he was alive, not when he died. No smart person would do such a thing. No holy person would do such a thing. And anyone that believes that that letter is from Rav Kaduri just simply doesn't know what the difference between righteous and wicked is. So, he did not write that letter. That's actually been proven. On top of that, it does not negate anything, obviously. And on top of that, you should get out of Christianity, because it's idol worship. Next. Is it a waste of time to explain to Christian family members that we are not accepting? I think the most important part is for a person... Oh, we're not accepting or leaving. We're not leaving because of faith.

1:38:04I think I understand your question, Elisheva, and you have to make sure that you talk to people on their level. Talk to people on their level. So, for example, to tell a non-religious person, a Christian person, or an atheist things from the Torah... like emunah, like siyata dishmaya, which is special assistance from Hashem, and different things like that. Telling people that are not on the same page as you is like if you came to my physics class, if I had a physics class, and I started to teach about shalom bayit instead, but you came to learn... physics. He didn’t come to learn shalom bayit. You know, how there should be peace between a husband and a wife. It's inappropriate. It's not relevant. It's not connected. So teaching non-Jews who are not connected to the real Torah about the deepest part of our connection to Hashem is not relevant. You have to talk to them in their language. Meaning, no, I think it's going to be okay. Why? Because the evacuation zone is not here. It's somewhere else by the water. They didn't make your house an evacuation zone. Because if they did, you would have to leave.

1:39:26By Allah, you'd have to leave. But if you're not in an evacuation zone, say, no, no, the wind and all that stuff is somewhere else. They didn't put us in an evacuation zone, so there's no point to leave. And on top of it, to leave requires you to have the ability to leave. You can't leave. You can't fly anywhere right now. No flights. You can't really drive anywhere right now because you're not going to have enough gas to reach any reasonable destination that's far enough. So you can't leave anyway. So what's the point? So you talk to them in a language they understand. Deep down inside, you're staying because of emunah and because you believe it's safe. But in general, you got to talk to people in their language. S'viyah Daniel, tizkeh l'mitzvot, Rabbi, thank you. You too. May the Blessed One be blessed. May the Blessed One be blessed. Linda, One day do a lecture on Shabbat laws that most people don't know. There are hundreds of them. I'm learning every day. I can't wait to stay in them. Yeah, I mean, Baruch Hashem. Picking the bones out of fish actually is an Ashkenazi thing. It's not really sponges. Yeah. No, we definitely need to do more lectures about Shabbat. The problem is...

1:40:38...that the basic laws of Shabbat you can learn very easily from books. If you're Sephardic, if you're Ashkenazi, or other books that talk about Shabbat. But Musar and fixing our soul, unfortunately, is unheard of in lectures today. Shabbat lectures you can learn from books and you can learn from lectures, whereas Musar is very rare. So that's why we choose to focus more on Mussar than anything else. But I try to teach a few halachot here and there during my lectures. I will try to add a little more. Shabbat is a covenant? Yes. The New Testament is the reason why non-Jews want to steal Shabbat. So any book that's causing a person to steal... Okay. Ari, Rabbi, I'm very sorry. I wasn't connected for a few minutes. Did you discuss bathing on Shabbat with hot water yet? No, I did not discuss bathing on Shabbat with hot water.

1:41:45And the answer to that is you're not allowed to bathe on Shabbat, not with hot water or with cold water. You're not allowed to bathe on Shabbat unless there is a certain heter, a leniency, for completely cold water. Definitely no hot water, but even cold water is generally not allowed at all. But here and there, there is a certain leniency with cold water on holidays, but in general, no showering on Shabbat. Don't worry, you'll survive 25 hours without showering. They used to survive five weeks without showering, so you can survive 25 hours without showering. Yeshua isn't getting home forever. Yes, Robert, he is. 2222 Rabbi Kaduri is not an authority until, ah, Jack, yeah, it doesn't matter. But Rav Kaduri didn't say that, so that doesn't matter. How come there was an outer court in the Temple for the goyim? Well, when King David was king and...

1:43:00he ran the world. He wasn't running. King Solomon was king. He was ruling the world. Not just a king like Obama, who just ran a country, and a few other people listened to him. They ran the world. So part of running the world is giving laws even to the non-Jews. Who is more important, the wife or the parents? Absolutely amazing question. The wife is more important than the parents. According to our Torah, in the book of Bereishit, It says that a man must leave his parents' home. A woman must leave her parents' home. They must connect. Why? They become a single soul. Meaning, the man, once he marries a wife, they connect the neshamah. That's why the Rambam says a husband must... Love his wife like he loves himself because his wife is like his body. But he must honor her more than himself because there's still some separation. Give her more honor than yourself. So, anytime...

1:44:10Husband chooses his parents over his wife. He's going against Torah. It's the same thing as eating forbidden food. It's the same thing as violating Shabbat. It's the same thing as stealing. It's a sin from the Torah. You're not allowed to pick your parents over your wife unless your wife's a sinner, unless your wife's a zonah, then you shouldn't be married. You should get a divorce, go to get a get. But if, let's say for example... your parents want you to come over for dinner, and your wife says, "Honey, I don't want to go to your parents for dinner tonight. I want to have dinner with you and the kids at home." You have to go with your wife. You can't go to your parents. You have to go with your wife. This is craziness in the world today. I hear, I don't know, every day, five to six shalom bayit issues. Different people, shalom bayit issues. What is it? Many times it's because of the in-laws. One guy tells me, his father His father's trying to break up the marriage. Why? He doesn't like the background of his wife. She's, I don't know, different than him. He came from a certain part of the Middle East. She came from somewhere else. He doesn't like it. It's not good enough for him. You know what kind of Gehinnom he's preparing for himself? It's like a sweet, sweet just for his stupidity. People don't understand that they're putting their life at risk. You should know. You should know this. It's very important. It says in the Mishnah. The Mishnah is 2,500 years old. The Mishnah is 2,500 years old.

1:45:37It says, the foundation of our Oral Torah, it says, I'm sorry, I have to put the battery. It says, meaning, when a man and a wife have a merit, the Shekhinah comes between them. them blessing, what does it mean they have merit? Chazal explains, when they have shalom bayit, when they have shalom bayit, the Shekhinah of Hashem comes down, performs miracles for them, does good things for them. Why? Because they have shalom bayit. They honor, there's good, there's peace in the home. Hashem even allows His name to be erased for the sake of peace at home. This is what we learn from Parashat Sotah. So anyway, so the angels told God, when we were on Mount Sinai, we were on the way to Mount Sinai, and they said, God, you know, the Jews, they were slaves for many years. Out of 210 years of being in Egypt, 86 years, they were slaves. The Egyptians, the evil Egyptians, they beat them up, they cut their arms, they cut their legs, they broke their backs. There's a lot of them becoming injured, missing eyes, missing legs, missing a lot of things.

1:46:54Shechinah is perfect, Hashem is perfect, you can't go to a place not perfect. Hashem says, no problem for Me to come down, they have to be perfect? No problem, they'll be perfect. So the guy that was missing an arm, grew an arm. The guy that was missing an eye, grew an eye. Everyone became perfect again. So here we learn that if someone wants miracles, they must have Shalom Bayit. No Shalom Bayit, no miracles. Why? There's no Shechinah. So when a guy thinks he's being a tzaddik by going to his father's house, his mother's house, to honor them because that's in the Ten Commandments, and he disrespects his wife, he's not doing a mitzvah. Why? Because he has to understand the wife is part of himself. And you have to save your life first. You must save your life first. If there's chas v'shalom, Critical situation. Teach, you know, save your life, save somebody else's life, you have to save your own life. You must save your own life. You cannot save somebody else's life and die. Not in Torah.

1:48:03So that's not honoring your parents. That's actually desecrating Hashem's name and His Torah. So when people are going and picking their parents over their wives, they're not doing a mitzvah. It's not a mitzvah. It's a sin. It's like eating pork. It's stealing. It's a horrible, horrible sin. Horrible. I hear this all the time. This happens all the time. Different shalom bayit issues. This is one of the most common ones. Yes, Yalkut Yosef is very good. There are plenty of websites you can buy it on now. There used to be only one, but now there are several. One of them is Moznaim. Moznaim.com. They also sell the amazing Midrash series called Me'am Loez. Me'am Loez is a great Midrash. So, let's see. If you're married, Michael, your wife comes after Hashem. I don't know what that means. I guess you're answering a question, Crystal. Thank you for being here, Jose. I hope I'm not stealing time from you. I'm sorry if it's... I have a question. Should I leave my Christian girlfriend once I know the truth about Hashem?

1:49:20If she's a devout Christian and you don't see an end in sight, then yes, you don't want to necessarily have an idol worshiper in your house forever. But if you think that you can influence her over time to see that Christianity is false, then you are doing her a service. And in essence, you're doing humanity a service by bringing people closer to Hashem and the truth. So, if you love her, that's what you would want to do. I did. Anyone that wants to know my story should look at my story on my page. And, Baruch Hashem, my wife was born Christian. And, Baruch Hashem, once I realized the truth, the number one job that I wanted to do was to show her the truth. And that's what I did. And little by little, we learned together. Eventually, she realized on her own that Torah is the only truth available in this world. And she decided to convert. And, Baruch Hashem, We have two beautiful kids, and we have an amazing life full of kedusha. And now we try to spread the message to people because of that original love, not only for each other but for Hashem. So if you really love her and you want to marry her and so on, you should try. But if you don't think, if she's one of those people that just come, like sometimes as atheists...

1:50:40Atheists sometimes are atheists because of ignorance. Sometimes they're atheists because they're just evil people. If they're evil people, then you're wasting your time. But if they're just ignorant, then educate them. And you're doing them a service. You're doing them a favor. So if she just believes in Christianity because she doesn't know anything about Torah, then help her out. Show her the Torah. Show her the truth. Save her life. Save her soul. Why not? I try to do it every day. I try to help people get out of Christianity on a daily basis. The Noahides say the Shema. Noahides do not say the Shema, because Shema specifically says, "Shema Yisrael." "Shema Yisrael, Hashem Elokeinu, Hashem Echad." So you could say "Hashem Elokeinu, Hashem Echad," because, you know, our God is the only God. Yes, you could say that part, but "Shema Yisrael" means "Hear, O Israel." When you're a Noahide, you're part of Hashem's creation, but you're not Israel. If you want to convert, you could be part of Israel. Just don't believe that some rabbi is the Mashiach. Sacrifices of a broken spirit. I don't know what that means. Oh, it's answering a different question, Levanah. Thank you.

1:52:05Rabbi, are you in Boca Raton? Are you leaving because of Irma? Sam, rewind to the beginning of the live session. I said no. I'm not leaving because I'm not in a danger zone. Linda, tell that to my husband. I'm assuming you're talking about the Shalom Bayit issue. Please bring your husband to my lectures. I'll be happy to tell him or have him log on. I'll be happy to tell him. He's not allowed to honor his parents over you. Mr. Husband, any husband who honors his parents over his wife, is not doing a mitzvah. You must honor your parents. I'm not saying don't honor your parents. Don't misunderstand me here. I love my parents just like you love your parents. I honor my parents as much as anybody else wants to honor their parents. My parents are amazing, amazing tzaddikim, kedoshim. You must honor your parents, but not over your wife. It doesn't have to be. If they love you, they want good for you. If they want good for you, they want you to have shalom bayit. What kind of parent wants their son or daughter to have a miserable life personally? So if they know that you going to their house or doing something with them is going to cause problems in your house, they're going to tell you themselves, don't come, don't do it. Why would they want you to have problems? So why does it happen? It's usually because the parents don't know. Usually because the son is pretending to be a tzaddik.

1:53:34or the daughter is pretending to be a tzaddeket. They go to the parents while the spouse is sitting at home crying. This is not a mitzvah. This is chillul Hashem. You need to learn Torah. This is why we have mussar shiurim because if you came to a mussar shiur, you'd hear this and you'd never do such a crazy thing. You're not gonna learn this in a halacha book. You're not gonna learn this from your local rabbi that's teaching you about, you know, praying on time. You're only gonna learn this in mussar. That's why it's necessary for every person to listen to mussar every single day in the English language. Unfortunately, there are not many rabbis that speak mussar. Baruch Hashem, we happen to be one of them. Rav Mizrachi is amazing; he's been doing it for 23 years, as has Rabbi Zitron. Many of his shiurim are regarding mussar. There are a few others, but in general, there isn't much. You don't have such a big... List, but you have to learn mussar every day. If you don't learn mussar, you could be wearing black and white your whole life, you could do every single mitzvah that you know of, and you could still end up going up to Hashem and say, "Okay, first class to Gehinnom." Why? Because you're still a beast of a human being. You still haven't fixed your anger, still haven't fixed your stinginess, still haven't fixed all these bad character traits. So you did some mitzvot like a robot, but you didn't become a human being. So, no good.

1:54:58Can a Jew exclude themselves from the world of social activity? Hi everyone. We had technical difficulties, so we had to restart the session. Not really sure what happened, but we're back. I'll let everybody come back and please resend me your questions because... I don't have them anymore. I'll let you guys come back so we can restart. So someone sent me a message, a friend of mine. Let me see. Okay. Live? Am I live? It's working? Sebastian? Yeah? It's good? All right.

1:56:25um, let me see. Okay, so, questions now. Maybe I'll get this question up right again. Got up to my question comment. I know, I mean, I don't have any questions, and we have to write the questions again, whoever didn't have a question. Wife is obligated to listen to the husband, not the husband to listen to the wife. Sam, that is Arab mentality. I'm sorry to tell you, but the husband also must respect his wife. Rambam says that the husband must honor his wife more than he honors himself. To say that the husband doesn't have to listen to his wife is Arab mentality. We are not Arabs. We are Jews. So please stop with that craziness. If you're married, then you have to work on yourself. If you're not married, please work on yourself before you get married.

1:57:26Nowhere in the world does it say the husband does not need to listen to his wife. My proof: Avraham Avinu. Avraham Avinu. What did Hashem say to Avraham Avinu? Listen to Sarah. What? Yes, that's what He said. Go look in the Torah. What did Hashem say to Avraham Avinu? Avraham Avinu. Kodesh Kodashim. Avraham Avinu. Kodesh Kodashim. Avraham Avinu. Hashem says listen to your wife Sarah. So what are you talking about, husband doesn't have to listen to wife? Where did you read this? It's Arab mentality, enough. People have to learn Torah or something, but this is not what it says in the Torah. A husband has to honor his wife, and a wife has to honor her husband. The way that the Torah does say is that the wife has to honor her husband like a king, and the husband has to honor his wife like a queen. That it says. It doesn't say don't listen to your wife. Who says that? What kind of matter? What do you think, we are married to donkeys? Who says this? This is only an Islamic mentality where they beat up their wives. That's not how Jews act. Why is evil like homosexuality on the rise? Unfortunately, when there are fewer religious Jews in the world, there are more people that go against Hashem.

1:58:52Jews and non-Jews. Can a Jew exclude himself from social activity and only attend shul on Shabbat? No, you must attend shul every day because you have to be in a minyan, even though it's not necessarily an obligation per se. It's not one of the commandments to go to shul. It says that a person who does not go to shul when he has the option to, he can. There's a perfectly fine shul next to him. There's nothing wrong with the shul. If the shul is full of kofrim, full of heretics, then you're not allowed to go to that shul. But if you have a perfectly fine shul, and there's nothing wrong with the shul, you just don't feel like going, then no, it's not good. You're considered a shachen ra, you're considered a bad neighbor according to the Torah. So you have to go to shul, you have to pray with a minyan. But if you have a community that's completely full of bad people, the Rambam says you must move. Now, the question is, what if you can't find a good neighborhood? Either because you can't afford it, or it doesn't exist. The Rambam says, go live in a cave or the desert and make the scorpion and the snake your neighbors. Meaning, you cannot live in a bad neighborhood.

2:00:03Can't live in a bad neighborhood. So, Baruch Hashem, every neighborhood has some good and some bad. And I'm sure you can find some decent places somewhere around the world, but to be by yourself, only if you have no choice. And Baruch Hashem, I think most people in the world have a choice. In Pirkei Avot chapter 1, it says you should not converse excessively with a woman. Yes. What if she's your wife? Also, what if you are learning Torah with her? Okay, learning Torah is not considered conversing with a woman. Learning Torah is learning Torah. You can talk as much Torah as you want, even though the Gemara says that every person came to the world with a limited amount of words that he could say. Those words are... not considered Torah, meaning anywhere that's not Torah, you're limited to how many you have in a lifetime. So, mundanity means when people talk about nonsense, they're killing themselves slowly. But when people talk Torah, speak Torah, you could speak an unlimited amount of Torah, including with your wife. Now, if talking excessively with your wife also is something that you're not allowed to do, but that's talking about mundane issues, nonsense. So, yes, you should talk to her about basic things that are necessary,

2:01:13Take care of the kids, take care of the house, take care of the husband. Basic things that you need to. But to just talk about, oh, what does Samantha think? Or one of the neighbors building an extension to their house? Or what color do you want to paint the kitchen? Or maybe we should go... That stuff, that's not what you talk about with your wife. You should use that time to learn Torah. Hello, Rabbi Ken, am I inyan? Skip Modim DeRabbanan during Mincha and Arvit. if they have to rush. Also, the bracha that Hashem gave to Avraham's descendants, saying that they will be like the stars. What is the meaning? Since Yishmael is a lot more numerous. Okay, Tavi, as far as skipping prayer for the sake of what? What are they in a rush to? If they're in a rush to go to work, they should remember that they work for God before they work for their boss. So, Why are you in a position where you're in a rush? If it's a rush for health issues, then you don't even have to pray. If it's a rush because you wasted your time shopping for a new dress or a new suit or a new car and you ran out of time to pray to Hashem, then obviously we have to fix ourselves and fix our priorities. So it depends why you're rushing.

2:02:32As far as the bracha that Hashem gave to Avraham, I actually mentioned it in this week's shiur, number 61. But briefly, Hashem was telling Avraham that when Jews are righteous, they'll be as great as the stars, meaning they'll be higher than the rest of the world. When they are wicked, they'll be like sand, meaning lower than the world. Even the wicked are above the sand. So that's in essence what was meant by that blessing. It's not referring to the literal number of Jews or Gentiles. It's referring to the spiritual level of a Jew, either high or low, depending on whether he's righteous or not. Can you recommend a good Musar book? And I also got the Rashi, but are there any great Torah commentaries you recommend? Rashi is critical. A good Musar book, I would say Or Yisrael. Or Yisrael is fantastic. This book right here, it's Or Yisrael. It's a very good book by Rabbi Yisrael Salanter, also by his student, Rabbi Yitzchak Blazer. There are obviously many others. There's Mesilat Yesharim, Path of the Just. There is also...

2:03:43Also, reading the commentary on Proverbs, reading the commentary on Ecclesiastes, and reading the commentary even on the Song of Songs. The Five Books of Moses is one of the greatest Mussar books that could ever be. It is the greatest Mussar book that could ever be, but you have to read it with Rashi. Rashi is the greatest commentator. But if you want additional commentary, then you should buy the series called Me'am Lo'ez. Me'am Lo'ez. It's on moznaim.com or Amazon. But Moznaim is the publisher. And it gives you commentary from somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 different sources: Midrash, Zohar, different Rishonim, Acharonim, and so on. And so, there's many, many commentaries written about 300 years ago by Rav Yitzchak Kuli. So, big tzaddik. And so that is what I recommend, Sebastian. Next. Baruch Hashem for this year. Thank you, Levana. Where can a person go to learn Hebrew? Depends what kind of Hebrew. In New Jersey. Depends what kind of Hebrew. If you're talking about Biblical Hebrew, then I can recommend a couple of books.

2:04:53Private message me, and I'll send you a picture of the books because I just don't remember them by heart. But if you're talking about secular Hebrew, then there are different private courses. Aside from private courses, there's also... Different things online that you can do, so it depends which Hebrew you want to learn, but there are plenty of resources that you can use. Can a woman daven Shemoneh Esrei at home? Yes, she can. Does she need to be in a shul or with a minyan? I was told that she doesn't have to be with a minyan and she could daven at home. Yes, you're right. As a matter of fact, the Gr"a (the Gaon of Vilna), the Vilna Gaon, is... wrote a letter to his wife when he was leaving to go to Eretz Yisrael. And he was going for a few years. In those days, when you would go on a long journey, there was no guarantee of coming back. It's not like today; you go on a plane, and three hours later you're in a different state. In those days, you go on a journey to Eretz Yisrael or somewhere else, or any faraway place, you were going for a few years, and sometimes you'd never come back. So the point is, you would make sure that the family knows what's going on when you leave. You leave a will; you leave a lot of things behind you.

2:06:10So anyway, the Gra, the Vilna Gaon, left a letter. It's called Igeret HaGra. Anyone who doesn't have it and wants it can private message me. I'll send it to them. You can get it online for free. And he says to his wife in the letter many, many things regarding Mussar and so on, how to raise the kids and so on. But one of the things he says to his wife, do not go to Beit Knesset. Why? Because people talk too much there and there's too much nonsense going on over there. Pray at home. Pray at home, and he says, actually try to do your best not to leave the house at all. Try to get someone to help you buy groceries or whatever you need to buy. Get somebody else to do it. Don't leave the house. It's better not to leave the house. There are too many wicked people outside that will waste your time. So, as far as a woman praying at home, absolutely. Daniel, how are you, Daniel? It's been a few days since we spoke. Interesting about shuls of heretics, yes. I think there are also some places I've been to. Yes, unfortunately, shuls of heretics have always existed. It even talks about in the Gemara.

2:07:17In the Gemara, it says sometimes, in the Gemara Massechet Ta'anit, page 16b-17a, that sometimes shuls are run by the wrong people, and they pick the chazan, the cantor, to be the leader of the prayer, not because he's a tzaddik, but because he has a good voice. And it says, when someone has a good voice, but he's wicked, and he's the chazan, the Gemara says this: There's no one in the world that God hates more than that guy. Why does He hate him so much? Because his prayer is not accepted by Hashem, and due to his prayer, Hashem has to punish the entire kehillah. The whole kehillah gets punished because of this wicked chazan. So, you have to be very careful where you go to pray. ...very careful. If the shul is no good, stay home. It's a reality. I know, I know a lot of places don't like to hear that, but it's a reality. What is the difference between Rambam's Mishneh Torah and Yad HaChazakah? I mean, it's two different shittot, two different strategies. Why is the line "do not boil a kid in its mother's milk"...

2:08:41looked at as don't mix dairy and meat. I work in agriculture, and the type of cows and goats you eat are not the type you get milk from typically. Well, in general, Brianna, it's the prohibition of "don't cook a kid in its mother's milk." It's mentioned three times in the Torah. Three verses in the Torah say the same thing. It's, in essence, teaching us three different lessons. One, don't eat dairy and meat together. Two, don't cook it. And three, don't benefit from it, meaning don't sell it or feed it to your pets, and so on. These are the rules of God. I mean, there are certain things that we know... physically that there's benefits to it, but in reality, all of the mitzvot in the Torah, the reason for all of them is because God said so. That's really the real reason. We have certain benefits that we understand as far as eating kosher animals. There are certain health benefits to it, but that's not the reason. The reason is because God said so. Same thing with milk and meat. Same thing with any mitzvah, same thing with Shabbat, same thing with everything.

2:10:05uh why is okay we did that already okay can you write a letter to a deceased tzaddik as the answer back write a letter write a letter enjoy a letter i want to tell you i don't know write the letter uh listen people write letters and they put it in the Kotel in the Western Wall uh so i guess you could use the same argument to write a letter to a deceased tzaddik. But... Do it, do it. There's nothing halachically wrong with it. So that's the law. There's nothing wrong with it. I'm just thinking, I'm having a hard time answering it. I mean, as far as like logically-wise, I don't know. If he's a tzaddik and he's deceased, why do you need to write a letter to him? Just talk. And if he's a tzaddik, then he probably wants you to talk to Hashem anyway. So, I don't know. I don't know. What is a good way to bring your zivug closer besides praying? The best way. The best is to pray to Hashem. The best way to bring your zivug closer

2:11:33If you mean, Saul, if you mean to get a zivug, to find a wife, or if you mean to get your wife or your husband closer to God, I'm not sure which one you mean. So if you mean to get them closer to God, then get them involved. Study with them. Teach them what you learn. Open a book together and read together. Watch a shiur together. Even if it's only five minutes, ten minutes, twenty minutes. Make it fun. Just like, you know, you get somebody to... watch a movie together, watch a shiur together. When it's together, it not only makes her feel or him feel like they're part of your journey, but also when it's Torah, it gets you spiritually connected. Spiritually connected. So that's the best thing to do. As far as how to bring your zivug closer, how to find a wife if you don't have a wife, or how to find a husband if you don't have a husband, you have to learn Torah, you have to do the will of Hashem, you have to give tzedakah, you have to do a lot of good things to show Hashem that you are the best version of you, so He can give you someone that's the best version that He's actually created for you before you were even born.

2:12:42He wants the best version to go to the best version. Gemara Masechet Sotah, page 2b, says a man is going to get a woman based on his ma'asim, based on his deeds. A righteous man will get a modest woman, and a wicked man will get an immodest woman. Why righteous and modest, and not righteous and righteous? And why wicked and immodest, instead of wicked and wicked? Rashi explains: a righteous man gets a modest woman because if she's modest, she's likely to be... Righteous. If she's wicked, if she's immodest, then she's definitely wicked. There's no way that she is righteous. According to Hashem, she can be a nice person. She can be very sweet and so on. But as far as Hashem's definition of righteous and wicked, you cannot be righteous without being modest, both as a man and a woman. So I think I answered both of the questions, regardless of which one you asked. Learn Torah with her. Learn Torah with her. Not just learn Torah. Learn Torah with her. That's what you have to do. Nothing has changed for me in the last few years. Is there any tikkun that I should do, Rabbi?

2:14:03I mean, the biggest thing that a person can do in this generation and previous, it actually talks about anyone that's qualified as a Talmid Chacham has to be involved in Zikui HaRabim, has to be involved in getting people to come back to Hashem. So one of the greatest things that a person can do, if not the greatest thing that a person can do, in order to get special treatment from Hashem, aside from working on himself, aside from working on himself, is to bring Hashem's children back home. So, in essence, if you help Hashem get His children back to Him by helping them do teshuva, either by teaching them, or supporting someone who is teaching them, or supporting an organization that's teaching them, or by setting up a shiur, or by bringing a rabbi, or by giving a CD, or by giving a link for free, or by sending a text message with a shiur. There are a lot of different ways to do kiruv. If you actually do this on an active basis, a regular, everyday basis, then in essence you are taking special care of Hashem's children. When you take special care of Hashem's children, Hashem takes special care of you. So learning together with the wife and doing kiruv definitely are the two best things I can recommend from experience.

2:15:27Women are required to go to Rosh Hashanah services. No, you're not required to go to Rosh Hashanah services. You should pray, but you're not required to go to synagogue. I heard we can't sleep during a day nap on Rosh Hashanah. Is there a source for that? Yeah, the source is that it's Judgment Day, meaning that Hashem decides. In Gemara Masechet Beitzah, page 16a, and Gemara Masechet Rosh Hashanah, page 16b, it also says that Hashem decides whether you live or die on Rosh Hashanah. So if someone has a hearing, and they're going to decide if they're going to go to jail for a year or not. Jail just for a year. Not a life sentence. Not the death penalty. Just jail for a year. How about this? Jail for a weekend. Jail for a weekend. The night before, no normal human being goes to sleep. Why? Because who wants to go to jail for a weekend? Anyone that even heard about jail is already having a little bit of heartache right now as I'm saying jail. But this is just for a weekend. Hashem is telling you in His Oral Torah on Rosh Hashanah, decide whether you go to jail for eternity. How could you go to sleep? Other than normal sleep, you shouldn't sleep. Normal sleep meaning, you know, sleep here a few hours for the night, but as far as during the day, absolutely don't sleep. Not on Judgment Day. Amen. Regarding shuls that have questionable minyanim, it is best to discuss with the Rav if the shul...

2:16:53you are not coming. Is it offensive? The client is inviting expectations to come to me. Okay, if you have a shul that has a questionable minyan, then you have to ask them. You have to go to the rav privately and ask if there are at least 10 regulars that keep Shabbat. They don't all have to be tzaddikim, just 10. Decent Jews that keep Shabbat. If there are 10 Jews that keep Shabbat, you should go. It doesn't matter even if there are 990 that don't keep Shabbat. If there are 10 that keep Shabbat, you can go, as long as they're not kofrim. But if you don't know, if there's one guy that keeps Shabbat and 999 that don't keep Shabbat, you have nothing to do with that. You'll pray at home. Why? Because there's no minyan. There's no point in going. And asking the Rabbi is definitely something you should do. You shouldn't be offended by it. You are trying to be righteous with Hashem. There's nothing wrong with it, but you ask him privately, not in front of other people. In case there's some kiruv that he's trying to do, and in case certain people don't understand the significance, and so on, you ask him privately.

2:18:04Levana, yes, you're 100% right. Levana, kiruv does put you on a VIP list. I mean, anyone that watches my shiurim once in a while, I tell personal stories of my students, of myself, of different miracles that happen on a daily basis. Mamash, daily basis. For the sake of kiruv, it's really, really, truly amazing. I'll tell you how it is. Live. Live story. Right now, everyone in Florida is... mamash... She came and said, "I make this up. I mean, this actually happened. Just a couple of days ago, we had a lecture. And before the lecture, we already knew the whole hurricane was happening, and, you know, everybody in Florida panics with hurricanes. So, we have God, so we worry about God more than we worry about His little tiny angels called Hurricane Irma." So, anyway... The day of the lecture, I had to, you know, I drive, I don't know, maybe 45 minutes, an hour away from my house, from Boca to Aventura, and I go to my car, and I see there's only out of, I don't know, 10, 20 bars or whatever it is, there's one tiny little bar of gas, and the gas blinker is going on, blinking at me that I have to go fill up gas. I still have to drive 20-something miles to the shiur Torah.

2:19:28I say, okay, this is just enough, I know a little bit, this is just enough to get to the shiur, but as soon as I finish the shiur, I have to get gas. I didn't even think about whether there's going to be gas or no gas; I didn't think anything about that. All I thought about was that I have to get to the shiur on time. Why? Because me arriving to the shiur late is not good. Maybe somebody comes, they don't see me there, they leave, and they end up not doing teshuva because I was late 20 minutes. It's about being responsible. So, I say, Hashem, your business, I gotta get there. So, I go in the car, I drive to the shiur Torah. We get there safely, no problem. After the shiur Torah, the blinker is screaming at me now because there's no gas. I wasted whatever I had. I wasted. So, I said, okay, I'm gonna go get gas. So, I go look at the gas. There's a place right next to the shiur Torah, and then the token falls in and clicks on. I realize, wait a minute, everybody's panicking.

2:20:28For the hurricane. And I see the gas station, no gas. There are signs everywhere: no gas. No gas. So I go, okay, let's go to another one. So I go on the GPS, go to another one, I drive. I don't know how much time I have in this car. I definitely don't have any gas to get home. So I go to another one, no gas. I go to another one, no gas. I go to another one, no gas. Everything is closed, everything is shut, nothing. This is also, it's Miami, so there are a lot of people there. There are, I don't know, 10 million people there or something. A lot of people there. And I'm realizing, I'm probably going to have to sleep in my car. I pray to Hashem. Teach Torah, what I do. And then I say, oh, let me call one of my students. I call Amos, Amos Tzaddik. Amos, you know a gas station? He goes, oh, actually, you know what? I just passed. He went to my shiur. I just passed by on the same street, further down from where you are. I saw somebody filling up gas somewhere. I drive along. I'm thinking I'm going to go in a line that's the length of the equator, people waiting for gas, and hopefully there's something left for me. I go there. Nobody's there.

2:21:36Gas, plenty. I go fill up gas, no line, no nothing. It's almost 3 o'clock in the morning right now. The shiur was long already. On top of it, there were a couple of hours of questions and answers after the private sessions. 3 o'clock in the morning, nothing. Like it's a normal day. Fill up my gas, this. I get home right next to my house, the gas station. At 4 o'clock in the morning, there's a line around the block. People waiting for gas right next to my house, if that's not a miracle, I don't know what is. And there are many, many miracles. You listen to my lectures, you're going to find many bogus and many miracles, my own and others. You have to look for them. Hi, Rabbi. When are you going to come to Brooklyn? I would like to invite you to our community and... You give lectures, speeches. When you invite me, set up a lecture and make sure you have a lot of people. I'll be happy to come. Send me a private message. I'll send you some questions about your community and how many people will be attending. I'm more than happy to go to any community as long as you can arrange it.

2:22:47people. You could arrange people to come to the shiurim, so I'm not going, leaving my family behind, going on a plane, spending half a day on a plane and traveling to the airport. Finally, I get to a lecture, and there are seven people. And I'm one of them. With all due respect, it's not fair. So if you can get 100, 200 people to show up to a lecture, I'm more than happy to come. And also I could set up other lectures, but when people, you know, want me to come to lectures and there are like three people in a lecture or five people in a lecture, it's... it's not, it's not, it's not a conducive use of time because, again, I have to spend half a day each way on a plane, even if it's just a simple trip to New York. So, I don't, you know, really want to do that for five people. I'd rather just stay here and have my locals. But if you can get a lot of people, Ari, I'd love to. I'd love to come—California, New York, wherever, Australia, wherever you want to go. If you get a lot of people, I'm coming. Um...

2:23:54What's the next question, Rabbi? You said the Third Temple will come down from Shamayim. Some say modern-day Israel is forced by man, as some try to force the building. They're not building the Third Temple. Yosef, they're not building the Third Temple. They just say it. They're not building any Third Temple. They're building buildings to make money. They're not building the Third anything. I also wish you could learn Hebrew, Mark. Okay, so yeah, you should learn Hebrew. There are plenty of books you can learn Hebrew from. And there are also classes. It is difficult; it takes years, especially if it’s Biblical Hebrew, which is really the one that's valuable. Secular Hebrew, I mean, you can learn in less time, but it’s not as valuable as Biblical Hebrew, because Biblical Hebrew can let you read the Torah in its real language, which is pretty much reading the secrets of the world. Is it required that a woman hear the shofar? Yes, she should hear the shofar, but again, it depends. It depends on the kehillah, it depends on where you live, it depends on certain things, but she should hear the shofar if possible. Mashiach now. Doris, yeah, I mean, I guess Mashiach coming now would definitely be wonderful for whoever is righteous. I just don't know

2:25:15If we have enough of our brothers and sisters that are righteous enough to want the Mashiach to come right now, I'd like to have more time personally because I want to help more people do teshuva. I also want to get stronger myself. So, as much as I'd love for the Mashiach to come, I'd also love to help more of my brothers and sisters be ready for him when he comes, and for it not to be like it was in Egypt, where only 20% of Am Yisrael were saved. The other 80% Hashem had to kill because they didn't do teshuva. Source: Midrash Me'am Loez. Torah is real in that. What is the spiritual cause of hurricanes? There are multiple things that cause hurricanes according to the Gemara. One of them is Lashon Hara. Another is saying evil speech and Rechilut, talking bad about people, especially if those people teach Torah. Anyone that follows my page,

2:26:16My YouTube page, we'll see there are at least one or two people every few hours who like to say nice compliments about me, so it's not helping the hurricane situation. When do I believe that the Third Temple will be built? The Third Temple is going to be built when Hashem is ready. I'm losing my voice already, guys. I'll do it for a little while longer. I think it's already been two and a half hours, so I'll do it for another half hour. So, when is the Third Temple going to be built? When Hashem is ready. When Hashem is ready, which means when Hashem decides that Am Yisrael is ready. Rabbi, you should publish your own Emunah book because you've got a lot of life-saving stuff, Baruch Hashem. Baruch Hashem, one day we have a lot of books in mind to write, a lot of articles in mind to write, but everything takes time. Everything takes time. To run this kiruv organization takes time. To make these movies takes time. To make these lectures takes time. To learn Torah takes time. To run the teams, to do all these different things takes a lot of time. Send packages out.

2:27:35private lessons. Everything takes time. It takes resources, lots of money, lots of time, lots of energy. So, I would love to have at least a couple of books in my head that I would like to write. It's just a matter of prioritizing things. Because if I write a book, that means I have to lower my studying. And I don't really want to lower my studying. And if I lower my studying, then I have to increase, you know, so you have to always weigh things. And we're trying, we're trying. It's definitely on my mind also. There's a book already that I wrote. about teshuvah and conversion. But the Satan has been doing everything possible to delay this book. Oh, if I could do a lecture just about the Satan involved in this book. How much he interferes with this book. It's already written. It's already ready for over a year. It's a mamash craziness how much interference has happened with this book. So, b'ezrat Hashem, that will come too. This too is for the good.

2:28:41Can you do a lecture about mysticism? I think I mean, I've talked about mysticism in the past. I think mysticism, quite frankly, is one of the things that's causing more people to sin than it's causing people to get closer to Hashem. When people ask, for example, why doesn't Hashem, God Almighty... make miracles, just like He did in Egypt. So everybody knows that He's God. Just like He did at Mount Sinai. He said, "I am God that took you out of Egypt." You start seeing words in the sky, "I am God." You're not going to believe in God? You have to be crazy. Why doesn't He just do it one, two, three times? Finished. Everybody believes in God. And not JC Penny, not the Rebbe, not this one, not that one. God. That's it. Fix everything. Torah teaches us, miracles don't make people believe in God. Don't you see why? Look, I'm Yeshayahu. The gentiles, the whole world, saw what happened in Egypt, saw what happened at Mount Sinai, and still sinned a week later, a month later, a day later, a year later. At some point, it didn't last. Which means that in order for Hashem to get people to stay close to Him, He'd have to do a miracle every second. And that removes your free choice.

2:30:04So, mysticism in essence, on that end of it, as far as Hashem making miracles and stuff like that, that's just not the way that Hashem wants to run the world. He wants to run the world in a natural way. As far as the mystical aspect of Judaism, where people like to translate certain dreams, like it talks about in the Gemara, Masechet Berachot, the tractate of Berachot has several different major things about the translation of dreams, or different types of things that are not allowed, such as reading in coffee, using Ouija boards, or fortune tellers, which we are not allowed to do. So, all of those things... translate certain dreams, as it talks about in the Gemara, Masechet Berachot. The tractate of Berachot has several major discussions about the translation of dreams, or different types of things that are not allowed, such as reading coffee grounds, using Ouija boards, or consulting fortune tellers, all of which are not permissible. So, all of those things unfortunately lead more people to sin, and the reason why is because people don't know the difference between what's good, what's bad, what's allowed, what's not allowed, and also what's real and what's fake. They don't know what's real, what's fake. So they go to some guy, he looks like a rabbi, he looks righteous, he wears a robe, he has a long beard, everybody kisses his hand, he looks great. The guy tells them, yeah, yeah, pay me $15,000 for this black book, full of Aramaic, and you don't know how to read it. He says, if you buy this book, all your problems will be solved. You take your...

2:31:18... savings, you buy this book, you buy some water for $1,000, you go home thinking that you've just solved all your problems. You don't know that you just brought to your house 50 million demons, and now your life is going to hell. And you think you did a mitzvah, did something good? So, in reality, mysticism causes more problems. Is there a certain part of mysticism that's valid, that's real, that's Kabbalah? Absolutely. Are there many people that know it? No, absolutely not. It's few and far between. Certain people are privileged to knowing certain things and having a certain level of connection to the mystical aspects of Judaism, but there's a big "but." Whether you're connected to mysticism or not, whether you know mysticism or not, Hashem did not make a halacha in the book of laws of the Torah that you must be...

2:32:19Kabbalist, you must do this: you must read and know what he says. Do mitzvot, honor Hashem, sanctify His name, don't desecrate His name, keep Shabbat, keep kosher, keep taharat mishpacha (family purity). Have good manners, work on yourself, and perform the basic mitzvot. Do the basics and trust me when I tell you, when you really connect and learn about the basics of Judaism... You won't need any mystical. Why? Because the basics of Judaism are so extraordinary that they're mystical in nature themselves. When people really understand the significance of just Birkat Hamazon, saying a prayer after you eat, it could be a big deal. If you actually know the significance of Birkat Hamazon, you'll never pray again the same way. It's amazing. You'll celebrate every time you eat bread. You'll celebrate Birkat Hamazon. You're never going to want to stop. You're going to want Birkat Hamazon five times. Birkat Hamazon, the greatest prayer in all of Judaism. Bigger than Shema Yisrael. Bigger than Amidah. Most people don't know this. Why? Because they're looking elsewhere. They're looking for mystical stuff. So, in general, I am not for mystical Judaism. Not because I don't think it's real. Chas V'Shalom.

2:33:35but simply because it steers more people wrong than right, as most people don't know how to treat it. They don't know how to act with it. And Judaism is not based on mystical acts; it's based on connecting to Hashem in a traditional, regular, natural way. Why are Muslims terrorizing the world? Because Hashem makes them do it. They are a tool that Hashem uses, just like everything else is a tool that Hashem uses to wake up the Jews. When Jews are doing good, we have good. It says it in this week's parasha, Parashat Ki Tavo. When you're good, no one is even going to dare be your enemy. They're all going to be scared of you. When you're not good, not only are they not going to be scared of you, I'm going to create enemies for you out of nothing. So the Muslim terrorists, they're created for what? To terrorize Am Yisrael when Am Yisrael is not doing good. The Christians, when they're crazy and they start having pogroms, inquisitions, and holocausts. Why? Hashem said, "Listen, Jews are not good. They're assimilating. They're intermarrying. They're violating Shabbat. You got to wake them up." Why? That's the way it is. If Hashem doesn't get involved, it's not going to be Am Yisrael. It's a part of Hashem running the world.

2:34:52Great lecture. Always enjoy listening. Thank you very much, Inessa, if that's your name. Are they honoring their parents who hate God? Do you have parents that hate God? Do they live lifestyles opposite of the Torah? Do they hate God, or do they just not comply with the Torah? Is it better not to talk with them? When they get into you and your lifestyle, also, do you have a book? Brianna, I haven't written or published my book yet. But it all depends on whether the parents hate God or they’re just not religious. Sometimes people are just not religious, but they don't necessarily hate God. They may even believe in God, just not in the right way. But sometimes they're like atheist haters of religion. Unfortunately, this is a situation where you have to really limit your conversation and even your contact with them if they're going to lead you to sin. If they are haters of God, you do not have to honor them at all because they're not considered righteous people to be honored.

2:36:16If at a bar mitzvah one says a haftorah, when does one say the whole Torah? No one says the haftorah at a bar mitzvah. You just say a parashah. You just say your weekly parashah. It's just one small part out of the 54 parshiyot in the Torah. You just say the one that's read during the week of your birthday. The Torah calls Ishmael the father of the Arabs. A wild beast. Yes. His hand against everyone and everyone's hand against him. Okay. Is that a question, Michael? No, I don't think it's a question. Okay. I went to Florida, and it was crazy anti-Semitic in Florida. Yes, it's crazy anti-Semitic all over the world. And in a recent study in America, it said that 40% of Americans... admit to being anti-Semitic. And that's just the ones that admit. So the world at large is anti-Semitic. Anyone that thinks otherwise is living in a different world. Please come back.

2:37:25What's your opinion of the Aleppo Codex? Wonderful. It's a good book. If you're talking about the book, it's a good book about the Aleppo Codex. Is it reliable? Yes. If so, does it clarify the pronunciation of God's name? Debate. There is no debate on pronouncing Hashem's name. The Shem Hameforash is... You're not allowed to say it, first of all, for no reason. And two, I don't believe anyone in our generation does know how to say it. It's a 72-letter name, because if you're able to say it, then you're able to perform miracles. You're able to change nature. You're able to turn water into ice. You'll be able to fly. You'll be able to do things. So I don't believe there's anybody in the world that knows that. But the Aleppo Codex has nothing to do with that. The Aleppo Codex is a book that's a scroll. It's a Torah scroll that we have. It always has to be copied from somewhere according to Halacha.

2:38:28And one of the oldest copies of an original came from Aleppo, Syria. So there's a good book that talks about the history of how they got it and how they smuggled it into Israel. And it's in a museum now. It's a very, very good book. But there is an older version of it, apparently. There is an older version than the one that's in the book that's available. But either way, one thing doesn't have to do with the other as far as the question. Little baby's crying. Let's see. My daughter's crying. She's cute. She's sleeping. You can come, Mommy. Shabbat Shalom, Rabbi Yaron. Okay, Shabbat Shalom. Would you recommend the Yad Avraham Mishnah series for Noahide? No, I would recommend learning Mussar more than learning Halacha. Okay, a couple of minutes and we're finished, guys. Why did Hashem put Adam to sleep when He made Chava? Why couldn't He do it when Adam was awake? Because then you wouldn't have a question, Meir. Why did Hashem... Because Hashem still wants to run the world in a natural way.

2:39:42wants to run the world in a natural way, not just start moving bodies and adding body parts. It's an unnatural way of running the world. Hashem wants to run the world in a natural way. It's a very interesting question. No, I'm not trying to disrespect it. I don't know why it would matter if he was asleep or not. But I do know that the reason why Hashem picked the rib as the body part that He took from Adam to put in Chava because it's the most modest part of the body. If He took the hand, the hand is always exposed. If He took the leg, the leg is exposed. The rib is always covered. And since modesty is important to Hashem, He chose the rib. He didn't want to show Adam HaRishon what's actually happening because even though Adam HaRishon actually saw and knew Hashem told him that He created Chava from him, he didn't see it. Just the fact that she came from him already meant that there was a visual of her that had to be worked on, meaning he didn't see her as the same as him and...

2:41:03On the other hand, if he actually saw her coming out of his body, it would be very difficult for him to honor her even more than himself, which is an obligation in Judaism. So that's the only thing that I can think of as far as the answer directly for that. But I think the most important part of the answer is why he chose the rib versus anything else. Judaism is not the goyim's wife. I have no idea what that means. Can a goy learn and read the Zohar? No. They teach at Kabbalah Center. Yes, the Kabbalah Center does not teach Zohar. The Kabbalah Center teaches heresy. Heresy gets you to go to Gehenom, a very, very hot place that in some cases doesn't end. So, the Kabbalah Center has a visa directly there. They have a first-class ticket over there. They don't teach that. They don't teach real Zohar. They teach nonsense. They teach...

2:42:06different small little verse here, verse there, they don't, real Zohar, they wouldn't even know how to read, let alone understand what it says. And as far as going, learning Zohar, no, even most Jews are not allowed to learn Zohar, unless they're beki'im, which means experts, in all of the Oral Torah, which is Mishnah and Gemara and Shulchan Aruch, And also all of the Written Torah, which is the entire Tanach. So unless they're experts in all of that, they're not even allowed to touch the Zohar. So guys and girls that read Zohar thinking that they're doing something good for themselves, they're not doing anything good for themselves, because part of the Zohar talks about angels. And if you mention those angels' names, you are putting yourself in a very, very bad spot. And the reason why is because Those angels are very critical, much more critical than Hashem is, meaning that they're judging us unfavorably. Some of them didn't even want us to get the Torah. So when you call their name, they come, and if they see that you're not a pure person, they could actually torture you. They can create a lot of problems in your life. So people just throw names of angels, thinking that they're doing good for themselves, and then they get into car accidents and they wonder, "Why did I get into a car accident?" These are the angels' names.

2:43:26And the angel took offense to this. "Why are you calling me? I came down here. You're not even a pure enough person for me to talk to. Who are you?" So people that learn Zohar, they're just putting their life in danger. But that's, again, what happens with ignorance. People just want to skip all the basics and go directly to the highest level. No one wants to do their homework in kindergarten. They want to be an NBA superstar. What can we do? Why did he create mystical? I heard Jesus used it to fly. Jesus, if he existed, used the cloud, not the Shem HaMeforash. He used different wizardry, like things that are against the Torah. He didn't use the Shem HaMeforash. Hashem created mystical because initially, there were enough righteous people in the world that were able to use it the right way. For example, Moshe Rabbeinu. Moshe Rabbeinu killed the Egyptian by using Hashem's name. He didn't hit him. He said Hashem's name, and the Egyptian died. He said Hashem's name, and the sea split. He said Hashem's name, and many miracles happened. So people knew how to use it. How do you convince a non-Jew that Paul is insane? I don't know, if they read any of the work of Paul and they still don't think that Paul is insane, then they're probably insane themselves.

2:44:55Is Trump good for Israel, or is he a sketch? He didn't condemn the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville. Trump is a puppet, just like all politicians are puppets, especially when they are presidents. Puppets in the sense of puppets for politics, but even more so when they're higher, like a president, for example, of a country. loses his free will, according to HaTorah, just like, for example, Hashem took away the free choice of Pharaoh, and He took the free choice away from a few other kings later on, He takes away the free choice of the leaders of the world because He uses them as little puppets to run the world. So it doesn't matter if he's good or bad for Israel, it matters only if Israel is good to Hashem. If Israel is good to Hashem, they have nothing to worry about. If Israel is bad to Hashem, they have everything to worry about. And that's actually this week's parasha, parashat Ki Tavo. Hashem says you do good, you have blessings. You do bad, there's 98 curses, 98 different punishments. It talks about this in the parasha. Father hates God, mother claims herself as a Jew, yet she lives...

2:46:07She likes the LGBT lifestyle and eats pork every day. Miskena, poor people. Give them a CD or one of my lectures or my personal story, or perhaps the lecture by Rabbi Mizrahi, "Torah and Science." Hopefully, they could wake up before it's too late. Try to send them lectures or give them CDs to listen to. But don't put yourself in harm's way by forcing yourself to hang out with them just simply because they're your parents. If they're wicked and they're going to hurt you, then stay away from them. Some people are into witches. Yes, those people also have a place in Gehenom. The Gemara says that Gehenom Continues to grow. There's no size for it. Why is there no size for it? This is because people keep making more sins, and Hashem has to keep making it grow. Whereas Gan Eden, he says to give you the exact measurement of Gan Eden: 60 times the size of Earth.

2:47:10It stays the same. Why? Not everybody goes there. But Gehinnom continues to grow. Why? Because people are crazy and they deal with witchcraft. They make their rabbis into gods. They make their religions idolatry. All types of crazy things. They go against Hashem on a regular basis. So that's what happens. You want to do good? Go with God. You want to do bad? Go against God. Hello from Australia. Arthur, how are you? Tzaddik. I don't know what's wrong with them. It doesn't matter because Hashem will heal them very soon so you can live a long life full of happiness, success, chesed, Torah, mitzvot, and gemilut chasadim. What's a good way to get up early to learn Torah at 6 a.m.? What time is good to sleep at night? How do I stop from getting a headache each day if I wake up at that time? I mean, your body gets used to whatever you do. If your body is used to, for example, sleeping eight hours, then it's going to be tough to adjust. But after a week or two of sleeping, let's say, six hours, your body would adjust to six hours. After a week or two, you could go down to five and a half hours and stay there for a little while after.

2:48:21do I stop from getting a headache each day if I wake up at that time? I mean, your body gets used to whatever you do. If your body is used to, for example, sleeping eight hours, then it's going to be tough to adjust. But after a week or two of sleeping, let's say, six hours, your body would adjust to six hours. After a week or two, you could go down to five and a half hours and stay there for a little while after. you know, a few months or even a few years of doing five and a half hours, you could even go lower to five hours or four and a half hours. Again, it depends on your level, depends on who you are, and depends on what you're doing with your time. The Torah learning, if you're learning Torah at that time, then Torah heals the soul and the body. So it's a good way to use your time, and you're actually healing your neshama more by learning Torah than by sleeping. On the other hand, if you're just playing on Facebook and games and wasting your time on the internet and on TV, then... ...then if you sleep that many hours, you're probably going to die very quickly from a heart attack, simply because your body can't handle it and your neshama can't handle it. So it all depends on what you use your time for. But as far as learning early in the morning, it's definitely a good idea. And really, you have to learn twice a day. You have to learn in the morning, and you have to learn at night. So it's very important for every Jew to make time to learn every day, both in the morning and at night.

2:49:42You're right, Rabbi. Great. I have no idea what I'm right about, but Baruch Hashem, it's not me, it's Torah. Why do we say in the Amidah that our eyes see Hashem return to Zion? What does that mean, Zion? It means bringing the Mashiach. Bring the Mashiach. I think we're out of questions, Tzaddikim. I think we're out of questions. Baruch Hashem. To find, and it's also kind of late, let me just summarize it all in this. Listen, right now, we have a lot of craziness in the world. We have a, oh, I was right about the Gemara. Yeah, yeah, in Sanhedrin, yeah, Baruch Hashem. Baruch Shekivanti. We have a lot of craziness in the world. People need to understand this. I mean, if you don't see that the world's heating up, you have to open your eyes. The Russians are waiting to press a button. The Americans are waiting to press a button. The North Koreans are waiting to press a button. The Iranians are just looking for the button and they would press it immediately. Everyone is looking to fight. Everyone is looking to fight. Mashiach is around the corner. Hashem is bringing the world to a climax. Natural disasters that used to happen once in a blue moon are happening on an annual basis.

2:51:04Quarter-annual basis, monthly basis, regular basis is becoming very normal. Time for us to wake up, time for us to do teshuva. Doing teshuva means learning Torah. Doing teshuva means working on our character traits. Doing teshuva means asking Hashem, "Am I doing good according to Your definition, according to Your opinion?" Not your opinion, but God's opinion. And And the closer you are to God's opinion, the better your life is going to be here. Don't worry about Irma. Worry about the Hand that created Irma. If you're good with the Hand that created Irma, you have nothing to worry about. And that's the main thing that we need to learn today. If you have emunah for the right reason, not just blind emunah, but emunah because you're doing everything you need to do to have emunah, to deserve emunah. If you have emunah, you have nothing to worry about. If you don't have emunah, you have everything to worry about, especially why you don't have emunah. Shabbat Shalom, Shabbat Mevorach, and Kol Tuv to everyone. Be safe.