Public Embarrassment, Going OTD, Fake Converts, End Of Days Anti Semitism - STUMP THE RABBI (19)

0:17We have our questions and answers session today. Hopefully, you guys have some questions and made it worth my time and effort to come here. Today wasn't an easy day. And since you could see it on my face, you don't have to ask the questions. So please, hopefully, you guys have some questions that are meaningful. Today's shiur will be for a... also for Yechiel Victor ben Simcha, who just had a stroke. Also for Avi Mori, David ben Esriah, Doris bat Yora, Levana bat Sarah, Sarah bat Levana. For Yechiel Victor ben Simcha, who just had a stroke. Also for Avi Mori, David ben Esriah, Doris bat Yora, Levana bat Sarah, Sarah bat Levana,

1:31Batya, Yeshiva, Chaya, bat Sarah, and all of them, Yisra'el, Be'ezrat Hashem, will have Refuah Shleimah, Refuat HaNefesh, Refuat HaGuf. So, today I heard a story from my Rav that I think puts things in perspective a little bit. One of the things that makes people immediately turn off from Judaism altogether. That's very common. I know it happened to me when I was younger. Now I don't care about it because I know that Judaism and Jews are not necessarily always the same thing. where Jews are not always the best representatives of Judaism. But one of the main things that turns people off, who are not convinced of the truth, who are not pretty much without a shadow of a doubt convicted of that

2:43Hashem is emet, Torah is emet, and it's not a suggestion to follow it. It's simply a commandment. And if you follow it, good. If you don't follow it, not good. How much not good? The worst that you could possibly imagine, times that by a billion, and that's just the beginning. How much good? The best that you could imagine, times that by a billion, and that's just the beginning. And that's generally how it works. Unfortunately, today, most people don't know a lot of the details of what good means and what bad means. So I saw a... A rabbi in Eretz Yisrael a couple of years ago had an interview, and they interviewed him because even though he's a rabbi and he looks like a very holy man, all three of his kids, all three of his kids that went to yeshiva, that grew up in Eretz Yisrael, all three kids went off the derech. But not off the derech, like, okay, he's not in yeshiva anymore, he's, you know, he's working. No, no, off the derech, like, mamash, 100% goyim. Tattoos, driving on Shabbat, everything. Like, as if they never learned a single Gemara in their life, as if they never learned a single parasha in their life.

4:04Unfortunately, this neshirah, this falling away, is happening more and more. And there are two reasons for it that I can see. Number one is, like I just said, most people do not actually know the truth. Even if they go to yeshiva, even if they learn Torah their whole life, they still don't know the truth. And the reason why is because when you know the truth, It's no longer a matter of following or not following, because following simply becomes a matter of survival. It's not a matter of "Do I want to keep Shabbat or do I not want to keep Shabbat?" It's a matter of "Do I want to die or do I want to live?" That's it. Most people who are normal will choose life. They will look at Chilul Shabbat as if it is committing suicide. No different. They would look at eating pork as committing suicide, no different. They would look at taking drugs with their friends as committing suicide, no different. They would look at aveirot like they're suicide. Not like, oh, this is not good, maybe Hashem's not gonna be happy with me. No, if you mamash know, there's no question in your mind that the aveirot, from the big to the small, are all literally spiritual suicide and could potentially be physical suicide.

5:24And when you make an aveira and you don't die, you have to thank Hashem a million and a half times because, in reality, you're living on borrowed time. That's really what it is. Most people, rabotai, do not have that level of knowledge. Even if they go to yeshiva, even if they go to kollel, a lot of things. And part of the reason is because they weren't taught that way. were taught Torah based on the intellectual aspect of it, that you could figure things out and you could be like a mini Rashi, and you could be like you're the Rambam of your generation, and you could figure some things out, but a lot of people, they learn but believe in something different. That's the first reason. The reason, Rabotai, if somebody wants to solve that problem, it's not too difficult anymore. And the reason why is because all of the information that you could possibly imagine, you can get it for free with the click of a button. You go on the internet, you go to our website, Be'ezratHashem.org, you go to Rabbi Mizrachi's website, DivineInformation.com, you go to a few decent websites that have some serious information, like Ohr Sameach, for example.

6:43All these websites have an enormous amount of information. Any question you ask, you have the answer. You have a video. You have an article about it. In reality, if you haven't found the truth, it's 100% your fault. Why? You didn't look for it. Because if you looked for it, you'd find it. You looked for a job, you found a job. Why? Because you looked for the job. You have a job, you have a wife, you have a husband, you have a lot of things. Why? Because you looked for them. Which means if you don't know the truth, that means you didn't look for it. And the sad excuse that people say, no, no, no, I studied in yeshiva for 20 years and I still, you didn't study. You read books. You read books. Studying and reading books are two different things. Why? Because if you study Torah, it's impossible for you to arrive at a different conclusion. But that's usually a lesser reason for why people leave. That explains weaknesses. Why people are weak. White people, as soon as you invite them to a Super Bowl party, even though they're Haredi, they'll come. You ask the rabbi, "Come to my wedding." "What is it, mixed dancing?" "Yeah, yeah, but you could just come for the chuppah." "Okay, I'll just come for the chuppah." HaKadosh Baruch Hu is not coming for the chuppah, but the rabbi sometimes comes for the chuppah. Why? He's afraid of what people think. That's weakness. Weakness that people have. But it doesn't explain why people leave. Why people leave Judaism.

8:13Aside from the obvious sins and things of that nature, there is a specific sin that is very common. It actually happens every day, probably every second, unfortunately. And sometimes it seems like it happens more in the religious world than in the secular world. And for anyone that's thinking, "Oh, you're probably thinking maybe it's this, maybe it's that," I'll tell you what it is. We'll save the time. Human decency. We lack human decency. We do not know how to be decent human beings. People simply care less about each other. They embarrass each other publicly as if it means absolutely nothing. They act like absolute animals. And the selfishness that people have in this generation is to such an extreme you would literally think that people actually believe as much in themselves as they do in God. They embarrass each other publicly as if it means absolutely nothing. They act like absolute animals. And the selfishness that people have in this generation is to such an extreme you would literally think that people actually believe as much in themselves as they do in Hashem.

9:20meaning that they believe that they're in the world by themselves, like they run the show with whatever they want. They care less about people and do things that show it. My Rav took his family out to breakfast this morning, and they had a coffee machine. In the coffee machine... He makes these coffees, Nescafes, and so on. And a young girl, a 14- or 15-year-old girl, everybody's Chareidi in the place. A 14- or 15-year-old girl comes to make coffee, and she presses the button, and the machine makes the noise, but it ran out of milk. And anyone that's familiar with those machines knows that if it runs out of milk, it still makes the sound as if it's making something, but it doesn't do anything. It doesn't ruin the machine or anything. It happens. It happens every hour; it runs out of milk, especially if you have a lot of people. So she presses the button and it makes the sound and it's not coming out. All of a sudden, the manager of the place says,

10:41sees this girl press the button, and it makes a sound, but there's no milk, and instead of saying what every normal human being should say when he's a manager of a restaurant, which is, "Oh, well, sorry, we don't have any milk. Let me go get you some, because that's my job." That's what a normal human being would do. What he decided to do is open up his sewer mouth and start yelling at this little girl at the top of his lungs to get away from the machine. "What are you, stupid? You don't see it doesn't work?" and rip this girl to shreds. Now the guy has a beard three times longer than mine, kippah reaches the ceiling, looks Hareidi. But he just violated the Torah in a sin that says that someone who embarrasses another in public, if they don't do teshuva, they have no share in the World to Come. What does no share in the World to Come mean? As we've explained many times, and we'll continue to explain many times, it means the person goes to Gehinnom forever and ever and ever until the soul is completely destroyed.

11:59No share of the World to Come means they will never, ever enter Gan Eden, no matter how many mitzvot they're going to do. They could keep Shabbat seven days a week. They could eat kosher water. They could learn Torah 24 hours a day. If they violated one of the rules that says they lose Olam HaBa and they don't do teshuva for it, rabotai, there's no mercy in Shamayim. Mercy is only here. And apparently, people forget that, or don't believe it, we're not sure. Anyway, after this girl got embarrassed, some girls are tough. You yell at them, they yell back at you. Some are even tougher. You yell at them, they'll give you a nice righty or a lefty, could be a kick, could be an arm, you're getting something, you're getting a present, you're gonna remember her forever. But some girls are softer, And more girly, which is more appropriate. And they get offended. And sometimes they get offended really quickly. And this girl was one of those. The guy rips her to shreds, yells at her. There are 150 people watching this. She walks away. After mumbling a few things, she couldn't even speak. She sits down and starts crying.

13:27I heard that when someone acts like that, like this young girl, you have to run and ask her, because when someone is yelling at you and you don't move, you don't make a sound, you don't do anything, you have to... Well, I'll explain that in a second. So the Torah says that if somebody gets embarrassed and they don't respond, then they get to a very high level of Kedusha, to the extent that HaKadosh Baruch Hu says, "I'm going to be their chavruta, I'll learn Torah with them, one on one." But this is only if they don't respond, not because they're in shock or because they don't know what to say, but rather if they don't respond because everything that the person said to them doesn't bother them, because they know that it came from Hashem. Like David HaMelech, when Shimei ben Gera gave him a kelala nimretzet. Kelala nimretzet means every curse in the book. Nimretzet is an acronym for every curse: noef, mamzer, rasha, and so on and so forth. And when Shimei ben Gera cursed him in front of everybody, David HaMelech didn't respond.

14:50And one of his soldiers, the general, wanted to kill Shimei ben Gera. He says, "Master, why do you let this dog curse you? Let me chop his head off." And David HaMelech did something that made him David HaMelech, which is, he says, "No, chas v'shalom, don't touch him. He didn't curse me; Hashem did." Meaning, Hashem is the one who decided that I should be cursed. He wanted to curse me, so Hashem used him. Don't touch him. My problem, I have to do teshuva. So the point is, rabotai, that if a person is like David HaMelech, and they're not only quiet, but it doesn't bother them, then yes, they're at a very, very high level spiritually, and you should ask them for a berachah. They're considered like a malach Hashem. But if a person just cries quietly, or is angry and just keeps it inside, that's not a... That's not the high level. It's better than fighting back, but it's definitely not the highest level, and it's not the ideal level. And this little girl, who could blame her? She's only 14. What do you possibly know other than eating and sleeping at 14 years old? What could you possibly know? At 14 years old, she goes to the table, she starts crying, and all the time sees this.

16:13And then he shortly sees that her mom goes to the guy, this manager, rasha, and says to him, "You know, you embarrassed my daughter." He goes, "Oh, yeah, no, she had to see that the machine doesn't work." She goes, "Okay, she made a mistake. Everybody makes mistakes. You embarrassed her, though." He goes, "Oh, okay, so I'm sorry." She goes, "Don't say 'I'm sorry' to me. Go say 'I'm sorry' to her." He goes, "Ah, no," and walks away. He's too big for that, to say 'I'm sorry.' So this bothered Rav Ephraim. And Rav Ephraim followed him. He went into the back, got him alone, and he says, as soon as he saw Rav Ephraim, he took a glass of water and did a berachah, as if he's a tzaddik. "Baruch Atah Hashem, Elokeinu Melech HaOlam, Shehakol Nihyeh Bidvaro." You know, he's doing a blessing on water. So Rav Ephraim says, okay, so, if you did a berachah on drinking water, obviously you believe in God. So it's not just looks. Yeah, of course, we believe in God. He goes, "You believe that there's a God, there's Olam HaZeh, there's Olam HaBa?" "Yeah, of course I believe in Olam HaBa, yeah." "Oh, okay." He goes, "Yeah, but you know," he tells Rabbi Feinstein, "but you know, I'm not worried about Olam HaBa. I did everything. I learned here. I work. I give tzedakah. I'm good. I'm not worried at all about Olam HaBa. I'm not afraid at all. The people that are supposed to be afraid are the ones that usually tend to be not afraid."

17:40The reason why David HaMelech went to Gan Eden was because he was afraid his whole life. The reason why the tzaddikim go to Gan Eden is because they are afraid their whole life. People that are not afraid, usually Gan Eden doesn't end up being the destination. But this guy says he's not afraid. And Rabbi Ephraim says, "Well, do you believe in what the Gemara says, what David HaMelech said, which is the halacha in Shulchan Aruch?" It's not a recommendation. Someone that embarrasses another Jew in public loses their share of the world to come if they don't do teshuva. You believe in that? And the guy looks at him like he has five heads. No, what, what? He goes, you just embarrassed that little girl. You should say I'm sorry. He goes, ah, no. Ah. but you realize if you don't say "I'm sorry," your Olam HaBa is gone. You could keep Shabbat forever, you could do everything, everything that you're doing plus more, but if you don't do teshuva, if you don't say "I'm sorry" to this girl in public, you have no share in the World to Come.

18:56You know, the guy, you would think the rabbi came to him, said something to him, the mom came to him, said something, he sees the girl crying, said something to him. What any normal human being would do is say, "Okay, fine, fine, just to make you guys happy," not even because he's sorry, just to make them leave him alone. That's what usually normal people do. At least, you know, this guy does, with all of his religious observance, with all of his beard, with everything, he goes, "That's it, like, oh, I lost Olam HaBa." Meaning, either you're kofar gamur and you don't actually believe in Olam HaBa, you don't believe in Olam HaBa, or you don't believe in the Torah itself, which means you don't have Olam HaBa anyway. You don't believe in what Chazal says, you don't believe in the halachot, you just believe in whatever you do. Now, why do I tell you this story? I tell you this story because this story happens every day. People mistreat each other regularly, embarrass each other regularly, steal from each other regularly, yell at each other regularly, and mistreat each other in countless ways regularly. We talked, just gave a couple of examples yesterday in the shiur, and we are so far away from the truth that we don't even realize that we're doing it.

20:19And I can tell you that this is one of the most common excuses That someone that wants to sin, someone that doesn't want to do teshuva, someone that wants to get off the religion, or doesn't want to do teshuva in general, whatever it is, someone that's looking for an excuse, that is the number one reason why people say things against the Torah, things against the Jews. Why? Because they see the Jews that are expected to act better and holier than everybody else, act worse than everybody else. Usually, you go to Beit Knesset, And there's a few kids, you know, a few kids there, but the ones that cause the most amount of noise, the most amount of disrespect, the most amount of filth, are what? It's the rabbi's kids, or it's the religious kids. The secular kids that come once a year, they usually quiet, they sit down next to Abba and Ima, and then they're fine. If they want to play, they go outside. But the religious kids, they cause the most amount of trouble. Why?

21:22Same thing that you see in all these big scandals, whether it's all this filth that happens. Constantly, you see religious people. You see people constantly desecrating HaKadosh Baruch Hu's name. Which means that there's something missing here. There's something missing. We're supposed to use this Sefer Torah, this holy Sefer Torah, in order to do the will of Hashem. But for some reason, people think that doing the will of Hashem just means becoming robots, praying by repeating some words that perhaps we don't even understand what we're saying, and doing a few mitzvot just because it's part of what we're supposed to do. When it comes to fixing our character traits and treating each other like decent human beings, it's almost like a forgotten minhag. And that's one of the things that I can tell you from personal experience, from an outside perspective, is by far the thing that you use as an excuse for why you don't want to be religious. Because you see religious people many times doing things that are just outright gross. Now,

22:30You could easily say, yeah, but a lot of secular people do things that are even grosser. Even more disgusting. They're expected to do that. They were born in a jungle and they live in a jungle. They're not expected to be tzaddikim when they live in a secular world. When you pretend to be a religious Jew by putting on a kippah, having a beard, a mitpachat, a skirt, and so on and so forth, you automatically are expected to act like an ish kadosh, an isha kadoshah. Which means, when you do something wrong, it will be highlighted not just in Olam HaBa, it will be highlighted in Olam HaZeh too. That's the responsibility of a Jew. So, it's important that we know that behavior is not something that is a recommendation. It's everything. It really is everything. And that's why I tell people all the time that learning Musar is one of the things that has to be a foundation of every Jewish person's life. If you don't learn Musar, you're never going to change as a human being, even if you complete the entire Shas, even if you read the Tanach 50 times, even if you do all the other things, all the wonderful things. If you don't learn Musar every day, you'll never change as a human being. And even if you learn Musar

23:51It doesn't guarantee you'll change. Why? Because you have to actually apply what you learn. I know one guy that read over 40 or 45 Mussar books. The best of the best books. But he hits his wife. Why? Because he reads. He read the books. Applying is a different story. Applying is a different story. So, with that being said, Rabotai, hopefully you have some decent questions that will help all of Am Yisrael. Who wants to go first? You're on strike. Okay, give him the mic, please, somebody. Yes. Is it allowed to swim in a lake? Is it allowed to swim in a lake? Oh, lack of bitachon to swim in a lake and think that there's an alligator or something under you? Is there a lack of bitachon? Why is a person swimming if he thinks there's an alligator? No, I went tubing the other day and I was swimming back to shore. Okay, I mean, let's say the person has a fear of the unknown, which is a natural fear.

25:12Part of the reason why people have this fear, one reason is because they forgot that it's not the alligator that kills or the snake that kills; it's the sin that kills. We learned from the Gemara in Masechet Ta'anit that there was a big snake that was killing people left and right, and they went to Rabbi Chanina. he told me there's a snake. He says, "Oh, okay, no problem. Just tell me where it is." I saw that people are dying. He stopped his learning, got up, and told them, "Show me where it is." They showed him where it is. He goes to that hole, puts his leg inside the hole, and everybody's thinking that he's committing suicide here. A few moments later, Rabbi Chanina takes his leg out of the hole, and the snake has bitten Rabbi Chanina's leg, but the snake is dead. Not Rabbi Chanina, the snake died. The snake bit Rabbi Chanina, but the snake died. He takes out this huge snake, and everybody has no idea what happened. Is Rabbi Chanina's blood venomous? Rabbi Chanina says, from here we learn that it's not the snake that kills.

26:37It's the sin that kills. So when a person understands that HaKadosh Baruch Hu is the One that rewards and punishes 100%, not just 50% or 60% or 70% or 80%, they won't fear anything in the world, even something that's extremely scary, like not an imagination of an alligator, but a real alligator. so it doesn't mean that the person is a bad person or a sinner; it just means the person needs to work on their bitachon. The other aspect of it also is that there's a natural fear that people have of the unknown. When you go in the ocean or you go into a pool and you don't really know what's under you, it's very common. The reason why is because it usually means that the person has learned a lot about what's in the unknown. It means you probably watch Discovery Channel shows, and it shows you all the alligators and the snakes and so on, what's going on underwater. So that adds to your imagination.

27:40because now you think that every body of water has the same alligator that you saw on TV or you saw on the Internet. And every body of water has a shark. And every body of water has an anaconda. And every little thing, every mosquito, has some killing disease. And I'd say that's part of the reason, because we allowed our minds to go to those places and see those things and learn it from the world. And now it adds to our imagination. to undo what we've already learned is not possible. The only thing that we can do is to learn more good stuff and understand that we'll overcome. That we'll overcome the other stuff. Yes. But isn't it true that a person is not supposed to put himself in a dangerous situation? Like if you're thinking there could be an alligator in the water, aren't you? Aren't you not supposed to? Well, usually a person doesn't go into water if he thinks there's an alligator in there. It's that usually the person goes into the water thinking that he wants to go into the water. But then he goes into the water, and he realizes that he can't reach the bottom, and it's a little scary, so he thinks maybe there's an alligator, maybe there's an anaconda, maybe there's a monster, maybe Godzilla is here. Who knows? It's dark. What's under me? And you start imagining things.

28:54because it's unknown what's under you. You didn't think about it before you got into the water, but you thought about it after. It's the same thing as going into the ocean and swimming far, far out, away from everybody else. In the beginning, for the first five seconds, if you're not a swimmer, it's cool. Wow, I'm far. Yay, look at me. Five seconds later, a fish, a fish that you would eat, not a shark, rubs against your leg, and already you have half a heart attack. I have a heart attack. Why? It must be Jaws. It must be Jaws. You have all the imagination. It's a little fish, a little fish that you would eat for dinner, but it rubbed next to you, and automatically you're thinking the worst. Why? Because you don't know what's under you. You can't see it. And because you have an imagination, and that imagination could go to very, very far places, that's what happens. It creates a lot of fear. Next question. Go ahead. Give it to Michael. So speaking of imaginations, in regards to Kol Isha, the prohibition of listening to a woman sing. So the Shulchan Aruch cites it. And I don't know where we hold in modern times with the, you know, you hear a woman singing on the elevator. It used to be, if you didn't know what she looked like, it was permissible. But now that we know what everyone looks like, what is the current standing on it? And also, where is the biblical prohibition against it?

30:22Kol B’isha Erva, it comes from Lo Taturu Acharei Levavchem V’Acharei Eineichem. You say it in Shema Yisrael every day. Don't follow what's in your heart; don't follow what's in your eyes. So, you know, when a guy listens to a woman sing, it's very different than when a woman listens to a guy sing. When a woman looks at a guy sing, she's analyzing his voice. When a guy listens to a woman sing, he's analyzing her body. So that's just the reality of the nature of a man. So naturally, a man that's analyzing a woman, he's going to analyze her in inappropriate ways. And when she sings, that's a trigger. So the Gemara says in Masechet Sotah, and also a few other places, that the sound or the voice of a woman is considered ervah, meaning that when a man listens to a woman sing, it's as if he saw her naked. Why? Because in his imagination, it is very much real that he sees her naked, and it's prohibited. It's prohibited 100%. For a man to listen to a woman sing is prohibited 100%. It's even worse if he knows what she looks like.

31:44if he doesn't know what she looks like, you could find certain poskim that give a leniency that it's not considered a sin. It's obviously not a mitzvah, but it's not a sin that's going to lead him to have all these filthy thoughts because he doesn't know what she looks like. He still shouldn't listen to her sing. But needless to say, if he knows what she looks like, he's prohibited from listening to her sing under all conditions, even if it's "Happy Birthday" to him. If she's not his wife, he's not allowed. So that's the rule. The problem is that people don't like rules. because they think that since she's married to somebody else, what's it to me? They don't realize that making a sin in your mind is worse than making a sin in reality. And the reason why is because when you make a sin in your mind, it stays there, and you've done it You've committed this sin in the ideal, perfect way. There's nothing bad about it. It's perfect. It stays in your mind perfect. And you can make this sin repeatedly over and over again for the rest of your life. When you do something in actuality, it's not as good as what you thought it was more times than not. And there's no imagination anymore because you actually experienced it.

33:07Either way, both are not good, but the Chachamim say in the Gemara that the hirhur, the thoughts of an aveira, is worse than an aveira. The thoughts of the imagination of aveira are worse than aveira. Why? Because if you look at things that are inappropriate, you can make that sin endless times and endless ways. But if you've actually committed it in reality, that's it. You don't imagine anything else because that's what you experienced. And that's the reason why people, when they fantasize, when they don't watch their eyes and they fantasize, they don't fantasize about their wives. They fantasize about somebody else's wife. They fantasize about somebody else's husband. That's what people fantasize about. Why? Because they know their husband. They know their wife. They had a reality of it. They had a reality of it, and that's all they can picture. They can't picture anything beyond. With somebody else's wife or somebody else's husband, they're thinking, oh, yeah, all the garbage in the world, all the filth in the world in their mind, and that's what makes it much, much worse. Next question.

34:17if I may continue on that. But I imagine the prohibition doesn't include one's own wife, like the same with Shomer Negiah. No, he's allowed to listen to his wife sing. It's not a problem listening to his wife sing. He's even allowed to look at his wife's clothes. But the Gemara says that he's not allowed to look at somebody else's clothes. Meaning that if you are walking around, and today it's not really common because America is rich. People in America are rich. But some neighborhoods in America, perhaps more so in Eretz Yisrael, people hang their clothes outside to dry. Not everybody has a dryer. Over here it's standard to have a washer or dryer. It's not standard in poor neighborhoods or in different countries. So people, the way they would dry their clothes is after they wash them, they'd hang them outside. A man is forbidden from seeing a woman's clothes hanging outside if it's not his wife. He's forbidden from doing it. Why? Because if he sees the clothes hanging, he's going to imagine the woman in them.

35:30And it says, what about if he doesn't know the woman? That's even more so. Why? Because now he knows the clothes, and eventually he's going to see her in the clothes, and... everybody understands what leads after that, so it's very, very critical for people to watch their eyes because that is the opening to all the sins in the world. All the filth in the world that a person can do starts with how they watch their eyes, or how they don't watch their eyes. If they watch their eyes... they will not only be holy in regards to kedusha, in regards to brit and things of that nature, but they also won't be jealous, they also won't say lashon hara, they also will be much more honest, and so on and so forth. If a person watches their eyes and simply just minds their own business, automatically they become a much better human being. If they don't watch their eyes, it all depends on the level of how much they don't watch their eyes. Who wants to give a shiur, me or you?

36:34Next question. Try not to actually have outright conversations, guys. I understand whispering here and there is fine. But the outright conversation is obnoxious. Actually, it's almost like I'm not here. Trust me, I've been suffering for 18 hours straight to get here. 18 hours straight that I wouldn't wish on my enemies. Please, have a little bit of decency. Next question. Yes, behind you, Shlomo. I like Shlomo's questions, but they don't come often enough. Chabad. Is it also like for a Jew in America to vote Democrat? To vote Democrat. That's an interesting question. There are some poskim that say you shouldn't vote at all. There are some poskim that say you shouldn't vote at all because both sides are reshaim. And we're not even talking about just America. We're talking about Israel also. Some poskim say you shouldn't vote at all. Why? Because both sides are reshaim. Because they're not living a Torah life.

37:35It's not like the Democrats are going to help us build more yeshivot, or the Republicans are going to help us build more yeshivot. Both sides want a secular country. Same thing in Eretz Yisrael. It's not like one side is better than the other. For the most part, almost all of them are reshaim. And even the ones that look religious sometimes are worse than the ones that are not religious, because at least they're not pretending. But the point is that it's a very secular world. So some say, to the extreme, don't vote at all. But some say you should at least try, based on logic of who and what and when, basically what you think would be more favorable for the nation, for the people, what would protect them. Now today, to vote Democrat would simply put a person in a position where they're helping the people that are causing more trouble for Am Yisrael than the other side. It doesn't mean that the Republicans are tzaddikim. It doesn't mean the Republicans are tzaddikim. It just means that the Republicans are less problematic. The Democrats, on the other hand, are creating much more trouble. That's the lefty liberal type of mentality that is pro-homosexuality and homosexual parades, pro-abortion, and all types of things that are anti-Torah and also anti-Israel. So, to help those people by giving them your vote obviously doesn't make much sense.

38:54At the same token, a person shouldn't feel like he's the most righteous person in the world by voting Democrat, because, again, there are also problems on the other side. If you ask me my opinion, I think that all voting is a complete waste of time. It's not a matter of allowed or not allowed. You're allowed, you're allowed to vote. It's not a problem, but I just think it's, personally, I think it's a complete waste of time for two reasons. Number one, the rational reason, this-world type of reason, it's rigged anyway. It's rigged anyway. Pretty much that's really, we've all, I've seen, I've lived long enough to see the system's rigged anyway. They already choose the winner before you even know he exists. When one party won, got the election, and said, no, for a month, they went back and forth until Bush won. How did Bush win? But you said the other guy won. No, no, Bush won, Bush won, but how? We'll do a recount. Never in history was there a recount, but no, we wanted Bush to win, so Bush won. Same thing with a lot of other things that are very strange in politics, and it's also been proven. It's been proven that the system itself is manipulated.

40:00Improving to manipulate, it's not like they change the system. So, number one, on a basic day-to-day logic, it's rigged anyway. HaKadosh Baruch Hu runs the world, which is the more important reason. If a person understands completely that HaKadosh Baruch Hu runs the world and that everything that happens in the world is simply His will, and if bad things are happening, tzarich lomar (one must say) like they are right now... antisemitism is at an all-time high in America. We've gotten to the point where America is starting to look more and more like Nazi Germany right before the Holocaust camps started becoming a law. There are acts of antisemitism almost daily. There's violence almost daily. Just another guy yesterday almost got killed in New York. And that's only a couple of days after somebody else almost got killed. And that's only about two weeks after somebody over here almost got killed, got shot up. And it seems like almost every other day,

41:08There's an anti-Semitic attack. Many times it's physical, but constantly there are swastikas being put everywhere and all types of things. And then you see that the Jewish people's Christian messiah Donald Trump all of a sudden starts saying things that we don’t like to hear so much. Well, he says any Jew that votes Democrat is either a traitor or something like that, or ungrateful, or ignorant—whatever. He said something that people didn’t like, and everyone was up in arms: "Oh, how could Donald Trump say that? It's against Am Yisrael; his daughter is a Jew and..." Technically, he's right. If you vote for the other side, you are, why? Because this is the only side that's actually been favorable for Am Yisrael. But it's not wrong. But still, what's wrong here is that we're thinking that it's Donald Trump talking and That's what's wrong. We're thinking that it's Donald Trump that's saying that. It's HaKadosh Baruch Hu giving us warning signs after warning signs, just like He did before the Holocaust. He gave us warning signs when Hitler got a position in the government, but it wasn't really important. And he was famous for being anti-Semitic. We got all types of warning signs before the Holocaust, but we ignored them. We ignored them, and we're ignoring them now again.

42:32the fact that Jews are being killed or beaten up, or abused and insulted on a regular basis, is almost at a point where the sages told us, when asked, "When do you leave America? When do you leave the country? When is Mashiach going to come?" They said, "When they start killing Jews in the streets." When you start killing Jews in the streets like it's nothing, that's when you know Mashiach is coming, but it's gonna get worse before it gets better. So the point is, whether it's a Democrat or Republican, That doesn't really make a difference. What makes a difference is that if you pay attention to all the signs, all the things that are happening, tamid (constantly) right now, it doesn't look good. It doesn't look good. People are getting killed, people are getting abused, people are getting insulted. I mean, you have people that are openly anti-Semitic. Openly, there's always been anti-Semitic Americans in politics, but never really open. Now you have a group of women that are openly anti-Semitic.

43:38Openly favoring the terrorists never in history has that happened. They have people in the Israeli government that are outright terrorists. Never has something like that actually happened, and there are so many things that are weird that HaKadosh Baruch Hu is trying to give us all the signs possible and to wake up and realize that it's not going to be Donald Trump that helps you. It's not going to be Bibi Netanyahu that helps you. It's only the Torah. Only HaKadosh Baruch Hu and His Torah. And if people wake up and see it, they will be rewarded for it. People that don't will regret their lives just like, unfortunately, all the generations before them. Next question. One of the things I could tell you, I'll try to stick around as much as I can before I lose the rest of my strength. A lot of people trusted the evil Nazis, not because they were gullible. People weren't stupid. People have always been smart; people have always been clever. Hashem gave us a mind and...

44:55so how is it that the Nazi Germany did such horrors, and everybody denied it for so many years? No one wanted to believe that there were concentration camps. they're killing Jews just because they're Jews, and they're killing all types of other people just because they are something else. Nobody wanted to believe that. Even when shown pictures or they saw letters and things like that, everybody said, "No, no, it can't be real. It can't be real," until they saw it's real. Nobody wanted to believe it's real. Why? Because of this... The Nazis were very, very cultured and civilized people, at least that's the way they looked. In fact, they were considered the most cultured and civilized people of their day. They had unique manners where they would say thank you for everything, and they would say hello and goodbye, and they would treat

46:09Animals with a certain amount of respect that was unusual. Like the amount of respect that Hitler had for his dog was unusual. One time somebody pet his dog and he saw that the dog didn't bite him, and he took offense to it. He didn't talk to the dog for a few weeks. Sick people, but to the outside it looks like, "Wow, he's really connected to his dog." To stupid people, that's what it looks like. Now, one of the reasons is because people admire secular knowledge, specifically when it comes to science. Now, there's a book called "Doctors from Hell." "Doctors from Hell." It was written by a woman who was a court reporter at the Nuremberg Trials, the trials that took place after the Holocaust for all the war crimes. She documented everything that was said, and a lot of what was said, 90% of people don't know. Why? Because unless you read the stuff and study it, you're never gonna know. So, in the beginning of the book... the Nuremberg Trials, the trials that took place after the Holocaust for all the war crimes. She documented everything that was said, and a lot of what was said, 90% of people don't know. Why? Because unless you read the stuff and study it, you're never gonna know. So, in the beginning of the book

47:35There's a foreword and a couple of interesting people, Elie Wiesel and Frederick Abrams. A couple of interesting people are writing some things. It says that Frederick Abrams, Dr. Frederick Abrams writes, I wish I could write that after the trials of Nuremberg, the lessons learned and international laws and codes that followed had put an end to genocide, torture, and experimentation on non-consenting human beings. But the laws and codes continue to be flouted. It is essential to revisit history as Vivian Spitz documented it. Vivian Spitz is the author of this book. We must remain aware that despite the veneer of civilization and the outward manifestation of culture and refinement, insidious atavistic impulses remain in every country, and no nation has a monopoly on atrocity. In so many words, he's saying nothing changed. He just wants to look really intelligent by using some big words.

48:55There's good science and there's bad science, he says, in the sense of careful and accurate theory and experimentation. Facts have no dogma, and scientific fact-finding benefits society, but no science may be divorced from human context. In so many words, what he's saying is if you lost your sense of humanity, don't be a doctor, don't be a scientist. Why? Because you'll end up becoming a murderer instead. Again, in different words, but that's what he's actually saying. Science and ideology are treacherous partners. When an ounce of science is mixed with a ton of zealotry, catastrophic results can be anticipated. This explosive mixture led to a disaster in German scientific activities of medical experimentation and eugenics research.

49:55What he's saying is that here you have the testimony of a bunch of German doctors that if you see them in pictures, they look like they're in a camp, having a good time, having a few drinks, dinner, they sing. You see pictures of these people, they look 100% normal, better than normal. They look happy. But then you look behind the scenes at what these people did every day and how they would take Jewish people and simply experiment on them without anesthesia. They'd just start cutting them up to see what would happen. They look 100% normal, better than normal. They look happy. But then you look behind the scenes at what these people did every day and how they would take Jewish people and simply experiment on them without anesthesia. They'd just start cutting them up to see what would happen. performed surgeries that were not necessary and all types of vicious, awful things in the name of science. Sadly, by the way, some of the best science books when it comes to the anatomy of the body are actually from Germany, from Nazi Germany. Why? Because they were the only ones who were actually able to do these experiments. Nobody else was as psychopathic as them.

51:17So some people even today study their books, not because they agree with the Nazis, but rather because they actually have details about the human anatomy that nobody else has. But the amount, the type of tests that they did was, I mean, you have to lose your sense of reality, your sense of humanity, and so on and so forth. But why is he mentioning it? We have a whole book, I don't know, 300 pages that's gonna tell us about all the experiments. Why is he telling us now? In essence, what Frederick Abrams is saying, Dr. Frederick Abrams is saying in the beginning of the book, is that I don't want you to really spend so much time being surprised at the treacherous events that happened in the past. Rather, I want you to know that all of it is still possible today. In fact, all of it is happening to some extent still today.

52:18In 1927, there was a famous case in America, a case by the name of Buck versus Bell, a Supreme Court decision, where the state of Virginia decided that a woman by the name of Carrie Buck, who came from a mother that wasn't exactly a genius and she herself wasn't exactly a genius and she had a kid and the state of Virginia said three people that are stupid is already enough, so they forced Carrie Buck to be sterilized, meaning you're not allowed to have kids anymore. They gave her who came from a mother that wasn't exactly a genius and she herself wasn't exactly a genius. She had a kid, and the state of Virginia said three people that are stupid is already enough, so they forced Carrie Buck to be sterilized, meaning she was not allowed to have kids anymore. They gave her medication, where she wasn't able to have kids anymore. She didn't want; she wanted to have kids. They said, "No, no, you're wrong, you shouldn't reproduce, you're too stupid. Your mom is stupid, you're stupid, and most likely your kid's gonna be stupid." The kid ended up being actually a pretty decent human being, normal.

53:27that they're wrong. But the point is, that was the case. Now, you might think, "Wait a minute, are you crazy? Maybe if you're talking about Africa, yeah, they probably do it. China, they probably do it. Germany, Nazis—no, they do it in America." It's okay, fine, they do it in America. This is 90 years ago. "Rabbi, no, come on, talk nicely about America." The reality is, this went to the Supreme Court. In 1932, the justice, the judge, said three generations of imbeciles are enough, meaning he allowed the court to force this woman to become sterile. She cannot have any more kids. Now this, unfortunately, is still legal today in some states. As recently as 2003... 2003—we're not even talking about very long ago, 15 years ago, 16 years ago. There were reparations made to victims of compulsory sterilizations in North Carolina. In 1995, Mississippi's law was still there, meaning that the conviction in the rights of science...

54:57still very much there. Humanity, not so much, which means that all of the horrors that happened in America and Nazi Germany—people keep saying "never again, never again, never again"—I'm sorry to tell you that's one of the dumbest statements that exist today. Because saying "never again" is not going to make it happen "never again." It's just living a fantasy. We have to do something about it. What do we do? We have to find it. Why did it happen in the first place? And we see that HaKadosh Baruch Hu told us why it happened. And He's also showing us different signs that it could happen again. There are different FEMA camps across the country, across the United States, with graves and body bags for tens of millions of people. This is not a conspiracy theory. This is reality. You can see this stuff on the internet. People say, why do you have entire huge acres of land full of body bags and graves like you're expecting some type of nuclear war or Holocaust? Well, there are also camps with jail cells and so on, meaning it's made, it's ready. We're not saying it's going to happen.

56:23we're saying is that to think that it can't happen is pure ignorance and stupidity, and it's dangerous. It's very dangerous to be ignorant today because, as we see, the people that lived through the Holocaust and witnessed what happened, they looked into the current law, looked into the current state of society, and they're telling you that nothing changed. Nothing changed. And anyone that learns, anyone that investigates, will agree. No one's going to say that it's not possible. The only people that say it's not possible are people that are simply ignorant or too arrogant. So the point, Rabotai, is that We're seeing that there are many, many indications happening around us that are showing us that HaKadosh Baruch Hu's message to all of the prophets was for Am Yisrael to do teshuva. Every prophet was given the same message: Tell Am Yisrael to do teshuva. Tell Am Yisrael to do teshuva. Tell Am Yisrael to do teshuva. Every message. Every prophet we had, that was the message they were given.

57:39Now, every prophet did their job. They told Am Yisrael to do teshuva. Unfortunately, when Am Yisrael did not listen, Hashem gave them a bigger sign. They didn't listen, Hashem gave them a bigger sign. And eventually, He made a holocaust happen. Not the Holocaust that you saw a few pictures of 80 years ago. We're talking about holocausts 2,500 years ago, 2,000 years ago, 600 years ago, 900 years ago. There have been many holocausts throughout history. The only one that you could see on video is the one that happened 80 years ago. But there have been many holocausts throughout history. And all of it comes after HaKadosh Baruch Hu gives us signs. Once a decree is made, there's no Hashem taking it back. And that's why I plead with every one of you to take the things that you've learned over the last few months, or even just simply today, take them seriously. Because if you don't, one day you're going to wake up and it's going to be too late. The Holocaust would have already happened. And it's too late to fix it at that point.

58:53That's why, Rabotai, after 18 hours of agony, and I'm still in pain right now as I'm speaking to you, I'm here. Because I figured that if I'm not here, no one else is going to be here. And people are going to still continue living a dream, a fantasy that everything is okay. I promise you it’s not. And it's getting much, much worse. They're starting to kill Jews in the streets. We're running out of time. You're not going to be able to win a war. Everybody that has confidence in the Iron Dome or the Israeli army or the American army or whatever army you have, you're living a fantasy. The only war we can win is a spiritual war. It starts with independent wars, ourselves, each one does Teshuvah ourselves. And then it graduates to helping others. Help your friend, help your father, help your mom, help your cousin, help a stranger, Jewish friend, Jewish neighbor. Whoever it is, help each other. This, Rabotai, is what's happening today. If you take what HaKadosh Baruch Hu said seriously, he said, you take it seriously, no matter what happens, no matter what war happens, you'll be protected. Why? Because the next war is the last one.

1:00:06Gog and Magog has three parts. We already had the first two. The next one is the last one. People that do teshuva before it will be okay. People that don't, people that focus on playing basketball and making sure that every shot that leaves their hands goes into the hoop, and making sure that their sneakers are tied really nicely, and making sure that their kippah is nice and tight, and making sure all of these material, nonsensical things that people do—they make sure that everything else is done right except Ratzon Hashem, the will of Hashem, those people might as well already say Kaddish for them now. Because there won't be another chance to do teshuvah. This is not a scare tactic. It's just simply what the Torah says. I'm not scaring anyone. I'm just trying to warn you. And this is because people are not taking HaKadosh Baruch Hu seriously, so the signs are getting worse. To me, it's as clear as day. But that's because I'm in it all day. deal with people all day. I see how much people are suffering constantly. Divorces are more common than getting married. People going off the derech is almost as much as people getting on the derech. People getting off drugs is nowhere near as much as people getting on drugs. There are a lot more people that hate Jews openly today than at any other time in history in America and

1:01:33A few years ago, when I started this, they did a statistic, and they came up with 42% of Americans admitting to being anti-Semitic. Forty-two percent. Forty-two percent sounds like, oh, well, at least we have the majority. Only a stupid person says that. Because 42% means there's 160 million people. you live next door to that say that they hate you. Why? Because you're Jewish. That's it. They don't know you; they never saw you. You're Jewish, we hate you. But that was a few years ago. Today, it's much, much higher. It's definitely not a, uh, not a minority anymore. It's not their fault. Don't blame the goyim for hating you. Don't even hate the goyim; it's a waste of time. That's what they're programmed to do. Esav sonei l'Yaakov, that's a halacha in Shulchan Aruch. Esav was programmed to hate Yaakov. Why? To eliminate part of the bilbul, of the intermarriage. Because right now there's so much intermarriage, even though so many of them hate us. Imagine if they liked us. There wouldn't be a nation left. So Esav hates Yaakov, that's what he's programmed to do. To hate Esav is a waste of time.

1:02:57You should ask, what can I do about it to protect myself against Esav? And there's only one thing. Do teshuva. I don't care if you keep Shabbat or not. I don't care if you put tefillin on. I don't care if you learn here and there. Doing teshuva is a life decision. It's not just keeping Shabbat. It's not just learning a little bit. It's not just showing up to the class and looking at the clock the whole time because you can't wait for an hour to be over so you can jet out of here and get 15 bucks for coming. If you're still coming for the money, I tell you, don't come. If you've been coming for three, four months, and you're still coming for $15, do yourself a favor, don't come. Why? You already got the word. If you're still coming only for money, that means that HaKadosh Baruch Hu doesn't want your teshuva. Why? Because you still don't get the point after four months. After four months, you still don't get the point. You have to keep Shabbat. Nothing's going to help you. Definitely not me. The fact that the $15 is cool, it's nice to get 15 bucks, no problem. Enjoy, kapah alecha, I love you guys. I'll give you a thousand if I could. That's not the point. I don't care about the money. But if you're only coming because you like the money and you like the food that the girls toil over mamash to get you guys a five-course meal, if that's the reason why you're coming, don't come. Why? It's very likely that you already have too much, you're too far, too gone. Four months, shiur, every three times a week you get it on the head, the hardest shiur in America.

1:04:21The dead have already started being resurrected. The walls are doing teshuva already from the shiurim that we did here. You're still coming for $15 only? You shouldn't come anymore. Why? You're probably spiritually dead. I met a few people like that. Nothing can help them other than HaKadosh Baruch Hu. The problem is that HaKadosh Baruch Hu doesn't talk to us in the same language I talk. HaKadosh Baruch Hu talks to us in zaptot. You know what zaptot are? Zaptot are righties and lefties. Rabbotai, I'm telling you from the bottom of my heart, if I had any fluid left in my body, I'd start crying to you. You're running out of time to do teshuva. You're running out of time. They're killing Jews in the streets. It's not a joke. It's going to get worse. It's going to get much worse. This comfort zone, all these Floridians living in high-rises, Hashem yerachem.

1:05:21People are walking around with a kippah and tallit to Beit Knesset, but their wife is wearing a mini skirt and a gufi’a and a tank top. Going to Beit Knesset, feel perfectly fine. What are you doing for the Chagim? I don't know, buy some clothes for you maybe? People are living an illusion. Two synagogues next to my house kicked out their rabbis. Never heard of such a thing. A kehillah kicks out the rabbi. You would think, okay, if the rabbi was a rapist, a murderer, a thief, okay, kick him out. No, they kick them out because they don't want a rabbi. Simple. They don't want a rabbi. Do you know how many shuls? I think Florida has more shuls with no rabbi than with rabbis. Why? Everybody wants to be a rabbi now. Nobody wants to do teshuva, but everybody wants to be a rabbi. your parents are not going to help you. Only you can help you. The Gemara in Masechet Sotah, page 49b, says the generation before Mashiach will be a unique generation. It's going to be the only generation in history where the children help the parents do teshuva. Throughout all of the history of Am Yisrael, 3,300 years,

1:06:45We have something called a mesorah. A mesorah means that we've learned everything from our parents, and our parents learned it from our grandparents, and the grandparents learned it from their grandparents, and so on and so forth, all the way to Moshe Rabbeinu. You learn it from your rabbi, your rabbi learned it from his rabbi, that rabbi learned it from another rabbi, all the way to Moshe Rabbeinu. Meaning that we always depended on the previous generation. But the generation before Mashiach is going to be unique. It's not going to be the same way. It's going to be the opposite. It will be the young kids, the 15-year-olds, the 12-year-olds, the 20-year-olds that do serious teshuva and help their parents. That's the only way. Why? It's an upside-down world. Which means that your teshuva is not just going to save you. It's going to save everybody that you know and care about. If you don't do teshuva, it means also everybody that you know and care about. And that's why I tell you this time and time again: Please, take the time to double-check everything that I say.

1:08:01Everything that I say, all of the shiurim, are on the internet. You can press stop, you can press play. If you didn't hear it, you're on a page, write it down, go look in a book, double-check in a book, and you'll find it. Meaning, you can double-check and confirm everything that I say. And you'll see that it's not me saying it, it's just me repeating it. And if what I say, or what I'm repeating, is true, That means that if we don't do teshuva, saying that we're in trouble is an understatement. And all of these Erev Rav that call themselves rabbis over here, whether it's here or it's in Montana or it's in New York or wherever it is, if they're telling you something that's the opposite, double-check them too. Double-check them too. Why? Because you'll see that what they say has no source. I'll finish with this. Unless you guys have real questions, I'll finish with this. A young guy comes to me recently. I add him to the groups. Anyone that wants to be added to the WhatsApp groups should send a text message to 1-917-468-2324. You'll get a daily update of what we're doing as far as shiurim, plus short clips and the shiurim that we actually have, the links, and so on.

1:09:27We have a bunch of WhatsApp groups every day. There's new information that goes in there. And Baruch Hashem, they help a lot of people. Now, people send me messages every day to join these WhatsApp groups. We send them a questionnaire to make sure they're not Christian missionaries. After they answer the questions in an acceptable way, we add them to the groups. If they do not answer in an acceptable way, they go on a block list. And there's Baruch Hashem, some of both. Point is that it's a way for a person to have access to Torah constantly. Now, somebody sent me a message recently, and he answered the questions, and one of the questions is, are you Jewish? Or are you Muslim, or are you Christian? And yes, we are particular. We don't deny it, we are particular. Why? We cater to Jews, or to people that want to be Jews, or people that love Jews. If you fit one of those descriptions, we'll help you. But if you're not Jewish, you don't want to be Jewish, and you don't like Jews, we don't want you. Now, liking Jews doesn't mean that you have an Israeli flag in your house and you want to missionize them to Christianity. Liking Jews means you want to help Jews become more religious Jews. That's what liking Jews means.

1:10:53Now, if somebody is that, good. If not, no good. Somebody sent me a message some time ago and said, "I want to join the group," and I told them, "No problem." I added them to the group after they answered the questions, and I told them, "Listen, if you have any issues, any personal stuff, you can always send me a personal text." I try to answer whenever I can. Sometimes I answer right away, because I'm right in front of the screen, and sometimes it takes me a day or two, because I have 400 messages before you. But either way, at some point, I answer. Anyway, the guy and I start talking for a little while, and eventually he tells me that, you know, I'm trying to help my mom keep Shabbat, and she needs a little guidance and so on. It just makes me... makes me concerned about how they're going to treat my conversion, my mom's conversion. I said, wait, hold on a second. I thought he was Jewish. I said, what do you mean your mom's conversion? Oh, she converted. I said, when did she convert? A long time ago. Before he was a baby, before he was born or something like that. So I said, was it Conservative or Reform? He said, no, no, it was Orthodox.

1:12:18Orthodox conversion. I said, wait, so can you show me the certificate? He showed me a certificate. Orthodox conversion by an Orthodox rabbi not recognized by the State of Israel, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's bad. It's just not recognized. If they go take that to two Edot, he said they'll just use it as toilet paper. But, you know, as far as being a Jew or not, halacha actually follows the law, at least on the surface of things. Said, "Okay, so how long hasn't your mom been keeping Shabbat?" He replied, "Just started in the last year. She got off the derech the last couple of years. I mean, this conversion is 25 years ago, so..." I asked, "What, she stopped keeping in the last few years?" And he drops a bomb on me. He says, "No, she never kept Shabbat. She never kept mitzvot." So now I have to drop a bomb on him. And I don't like to drop bombs that hurt people's feelings. I really don't. I like scaring people because that wakes them up usually. But hurting their feelings, I don't like. Why? It's not fun. But unfortunately, somebody has to do it. Somebody has to do the dirty work. And I had to let this guy know, as nice as he is, as interested as he is,

1:13:44As wonderful as he is, he has to put his plans on making Aliyah to Eretz Yisrael on hold. Why? You're not Jewish. What do you mean? I've been Jewish my whole life. In your mind, you're Jewish. If the woman did not comply with the conversion rules, you are not Jewish. What are the conversion rules? At the time of conversion, you're not obligated to know all the laws. Everybody knows you're not going to know them all, but you're obligated to accept all the ones you do know. If you know that you have to keep Shabbat, you have to keep modesty, you have to keep kosher, you have to keep such and such, and you simply don't want to do it, Guess what? Your conversion is null and void. It’s worth zero, nothing. What about the son? No, it’s nice, non-Jewish son. No, but he thinks he’s Jewish. Okay, so a lot of people think things. I have a few people that think they’re Mashiach every week. Does that mean they’re Mashiach? I have some guys that think they're girls, and some girls think they're guys.

1:14:59One guy told me that he thinks he's a dolphin. Does it mean he's a dolphin? No, people think stuff. People think stuff, it doesn't mean anything. But that's the reality. That's the reality. We live in a world today where Judaism is under attack. It's under attack by Christianity. It's under attack even by Judaism itself. Self-hating Jews and fake Jews, fake religious Jews, Destroying the religion. Now what made it all worse is that the current rabbi—not the conversion rabbi, I don't know, maybe he's in Gehenom already, I'm not really sure where he is—but some new rabbi told him, "No, no, you're Jewish." He tells the guy he's Jewish. I told him, "Listen, I gave him both as I made him an eight- or nine-minute recording, gave him a bunch of halachot and sources, and..."

1:16:01Okay, either this rabbi who is telling you that you're Jewish is just an idiot. He doesn't know anything, and he just calls himself a rabbi because he likes the title—just like some people like to, you know, put PhD after their name even though they never went to school because they like people to think that they're PhDs. Either he's that, or he's a liar and... And he wants your money. He wants you to pretty much feel good about yourself. So, there's no shortcut to Judaism. There's no shortcut to teshuva. I really, really hope that the last few months you guys are taking it to heart and today you're going to take it to the next level. Whatever you're doing, do more. Whatever you're doing, you took on some more modesty, do more. You took on Shabbat, do more. You took on a little learning, do more. Why? You're not going to have that much more time to fiddle around and beat around the bush and play it safe. Half secular, half religious. Forget about what your parents are doing. I don't care whether they're religious or they're not religious. It doesn't make a difference. My grandfather's also Avraham Avinu. It's not going to help me in Shamayim.

1:17:21Everybody's grandparents are tzaddikim. It's not gonna help you in Shamayim. The only thing that's gonna help you is what you're gonna do in your life. Everybody's gonna take their life into their own hands. The situation is getting disgusting. Literally, you're seeing rabbis turning upside down, the goyim turning upside up, and the whole world is boiling. The explosion's gonna come. I don't know if it's gonna be a month from now, it's gonna be a year from now, whenever it's gonna be. But it's not gonna get better, I promise you that. We're on the verge of a major recession, to the point of a Great Depression as far as the economy. So all these people that are pretending to be rich, they're just on borrowed time. Everybody that has money is on borrowed time. Everybody's gonna lose money. The next recession that happens is gonna make the one that I experienced in 2007 look like child's play. Everything's gonna explode. The market's gonna explode, the currency is gonna explode. It's also gonna be a major war. Iran already started shooting and getting the energy side. For anyone that's sleeping under a rock, the war already started. The economic war also started. China and America are not best friends right now. This is not a game of chicken. This is Gog u'Magog in the making. So...

1:18:48It's time everybody wakes up. You don't want to wake up? I only ask you one thing. Don't say you weren't told. Don't go up to Shamayim and when they ask you, how come you didn't do this, this, and that? How come you didn't learn Torah every day? How come you didn't pay attention to Mussar? How come you were still playing with the phone on Shabbat? How come, how come, how come? Don't say, oh I didn't know. Because then you get more punished. Why? Because you did know. You were told. So please, please, I beg you. We literally have spent every penny just to help you guys discover the truth. One person used her entire life savings just to get you guys to come. We're begging, borrowing, and stealing every week just to get people to donate, to get you guys to do teshuva. The guys here, the girls here, and the people online that are watching it. Baruch Hashem, there are thousands watching it online. We're doing everything possible to get you guys to do teshuva. It really would be a shame for people that watch the shiur every week, once a week, or three times a week, and still don't know how to dress modestly by the time the Mashiach comes.

1:20:04It really would be sad to have somebody that watched the shiurim and still doesn't know that he's supposed to keep Shabbat once the Mashiach comes. It would be sad. Why? Because then it's a double failure. So please, take this stuff seriously. You want to double-check everything we said? Double-check, no problem. You have questions, ask questions. That's why we have the shiur. But don't continue beating around the bush and just playing around, living a half-secular, half-religious life. Like some people who send me messages that I have to delete right away. Why? Because they have a picture, and the picture is of a woman who is not modest. So, I'm sorry, I cannot answer a message until you wear appropriate clothes, or remove the picture. People watch the shiur twice, three times a week. Still, I'd say modesty at least once every shiur, Shabbat at least once every shiur. There are some people watching this shiur right now who still don't know how to dress modestly, still think it's okay to put pictures on the internet wearing tank tops, and still do a lot of things on Shabbat that you're not allowed to do.

1:21:23some reason people think that I have this, uh, this mind that creates rules just to put a burden on people. Double check, double check everything. I promise you it's all true. Take it seriously, do teshuva, and I promise you that by you doing teshuva, not only are you going to be rewarding yourself in this world, but you'll see that eventually all of the hurdles, all of the obstacles that you had, even if it was your own family that told you "Don't do teshuva," but you went against them and you did teshuva. Eventually, that very same family is going to ask you for a blessing. They're going to ask you, "What's your secret? How did you stay so strong and get so close to HaKadosh Baruch Hu while the rest of us are getting further?" And they're going to ask you for help. Please take it seriously. If you have questions, I'll answer one or two, but otherwise, I have to go. Anything? Yes?

1:22:28Keep coming to the shiurim, you'll find out. Keep coming to the shiurim. Teshuva is something you do every day. During the month of Elul, you pick it up a notch, which is what I just discussed with you guys now. Whatever you're doing, do more. I don't know what you all do, but whatever you're doing, you need to do more. How do I know? You're still alive. If you're still alive, there's a lot more to do. If you were perfect, you'd already be with Moshe Rabbeinu in Olam Haba. I have to do more, you have to do more, everybody has to do more. Part of the reason is because we have to fix ourselves, and the other part is because we have to make up for all of these other sinners in the world who are not doing anything. We have to help them. We have to increase the kedushah in the world. Anything else? Can I have a bunch of them? You can just type my name on YouTube, Yaron Reuven Elul, and you'll find five lectures about it. But... Every year we bring new stuff. So, b'ezrat Hashem, we'll talk more in detail about it at that time. Yes? Last time when we spoke about the converts, the big converts, David HaMelech and Rabbi Akiva, what reason does the Malach HaMavet have to be able to hold certain souls hostage? Because they have a lot of potential. They have a lot of potential. They have to have just as much resistance.

1:23:53The more potential, the more negativity it has to get it to the other side. So each one that became a big tzaddik also could have become Hitler. Each one that was Hitler could have also become a big tzaddik. I'm sorry, I'm just in too much pain. I can't continue. But I hope you take everything that I said seriously. Amen ve'Amen.