Measure For Measure Signs Before The HOLOCAUST

0:07Tomorrow is Yom HaShoah. People ask a question: Why did the Holocaust happen? Why did the Holocaust happen? Now, as I've said to you guys in the past, 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 Frand, who happens to be my rabbi. He's an expert in the history as well as the details of what happened in the Holocaust, as well as connecting different things to the Torah. Of course, he had a shiur today about it because learning a little bit about the Holocaust and the day before the Holocaust memorial is very important. He gave a little bit of a timeline of...

1:20the 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 gonna know what's in Hashem's mind, but we know that Hashem Himself says, "I have a system. It's called measure for measure. I reward measure for measure, and I punish measure for measure." I By looking and reviewing the details of what happened before the Holocaust, we can learn how Hashem runs His world. Now, some of the things I'm going to tell you are not going to be pleasing to the ear. Most of it is going to be fine, just a little bit petrifying but fine. Some things are not going to be fine. 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. So, let's start. The Holocaust, according to most people's knowledge, started during the 1930s but climaxed in the 1940s. Truth is that the Holocaust did not start then. Truth is the Holocaust started almost 250 years before that, or 200 years before that. It started when a person by the name of Moses Mendelssohn, who called himself an Orthodox Jew, decided to start a modern Orthodox type of movement, which eventually culminated and became Reform Judaism.

2:41Truth is that the Holocaust did not start then. The truth is the Holocaust started almost 250 years before that, or 200 years before that. It started with a person by the name of Moses Mendelssohn. He must remove his ego. He called himself an Orthodox Jew but decided to start a Modern Orthodox type of movement, which eventually culminated and became Reform Judaism. 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 mitzvot, no problem, but around everybody else—among the German people, the Italian people, the Greek people, and everybody else—be like everybody else. Don't bring your kippah out, your tzitzit out, and start saying "Mashiach, Mashiach." Don't do us any favors, please. Keep your Judaism at home in your own life. He saw almost every one of his descendants convert to Christianity, and he was supposed to be a rabbi. All of his descendants completely destroyed themselves according to the Torah. But many of his disciples took it a step further than him. One of his disciples, in the year 1832, his name was Avraham.

4:09Geiger, Abraham Geiger, had a meeting, and there was an article that came out that announced or publicized the meeting that the Reform movement had almost a hundred years before the Holocaust. The Reform movement decided to declare war against the Shulchan Aruch. The body of work that Rabbi Yosef Karo, 500 years ago, put together took all the laws from the Torah, the Oral Torah, and everything else, and put them into a body of law that we follow as Judaism, which every Jew is obligated to follow. They declared war on it. How? 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. Not that it's difficult to overcome it. No, no, it's not that. Oh, you'll get punished, but you're still gonna 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. To be smart, 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...

5:39Now, I love Shlomo, Rav Avraham Shalom in his book "Ben Shishim L'Chochma" on page 78, writes something in regards to the Holocaust. He writes a story about the Chafetz Chaim, 90 years before the Holocaust, slightly after this meeting with the Reform rabbis, and... I heard about what happened with these Reform people, and I heard that now there's no separation in the Beit Knesset. I heard that they now have musical instruments in their Beit Knesset on Shabbat. I heard that now it's literally become a different religion, and he said the following: they put together a new Shulchan Aruch that permits intermarriage. The time will come. And 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 rulebook, in their rulebook, they're going to forbid intermarriage. And woe unto Am Yisrael on the day when the goyim are sent from Hashem to forbid intermarriage.

7:04Because the way they forbid it is going to be very different. This is the piece 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. One of the students of Rabbi Yisrael Salanter, his name was Chafetz Chaim. The Chafetz Chaim was already 90 years old. World War I was recently over, completed, and he said in a meeting with other rabbis, Talked about the end of times, and he said the Gog u'Magog Armageddon is going to be a three-part war. The first war, we saw it—World War One—that's the first part of Gog u'Magog. The second part of Gog u'Magog is going to make the first part look like child's play, like kindergarten, and...

8:33was predicting the Holocaust and he said the third part of Gog u'Magog is going to make the second part look like kindergarten. Also, in 1930 and 1931, the Nazis go into parliament and also Mein Kampf is published. Hitler's Mein Kampf is published. Against all odds, it's well accepted and sold out everywhere, yet 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." We say, "Mein Kampf," Hitler says it might come for 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, and..."

10:01You'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, with political power, political positions, bankers, lawyers, doctors, inventors, all types of things, like America today. All of a sudden, this little rabbi comes and... He 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. They can take everything from you; instead of people, there's gonna 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.

11:27Like that's the first time you've had a peach. 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. Never had a job in his life, the 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... 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 for political purposes, just to, you know, get people to like him, get people to think that that's not really who he is. The guy that's the president now, the guy that's the leader now, no, he's a tzaddik. He's good. He's good with us. He didn't really mean to say what he said in the book. He didn't mean to.

12:57Hitler 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 harem on Jews, a 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 goyim? I have to send the Nazis 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 to the Nazis. They don't get it. What Shabbat is it? Shabbat HaGadol. Parashat Shabbat HaGadol, 1933, where the haftarah talks about being put on cherem. What happened to Am Yisrael? They were put on cherem.

14:28Hitler 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 Beharot. The parasha talks about the dove and a view. This week's parasha talks about the dove and a view dying from fire. 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. 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 the fire of Torah everywhere, burning Jewish books everywhere. A couple of weeks later, on May 16, 1933, Parashat Zachor, Hitler actually reads the parasha of the Shavua. Hitler actually reads it.

15:57Literally, 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 we have in Zachor is Amalek. Parashat Zachor 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 Parashat talks about how soldiers of Am Yisrael must be between the ages of 20 and 60. are only allowed. Jews are only allowed to be soldiers 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. But I said, let me talk about it.

17:10Hitler passes a law the same week as the parsha. What's the law? The law prohibits Jews from becoming soldiers in the Nazi army. Now 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 gonna defend the Reich. We're gonna be all German. 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? The Nuremberg Laws say a few things. There were two sets. The first set of three rules stated that a Jew who cohabits with a German, a Jew who marries a Goya, or a Jew who touches a Goya is subject to the death penalty. What does it say in the Torah? Death penalty.

18:38Jews are not allowed to be with a Goyah. It also says that a Jew is not allowed to have a servant that's younger than 45 years old if she's German. Meaning, 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; she's not even allowed to work for you. The German is fulfilling the Torah for the Jew. And what about all the Reform Jews who say, no, we're German? They made a public statement. They said, no, Berlin is the New Jerusalem. 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 Yerushalayim. 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 Yerushalayim. 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.

19:54Hashem says, I don't like when you say that. So I'm gonna 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 Goy, my father's married to a Goy, and a Goy, 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 would get the message. They don't get the message yet. There was a man, the Talmid of the Chafetz Chaim, who came out and... 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, it was very high across the board. Very similar to what we have today, by the way.

21:21Rav 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 was seeing this all come to life. He saw this happening. He says, "Please listen to the Torah. It says in the Torah, Hashem is not joking." 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? Do you want to be like the Greeks? Do you want to be a German? Do you want to marry the Germans? Do you want to marry the Americans? Do you want to marry the Arabs? Do you want to marry the Christians? Do you want to be like them? HaKadosh Baruch Hu says to Ezekiel, "Tell them it's not gonna happen, and I'm gonna give you a promise," He says.

22:47I 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 an outpoured wrath." Your idea of being a German, American, Arab, Italian, or whatever else 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, Aharon HaLevi 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, Paro, all the stuff. We saw it."

24:00You're still into marrying. 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, Ribono 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. Not what Shimon 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...

25:04Ezra was Kodesh Kodashim. Maybe you didn't understand the message the first time, so it was relayed to a later prophet, who then conveyed it to Ezra. This is found in Ezra, Chapter 9, verses 13 and 14. HaKadosh Baruch Hu had a conversation with Ezra. Why? Because 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. If we continue this, surely You would become enraged at us until our destruction is without remnant or even a single survivor and...

26:27You didn't understand Ezekiel's message. You don't have to, okay? No problem. Ezra speaks literally. He says, "Hashem, if we continue intermarrying, for sure, you're going to destroy us until there's nothing left of us." I've watched them, alev ha'shalom, cry to the people. I mean cry 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 and...

27:28punish him for thinking you're a goy. You want to be like me? 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 Germany, Nazi Germany, in 1938. Certain second set of near big 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 and... running out. One of the rules is: Do you still want to be a German after all the hate, after all this stuff that we're doing? We burned the Beit HaMikdash. We did this, we did that. All the Germans are dead. They're just destroying armies still, 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 I...

28:46All Jewish males are called Yisrael and females Sarah. Stop calling yourselves with 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 make the law, not the Torah. Germany 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 goyim. 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. Why don't you at least keep your names? Keep your names at least. Stop calling yourself by a German name. It's something we can still do. Okay, so I'll make the German. I'll make the Nazi. I'll make Hitler. Make Elokim. From now on your name is Yisrael. From now on your name is Sarah.

30:12In 1938, Nazi Germany, under Hitler, decided to annex Austria, and they joined forces. Everybody stayed quiet as if it didn't happen, as if they just joined forces as the last piece of the puzzle. On Tisha B'Av, 1938, Adolf Eichmann is hired to take care of the Jewish problem. On Tisha B'Av, 1938. November 1938, Parashat Vayera, Leil Badalakh. 1,200 synagogues are burned down to the ground. A month before, in October of '38, Hitler expels 12,000 Polish Jews from Germany. The German Jews didn't like being kicked out of Germany. So one of them told their son about it, and...

31:39Polish Jew by the name of Herschel Grynszpan, who was in Paris at the time. So, they 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. Then, all bets were off. Two days later, November 9th, Kristallnacht occurred. Highlight of the open pogroms against the Jews: on that day, 30,000 Jews were put in a concentration camp. Two days later, they say, "Look, 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.

32:59They 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 chillul Hashem, constant desecration of Hashem in that synagogue. Why would Hashem allow it to stay? That wasn't enough. We're still not at the highlight of the war until Parashat Ki Tavo, the parasha that talks about how Hashem is going to, in essence, hide and punish us. But He's gonna 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 gonna attack them? You're gonna attack what? No, you don't have to be a soldier to know this.

34:28Where 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's also millions and millions of just Polish. You would think they would say, okay, kill the Jews, kill some Polish, at least make it 50-50. Kill some green, kill some Jews, fine. Okay, no, at least that would logically make sense. Who says, "no, no, no, this is your punishment because of other people, because of this, because of that, all types of things"? But 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?

35:53Many reasons. The Gemara says in Masechet Shabbat, the rabbis received punishment at the time of the Beit HaMikdash. Why? They didn't rebuke people. They didn't tell them to go do teshuva. I don't know who, what, when, and how. All I know is this: 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. It's ghastly. Millions of people were tortured and tested. They killed millions; 95% of them were Jews. In the same parsha, Hashem says, "I will destroy your idolatry; I will destroy the things that you replaced Me with."

36:56For 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 because 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, known for making movies. 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. He went, and this is not a movie; this is a documentary. He was filming actual things and... He tells you things and shows you things in the film. There are other documentaries there, but I think many of the documentaries today are watered down. A lot of the new stuff is watered down. They show you shoes, but they don't show you the person who used to wear them. They show you teeth, but they don't show you the person who's missing them. They show you stuff, but they show you the cans of gas.

38:22They 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 about that, 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 on the Jew, they would simply peel his skin and make some type of furniture with it, such as a lamp in addition to a sofa. Something depends 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 it's now a lamp or something else. They show you what they did—shame on him to people—how they tortured them, good people, bad people, Jews, non-Jews.

39:51Millions of people, millions of people. I mean, the level of suffering that these people endured. I mean, you see the bodies that literally they're burying in these huge holes, 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, and you see the expression on these dead people, and... Mama's takes the life out of you. There's one message that I think every single person should be able to get from seeing a real, serious documentary about the Holocaust. It shows you the bodies, the living ones that look dead, and the dead ones that look alive.

40:53Shows 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 to keep Shabbat. It wasn't a recommendation to be modest. It wasn't a recommendation to not waste seed or not 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, Parashat Acharei Mot. ושמרתם את חוקותי ואת משפטי אשר יעשה אותם האדם וחי בהם אני ה' אלוקיכם. מי אומר את זה? פרשת השבוע פרשת אחרי מות פרק י"ח פסוק ה': "ושמרתם את חוקותי ואת משפטי אשר יעשה אותם האדם וחי בהם אני ה'".

42:04Suggestion: He's saying, "These laws, observe them. These decrees, observe them. Carry them out, 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 is the same week as the parasha of Holocaust Memorial. The same week parasha of what 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 One, what we saw in World War Two, 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, and...

43:29From the horrors that you're gonna see in the film or that you heard today, 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. 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, too. We got starved. 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 and got a Nobel Prize for it. Instead, stop it. It's not your living room. Dead people, millions of them—your brothers, your sisters, your grandparents. Can you stand in the stand? It's not a joke. You understand it's not something to yawn over.

44:55Watch it, please. Please do me a favor and watch it. I have it on my playlist on Facebook. I have enough on Facebook and on YouTube. I have a playlist of some of my lectures about the Holocaust. It's called "Holocaust Research." It includes some of my lectures on the Holocaust, and 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 Gehenom anymore. You're never going to have to ask about Gehenom. You can see Gehenom 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 that at the end of every single time, HaKadosh Baruch Hu is not kidding.

45:58That 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, the headaches, the haters, and the people who are 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, and 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 l'hitbonen b'zeh. 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.

47:17Do something you're not doing now. Take something seriously. Take this day as a day. You know what? Six million of our brothers and sisters were murdered in cold blood. You could see the visuals 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.

48:32The 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 get them closer to Hashem. You're going to look at people and say, I could save him. I could save her. I could save him. I could save her. Why? I don't want that bad stuff to happen to them. I don't care if they're Chabad, or they are 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. But Rabotai, 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 seriously. Because I'm telling you, it's so awful if you don't.