Kosher Food, Loving God, Intermarriage, Holocaust - STUMP THE RABBI (2)

0:12We're going to continue our "Stump the Rabbi" series we started last week. We had some really good questions last week. Today you'll have some more questions. Just as an update on a couple of things before I let you guys ask as many questions as you want, we'll learn from them. Sure, b'ezrat Hashem, tonight will be for refuah shlema for David ben Esriah, Doris bat Jorah, Levana bat Sara, Renee bat Rose, Elisheva Chaya bat Sara, and all of Am Yisrael b'ezrat Hashem will have refuah shlema, refuat hanefesh, refuat haguf, also Sarah bat Anat and Rav Ephraim ben Shulamit. So, a few updates, a few updates. We, Baruch Hashem, sent out another huge kiruv package to Austria this week, Baruch Hashem. We sent one to India, we sent one to Nigeria.

1:31So in different places in Canada and the United States, over these last few weeks in our campaign of giving out 100,000 CDs and Asher Yatzar posters, plus a few other things as well, Baruch Hashem, to try to, first and foremost, spread Torah. First and foremost, spread Torah, get people to understand what the truth is about HaKadosh Baruch Hu and His Torah. The second thing is also to overcome the Yetzer Hara of money. A lot of the reasons why people fail in Avodat Hashem is because of their obsession with money. And the obsession with money is not just in the regular business world. You work for Starbucks, you work for a diamond dealer, you work on Wall Street, you work as a rabbi. There are no exceptions. Everybody is subject to the Yetzer Hara in the world of money. And this is one of the battles that we have to fight, that we have to show HaKadosh Baruch Hu that we believe in Him 150 million percent by simply doing what He wants us to do without actually having an idea even of how we're going to pay for it. So, Baruch Hashem, we try to do it on a regular basis and little by little reach more neshamot and try to serve HaKadosh Baruch Hu like really we're supposed to.

2:56And who sends the money one way or the other whenever it comes, it comes somehow. It's just that we have to constantly work on ourselves to believe that it's going to come and continue performing, doing, and sacrificing even before we not only didn't see it come, but before we even have an idea if it's even going to come or how it's going to come. Because if you thought about it, if you thought about a solution... of how Hashem is going to bring you salvation, then you can rest assured this is exactly what He's not going to do. You thought about a solution for Hashem to solve your problems, you should know. The fact that you thought about it is giving Him countless reasons why He's not going to do that. Why? Because you thought about it. And He wrote in the Torah, "I don't think like you." So if you're going to give me solutions, those are exactly the things I'm not going to do. Why? Because I want to show you that I am the one doing it and not your good idea that you came up with. So, anyway, we still have some CDs left, probably about 30% to 35% left. Anyone who wants to give out CDs or Sheetzar posters in their community, please email info@bezrasHashem.org. Don't text this post and say, "I want CDs." That's not going to help me.

4:22Send an email request with a little bit of information about your community and your address. Members of Be'ezrat Hashem will send it to you. The reason why these few places, such as Nigeria, India, and Austria, are highlighted is because, first and foremost, it's the first time we're going to these places. Second of all, these are not exactly places that are known for having Jews, especially Austria, which was part of Amalek 70 years ago. You know, they joined forces with the Nazi army and killed countless Jews over there. So, the contact we have over there says that there are 8,000 Jews in Vienna. Hopefully, we get to each one of them. And the point is, Rabotai, is that you little by little see that before Mashiach comes, Hashem is going to give every single person an opportunity to see the truth. What you do with the truth is up to you. He doesn't guarantee that everyone is going to do teshuva. He guarantees that everyone will have an opportunity to do teshuva.

5:29will see the truth before Mashiach comes, which means that once he comes, if you did good, good for you. Why? Because it doesn't matter what's going to happen—war, no war, all that stuff doesn't make a difference. Hashem will save you; you'll be fine. But if Mashiach came and you didn't do teshuva, tough luck, out of luck, out of time. If you died before you did teshuva, out of time, out of it. These are things we need to know. Why? Because tomorrow, for anyone who doesn't know, is Yom HaShoah. Tomorrow is the memorial of the Holocaust. And we are today living in a generation where a good part of the people living today do not believe. do not believe that the Holocaust actually happened, even though we have it on video, even though we have pictures, even though we still have witnesses that were in the Holocaust. There are still countless people, millions of people, some of them unfortunately Jews even, that do not believe that the Holocaust is real. Better yet, there are still countless Jews

6:42That no, the Holocaust is something that happened 70 years ago, 80 years ago, but they don't really know what happened. And they don't really know why what happened, happened. To just say, "Oh yeah, you know, our shul has a memorial on the wall. They wrote the names of every person that died. Six million Jews died. We have a wall, wall, wall. I donated for this wall. He donated for the wall." It means nothing. One day that wall may or may not be there. But the memory is supposed to live on. The memory is supposed to remind us of what happens in the world without Torah. So we'll see, based on time and if you guys have an interest, there's a lot of new material that we went over. We learned with Rav Fein about the Holocaust. It's not for the faint of heart, like some of the other videos we've talked about in the past. But if not today, then another day we'll talk about it. Either way, the point is, Abotai, is that the people that lived at the time of the Holocaust, I can promise you, I can promise you, that unless they were an eved Hashem, unless they were a servant of Hashem, like a serious servant of Hashem, if they were just a regular secular Jew, regular even semi-religious Jew, but not like an eved Hashem, not a single one of them

8:11believe that they're going to die the way they died. Not a single one of them. Not a single human being thought that it was actually possible for the Holocaust to happen the way it happened. The details of what happened in the Holocaust are so gruesome and disturbing that on one hand, every human being alive should obligate themselves to watch at least one serious documentary, seeing the awful, horrible things that will probably scar you for life, at least once in your life. But on the other hand, it will scar you. You will see humanity at its worst. And then you'll have me in the back of your mind reminding you that this is not the worst. It's almost the worst. It's just the worst on video. So, on a better note, on a better note, we have, Baruch Hashem, many projects. Team Hashem constantly works to do different things to reach Am Yisrael and anybody that loves Hashem in different parts of the world. So for almost, I think, I don't know, maybe a year, almost a year, I would say, close to a year, we've been working on a movie.

9:39about perhaps the most popular story that we've told, which is my personal story, but turning it into a movie. You know, one of these films that we have, a lot of people like the films, it gives people a lot of chizuk, myself included, even though I'm the one that speaks. And so we decided that it's worth it to invest to turn that lecture, or several lectures, when I've spoken about my personal story, turning the story into a film, I can't really say it's a short film because it's not. It's actually probably about an hour and a half. It's shorter than actual lectures, but I with fantastic editing and graphics and so on. And it's an amazing job. And b'ezrat Hashem, this will be released very soon. This will be released very soon. Anyone that wants to support it, support the work we've already done, and wants to sponsor something, please feel free to contact us. But regardless of that, I could put it to you this way.

10:47If you watch this movie, we're going to have it in two different versions. We're going to have one version that is going to be the complete movie, from beginning to end, let's say, I don't know, 90 minutes, let's just say. That's one version. The second version is going to be 11 to 12 parts, like short clips. So, let's say, an hour and a half divided by 12, each part between 7 to 10 minutes. Each one is a story of its own. Each one is a movie of its own. But in essence, they all connect. If you watch it from beginning to end and you don't do teshuvah, most likely you're not Jewish. Most likely you may not even be human. Why? The walls will do teshuvah watching this movie. Not because it's me. Just because this is reality at its best. This is a real story. And I found out over the last five years of doing lectures, six years, whatever it's been, People, as difficult as it is to listen to some of the things we say, especially the stuff that's sometimes gruesome, sometimes hard to hear, people like it. Why? People like reality. If I told you you're all wonderful, there's no problems in the world, just say Shema Yisrael and all your problems would go away like a headache and...

12:05Oh, go away. Like you took an Advil, headache goes away. Same thing with your problems. You have no money in the bank, money will appear in your bank. You can't find a shidduch, and a shidduch will come. You can't find a job, and a job will come. Real life doesn't quite work that way all the time. Sometimes it does, but not all the time. Depends where you are. But people like to hear reality. People like to know why certain things don't work out for them, why they fail sometimes, why they feel empty inside, why they feel like there's a hole in their heart, or why they feel like they're living a purposeless life. Why did somebody that they know really well have a disease that's killing them slowly? They seem like a nice person after all. Why is so-and-so not able to have kids? Why does so-and-so have cancer? Why did so-and-so die at 25 years old? A lot of surreal stuff happens in the world. And when people hear that everything is okay and everything is okay, and you look at the world around you, it's absolutely not okay. So it's confusing.

13:20So then when you hear somebody telling you the actual truth of why things are not okay, people connect to it. So in this movie, Baruch Hashem, we try to do our best to give everyone a very clear and beautiful reality check, but at the same time, a very entertaining one nonetheless. And I think that, Baruch Hashem, we're... Try to reach as many people as possible. We're going to try to advertise it, market it. We'll send the funds and people and supporters to do all of these things that we want to do. But this is coming out very, very soon. For the few people that have asked me, "How come we haven't publicized many short films in the last few months?" this is the reason. We've been working on a very, very big one for some time, and that's going to come out very, very soon. I'm looking forward to it myself, to be honest with you. That's how good it is, even though I watched it already. Now, as far as the questions, again, last week we had one person get paid for best questions. But Baruch Hashem, Hashem had mercy on me and I wasn't stumped. So I was able to, Baruch Hashem, give you guys answers. So hopefully today we'll get some more good questions. And I can't tell you hopefully I'm stumped, but nonetheless, hopefully you ask some good questions. So go ahead. Who wants to go first? Go ahead.

14:49So I actually asked the same question years ago. I said to my rabbi, in Shema Yisrael that every Jew is supposed to know. Every Jew is supposed to know Shema Yisrael. Unfortunately, in Eretz Yisrael today, there are over one million kids in Eretz Yisrael today that do not know Shema Yisrael. Fear even thinking about what the number is in America because it's drastically worse. There was actually a short three-minute video that I saw yesterday or the day before where somebody decided to give about a dozen or so secular Jews a test to see if they can withstand it. secular Jews a test to see if they can withstand it. How many of them can keep kosher for one week? That's it. They've never kept kosher before; they don't go to shul; they don't keep anything. American Jews want to see if you can keep kosher. These are the rules of kosher, and

16:05You know, you can't eat milk and meat together, can't eat pig, can't eat shrimp. If you're going to eat in your own house, you have to use kosher utensils that went to the mikveh, and so on and so forth. Now, technically, kashrut is the easiest mitzvah to fulfill today. It's the easiest mitzvah that actually requires action to fulfill. Why? Because, Baruch Hashem, Hashem made it so easy that in practically every store you go to, you're going to find kosher products. Meaning that to actually fail at keeping kosher, you have to try to fail. You have to simply decide, I don't want to keep kosher. Why? Because it's so easy to keep kosher. There's nothing that is not available to you. Even if somebody wants, let's say, some of the tastes that are not kosher. For example, you want to taste the taste of milk and meat together. Today, they created soy. They have soy and soy-based cheese. You put it on a meat burger, and that's it. The soy is not real actual dairy. You can put it on the meat, have a cheeseburger, and enjoy yourself.

17:06want bacon? There's turkey bacon that's kosher. Perfectly fine, enjoy. You want shrimp? There's, uh, fake shrimp. Go to any kosher store, any kosher sushi place, they have fake shrimp. Meaning that anything you actually want, you can get that taste in a kosher way. Which means that if you're not keeping kosher, it's simply because you don't care. You don't care. And these 10 kids, you figure, you know what? This video is going to show how Am Yisrael is the best. That even though they haven't, that's what I was expecting. Three minutes. I expect, they made it three minutes to highlight. A highlight. They have to highlight. It's three minutes. You're going to highlight Am Yisrael. They're the best in the world, right? So I figured three minutes, they're going to give me 10 kids that never kept kosher in their life. In three minutes, they're going to show me how 10 kids did teshuvah for at least one mitzvah in one week. That's what I thought. By the end of the short film of three minutes, not a single one of them kept it. Not one. Not one survived a week. Not one kid. One girl says, "Oh wow, I went out drinking last night. I got so wasted. I ate a bacon, egg, and cheese this morning. I forgot about the whole contest." The other guy says, "Oh yeah, this kosher stuff, not for me." Another guy went to McDonald's and asked them, "Do you have a kosher menu?"

18:29Meaning, we're so far in America from where we're supposed to be that only the truth is going to help us. The soft approach is simply not going to work. Telling people, you know what, keep kosher, it's going to be enough for you. It's not going to work. Without a fear of punishment, without a fear of the Almighty, you simply will never keep the Torah. None of us will. Without a fear of a Holocaust, whether a personal one or a national one, people will never do teshuvah in this generation. Quite frankly, in any generation. Once in a while, you're going to find somebody that's motivated by some inspiring story without the fear of God. But to overcome the big tests without the fear of Hashem, it's never going to survive. So one day I asked my rabbi, I said, Kevod HaRav, in the mitzvah of Shema Yisrael that every Jew is supposed to know. He says, Shema Yisrael, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai Echad. Hear O Israel, Hashem is our God, Hashem is One.

19:39After that, you say, and you shall love Hashem with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your money. Meaning you love Hashem and show it, how all your heart is dedicated to Him. You didn't go to the baseball game; you went to a shiur Torah. You didn't go watch a, you know, some show that you know you shouldn't watch; you watched a shiur Torah. You didn't read a Harry Potter book; you read a sefer Torah. Your heart is with Hashem. your life, meaning you're dedicating your life. You're dedicating your life to such an extent that even if somebody was going to shoot you, say to yourself, I'm going to either shoot you or you're going to go and commit a sexual crime. You'll die for Hashem. Instead of committing that sin, you'll die for Hashem. There's three cardinal sins. Somebody tells you, go to a church and pray to J.C. Penney. You say, no, no, I'd rather you kill me. Why? Why? There are three cardinal sins that it's better to die than commit. And then your money. Your money, the obligation is to love Hashem with your money, meaning that investing in publicizing HaKadosh Baruch Hu's name should be your number one investment. How many of us are actually fulfilling that part of the mitzvah? I don't know. Probably not many. Anyway,

21:05The whole mitzvah starts with v'ahavta, and you loved Hashem. Meaning, you're not doing all these things, the money, the time, the heart, everything, because you're afraid. You're doing it because you love Hashem. So I asked my rabbi the same question she asked: How can I love Hashem if technically I can't really speak to Him and Him speak to me back? I can speak to Him all I want, but He's not talking to me back. At least not in the same language. He talks to me in different ways—things that happen in my life, different signs that occur—but not in the same way you and I are speaking. I'm not Moshe Rabbeinu. So how can I love Hashem if I've never actually had a real conversation with Him like I have with Bezalel, like I have with Sonny, like I have with you guys? How? How can I have a love for Hashem if I never saw Him? I can't see Him. Even if He says, "I want you to see Me," I can't see Him. Why? He has no image. He has no body. There's nothing to see. Nothing to see. He can make lightning if He wants, but that's not Him. He can open the heavens and show you a little cool angels, but that's not Him. He has no image. He has no body. So how could I love somebody I can never see? How could I love somebody that I can't smell? He doesn't have a smell, even though the Gemara says in Masechet Shabbat that when HaKadosh Baruch Hu came down to Mount Sinai and

22:31Every time a word came out of His mouth, a wind came with an extraordinarily beautiful smell from heaven and filled the entire planet with it. The entire planet smelled heaven, and... With every word. So, Ezra, with every word, it means that every time he finished the word, a new wind would take that smell away, and a new smell would come from heaven. That's how beautiful Har Sinai was. That's also part of the reason why all of the other nations knew that Har Sinai happened. I can't smell Hashem. I can't hear Hashem. I can't speak to Hashem. I can't use my senses as my bottom line. How can I love Him? The answer is, Rabotai, that if you're looking to connect to HaKadosh Baruch Hu, there is only one way to connect to Him, and that's through His Torah. The reason why is because, since Hashem knows His creation,

23:39He says, I know you're going to try to connect to Me, but I'm not like you, so you can't connect to Me like you connect to somebody that's like you. You have to connect to Me in the only way you can connect, which is through the instruction set that I provided you. I gave you a Torah, which this Torah is going to allow you to get to know Me, get to know things about Me. The more you get to know about Me, the more you're going to get to know things Want from you, once you start realizing, "Oh, I want these things from you." I want you to be modest. I want you to keep Shabbat. I want you to keep kosher. I want you to keep all these different mitzvot. You can say, "Well, why should I do it?" On one end, I'm telling you, "Well, if you don't do it, I'm going to punish you." Okay, well, that's kind of like putting a gun to your head. Is there a better reason? Yes, there is a better reason. The better reason is because those things are good for you and Now, in the beginning, you may not believe me. You may not believe me, Hashem says. So, try it. Try it. Try taking on a new mitzvah today. Everybody here, take on a new mitzvah. Something you're not doing. Something you're not doing. For those that have been with me for some time and are already keeping the basics, take on something more. If you're studying for a half hour a day, study 45 minutes a day. If you're not watching your eyes, start watching your eyes. If you're not, do something that you're not already doing. For the new ones, take on something that you're not doing.

25:03You have, Baruch Hashem, a list of choices. If you're not keeping Shabbat, keep Shabbat. If you're not keeping kosher, keep kosher. If you're not modest, take on some modesty. If you're not wearing tzitzit, wear tzitzit. I'll give you one for free if you want. If you're not learning every day, start learning every day. Press play every day for a new lecture. The point is, do something. As you start doing what Hashem says, not only will you get to know Him, but you'll also start seeing how doing what He says, after all, is good for you. It creates a pleasure unlike anything else in the world. But not right away. Because there's interference. The Satan, the Yetzer Hara, will interfere, will try to encourage you not to do it. So if you overcome that test and you do what Hashem says, even though sometimes it's against your own logic. But you'll also start seeing how doing what He says, after all, is good for you. It creates a pleasure unlike anything else in the world. But not right away, because there's interference. The Satan, the Yetzer Hara, will interfere and try to encourage you not to do it. So if you overcome that test and you do what Hashem says, even though sometimes it's against your own logic. But you do it anyway because Hashem said so. You'll see that you actually start getting fulfillment out of it more than anything else in the world. I'll tell you a personal story. In May of 2006, we sold one of our positions. At the time, I was in the business world. We had 10 million shares of a company called Sirius Satellite and...

26:26Then we also had a bunch of millions of shares in some other company. Long story short, we made a bunch of money for people. So, on that day, my fee, my fee to finally collect on what I did for a couple of years, was 1.6 million dollars. I started the morning at nine o'clock or eight o'clock, whenever it was. By 10:30 in the morning, my bank account had an extra 1.6 million dollars in it. By 10:35, I was back to work. I Meaning, I made all this money. I actually called my wife, who was my trader. I told her, "Listen, sell everything. All these billions, sell everything." What was it? It was a very liquid position. We sold everything, we made a bunch of money. Okay, how much? "We made 1.6 million dollars today. The clients made a bunch of other money over the years and so on and so forth. You yourself made a commission of 1.6 million dollars. It's a pretty good day, the best day of my career."

27:33That's 10:30. At 10:35, I'm back to work. "Hey, Mr. Jones. Listen, we gotta do this, we gotta do that. Go on vacation, go dance, go party, go do something." No, I went back to work. Why? At that point, I'd already made a bunch of money. Now, I didn't make 1.6 million dollars in a day before that. I made a bunch of other money, made half a million dollars, made close to a million dollars. I know that was the most I ever made. That was the high point. I was the highest point, but by then I'd become desensitized. I'd already had some money, and I didn't really care for it. In the beginning, I didn't care for it, and after, nothing really changed. All it meant was that my computer showed a few extra numbers on it. That's it. So, for me, the pleasure lasted five minutes. Now you're thinking to yourself, yeah, well, if you give me a million and a half, I'll be happy for more than five minutes. Yeah, that's you. Give you that for a period of time, and guess what? You'll become even more desensitized. Shlomo HaMelech says, you found honey, eat a little bit. Why? You eat too much, you're going to start vomiting.

28:53What, we need Shlomo HaMelech to give us a diet plan? Not to eat too much honey? Not to eat too much sugar? No. What Shlomo HaMelech says is that even if something is the sweetest, even if something is the best, even if something gives you the most amount of pleasure in the world, physical pleasure in the world, take it easy. Don't do too much. Why? If you do too much, eventually that beauty, that pleasure, that... Extreme good things will become disgusting to you because you become numb to them. You'll eventually get to a point where you're disgusted by it. So at that point, my pleasure was very, very minimal. I went back to work. I continued working, and my fulfillment much greater when I first made my first thousand dollars than it was when I made my million and a half dollars in one day because of how things have changed. This is not the same with Torah. It's not the same with mitzvot. I

30:06it comes to spiritual pleasure. You are doing things that are not always rational; you are doing things simply because Hashem said so. So, you're trying to connect to Hashem by doing what He says, even though you can't see Him, you can't hear Him, you can't speak to Him, you can't do any of those things. But you're doing what He said. What does He do in return? He gives you pleasure. No other, and in fact, the more you do this thing with full meaning and full intention, the more pleasure you will get out of it. The more you learn Torah, even though you've learned the same page 5,000 times, you'll get more pleasure out of it, much more than money, much more than sex, much more than not eating, much more than anything else in the world. It's physical. Why? Because spirituality does not have limits, and... So with that being said, the answer is simple and difficult at the same time. It's simple in the sense that Hashem says, "How do you connect to me? It's through my Torah." The difficult part is that you have to do things that are sometimes against your current logic in order to actually see the answer fulfilled, in order to actually see the answer come to life. I can tell you that when I learn Torah, I have pleasure. You may not get that same pleasure on day one.

31:27You may read the same page I read, and you're not going to get the same pleasure. You may not even like it, actually. But if you keep doing it, you'll like it eventually even more than me. Why? Because that's one of the promises that HaKadosh Baruch Hu made us. That is one of the benefits of this world when we connect to Him spiritually. And sometimes that spirituality takes a little bit of time to build up. But overall, it always works. It never fails. And I've seen, Baruch Hashem, many, many stories, aside from myself, of people that have done it and have benefited from it greatly. Next question. Yes. Yeah. man can be more spiritual than a woman and vice versa; it depends on what the person does. If the study, the status quo of a man is that he is animalistic, and the woman is animalistic. If she prays and she

32:33protects herself and follows what Hashem says and he doesn't, obviously she'll be much more spiritual than him. If he doesn't and she doesn't, obviously he'll be much more spiritual than her. So it's not necessarily just by default. There are plenty of women, unfortunately, in the world today that I know who have zero spirituality in them because they've ruined it and And there are plenty of guys who have a lot of spirituality even though they didn't have it in the past. So it all depends on the effort of the person. Opportunities that a man has versus a woman are very different as far as how a man is going to attain spirituality versus how a woman is going to attain spirituality. Their roads are slightly different, but they can both reach extraordinary heights to the extent where both of them, even in this generation, both men and women, can reach a level of ruach hakodesh. Ruach hakodesh is... a simple way is practically knowing the future, knowing what Hashem is thinking to a certain extent. That's how much knowledge and spiritual elevation a person can reach in this world today, whether man or woman. There are women that lived just literally maybe 30 years ago, 25 years ago. As a woman in Eretz Yisrael, when she died, he already knew. He says, "Oh..."

33:59I see Hizkiyahu HaMelech, Hizkiyahu HaMelech is taking her to Shamayim. Please, he asked his students, please do me a favor, when you bury me, make sure my grave is close to hers, wherever hers is. I love Shalem, one of the biggest rabbis in the world. I want to make sure. Why? She was somebody special. People that were tzaddikim would go to her for advice. So there are certain women that are very, very special. But the same thing goes with men. It's much more common with men simply because more men study Torah than women, which elevates themselves. Many women take for granted their spirituality and they don't take advantage of it. So they'll read Tehillim only once in a while. They'll uplift themselves only once in a while. They'll have to have a special challah event or a special shiur that they'll do, and it's good, but it's not often enough. Whereas the typical man that's trying to serve Hashem is going to work on it every day. So if he's working on it every day while she's only working on it, let's say once a week, naturally, he'll be much higher than her.

35:06On the other hand, if she's working on it every day by trying to connect everything to Hashem every day, she doesn't have to learn Torah every day. She just needs to connect everything to Hashem, then she could be very high. Either way, it all depends on the effort of the person. But every single person in the world today can reach a level that's beyond their imagination—a pleasure that's beyond their imagination also. Next question. Yes. Yes. We spoke about it last week. There's a physical penalty and a spiritual penalty. The physical penalty, which is actually technically also physical, but also spiritual, but first and foremost, it's by default, you should know that non-kosher food is much, much more unhealthy for you than kosher food. By default. It's a reality. If you want to test it, go do this: go to the store, take 20 bucks. Take 20 bucks—$10 buy kosher meat, the other $10 buy bacon. Okay, buy a pig. Put them both in some public restroom or something, and you know, don't do it in your house because people are going to get disgusted probably, but anyway, do it somewhere where no one else is going to faint and...

36:10Go do this: go to the store, take 20 bucks. Take 20 bucks—$10 to buy kosher meat, the other $10 to buy bacon. Okay, buy a pig. Put them both in some public restroom or something. And, you know, don't do it in your house because people are going to get disgusted, probably. But anyway, do it somewhere where no one else is going to faint, and... them in a sink. Take a Coca-Cola, take a Coca-Cola, pour it on both of them, pour it on both of them. You're going to see within seconds that from the pig, maggots and worms will come out of it. From the kosher meat, it's not going to happen. It's not going to happen. Why? Different meat, because the kosher meat... Kosher meat is a specific type of animal that eats things like grass, like straw. It's a gentle animal. A pig, on the other hand, is the most vicious, vile, disgusting animal in the world, to such an extent that it literally eats itself; it eats its own waste.

37:25know, friends and family, it eats diapers, it eats waste. It is so disgusting that even if the most venomous snake in the world bites it, nothing happens to it. If the most venomous snake in the world bites the pig, nothing happens to it. Because the skin of the pig is so poisonous, due to all the filth that it eats and what it has, and because it doesn't sweat, all of it stays on its skin, making its skin literally pure poison. Much worse poison than the venom of the most venomous snake in the world. And yet people eat this for breakfast. So physically, you already see a serious downside to eating pig and eating non-kosher. The second thing is when you eat a non-kosher cow, non-kosher bird, and things of that nature, you should know that you're much more likely to get disease. And the reason why is because animals have a defense mechanism based on how you kill them. If you kill the animal in a vicious process like they do in the non-kosher world, where they shoot them in the head, or they take a hammer and smash them in the head, which makes the whole death of the animal take a long time. The non-kosher way of killing an animal takes a while, could take 15, 20, 30 minutes. This means that the animal is alive for a while, and as a defense mechanism, the animal puts poison in its own body. People eat this, and that poison goes into them and...

38:34or they take a hammer and smash them in the head, which makes the whole death of the animal take a long time. The non-kosher way of killing an animal takes a while; it could take 15, 20, or 30 minutes. This means that the animal is alive for a while. As a defense mechanism, the animal puts poison in its own body. People eat this, and that poison goes into them and Kosher animal, when you slaughter it, it dies instantly. Even though you're going to see the nerves that the animal has making the body move, making the legs move after you slaughter the cow, the animal already died as soon as you cut the cords over here. Because the brain is disconnected from the rest of the body, it dies instantly. Therefore, it does not have time to release all of these poisons into the body. Therefore, when you eat it, you don't get those poisons. So, physically, already you see a serious significance. Spiritually, when a person eats non-kosher food, it makes it much more difficult for them to learn Torah because Torah is purity. Hashem says when you eat impure things, you will become impure because everything you eat turns to blood, which in essence is you. Your blood is you.

39:50So, if your blood comes from an impure animal, that means that you have become impure. And something that's impure automatically rejects something that's pure, which is Torah. So, it will become much more difficult for you to understand Torah. We can have a shiur for two hours, and you'll understand two minutes. You start eating kosher, and all of a sudden you understand 20 minutes. Same exact shiur. Something changed. What changed? What happened in your body? So that's the other thing. Last but not least, the person that eats non-kosher meat has to get punished in Gehinnom. Gehinnom, if you want to know details of what happens there, I have a whole shiur about it, but I would not recommend it for the faint of heart because it's very gruesome, very scary, and maybe you guys are not ready for it yet. But nonetheless, I could just tell you in a very simple way: it's not fun. I Worst thing you can imagine, it's worse than that. Yes, next question. Yes, sure, so non-kosher is not just meat. Non-kosher applies to everything. So, for example, if something

41:05Eating something that grows in a certain way—an apple, an orange, a watermelon, a kiwi, something like that—there's no such thing as a kosher kiwi or kosher banana or a kosher apple. Why? Because you eat them in their own way, the way they grow. You could eat any kiwi, any onion, any type of fruit or vegetable. There's no such thing as kosher fruit or vegetables, and... But anything that requires preparation, that has to be kosher. Even if it's not meat. Even if it's something as simple as chocolate or wine or candy. Why? Because in today's world, there are countless different chemicals and ingredients that are used that if you had known what they are, even if you don't keep kosher, you still wouldn't want to eat them. Years ago, four or five years ago, my wife, God bless her, and I put together a list of different ingredients that are put in all of the food in the world today. Different amounts, different places. Some of these ingredients are so awful that when you read it, you want to vomit. For example, how many of you, raise your hand by a show of hands, would volunteer to eat the rectum of a raccoon? How many of you, raise your hand, the rectum of a raccoon? Who wants a bite?

42:31Many of you like to eat worms. Come on, raise your hand. Raise your hand. Who wants to eat worms? How many of you would like to eat hair of different species, sometimes humans? How many of you want to eat human hair? Nobody's raising their hand. I'm the only one. Why? Because no one wants to eat this garbage. But guess what? A lot of this stuff isn't food. Non-kosher food. So... Somebody, I believe in Europe, did some research a couple of years ago, which was reported in Israeli news. They investigated how many ingredients go into a single potato French fry from McDonald's. Who wants to guess? How many ingredients are in a single French fry from McDonald's? 185. Next, 185. How would you come up with these numbers? No, 850, 150. That's the answer. 150 ingredients go into a single French fry. Now, the average person, you go make a French fry in your house, maximum, maximum, let's say you take the potato, that's one ingredient.

43:55You put a little salt, second ingredient. Put a little oil, third ingredient. Put a little seasoning, fourth ingredient. Maximum, if you're like a chef, six ingredients. For heaven's sake, what's the other 144? On a burger, on a burger from McDonald's, on a burger they had over 80 different ingredients. 80 different ingredients on a burger. Now what does this mean? Now, you try this at home if you want. Somebody did this test by accident. It actually started as an accident and ended up being serious research. Somebody, I guess sometimes single people or people that are young, don't pay attention to things. She bought a burger. She bought a burger from McDonald's, but she forgot to eat it. Somehow, she or somebody put it on some shelf, and she didn't look at this burger for a year. Now, if you go make your own regular burger, you buy, go to the kosher store, buy a burger, you put it, you bake it on the barbecue, nice, delicious burger, but you forget to eat it, guess what? In one, maximum three days, you're going to remember you didn't eat it. Why? It's going to smell. It's disgusting. Something's going to happen. You're going to know that there's a burger somewhere. If you throw garbage, throw garbage and the garbage guy doesn't come, your whole outside becomes smelly after a couple of days. Why? Because of the garbage.

45:24For one year she has this burger in the house, not a single stench, nothing. After a year, she finds the burger. After a year, she finds the burger, and she says it looks perfectly fine. Guess those 800 ingredients are doing something to preserve the dead—maybe a mummy or something. Somebody else took the research a step further: 14 years. 14 years, a burger from McDonald's. 14 years. They said the burger didn't look so bad after 14 years. Any normal meat that you put outside after three days should be full of maggots, worms, and other things that are eating it. It's not supposed to survive. if it survives for a year, if it survives for, needless to say, 14 years, obviously those ingredients cannot be good for you. It cannot be good for your body to have something that's going to survive a nuclear war. It's not supposed to go in your body. So you see that these ingredients are not good for you. Now, sometimes those same ingredients go into candy.

46:30When you buy things like gummy candies, gummy bears, Skittles, all types of gummy candies, a lot of them have an ingredient called gelatin. Gelatin in the non-kosher world is made from a product that, if any of you knew it, you would be disgusted and reviled by it. What is it? It's bones. Bones, specifically of pigs, are most often used in this gelatin that makes the candy gummy. It comes from the bones of pigs—white pigs, out of all animals in the world—because pigs are the cheapest animal of all. They are very cheap animals because they are very easy to grow and very easy to raise; they can eat anything, including you, and you can raise them practically anywhere, in almost any climate. So, to kill them, to raise them, and so on is cheap, so their bones are the cheapest. They use those bones in order to make gelatin. Which means that even though the candy seems like an innocent thing to eat, the reality is that if you're eating non-kosher candy, 90% of the time you're also eating pig. Or you're eating a non-kosher animal of some other kind, because it's always bones, it just depends on what kind of bones they are.

47:43So when it comes to kosher, anytime something has a kosher stamp, there's a reason for it. Anytime something doesn't have a kosher stamp on it, there's also a reason for it. It's not because of money. It's not because the rabbis are trying to monopolize the market and get a little piece of everything in your life. Simply because there are ingredients. There's a thought process. There's an instruction set that the kosher companies follow that the non-kosher companies are just not willing to follow. I'll give you an example. Have any of you ever heard of the orange juice, or at least what they call orange juice, called Sunny Delight? Sunny Delight—have your kids heard of Sunny Delight? Sunny D, it's called. Okay, so Sunny D some years ago used to be not kosher for years; it was not kosher. One day it became kosher, so people felt a little uneasy. Why was it not kosher all these years, Sunny D? And now it's kosher. What, did they finally pay off the rabbis? They finally paid off the rabbis? That's what you rabbis want, right? All you rabbis care about is money, money, money. Finally got the money from an orange juice company. What could be in it? Why, is there pig in orange juice? Guess what? Sunny Delight, for many, many years, could not get...

48:58Kosher certification, why? Because they used an ingredient, I think it's called B26 or something like that, an ingredient to make their orange juice more yellow. Because they know, by marketing, that people buy based on a visual, not based on taste. You can't taste it; you buy the visual. So, if this orange juice looks more yellow, it looks more delicious. So, to make their orange juice more yellow, they put this special ingredient in it. What is this special ingredient? Why can't this ingredient get a kosher stamp? Because this ingredient is called B26 or something close to it. In our language, it's called crushed beetles. The beetles. Here you go. Enjoy your orange juice, sir. Enjoy. So, anyone that's interested in this list of ingredients that are disgusting, I have a bunch of them. The point is, rabotai, if something does not have a kosher stamp, there is a reason for it. But there are sometimes products that do not require a kosher certification.

50:06Sometimes they don't require kosher certification, and for those lists, I could tell you another time. But the point is that 99% of the time, if it doesn't have a kosher certification, it's because it has one of these disgusting ingredients in it that most likely nobody knowingly would ever want. By the way, there's also another disgusting ingredient that a company called Pepsi started to use recently. We don't really know how many products they actually use it in, but they, along with several other companies, signed a contract with a company that does business with a company called Planned Parenthood. Anybody hear of Planned Parenthood? Planned Parenthood is a company that commits murder legally. They abort babies on a daily basis and actually get government funding to do it. Now, aborting babies is not enough murder for them. So they want to make money out of this murder. How do they make it? They take the aborted babies and sell them. They sell them to a special company that knows how to take these aborted babies and

51:08The brain, the arm, the leg, the feet—all types of different body parts—and they make, guess what, food products. They make food seasoning from babies. It is available in your local supermarket. Enjoy. Now, would you ever buy a product that has a baby in it, dead? No, but they don't call it crushed baby. They don't call it aborted baby. They call it some letter and number next to it that looks weird and... But if you look into it, you'll see it. I forget the names of all the— I think it's called something similar. But anyway, I have all these names on my computer, on my phone. I could show it to you. But the point is that all this is real. It's not some conspiracy. If it's not kosher, there has to be a reason. It has to be, it has to be a reason. It's not because of money. Go ahead. What was your question? Drinking products have it? Pepsi has it apparently. If some of them, not all of them, I know that some people made a big stink about it when they found out about this deal between Pepsi and this company. Pepsi says, "No, we're not using it," because they lost their kosher certification, and they got it back. I'm not really sure. I think that they stopped using it. The point is that there are several, maybe a dozen or so, products that have it, and

52:29potato chips, drinking products, a few food products, seasoning products. It's across the board. It's not just one thing. It's not just "stay away from this one drinking product." It's a bunch of things. Because again, food products, food coloring, those things go into everything. If you could... I mean, there is a food product, a food seasoning, that they take... Don't even know how they come up with this stuff, to be honest with you. I mean, you have to be, not like, I don't know, you have to be like a shoteh with a degree. So they take the... now, every hair has like a thing that holds the hair in your body. Same thing for an animal. There's a thing that holds it. I don't know what that thing is called, the thing that holds the hair. Well, that thing is a certain layer of the skin and... There is a company that decided somehow to take that part of all the different disgusting animals and make a food product out of it. Make a seasoning out of it. And there's a seasoning that comes specifically from the sweat gland. Specifically from the sweat gland. They don't take the whole skin. Just the sweat gland they want. Just that. Just the thing that holds the hair. I don't know how you could figure out that this would taste delicious. I have no idea.

53:49But people come up with different strange things. The point is, Abotai, is that there are some awful things that are in the food. Sometimes there are awful things in your food that you're actually allowed to eat because they don't have a taste. Like sometimes there's gelatin in, let's say, a pill, a medicine pill. Most medicine has some, you know, the casing, it comes from gelatin. But you're allowed to have it. Why? Why are you allowed to have this gelatin, not the one that's in a Skittles or something with jelly candy because the one that's in the medicine does not have taste, so you're allowed to have it. The point is that you need to know what's allowed and what's not allowed because each one of these things could not only hurt you but also most likely disgust you if you actually know what they are. Next, a convert who... No, if he tries, if he tries and fails, then he tries. He's called an anus. It's not within his ability. If he tried and failed, then he tried and he failed. It's not up to him. But if he didn't even try, then that's a problem.

55:16So, it's up to every person to at least try. If you don't try, then that's the problem. But if you simply decide, "No, I don't want to have kids because I'm already 50, 60, 70, or whatever it is," that's not good. But if you try and it doesn't work, that's not up to you. That's up to Hashem. Our job in the world is not success; our job in the world is effort. We are supposed to make an effort. No more questions from that side? Anybody? Same price. You guys, you guys usually have a couple of decent questions. I got one and one. We know that Eliyahu has come many times and revealed himself in different situations. Can Eliyahu, can he come in the form of a woman? Eliyahu, or in English, Elijah the Prophet, is promised to come three days before Mashiach, will arrive to announce that Mashiach is coming, but some say that he could literally come at the same time as Mashiach. But there are many stories of how Eliyahu HaNavi appeared to people in different forms and ways to give someone a special message, whether it was a special message that he gave the father of Rashi,

56:43Be'ezrat Hashem, Eliyahu HaNavi appeared to him and said that he's going to have a son who's going to bring light to the world, and his son, Rashi, definitely brought a light unlike any other. He appeared to the sages in the Gemara, or he even taught one of the sages in the Gemara. There's a book called Tanna Devei Eliyahu, which is the teachings of Elijah the Prophet that he taught one of the sages, and... Many generations, not just years—many hundreds and hundreds of years after he died—the problem was no longer in the world. But he taught him this, and the story of how he taught him is interesting in itself. The point being is that Elijah the Prophet has appeared to people in different ways. I know that the Vilna Gaon, alav hashalom, said that Elijah the Prophet appeared to his grandfather a few times, and... And different people see Elijah the Prophet in different ways. You have to have significant merit, significant merit to see Elijah the Prophet. It's not just any average Joe. Some people see a pole in the street and they think it's Elijah the Prophet. Or they see a dog and they think it's Elijah the Prophet. Elijah the Prophet, if you see him, you're not going to question it. It's not going to be a question whether you saw Elijah the Prophet or not. As far as can he come as a woman, I never heard such a thing, and I highly doubt...

57:58that he can because simply by him being a woman, he would be violating the Torah. He would be violating the Torah because he's a man. Why would he come as a woman? So that he could create chilul Hashem. So I've never heard of such a thing and I highly doubt it. But as far as, I don't know of any story of him doing such a thing. know that he's appeared in different forms, such as a homeless person, a soldier, a sergeant, and different things, but always as himself. I have never heard a story of him being a woman. Yes, Hashem creates people and He gives people a their own brain, their own heart, and their own ability to choose right or wrong. Most of the things in your life are not your choice. It wasn't your choice to come into the world. God decided for you to come into the world. It wasn't your choice to be male or female. God decided that you're going to be male. Even though some people say, "No, I'm really a female in a male's body," that's complete nonsense. It just means that they're crazy.

59:20God decided whether you were born. God will decide when a person will die. God decides if a person is sick or healthy. God decides if he’s rich or poor. God decides if you’re beautiful or ugly. God decides all of these things. The only thing God doesn't decide is whether you will do right or wrong. That's your choice. That's what it means in the Torah. The sages teach, "Everything is from Heaven except the fear of Heaven." Meaning everything in the world comes from God, comes from Hashem, except whether you fear Him or not. Meaning whether you choose to fear Him or not. That's up to you. whether you follow what He says or you don't follow what He says, that's up to you. Everything else is not up to you. So He gave you that freedom to choose right or wrong. Some people choose to help people live. Some people choose to help people die. That's a person's choice. Some people choose to work on their character and become better quality people. Some people choose to allow themselves to do whatever they want, like an animal.

1:00:35So, it all depends on the choice. But God rewards you and punishes you only based on that. He's never going to punish somebody because they were ugly, because that's not their fault. One of the sages saw one of the Roman Caesar's daughters. She was a wicked woman, and she saw one of the sages, a tzaddik. She asked him a question, and he knew the answer. He gave her the answer, and she said, "It's too bad that such beauty, you know, the Torah that you have, such beauty, comes from such an ugly thing," because he was ugly. He says, it's because of my ugliness that I have such beauty, that I have this Torah. Why? Why is it attached? Because if I was good-looking, if I was handsome, every woman would want me. I don't know if I'd be able to overcome the yetzer hara. Every woman would want to be with me. I probably wouldn't go to the kollel and learn Torah all day. So I'd probably be with a woman. So the reason why I have all this Torah is because I'm ugly. Nobody approaches me, Baruch Hashem.

1:01:36Thank God for the ugliness. The point is, Rabotai, that HaKadosh Baruch Hu is never going to punish you for being ugly. He's never going to punish you for being good-looking either. He's going to punish you for how you use it. He's going to reward you for how you use it. So that's the reward and punishment system. Next question. You seem like you have one. Yes. What is the cult? What is the Jewish religion? They're creating something else? Oh, so they would just start a new cult and call it something else, but technically it's Judaism? Oh, well, it depends. It depends. If they're misrepresenting Judaism... if they take the misrepresented Torah and say that things are in the Torah when they're really not,

1:02:44Let's say they say that all of the people have to serve them. All of the people have to kiss their hand. All of the people have to do something for them, and it doesn't really say it in the Torah. All of the people have to jump up and down six times a day. They say everything else correctly. According to the Torah, you have to do Shema Yisrael, you have to eat kosher, you have to go to the mikveh. Everything else is correct—keep Shabbat and so on. But there's one law they say that is not really in the Torah. They say every day you have to jump up and down six times a day. It's a lot at all, guys, gonna kill you and everybody start jumping. That person has a very, very serious problem that he can't pay for in this world. Why? He changed the Torah. He changed it to create a new religion. That problem doesn't end. That's a gehenom (hell) that starts and doesn't end. So, a person like that has a very serious problem. Another circumstance is if a person doesn't do that, where a person, let's say, for example, just says all these rules and... i have all of these rules, but he calls it the green and white religion. The green and white religion. God spoke to Mr. Green and Mr. Green was married to Mrs. White, and therefore they called it the religion of Green and White. And this is their book. We call it the Green and White book, and in reality, it's a Chumash, and he teaches his people and

1:04:03The truth is that even though it's a very, very far-fetched idea, it depends who he's teaching it to. If he's teaching this green and white religion, which is really Judaism, to a bunch of non-Jews, then all he's doing is he's causing harm to all of them because none of them are allowed to keep certain mitzvot. So if he tells them that they're all obligated to keep Shabbat, for example, and they're all non-Jews, they're all going to get punished for it, including him. On the other hand, if they're all Jews but they refuse to talk to rabbis, they only want to worship Mr. Green and White, call it whatever you want. Why? Because once you learn it, eventually you're going to realize this. But if we have to convince you that it's Green and White, even though it says from a thing of life, stay away. Sometimes you have to be clever to get people to come in. So it depends who you're teaching it to and what you're teaching. But if you're adding or changing the Torah, then that's a crime. But if you keep the Torah pure as it is, but you just call it something else, it's less of a crime. It's sometimes even a clever tool to use to get certain people.

1:05:16Depends, depends, depends. It really all depends on what your intentions are. Are your intentions to get them to follow you or to follow God? If your intentions are to follow God and you're keeping the law as it is, you're not changing it. That's a pure intention. That's only going to lead to good things. But if your intention is to get them to follow you so they can give you money, respect, and all types of things that you desire, then obviously that's a very wicked person who's going to create a lot of problems for those people and for themselves. There are many, many cults. non-Jewish world that unfortunately Jewish people fall for, and every single time you see that eventually it all falls apart, eventually it all breaks apart, and it's all based on ego and money. For example, this Scientology became very, very well known in recent years, but the founder of Scientology is a complete criminal and

1:06:17Founder of Scientology. I told everybody that, you know, to believe in nothing, believe in him, and so on and so forth. The founder of Scientology, in essence, their leader, is a complete criminal that robbed them, robbed his own congregants. Another one that had some false religion, false cult—I believe he was in Texas, something like that—ended up killing everybody. So, out of this, there are countless crazy people. Countless crazy people. Sometimes there are crazy people that are Jewish, but it's more rare. Morris, now that's not as common, and usually, you can spot who's the faker and who's not. You know, whether they're reading things from a book or they're saying things based on their own opinion. That's why I always tell people when they ask me certain questions. "Oh, somebody told me that the Rambam said such-and-such." "Oh, somebody told me that Moshe Rabbeinu said such-and-such." "Oh, somebody told me that it's written that God said such-and-such." Immediately, people tell me. I say, "Okay..." i don't say it's wrong, even if I know it's wrong. I don't say it's wrong. You know what I say? Please provide me the source. I know it's wrong. But if I tell him it's wrong, he's not going to take my word for it. Why? If he would have taken my word for it, he wouldn't ask already. He would just simply say, does he say it? He's not saying it. He's making a statement.

1:07:34She's making a statement. So I saw Moshe said this. Oh, important, please provide me the source. Why? I want to see with my eyes. I want to see it. I know your friend is, uh, maybe he's Moshe's brother. I don't know who he is, but I want to see it from the book. I want to see it in a book. I don't listen to what I want to see in the book. I want to see what the book says, what he says. I want to see the Rambam's name next to what he says the Rambam said. guess what, almost 100 percent of the time there is no source, and the half of a percent to one percent of the time that there is a source, it's completely wrong. It doesn't say anything remotely close to what they're saying. They just don't know how to read it, or they are misinterpreting it, or whatever it is. So it's very, very important to know that if somebody says something... In the name of God, in the name of the Torah, if someone says something that disagrees with you, bothers you, or contradicts something you already know or believe, ask for a source. Can you please tell me where it says what you just said? Sometimes they don't know by heart. Sometimes they will say, "I'll send you an email," or "I'll send you a text message." They might provide you with the book and page number.

1:08:58If you know how to find these things yourself, meaning that you know how to use this source, you know what the Gemara Masechet Gittin means, page 57b. You know enough to go open Gemara Masechet Gittin, page 57b. You know how to do it, to see it for yourself, go do it. If you don't, go and take that source to a trusted resource, to a trusted person, and say, can you tell me if it says such and such on this page? Double-check. Why? Because at that moment, you will establish a very, very important step in your life, which is whether this person who provided you this information is reliable or not. If he says to go to this page at this number and it says it talks about, I don't know, Moshe at Har Sinai, and you go over there and it talks about horses and... Now, sometimes it happens that the guy makes a mistake. It's the wrong page number. It's really 58, not 57, or it's 55, not 56. You know, it's close, but no cigar. So you gotta always check. You have to know how to check sources. But if it's a source and you double-check, and you check, and you check again, and it's not in the book, it's in no book.

1:10:10then guess what? That person is officially no longer a reliable source. You are no longer allowed to listen to them. Why? If he's wrong on this, who knows how many other things he's wrong on. Yes, so the point is that if something disagrees with your reality, it's always important to ask for a source because everything that a speaker, a rabbi, a representative of Torah is saying or supposed to be saying has to have a source in the Torah. Ideally speaking, you shouldn't have anything coming from your own common sense. Everything should have a source in the Torah. Why? That's God. Who's better than God? Why would I want to know a human opinion? Why do I care about a human's opinion? I want to know God's opinion. So if it's a source, if it's in a book, I know that's closer to God's opinion. That's it. Next question. You're good. You're on a roll today. The one next to you is on a streak. He's upset at me. You only asked me one question today. No. No.

1:11:23Some, some yes, some no. So, in the shiur that we did about hell or Gehinom, as we call it, there are seven parts to Gehinom. There are seven chambers of Gehinom. Each one of the seven has parts within it. The first six chambers have a sentence that ends, meaning it starts at some point and... Some of it is one day, one year, ten years, or ten million years. Different amounts of time because there's no concept of time like it is here. But at some point, the first six end. The seventh one begins and never ends, even after Mashiach will come. There are three different major sins that cause a person to go to the seventh one, where if they go in, they'll never come out. You guys are supposed to have a question about that. What are the three sins? The first sin is Chilul Shabbat. Somebody that violates Shabbat on purpose, meaning they know that they're not allowed to drive on Shabbat, but they still drive on Shabbat. They know they're not allowed to watch TV on Shabbat, and they still watch TV on Shabbat.

1:12:41They know they're not allowed to light fire on Shabbat and they still do it and they never do teshuva. Meaning if they've done it once, twice, or a thousand times, but then eventually did teshuva, they stopped, and they started keeping Shabbat, then they're okay. But if they died without doing teshuva, or Mashiach came before they did teshuva, and they're still considered a mechalel Shabbat, then they go to the seventh place in Gehinnom and they never leave. That's one. The second sin is wasting seed. guy that knows that he's not allowed to waste seed and he still does it and he never does teshuva for it goes there and never comes out. By the way, the woman that leads him to do it, she's not exactly innocent either. That's the second problem. The third thing is chillul Hashem, somebody that desecrates Hashem's name. Somebody that takes the Torah and throws it in the garbage desecrates Hashem's name. By being one of these Jews that makes deals with the Palestinian terrorists, or somebody that has a hat and a beard but is really a thief, or is a womanizer, or goes to the casino, or different things like that, it desecrates Hashem's name.

1:14:02That's three. Briefly speaking, there are some more details and subcategories that also go into such places. But the point is, these are the three major categories. To avoid that chamber is very, very simple. Keep Shabbat, don't waste seed, and do everything possible to sanctify Hashem's name instead of desecrating it. To avoid the seventh one is actually simple. Unfortunately, we live in a generation where people don't know and don't care, so many of them, unfortunately, if they don't do Teshuvah, they'll be in a very, very bad situation. Next question. not forever, but for a very, very long time, sometimes forever, depending on whether you did Teshuvah for it or not. If you never did, if you marry a Goy and you never did Teshuvah, then you have a very serious problem because that is wasting seed. Every time a man is with a woman, yes, the seed comes out of him. Every time that seed cannot produce, does not have a chance of producing a Jewish child, it's considered wasting seed.

1:15:12It's a very, very serious problem. Now, sometimes the person does a partial teshuvah. He does teshuvah but already after he caused some damage. If he did not do a full teshuvah, then he could get—he doesn't go to Gehenom forever—he goes to Gehenom for a certain amount of time and then he gets reincarnated as a dog. He gets reincarnated as maybe a pit bull, a poodle, a Rottweiler, something. Not all dogs have neshamot in them. Some do, some don't. i believe i had one that had a neshamah in it, but that could be a figment of my imagination. But nonetheless, the sin of being with a non-Jew is very, very serious. If you guys want to know some more details about it, I'd be happy to tell you. It has to do with the Holocaust, actually. Much, much fun. Interested? Scary? Okay. Tomorrow is Yom HaShoah. People ask a question.

1:16:12Why did the Holocaust happen? Why did the Holocaust happen? Now, as I've said to you guys in the past, when people ask, where was God during the Holocaust, there's only one Torah-based answer, which is, what do you mean, where was God during the Holocaust? He's the one that did it, just like He promised He would if we violate His law. now, one of the foremost experts on Torah and the Holocaust that I know of is Rabbi Reuven Feinstein. He happens to be my rabbi. He's an expert in the history as well as the details of what happened in the Holocaust, and he connects different things to Torah, of course. He had a shiur today, and... it because, again, learning a little bit about the Holocaust and the days before the Holocaust, the memorial is very important. But he gave a little bit of a timeline of the things that happened that maybe will give us all a little bit of a better visual of how Hashem works, meaning how does His measure-for-measure work? Because we know we're never going to know what's in Hashem's mind. I

1:17:36but we know that Hashem Himself says, I have a system. It's called measure for measure. I reward, measure for measure. I punish, measure for measure. So by looking and reviewing the details of what happened before the Holocaust, we could learn how Hashem runs His world. Now, some of the things I'm going to tell you Not gonna be pleasing to the ear. Most of it is gonna be fine. Just a little bit petrifying, but fine. Some things are not gonna be fine. But nonetheless, as I told you in the beginning, every human being, not just Jewish people, should do serious, serious research on the Holocaust. It'll teach you about reward and punishment. It'll teach you about what is a life without Torah, and so on and so forth, and... so let's start. The Holocaust, according to most people's knowledge, started during the 1930s but climaxed in the 1940s. The truth is that the Holocaust did not start then. The truth is the Holocaust started almost 250 years before that, or 200 years before that.

1:18:51It started when a person by the name of Mendelssohn, Moshe Mendelssohn, who called himself an Orthodox Jew, decided to start a modern Orthodox type of movement, which eventually culminated and became Reform Judaism, by telling people that you should be a Jew in your house, but a human being everywhere else. Meaning, do us all a favor, keep your Judaism at home. You could keep the mitzvah, no problem. But around everybody else, among the German people, the Italian people, the Greek people, the everybody else people, be like everybody else. Don't bring your kippah out, your tzitzit out, start saying Mashiach, Mashiach. Don't do us any favors, please. Keep your Judaism at home. In his own life, he saw almost every one of his descendants convert to Christianity. And he was supposed to be a rabbi.

1:19:52of his descendants completely destroyed themselves according to the Torah. But many of his followers took it a step further than him. One of his followers, in the year 1832, his name was Avraham Geiger. Avraham Geiger had a meeting, and there was an article that came out... announced a meeting or publicized the meeting that the Reform movement had almost a hundred years before the Holocaust happened. The Reform movement decided to declare war against the Shulchan Aruch, the body of work that Rabbi Yosef Karo, 500 years ago, put together, which took all the laws from the Torah and written Torah to the oral Torah and compiled everything into a body of law that we follow as Judaism, which every Jew is obligated to follow. They declared war on it by, in essence, putting a new law together and saying that from now on, you are allowed to intermarry; a Jew is allowed to marry a non-Jew.

1:21:09Not that it's difficult to overcome it. No, no, it's not that. Oh, you'll get punished, but you're still going to be okay. No, no, no. You are now allowed, according to the Reform Jews. You're allowed to marry Jews, and non-Jews are allowed to marry. In essence, they not only declared war against the Shulchan Aruch, against Judaism, against God, but more or less, they changed the Torah—they changed the religion altogether and... Now, Rav Shlomo Wolbe, zt"l, in his book Ben Sheshach La'asor on page 78, writes something in regards to the Holocaust. He writes a story about Rabbi Yisrael Salanter 90 years before the Holocaust, slightly after his meeting with the Reform rabbis and... Rabbi Yisrael Salanter heard about what happened with these Reform people, and he heard that now there's no separation in the Beit Knesset. He heard that they now have musical instruments in the Beit Knesset on Shabbat. He heard that now it's literally become a different religion, and he said the following: "They put together a new Shulchan Aruch that permitted intermarriage. The time will come..."

1:22:36And the goyim will come and also create a new Shulchan Aruch of their own, a new book of laws of their own. And the goyim, when they're going to write their own rule book, in their rule book, they're going to forbid intermarriage. And woe unto Am Yisrael on the day when the goyim are sent from Hashem to forbid intermarriage. Because the way they forbid it is going to be very different. This is the beast I miss a lot 90 years before the Holocaust. Meaning he's already telling you what's happening. The Reform people did not let this slow them down in any way, shape, or form in 1930. Because the way they forbid it is going to be very different. This is the Beis HaLevi, 90 years before the Holocaust, meaning he's already telling you what's happening. The Reform people did not let this slow them down in any way, shape, or form in 1930. One of the students of Rabbi Yisrael Salanter, his name was the Chofetz Chaim. The Chofetz Chaim was already 90 years old. World War I was recently over, completed, and he said in a meeting with other rabbis,

1:24:01He talked about the end of times. And he said Gog and Magog, Armageddon, is going to be a three-part war. The first war, we saw it, World War I. That's the first part of Gog and Magog. The second part of Gog and Magog is going to make the first part look like child's play, like kindergarten. He was predicting the Holocaust. And he said the third part of Gog and Magog is going to make the second part look like kindergarten also. In 1930, in 1931, the Nazis go into parliament, and also "Mein Kampf" is published. Hitler's "Mein Kampf" is published.

1:25:02Against all odds, it's well accepted and sold out everywhere. The Jews don't get the hint. "Mein Kampf" comes out. The guy's telling you, by the way, "I'm gonna kill all of you. I'm a messenger from God. I'm gonna kill all of you." Hitler says in "Mein Kampf," in the second chapter, "I'm a messenger from God because you desecrated God's name. You went against God. I'm gonna kill all of you, all the Jews." You would think... Hitler, that's a message from God. Maybe I should do teshuvah. Maybe just change something, especially since they just went to Parliament. They don't get the hint. In 1932, the Nazis actually take over power in the government, and the Chafetz Chaim says, "Soon there will be rivers of blood in the street." You're talking about nearly a decade before the Holocaust. The Chafetz Chaim, with Ruach HaKodesh, is telling you, soon all of you are having a good time. Everybody's a millionaire. Jews were filthy rich in Germany. Political power, political positions, bankers, lawyers, doctors, inventors, all types of things. Like America today. All of a sudden, this little rabbi comes

1:26:30He says, by the way, you know this America that you have over here, this Germany. Soon, all the streets, all the millions you have over there, will all become worthless, and they will take everything from you. Instead of people, it is going to be blood in the streets. Guess what? Nobody paid attention. In 1933, Hitler takes the lead. against all odds of even logic, human logic. Why? Hitler did not have any type of good lineage. He didn't have any connections. He didn't have any family members that were something. In fact, in his entire life, he never had a single job. The first time he ever collected a paycheck was as the leader of Germany. Like that's the first time you've had a paycheck. He never even worked at a store, nothing. Complete and utter failure his entire life; first job, president. Makes no sense whatsoever. At that point, you should see, wait a minute, the same guy that just wrote a whole book, a whole book saying how part of his mission in the world is to destroy the Jewish people, same guy.

1:27:55Never had a job in his life, same guy just wrote this book. He became the president. He became the Prime Minister. He became the guy in control that can actually do what he said in the book. Did you write something? Nothing. Jewish people still don't get the hint. When he was elected in 1933, the Reform Jews... Published in a paper: The Hitler of Mein Kampf is not the Hitler that was elected. Meaning, he just wrote what he wrote in Mein Kampf just for political stuff, just to, you know, get people to like him. That's not really what the guy that's the president now, the guy that's the leader now, is like. He's good with us. He didn't really mean to say what he said in the book. He didn't mean to...

1:28:57Hitler proved this point very, very quickly. Shortly after becoming a leader, still in 1933, he passed a law: Germans are officially forbidden from doing business with Jews. They made a one-day cherem on Jews—one day prohibition. You're not allowed to open your business if you're a Jew. What day was it? Shabbat. Oh. So they forced all the Jews to keep Shabbat and not work on Shabbat. Hashem was trying to give us a sign: Keep Shabbat. Don't open it any day. What, I have to send the goy? I have to send the Nazi to force you to keep Shabbat? They didn't get the hint. Surprisingly, the Germans decided, no, no, you know what? Let them work on Shabbat. One-day law. One time. It was supposed to be law, period. Not supposed to work on Shabbat. They decided, no, no, you know what? Let them work on Shabbat. Like, as if mamash, it's the Kadosh Baruch Hu giving you a clear sign. Don't work on Shabbat, or I'm gonna send you the Nazi. They don't get it. What Shabbat is it? Shabbat HaGadol. Parashat Shabbat HaGadol, 1933, where the haftarah talks about being put in cherem. What happened to Am Yisrael? They were put in cherem.

1:30:28You look at the parasha, you look at history, same thing. Unbelievable. Fast forward, April 1933, we're only talking about a few weeks. Parashat Tazria, Parashat Metzora, talks about how people that have impurity are thrown out of the camp. They have tzara'at. Hitler creates a Gestapo. For what? They have one mission: separate the Jews from everybody else. Separate the Jews from everybody else. Next month, May 1933, Parashat Behar-Bechukotai. The parasha talks about Nadav and Avihu. This week's parasha talks about Nadav and Avihu dying from fire. Nazis decide they're gonna take a bunch of Jewish books, a bunch of Torah books, and burn them in the middle of the street. No street, no Jewish street, didn't have fire. Just like Nadav and Avihu were killed with fire. There was fire of Torah everywhere, burning Jewish books everywhere. A couple of weeks later, May 16, 1933, Parashat Zachor. Hitler actually reads the parasha of the shavua. Hitler actually reads it.

1:31:57Literally, I mean, he says he knows about Parashat Zachor, and he decides to violate the Versailles Agreement of World War I and build a Nazi army. What do we have in Zachor? We have Amalek. The parasha talks about Amalek. Amalek says, "I'm back in business. I'm back in business." Fast forward, Parashat Bamidbar, we only talk about weeks later. The parasha talks about how soldiers of Am Yisrael must be between the ages of 20 and 60 and are only allowed, Jews are only allowed to be soldiers, where? In a Jewish army. A Jew is not allowed to be a soldier in an American army, a German army, or an Arab army. Only if you're a Jew, you have to be in a Jewish army. That's what it says. Parashat Bamidbar talks about it. Hitler passes a law the same week, the same week of the parasha. What's the law? The law prohibits Jews from becoming soldiers in the Nazi army.

1:33:25Now, you would think the Jews would get the hint by now, right? But not only do they not get the hint, you know what the Jews did? They protested. What are you talking about? We're German. We want to be in the German army. We're going to defend the Reich. We're going to be upstanding Germans. They wanted to be in the German army more than they wanted to be Jews. They don't get the point. They don't get the message. 1935, 1936. Hitler passes the Nuremberg Laws. What do the Nuremberg Laws say? Nuremberg Laws say a few things. The first, there were two sets. First set of three rules said that a Jew that cohabits with a German, a Jew marries a Goya, a Jew touches a Goya—death penalty. What is a nes Allah? Death penalty. Jews are not allowed to be with a Goya. Also says that a Jew is not allowed to have a servant.

1:34:52That's younger than 45 years old. If you see a German, it means to stay away from the Goyah too. If she's pretty, if she's less than 45, she's still young, she's in her prime. Don't—she's not even allowed to work for you. The German is mamash fulfilling it to offer the Jew. And what about all the Reform that say, "No, we're German." They made a public statement; they said, "No, Berlin is the new Yerushalayim." That's what they said publicly. Never in the history of Am Yisrael has Am Yisrael gone to such a low point of saying that some foreign city is the new Jerusalem. Even if we were sinners in every regard, we never did it. No normal American Jew says that New York or Washington or whatever is the new Jerusalem. Even if they hate Israel, they still don't say it. Back then, where did we get to? They said Berlin is the new Yerushalayim.

1:35:54Hashem says, I don't like when you say that. So I'm going to send Hitler to stop you. Hitler, in the first set of the Nuremberg Laws, says a Jew is forbidden from waving a German flag. You are not a German. No matter how much you want to be a German, you're not a German. Yeah, but I'm already married to a Goya. My father's married to a Goya and a Goya. Four generations into marriage, you're still a Jew. Hitler says you're still a Jew. Why? Time to pay. You would think that the Jews get the message. They don't get the message yet. Rav Wasserman, the talmid of the Chafetz Chaim, comes out Tells people, "Look, we have prophets that talked about intermarriage. The intermarriage in certain parts of Europe and the world was extremely high. In Germany, it was over 90%; other parts were lower, but nonetheless very high across the board. Very similar to what we have today, by the way."

1:37:21Rav Wasserman, alav ha-shalom, one of the talmidim of the Chafetz Chaim, heard and saw with his own eyes what the Chafetz Chaim was talking about. The Chafetz Chaim told them, "Listen, soon you're going to see blood in the streets." Years before that, he said, "Soon you're going to see a war much worse than World War I." Rav Wasserman saw this all come to life. He saw this happening. He said, "Please, listen to the Torah. It says in the Torah, Hashem is not joking." And he brings a verse. He says, Hashem said to the prophet Yechezkel, chapter 20, verses 32 and 33, Hashem says, "And what enters your mind, it shall not be." HaKadosh Baruch Hu talks to Am Yisrael. He says, "You have an idea in your mind. You have a plan in your mind. It's not gonna happen. I'm telling you why. What's this plan? What are you saying?" That we will be like the other nations, like the families of the lands, to worship wood and stone. What, you want to be like the Goyim? You want to be a German? You want to marry the Germans? You want to marry the Americans? You want to marry the Arabs? You want to marry the Christians? You want to be like them? HaKadosh Baruch Hu says to Yechezkel, tell them it's not gonna happen, and I'm gonna give you a promise, He says.

1:38:47As I live, the word of the Lord Hashem, meaning I swear, Hashem swears in His own name. Danger, danger, danger. HaKadosh Baruch Hu writes, I swear in My own name. I will rule over you with a strong hand, with an outstretched arm, and with outpoured wrath. Your idea of being a German, American, Arab, Italian, or whatever it is that you want to be, it's not going to happen. One way or another, I'm going to rule over you. It's going to be with a strong arm. It's going to be with an outstretched arm. It's going to be with wrath. So Rav Wasserman, Alav HaShalom, says, look, strong arm we already saw. Look what happened to us in the Beit HaMikdash. Outstretched arm, look what happened to us over the last 2,000 years. The Spanish Inquisitions, the pogroms, all this stuff. We saw it.

1:39:59You're still intermarrying. You're still going with Goyot. Are you really trying to get Hashem to rule over us with wrath too? Must He fulfill the rest of the verse? He already did the first two, Ribbono Shel Olam. He already did the first two. Must you force His hand to do it with wrath also? Make it even worse than the first two times. Rav Wasserman cries. The Chafetz Chaim cries. Chachamim cry to Am Yisrael. Nobody answers. It's in the verses. It's in the Torah. The Chachamim continue. Please wake up. Please wake up. If that wasn't enough, he brings them another verse. He says, look what it says in our Torah. HaKadosh Baruch Hu said to Ezra,

1:41:03Ezra was Kodesh Kodashim. Maybe you didn't understand the message the first time, so He told it to a later prophet. He said it to Ezra, Chapter 9, verses 13 and 14. HaKadosh Baruch Hu has a conversation with Ezra. Why? There was a lot of intermarriage during the time of Ezra. so Ezra says, "You, God, have withheld retribution to less than our iniquities deserve and have granted us this remnant." Ezra is telling Hashem, "Technically, Hashem, we made a lot of problems for You. We did a lot of horrible things, but You didn't really punish us enough. Thank You. We appreciate it because, really, we deserve a lot worse." And then he continues He says, shall we again violate Your commandments and intermarry with people of these abominations? We're going to continue marrying the Christians. We're going to continue marrying the goyot, the goyim. We're going to continue doing this. If we continue, surely You would become enraged at us until our destruction is without remnant or even a single survivor. And

1:42:26If you didn't understand Yechezkel's message, you don't have to, okay, no problem. Ezra speaks literally. He says, Hashem, if we continue intermarrying, for sure you're gonna destroy us until there's nothing left of us. Chachamim cried to the people, but people don't get it yet. Rabbi Meir Simcha says we've gone to a generation where the Israeli, the average Jew, is getting to a point where he's forgetting his roots. But he will be reminded of his roots when HaKadosh Baruch Hu sends a wind, and the strong wind brings a Goy Gadol, a big nation, and that nation will uproot the Jew.

1:43:27Punish him for thinking you're a goy. You want to be like them? You want to be a German? No way. I'm going to punish you for thinking you're a German. If that wasn't clear enough... Second set of rules: 49 rules came out by Nazi Germany in 1938. Certain second set of Nuremberg laws brings 49 laws. The worst laws ever existing in creation for Am Yisrael, but the best ones too. It's as clear a message as anyone could ever get. This is from HaKadosh Baruch Hu. Time's running out. One of the rules is you still want to be a German after all the hate, after all the stuff that they're doing? We burned the Beit Knesset, we did this, we did... All the Germans are just destroying Am Yisrael, but it's still not the worst yet. Not enough! New law. From now on, all Jews, I don't care if it's fourth generation, Nazi Germany says...

1:44:46All Jews, male, are called Yisrael. Female, Sarah. Stop calling yourself Gering and Neumann and wearing all these German names. You're not Stephen and you're not Matthew and you're not Paul. You are a Jew. A Jew is Yisrael or Sarah. The Germans made the law, not the Torah. Germans made the rule. You figure, you know what? Enough. Enough is enough. Enough is enough. Why? Because we all know that the Egyptians, they have made a lot, the same exact thing happened in Egypt. But HaKadosh Baruch Hu saved us. Why? Because we didn't change our clothes. We didn't change our language. We didn't change our name. In Germany, we changed our clothes. We started dressing like the Germans. We changed our language. We didn't want to speak Hebrew anymore. We wanted to speak German. We wanted to speak Italian. We wanted to speak everything else except Yiddish or Hebrew. So HaKadosh Baruch Hu says, "Okay, you know what? Why don't you at least keep your names? Keep your names at least. Stop calling yourself a German name. Can you still do that? Okay, so I'll make the Germans, I'll make the Nazis, I'll make Hitler, make a law. From now on, your name is Israel. From now on, your name is Sarah."

1:46:12In 1938, Nazi Germany, under Hitler, decided to go to Austria and they joined forces. Everybody stayed quiet as if it didn't happen. Amalek just joined forces—the last piece of the puzzle. On Tisha B'Av, 1938, Adolf Eichmann is hired to take care of the Jewish problem. In November 1938, during Parashat Vayera, Leila B'dolach... 1,200 synagogues are burned down to the ground. A month before, in October of '38, Hitler kicks out 12,000 Polish Jews from Germany. They didn't like it. The German Jews didn't like being kicked out of Germany. So, one of them told their son about it, and...

1:47:39Polish Jew by the name of Herschel Grynszpan, who was in Paris at the time, said, "I can't believe it. Look what these Germans are doing to us. We're German, and they kicked us out." So this young kid, he's in Paris. What does he do? He decides to go up to a German diplomat and put five bullets in him. Open murder, open assassination. November 1938, November 7, 1938. This was the pretext, in essence, the excuse Hitler used to now, all bets are off. Two days later, November 9th, Kristallnacht... Highlight of the open pogroms against the Jews on that day: 30,000 Jews were put into concentration camps. Two days later, Hitler says, "Look, they're killing our people, the assassins. Why do you assassinate them? Because they got kicked out of Egypt? You should be happy you got kicked out of Egypt." But we're not getting the message. Kristallnacht happens.

1:48:59They burn synagogues. Things continue to get worse. Rabbi Yehuda HaChassid says that a synagogue only gets destroyed, only gets, a goy only gets the right to harm a synagogue after a Jew desecrates it first. If the synagogue is holy, no goy could ever harm it. If the synagogue was destroyed, that's because a Jew harmed it first. 98% of the synagogues in Germany, the ones that were destroyed, 98% were all Reform synagogues, temples. 98%. Yeah, you have a constant chilul Hashem, constant desecration of Hashem in that synagogue. Why would Hashem allow it to stay? If that wasn't enough, we're still not at the highlight of the war until Parashat Ki Tavo. Parashat Ki Tavo, the parasha that talks about how Hashem is going to, in essence, hide and punish us, but He's going to make sure that we know it's Him. Germany decides to attack Poland. But where do they attack Poland? Now, if you attack a country, where are you going to attack them? You're going to attack what? No, you don't have to be a soldier to know this.

1:50:28Where do you attack? You attack their army. You attack their planes. You attack their barracks. You attack their tanks. That's where you attack. Why? Because if you don't attack their army, their barracks, they're going to attack you back. So if you're already going to attack, you're going to surprise them. What are you going to do? Ruin their ability to retaliate. Hashem could not make it more obvious, at least from our perspective, 70 years later. Germans attack Poland, where do they attack? Civilian Jewish communities only. Now you're gonna say, wait, there were three and a half million Jews there. Yeah, but there were also millions and millions of just Polish goyim. If you can say, okay, kill the Jews, kill some goyim too, no, at least 50-50. And... kill some goyim, kill some Jews, fine. Okay, at least that's logically what makes sense. HaKadosh Baruch Hu says, no, no, no. This is your punishment. Because other people, because of this, because of that, all types of things. Rabotai, we're not judging anybody. But we see clearly how HaKadosh Baruch Hu works measure for measure. The wicked got their punishment, and unfortunately, the righteous got a punishment for the wicked. Why?

1:51:53Many reasons. HaKadosh Baruch Hu says in the second Shabbat, the rabbis got punishment at that time of the Beit HaMikdash. Why? They didn't rebuke people, didn't tell them to go do teshuvah. I don't know who, what, when, and how. All I know is I'm reading to you what it says. In May of 1940, Hitler launched Auschwitz. Auschwitz, for anyone who doesn't know, was the worst place on earth and... It's Gehenom alive. Millions of people were tortured, tested, and killed. Millions—95% of them were Jews. Same parasha where Hashem says, "I will destroy your idolatry, I will destroy the things that you replaced Me with."

1:52:56Now, for anyone who wants to know more details of what happened during the Holocaust, I would suggest watching a real documentary about it. Today I watched a documentary that was actually hidden for 40 years. They had the film, but they didn't have the sound for 40 years until they put it together. One of the producers was a very well-known producer of his time who made movies, but they actually asked him on a special mission to go film one of these concentration camps after the war was over. People were still there, and armies were just coming in. His name was Alfred Hitchcock, and he went. This is not a movie; this is a documentary. He is filming actual things and... tells you things, and he shows you things in the film. There are other documentaries, but I think many of the documentaries today are watered down. A lot of the new stuff they made today is watered down. They show you shoes, but they don't show you the person that used to wear them. They show you teeth, but they don't show you the person that's missing them. They show you stuff, but they show you the cans of gas, and...

1:54:21They used to kill millions of Jews, but they don't show you the bodies. You want to get a real mussar lesson, watch the bodies, watch what it looks like, and you'll see some horrible stuff. But I recommend that every person should watch this at least once in their life. HaKadosh Baruch Hu says you're not allowed to have a tattoo as a Jew. You're not allowed to put a tattoo on. If a Jew didn't want to listen to HaKadosh Baruch Hu and he still put on a tattoo, it seems like the measure-for-measure punishment for that, according to this documentary, was relatively obvious. The Nazis decided that if they liked the tattoo that was on the Jew, they would simply peel his skin and make some type of furniture with his skin—now a lamp, in addition to a sofa. Something depended on how big the tattoo was, and they'd sell it on the open market. He shows you a table full of human skin tattoos, but now it's a lamp, now it's something else. They show you what they did, shame on them, how they tortured people—good people, bad people, Jews, non-Jews.

1:55:50millions of people. I mean, the level of suffering that these people endured—you see the bodies that they are burying in these huge holes, five, six, ten thousand people in one hole, and they're carrying the bodies like, I don't know, like they're dolls. You see the expression on these dead people and... Imamash takes the life out of you. One message that I think every single person should be able to get from seeing a real serious documentary about the Holocaust is that it shows you the bodies, the living ones that look dead, the dead ones that look alive.

1:56:53Shows you, you're going to get to one conclusion: Hashem is not kidding. That's the conclusion you need to get to. He said keep the Torah. It wasn't a suggestion. It wasn't a recommendation: keep Shabbat. It wasn't a recommendation: be modest. It wasn't a recommendation: don't waste seed, don't eat non-kosher. At no point in the entire Torah did Hashem say, "I'm just suggesting for you to maybe consider taking some of my laws seriously." He never said that. What did He say? This week's parasha. This week's parasha. Parashat Acharei Mot. ושמרתם את חוקותי ואת משפטי אשר יעשה אותם האדם וחי בהם אני ה' אלוהיכם. HaKadosh Baruch Hu says the following in this week's parasha, Acharei Mot, chapter 18, verse number 5: "You shall observe my decrees and my laws, which man shall carry out, and by which he shall live. I am Hashem."

1:58:04Suggestion: He's saying, "These laws, observe them. These decrees, observe them. Carry them out and follow them. Why? That way you'll live. Why? I'm God; I decide if you live or die. Very simple. This week's parasha, the same week as Parashat Acharei Mot, is also the week of Holocaust Memorial. It's the same week parasha where we need to learn a lot of things, Rabotai." I know you don't like to hear this stuff. And trust me when I tell you, I don't really like telling you it. Trust me when I tell you, I don't really like to learn any of this stuff. I hate it, actually. I despise it. But I have to. And the reason why is because our Chachamim, our Nevi'im, our Torah warned us that what we saw World War I, what we saw in World War II, it's gonna happen again. And the only way that anyone here, anyone watching, has a remote chance of having HaKadosh Baruch Hu protect them from suffering, from agony,

1:59:29From the horrors that you're gonna see in the film or that you heard today, the only way to be saved is by clinging to HaKadosh Baruch Hu. People thought they were smarter than Hashem; they wanted to ignore Him. At the end of it all, guys, a person is not even the flesh and blood that he thinks he is. You see how they carry these corpses, these poor people, starved to death. Starved to death. I mean, it's the worst type of death you can have. Better to get shot, poisoned, something else, which they also did that too. We got killed by our own hands. The gas, the gas, the gas that killed millions and millions of Jews, guess what? A Jew invented it. Got a Nobel Prize for it. Do you understand? Stop it! It's not your living room. Dead people, millions of them, your brothers, your sisters, your grandparents. Do you understand? Do you understand it's not a joke? Do you understand it's not something to yawn over?

2:00:55Watch it, please. Please do me a favor and watch it. I have it on my playlist on Facebook. I have another playlist on YouTube. I have a playlist of some of my lectures about the Holocaust. It's called "Holocaust Research" and has some of my lectures on the Holocaust, which this will be included in. But more importantly, it also has a documentary about the Holocaust. Please watch it. You should know what happened. You should see it with your own eyes. It's going to ruin you, but it's going to help you. If you know that HaKadosh Baruch Hu can do this, you don't need to ask about Gehinom anymore. You're never going to have to ask about Gehinom. You can see Gehinom in real life. It's horrible. I've watched it before, I watched it again, and every single time it ruins me for days, for months. I cry, I can't sleep. It's the worst thing on earth. But I know at the end of every single time, Yishtabach Shemo La'ad, HaKadosh Baruch Hu is not kidding.

2:01:58That means I have a mission in the world. I'm trying to literally save neshamot from that happening to them. That gives me a purpose in life. That gives me a reason to continue. With all the problems and the headaches and the haters and the people going to send me messages, "Oh, you're not sensitive. Oh, you're not this. Oh, you're not that." Why? Who? What? When? I could care less. Why? I know that the Gedolim like Rav Elchonon Wasserman, the Chafetz Chaim, all of the Gedolim in that generation did the same thing. If I could save one person, that's fantastic. If I could save a thousand, fantastic. If I could save millions, even better. But I'll die trying. Rabotai, all the things we say in the shiurim, they're all great. This is one of those times where a person needs to reflect a little bit. I'm not saying become a rabbi tomorrow. I'm not saying become a Rabbanit. Tzarich imenu. I'm just saying, realize that there are eyes that are watching you. HaKadosh Baruch Hu is watching you, and He's not recommending you follow the Torah. He's commanding. So start with something. Start with something. Do something that you're not doing now.

2:03:17Do something you're not doing now. Take something seriously. Take this day as a day to say, "You know what? Six million of our brothers and sisters were murdered in cold blood. You could see the visual of it. You could literally see the film of bodies, millions of bodies being gathered like rats. You can see it with your own eyes." You can see this happening and... Say, you know what? This happened. HaKadosh Baruch Hu did this. I can't mess with Him anymore. Let me try to do something. Say, you know what? Hashem, I can't be a Rabbi tomorrow. Hashem, I can't be Sarah Imeinu tomorrow. But I can do something. I can give a little tzedakah. I can put on more modest clothes. I can keep Shabbat. I can do something, for heaven's sake. Something. And then build from there. Build from there. And you'll see. You'll start enjoying that something. And you're going to want more. And eventually, you're going to love HaKadosh Baruch Hu more than anything in the world. To the extent that the whole week, you're going to look forward to only one thing: Shabbat.

2:04:32The whole week you're going to look forward to learning Torah. The whole week you're going to look forward to the next time you can talk to Hashem. The whole week you're going to look at people and say, ah, that's a potential customer. Well, for your business? No. To bring them closer to Hashem. You're going to look at people and say, I can save him. I can save her. I can save him. I can save her. Why? I don't want bad stuff to happen to them. I don't care if they're Chabad, or they're Breslov, or they're Reform, or they're Conservative, or they're Secular, or they're Zionist. I care less. You're a Jew, I'm going to try to help you. As long as you're willing to accept the help. You don't want the help, there's nothing I can do. My hands are tied. You have to do something. First, save yourself. Then you start saving the people around you. then you start saving more and more and more. But please, please take this stuff seriously. Because I'm telling you, it's so awful if you don't. Any questions? Good.

2:06:04Okay. Okay. I'm inspired by the efforts to prevent some of the worst crimes after many others were already committed, trying to avert their destruction. In addition to what happened in Egypt, we had intermarriages and many other transgressions. In Egypt, we did not engage in these acts. It's Hashem's way of telling us that we are at the entrance.

2:07:06Ohio says we will be in the 50th gate of tum'ah before Mashiach comes. We had a lot of disgusting things happen in Egypt. Intermarriage is not the worst of it: homosexuality, bestiality—a lot of the things that happened during dor ha-mabul happened in Egypt, and the same thing is happening now. According to the Social Security office in... In 2016, the Williams Institute, funded by a UCLA think tank, said that 1.4 million people in America are called transgender. He's a male, but he's saying he's a female. She's a female acting as a male.

2:08:11This is something that homosexuality has unfortunately always existed. But it was always denied, hidden; it was never quite in the open, definitely not like it is today. This is one of the few things in the Torah that HaKadosh Baruch Hu says is an abomination, this is disgusting. Now He tries to show us signs, like you're saying, in different ways. So, for example, one of the ways that you could clearly see that HaKadosh Baruch Hu is disgusted by the abominable act of homosexuality, transgender, and so on, is that according to the Williams Institute, they say that 41% of transgender people attempt suicide. Meaning that for all those people who say, "No, no, he was born that way." "No, no, she was born that way." "No, he feels like he's a girl, so who are you to tell him that he's not a girl?" "She feels like she's a boy, so who are you to tell her she's not a boy?" We say in the Torah, "No, that's a desire and a mental problem." "Oh, no, they're perfectly normal." Well, not according to research. According to research, they're absolutely not normal. Why? Nearly half of them want to kill themselves.

2:09:39Nearly half shows obviously this is a serious, serious problem. But why does this happen only to them and not to, let's say, the average secular person, the average person who eats pork, or the average person who drives on Shabbat? Why does it happen? Because there are things that are sins, but Hashem has more patience with, and there are things that are absolutely against nature, against everything. Even if there was no Torah, it should never exist. He puts different things in people's minds in order to make them realize this is wrong. The point being is that HaKadosh Baruch Hu will give us a number of signs, a number of things that are going to happen in our individual lives, community lives, and national lives. He'll give us signs. If you look at things in hindsight, you're always going to see them. Hindsight's 20-20. I can't tell you that if I was living at the time of the Holocaust, that I would be one of the people that did teshuvah. I can't tell you that. I don't know. Most likely I wouldn't. You know how I know? I'm still here. If I would have done teshuvah and I lived in that generation, apparently I wouldn't be here again.

2:10:58This is not an insult to anybody from that generation. I'm one of those losers. I'm one of the losers who didn't do teshuvah. That's why I had to come again. All of us are. But that's the beauty. That's the beauty. The beauty is that HaKadosh Baruch Hu has had patience for us for 3,000 years already. Giving us a chance and another chance and another chance. Please do teshuvah, do teshuvah, come back home. It's good for you. It's good for you. I promise, my son, my daughter. It's good for you. Do teshuvah. Some listened, most didn't. The downside of living in this generation of Mashiach is that it's your last chance. There's no more reincarnation. There's no more, "Oh, Hashem's going to give me another chance." This is it. This is the last chance. You do teshuvah, good. You don't do teshuvah, no good.

2:12:11Hashem is going to do everything possible, and according to the prophets Yirmiyahu, Zechariah, and Yechezkel, all of them talk about the end of times. It says that the miracles of what's going to happen at the time of Mashiach are going to be bigger than the miracles that happened in Egypt. Part of those miracles are going to help people do teshuvah—personal miracles, national miracles, and so on. Hashem is going to try to give you every possible sign. Please come back to Him. But remember, every one of us has a different clock. We're not all going to live to 120. Sad to say, that's just the reality. I have a cousin who died at 26. a year or two ago. Perfectly healthy. Died. I have another cousin who died at 32 or 33. I have at least half a dozen or more. More than half a dozen. Probably at least 10 people who were classmates of mine. Now, I'm not that old, by the way. Classmates of mine. They're all dead. Classmates from my graduating class. Died already. Last year, a few months ago, a couple of years ago, five years ago—a bunch of them.

2:13:2230s is a lot. So, that's the thing—don't assume, "Oh, no. No, I'm still young. I'm only 18. I'm only 20. I'm only 25. I'm only 35. I'm only 45. I've got time. I've got time to do teshuva." No. No, my friend. You have no idea how much time you have. That's why I say you don't need to become a Moshe Rabbeinu. You don't need to become a tzaddik overnight. But do something today. Do something tomorrow. Do something more the next day. Why? Because HaKadosh Baruch Hu is going to give you signs. But He also needs a sign. He needs a sign of life, that you're doing something about it. Why? If there are no signs of life, then that means it's not working. The Gemara in Masechet Chullin says, how do you know if a fish is alive? How do you know if a fish is alive? You go to the river, and there's a waterfall, a little river waterfall. You see there's some fish. How do you know which one is alive or not? Why? Because there's a stream of water that makes the fish go. So even if it's dead, it's still moving. How do you know this one is alive? How do you know? You look at everything. They're all moving—dead ones, alive ones. How do you know which one's alive?

2:14:42The one that's alive is swimming against the stream. If he's going with the stream, most likely, he's dead. If he's going against the stream, that's a life. Why? Because you need life to go against the stream. You need life to go against the secular mentality. You need life to go against the goyish mentality. You need life to go against the Christian idolatry mentality. You need life to go against everything you've done for the last 3,000 years that brought you here. You need life to go against that. Why? Because that's what's going to give you eternal life, just like HaKadosh Baruch Hu said in this week's parasha, "Follow my Torah so you will have life." Chachamim say anytime Hashem says life, it doesn't mean life in this world. It means life forever. It means eternity. You swim against the tide. All your friends tell you to smoke, you don't smoke. All your friends say go to the movies, you don't go to the movies. All your friends say violate Shabbat, you don't violate Shabbat. All your friends say go look at some club, you don't go. All your friends say look half-naked, you don't do it. All your friends are doing the opposite of what Hashem says, and you do the opposite of them. Why? That's life. That's going to get you life.

2:16:03I'm gonna give you signs, I'm gonna give you different indications of things that He wants you to do, but at some point, every one of us has to show Him signs that we're alive, that we're moving in the right direction, which is the opposite of everybody else. Or else, He just says, "Ah, he's dead like everybody else. Okay, fine, Kaddish." You understand? So, b'ezrat Hashem, we're gonna have a shiur next Sunday. Going back to our Betachon series, I kind of like this—three different series in one week. Not the same, but we'll continue having the merit to do it. Please, tomorrow, spend a little bit of time watching some things about the Holocaust. But like I said, don't watch people talk about the Holocaust. It's nice to listen to Yad Vashem's page, and you know, hear Holocaust survivors talk about what happened to them. That's good, but it's not going to get you to do anything. A picture is worth a thousand words. It's better to go see what happened to them for two minutes than to hear them say what happened to them for ten minutes.

2:17:18See it. See it for two minutes. I'm not saying watch the whole hour documentary, two hours. You don't have to kill yourself. Watch two minutes of it. Watch how they drag bodies. Watch what happens to them. Watch what a dead body looks like. Watch it for two minutes. I'm telling you, I'm not some sadistic, masochistic psychopath. I'm telling you, these are your brothers and sisters. That's what happened to them. They died for you to live. Then watch it for two minutes, then watch your Torah about it, and so on and so forth, and B'ezrat Hashem do teshuva. Aside from that, B'ezrat Hashem, all of us get a lot of chizuk from this shiur, from all the shiurim we do, and try to take Hashem seriously for what He says, because I know that even though we don't take Him seriously sometimes, what He says is definitely, definitely serious. Baruch Adonai le'olam, amen ve'amen. Then watch it for two minutes, then watch your Torah about it, and so on and so forth, and B'ezrat Hashem do teshuva. Aside from that, B'ezrat Hashem, all of us get a lot of chizuk from this shiur, from all the shiurim we do, and try to take Hashem seriously for what He says, because I know that even though we don't take Him seriously sometimes, what He says is definitely, definitely serious. Baruch Adonai le'olam, amen ve'amen.