Shiur #116 Dear Jews, It's Time To Make Our Jewish Children & Christian Friends SEE The Truth!

0:01Thank you for coming, Baruch Hashem. A lot of good news happening. We also thank Torah Anytime for continuing to publicize the shiurim. Baruch Hashem, last week they put our main shiur, our personal story, on the main website, on the homepage. It's been... Thank you for coming, Baruch Hashem. A lot of good news happening. We also thank Torah Anytime for continuing to publicize the shiurim. Baruch Hashem, last week they put our main shiur, our personal story, on the main website, on the homepage. It's been...

1:15a sea of people watching it, Baruch Hashem, sending emails, sending text messages, and everybody's connecting to it in a different way. You know, some people, because they have health issues. So... When you go to a doctor, sometimes you're going to get a doctor that has good bedside manner, where he can relate to you, he can understand you, he has patience with you. But in today's world, it's a very, very rare commodity. To find a doctor with good bedside manner, where he has patience, and he actually cares about the patient, and he can understand that the patient is going through serious pain, even though you can't really see pain. It's tough. It's tough to find. I could tell you, from over 50 doctors that I went to, to try to diagnose the problem that I had, maybe two had good bedside manner.

2:17Two, yeah, one, two, Balti and Friedlander, yeah, two. Two, that's two I can remember. One guy I remember from Cornell University, Cornell Hospital, the rasha didn't even want to, he gave up on my case, and when I came up to his office one of the days that I had pain, he was right in front of me, like I was here, and he's right there where Sonny is, and he wouldn't talk to me. He would talk to his secretary and tell him, "I'm busy." He refused to talk to me. I'm screaming in pain, suffering, miserable. And the guy refused to talk to me. Refused to talk to me. He says, "No, no, tell him I'm not available." I told him, "I can hear you. I'm right here." He refused to talk to me. so, unfortunately, bedside manner has become very, very rare. One of the reasons for it is because, number one, pain is not something you can see. It's not something you can see. You can see if someone's bleeding, you assume that he has some type of pain, but most pain, most serious pain, doesn't have blood—at least not one that's coming out of the body. Uh... so

3:35Doctors have a hard time relating to it unless they went through it themselves. The second thing is that part of the unfortunate aspect of getting older in a career and essentially even becoming a doctor is to become immune to pain. Because if every single doctor felt every single patient's pain, their career would be much more difficult. Because it's trauma. Every time you see a patient suffering, screaming, yelling, you know, all of these things, it's very, very difficult. But there's actually a story I read a few months ago in the Zman magazine. There's actually a doctor somewhere in the U.S., I think. I'm not really sure where, but I forget. There's a doctor. I think this is maybe like... Four months ago, I read a story about a doctor who has a very unusual condition. This doctor has a condition where he feels everything, including the pain of anyone that he touches. If he touches you, he feels your pain, which makes him a remarkably good doctor. Sometimes you try to explain to a doctor where it hurts, and they can't fully understand it.

4:55But now if he touches you, it's like one of these science fiction movies. It's a very tough career when you feel the pain. But nonetheless, one of the things that people relate to is the fact that you go through suffering. As Jeremiah says in the third chapter, the beginning of the third chapter of the book of Eicha, that we read for Tisha B'Av, that I have seen pain and suffering. I'm the man that has seen pain and suffering. Meaning that, why is he starting the book like this? If I was a guy that's just coming here to tell you stories of what I heard and what someone else heard that I heard from him, then it's a story. But if I'm telling you what I actually saw, then it's an experience. then it's something different. Then you're going to listen to me with a little bit more attention, a different ear. So, Baruch Hashem, a lot of people are connecting to the part that we went through, the pain, and also, obviously, the healing, which we talked about a couple of weeks ago, how Baruch Hashem, Hashem miraculously has healed us without any doctors. In fact, it got to a point where the doctors were making the situation worse.

6:15So, when Hashem wants to heal you, He says it in our tefillah. Every day, you read it. It's actually a portion in the Torah, the book of Exodus. But I like to use the Siddur as a source, because more people know the Siddur than they know the Torah itself. After Aleinu L'shabeach, someone that wants segulah or refuah shlemah, not only should do obviously all the prayers that they possibly can, but at the end of Shacharit, after Aleinu L'shabeach, it says a few verses from the Torah. Vayomer im shamo'a tishma lekol Adonai Elohecha, v'hayashar be'enav ta'aseh, v'ha'azanta lemitzvotav, v'shamarta kol chukav. Kol ha'machalah asher samti b'Mitzrayim lo asim alecha, ki ani Adonai rofecha.

7:15says, if, as Hashem said with His powerful voice, if you do what is right in the eyes of Hashem, not in our eyes, not in this lowly generation's eyes, but in the eyes of Hashem, whatever Hashem's opinion is, and you actually comply with His commandments, not only hear them but actually do them, implement them in your life, and observe all of His laws—the ones you understand, the ones you don't understand—it doesn't make a difference. Why do we do all of the mitzvot? What's the one reason that all mitzvot have in common? Why do we do it? Hashem said so. That's the real reason. That's the actual real reason why we do every single mitzvah. Whether it's the parah adumah that no one understands, even Shlomo HaMelech, the wisest man of all time, or the tefillin, or eating kosher, or Kriyat Shema, or any mitzvah. 613 mitzvot, thousands or hundreds of halachot. Every single one of them has one reason.

8:21Hashem said so. That's the real reason. But Hashem is merciful, and He knows that He created an Am K'sheh Oref, a very stubborn nation that gets more and more stubborn with the generations, that needs a little bit more time, a little bit more taste, a little bit more flavor, a little more reasoning of why we do everything. So, He gave us many, many benefits for doing all of the mitzvot. And in general, the more you learn about a mitzvah, the more you start doing it, the more you see the benefit. But without doing the mitzvah, you're never going to see the benefit. I could tell you that kosher food is healthier, but unless you start eating kosher food on a regular basis, you're not going to feel it. I could tell you that laying tefillin every single day can change your life, can connect you to Hashem in an amazing way right first thing in the morning. You won't understand it or even know what I'm talking about until you actually start doing it for a while. So the mitzvot, just like anything else in life, you're only really going to see the full impact once you actually implement them into your life. Now for those of us that are still waiting to understand the entire Torah, before we do it, it's never going to happen. until you actually start doing it for a while. So the mitzvot, just like anything else in life, you're only really going to see the full impact once you actually implement them into your life. Now, for those of us who are still waiting to understand the entire Torah before we do it, it's never going to happen.

9:34It's never going to happen. Why? Because first of all, there's no way to understand the entire Torah. And second of all, the overwhelming majority of the Torah, you can only understand once you start implementing it. Because I can tell you feelings that I have for doing whatever I do, but to you it means nothing if you don't do it. I could tell you about how Hashem makes miracles for people that do kiruv. And to you, it may sound like a nice story, but what's the proof? So, b'ezrat Hashem, if you remind me, I'll tell you a few current miracles that are happening. To some people, because we made a clip of one of the shiurim, we talked about how if anyone wants miracles, they should do kiruv. And people are asking me, really, is this serious? It really, really happens. So I'll give you guys some serious miracles that have been happening just in the last few days. So anyway, to finish this point, Hashem says, once you listen to my mitzvot, you learn them, you implement them, you follow my laws, then all of the sicknesses, all of the diseases, kol ha-machala, every disease, 83 diseases,

10:49He put on Mitzrayim. How do we know? I don't know it's 83. Why not 84 or 82 or 16 or 17? Machala, the numerical value, the gematria of machala is 83. In Gemara, it says that's how many diseases, and that's the source. That's how we know the numbers. So He put 83 different types of diseases on the Egyptians. And those diseases I'm not going to put on you. So all those 83, I'm not going to put on you. Why? He says it. I am God, your healer. Which means, if we want to plead with Hashem before it's too late, We want Him to heal us. We want Him to take away the cancer. We want Him to take away the pain. We want Him to take away anything. All we have to do is plead with Him and give Him a reason. Just praying by itself is not enough. We have to do more than that, as the prayer says and as the Torah says.

12:06and the more you believe in what Hashem said, as far as actually knowing for sure Hashem really is your healer, the fewer doctors you're going to see in your life. And that's why you see, for example, even though you're allowed to go to a doctor, there's no problem with going to a doctor, You see some of the really big tzaddikim in general don't go to doctors unless it's a 100% emergency. Like, unless there's pretty much you have to do hishtadlut. Like, Chas V'Shalom, a heart attack or something major where pretty much you know that Hashem put you in a situation where you have to go to a doctor. In general, for colds and even things that are more severe than colds, some of the tzaddikim do not go to doctors at all. And it's not necessarily because they don't like doctors or because the Gemara says that the best of the doctors is going to go to Gehinnom. The best of the doctors is going to go to Gehinnom. Why? Why? He's a good doctor. He's helping people. Why is he going to go to Gehinnom? He's scared. It's a good Gemara, no?

13:12He thinks he's going to heal them, not Hashem. Because he thinks he's just as powerful as God. He thinks he's Hashem. No, no, tzaddik. The guy is a tzaddik. The guy goes and, you know, he has good bedside manner. No, he doesn't think he's healing them. He's praying for a lot of patients. Ah, chazak u'baruch. Chazak u'baruch. Every year we go, we're going to have, b'ezrat Hashem, Rosh Hashanah. Judgment Day. On Rosh Hashanah, On Rosh Hashanah, we're going to plead with Hashem to, first of all, keep us in this world so we can do more mitzvot, so we can complete our teshuva. Keep us alive. But obviously, most people are not really worried about their life unless they have a lot of money. So first we pray for money. Then we pray for being alive. You hear people saying, "Listen, if somebody loses money, they say, 'I want to die.'" Meaning that if they don't have money, they don't want to live. It's a very, very miserable life. If your life is just for money, it's very sad.

14:13But nonetheless, on Rosh Hashanah, we pray for money. So the guy that fixes cars is praying for more people to need cars or for their cars to break. The guy that's a lawyer is looking for more people to get in trouble, need more businesses starting, or have disputes or anything like that. The doctor, on the other hand, is looking for more patients. What does that mean? He's praying for more people to be sick. It's not intentional, but in essence, that's really what it is. So the Gemara is not literal, meaning that if he's the best doctor, he's automatically going to go to Gehenom. But it means that someone obviously has to really think about what they're praying for and how they're going to get to parnassah and so on. Go ahead. It says afterwards in Masechet HaMishnah that the doctor goes to hell. But the tabach, the chef, I never understood that. I mean, listen, I think, I don't remember that part, but I think they have to do something with non-kosher food. Yeah, I'm saying, maybe he has to do something with non-kosher food, which we talked about in this parasha. I don't remember the rest of the Gemara.

15:28But anyway, so to finalize that point, we have the sickness, Baruch Hashem. The older you get, the more you see in life. You meet people, you see people, you see that sickness is unfortunately higher than it's ever been. The cancer rates in our generation are the highest they've ever been. Nothing is coincidence, but if you look at the actual rates, the number one cancers in the bodies of men and women are the sex organs. Number one cancers. Out of all the cancers you could possibly get, Chas V'Shalom, in your body, the number one cancers are in the sex organs of both males and females. Number one crimes we have against Hashem that all of us during Yom Kippur are going to repent for, there's a whole prayer. It's a whole prayer right before the end of Yom Kippur. You do a whole prayer asking Hashem for forgiveness. The entire prayer is asking for forgiveness for sex crimes. The entire prayer.

16:32...so obviously this is not a, uh, new problem. But nonetheless, we're making matters worse when we're walking on the streets not modestly. People go to places that are not modest, acting not modestly. Things get worse and worse, and unless we start educating the public about what's the real truth about... Sex in Judaism, wasting seed, modesty, behavior in general, intimacy in marriage, intimacy outside of marriage—all of these things—unless we tell people the tachlis, the actual real truth, people will continuously get worse, and Hashem, the diseases will continue increasing. So it's not fair not to tell people. But at the same token, people also want to learn. if you tell people something, sometimes I say something in a lecture, and people attack you. Attack you right away. One time I mentioned something about wigs. In one of the lectures, this lady wrote me maybe 25 different comments on how much of an idiot she thinks I am. Okay, I'm an idiot, thank you, but what I said is still true. It's not like I made it up. So people attack you. They don't like what they hear, they attack you.

17:47Especially with issues when it comes to sex, when it comes to modesty, things of that nature. But nonetheless, the experience gives a lot of people hope. that just because you're sick and you feel hopeless, it doesn't actually mean that you're hopeless. Because Hashem says, "I am Hashem your healer," He really meant it. Meaning, if you give Him a reason to heal you, He'll heal you. It doesn't matter if it's natural or not natural. To you, it may not be natural. To this lowly world, to humankind, it may not be natural for cancer to heal, for pain to heal, for all these different types of things to heal. But to Hashem, It's everyday business. It's good to clean the sins, the sicknesses. The only way to give Hashem a reason is by obviously repenting, by obviously doing teshuvah. Hashem gave you that sickness for a reason. Not all sicknesses are for the same reason. Obviously, there's no one-size-fits-all. Some people get it because of sins, some people get it because of a previous life,

18:52I don't know, I don't pretend to be an angel or God or anything remotely close to anything. All I know is what I read. And based on Torah, everything has a reason. There's no such thing as suffering without sin. No such thing. So somebody would ask, wait, so some big tzaddik, that's, let's say, suffering and in pain. Does that mean that he sinned? It may possibly mean that he sinned in a previous life. It may possibly mean that he actually sinned in this life, but Hashem is judging him with minuscule things that, for the rest of us, are not really a sin. Or it may be that he's actually bringing it on himself. intentionally, which a lot of tzaddikim do in order to take kaparat avonot of the generation. So, for example, there's a Gemara about Rabbi Eliezer ben Rabbi Shimon, the son of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, where every night he would go home and he would pray

20:06For his friends to come. Who are his friends? Sickness and infections all over his body. He would pray for the sickness to come all over his body, and the entire night he would suffer from horrendous pain. Horrendous. Horrendous pain. They would have to change the sheets of his bed 60 times a night. that's how much blood would be on the bed until one day his wife sees him, and she sees that he's actually, you know. In the morning, he says, "Okay, my friends, go to where you came from. I have to go learn Torah." He goes, and he learns Torah the whole day. No pain, everything is fine. Then he comes home, and he calls his friends. He calls them his friends, the pain he calls friends. ...and my dear friends, not just my friends. So one day, his wife sees that he's bringing the pain to himself. She hears him bring the pain to himself, and she says to him, "I lost all of my inheritance from my father replacing the sheets for you, and you're bringing it to yourself."...

21:29If you don't stop, I'm going to leave you. He says, you can leave. You can leave. So, she leaves. She takes their son and leaves. And then, he continued, and as the Gemara says, that there was actually a ship full of merchants who that landed in the area, that came into the air, came into shore of where Rabbi Eliezer was. Rabbi Elazar, Rabbi Elazar was. And they heard about the tzaddik. And they wanted to go visit him, and they see him, the whole house is a mess, there's blood everywhere. He said, "Listen, we're parking over here, bringing all of our money, get servants, get this, get that, get everything, make sure we take care of this tzaddik." And that's what they did; they started taking care of him. He had servants, he had this, everything was taken care of. A few months later passed, the wife, you know, she misses her husband. She sends her son, telling him, "Listen, if he's willing to stop, I'm willing to come back."

22:43so she sends the son, and the son comes to the house, and he sees the house is full of servants, everything is clean, beautiful. And he sees his father, and his father says, "Tell your mom, tell the Creator, the One that heals all wounds, the miracle worker, He's taking care of me now. But if she wants, I'm more than happy to have her come back." And she came back. Why? Why does he do this? Why does he do this? Chazal says there's two types of learning. There's Torah and there's this Torah. There's only one Torah. So how could it be to say there's Torah and there's this Torah? It says, Torah, you want to learn Torah, you want to fulfill the mitzvah of learning Torah, no problem. Open a Chumash, open Gemara, open Sifrei Tzaddikim, whatever you want to learn, go, enjoy. Learn Torah. But you want to learn real Torah? You want to become a Talmid Chacham? Like a Talmid Chacham, something special? Only with Yesurim. Only with suffering. Not possible to be a Talmid Chacham without suffering. If you want to do it with Ahava, you don't want to suffer. Okay, so you'll know Torah. of learning Torah, no problem. Open a Chumash, open Gemara, open Sifrei Tzaddikim, whatever you want to learn, go, enjoy. Learn Torah. But you want to learn real Torah? You want to become a Talmid Chacham? Like a Talmid Chacham, something special? Only with Yesurim. Only with suffering. Not possible to be a Talmid Chacham without suffering. If you want to do it with Ahava, you don't want to suffer. Okay, so you'll know Torah.

24:11I'm not saying that you have to do it, but it depends on how much you want it. Same thing, okay, I'll give you an example. What's it like? There are two different types of people. There's someone who's successful, and there's someone who's in a different world. And I'm not just talking about the amount of money that they have, but I'm talking about someone who is a game changer. game changer, you have some people that make their money, they make their million dollars a year, they make whatever they make. they're successful, the guy has a nice house, he has a nice car. his kids go to special private schools, right? not a bad life at all. but then you have a guy that's a game changer. you have a guy that's inventing something no one even thought about. Or inventing something that everyone thought would be good, but no one actually had the guts to do it. Doing something that pretty much no one else is willing to do, and when he succeeds, he creates an industry. You can call anyone. You can say it's Steve Jobs who did it.

25:23Even though he was an atheist most of his life and before he died, he actually wrote a letter that he realized that he was wrong. Or you could say it's Zuckerberg who built Facebook, even though some people say he stole the idea and he's actually an anti-Israel person now. Still, it doesn't exclude, it doesn't discount his genius, his secular genius, of being an innovator. You could say it's the guy from Tesla. What's his name? Elon Musk. Elon Musk. They say it's Warren Buffett. All of these business people, they were game changers. Walt Disney. All of these people. They were willing to do something no one else was willing to do. So there's success in the success. So now, you could either be basic. Average guy, you make your money, you do what you gotta do. Fine. But if somebody told you, listen, you have an opportunity to be bigger than the Rothschild lineage. You know, if Rothschild was still alive today, he'd have more money than all the Forbes 500 combined. All of them combined, he would have it.

26:48Bill Gates would be one of his employees. I'm serious. Trillions and trillions of dollars he had relative to today's money. So, someone tells you, listen, you can either be, you know, decent, or something that they're going to write about you 500 years later. When it comes to money, 9 out of 10 guys, what do they do? They go to work to be the next big guy. No one goes to work saying, "I just want to be average. I want to be an average guy with an average living, an average house, and an average..." Most people don't. Even if they say it, they don't really mean it. Why? Because they still play the lotto. They still play the lotto. Why do they play the lotto? Because they want to be one of these guys that you see in a movie about him. "Oh, if I had all this money, if I had $500 million, then I would do this, and I would do this, and I would do this. I would change the world," and everybody thinks they can change the world.

27:49In reality, most of them declare bankruptcy within a few years. But the point is that when it comes to money, when it comes to material, everyone wants everything. The Gemara says, you give someone 100, he wants 200. You give him 200, he wants 400. You give him 400, he wants 800. Meaning, the more someone has material, the more he feels that he's missing. So who's poorer, the guy that has $10 or the guy that has a million dollars? Based on their feeling, the guy that has $10, he's only missing $10. The guy that has a million dollars, he feels like he's missing a million dollars. So he feels poorer than the guy that has $10. That's how it is. But when it comes to Kedusha, when it comes to holiness and connection to Hashem, you tell a guy, listen, the only way you're going to become a Talmid Chacham, like a true Talmid Chacham, someone that's special, someone that's a Gaon, is through Yisurim. You have to have suffering. Not everyone's willing to sign up. Not everyone's willing to sign up. It's not for everyone. Everyone can,

29:04But not everyone's willing to do it. Just like not everyone's willing to do what the guy from Elon Musk did, or whatever, any of these other people did. So, as far as the Gemara says, there are three things you can get only with self-sacrifice, with Mesirut Nefesh. One is Torah, two is Olam Haba, and three is Eretz Yisrael. So, In the next world, we understand why you have to do all these things. You have to fight the horrendous generation we live in, full of prostitution, dishonesty, stealing, and everything else that's corrupt. Honestly, I think, I say this to my cousin all the time, and he never tells me I'm wrong. I honestly think if Moshe Rabbeinu came to this generation, he'd think he's in Gehinnom. I'm not joking. Seriously, if you actually start paying attention to the world around us, I try not to, but it's unfortunately part of reality. It's so far from the source. You read the book, you look at the world, it's like, it doesn't even look alike. This is what we're supposed to be. This is what we are. Hashem, you see how much mercy Hashem has for actually keeping this world around.

30:24But nonetheless, you want to get Olam HaBa? You have to fight all of it. You have to fight your yetzer hara. And it says in Mishnah Pirkei Avot, here, actually, Eizehu gibor, who is a hero, who is strong, one who subdues his personal evil inclination. Ze shekoveshet et yitzro. So, this is Mishnah Pirkei Avot, Chapter 4, Mishnah 1. So here we see that in our minds we think someone that's a gibor, someone that's strong, maybe someone that has muscles, someone that's really, really smart, someone that has political connections, you know, like one of these politicians that whoever says anything against them, somehow that person dies a week later. You know, things like that. That's how it happens. That's how the world is run. You guys are not living in a box, are you? You see people are showing up dead left and right. So people think that's a hero. Wow, look, someone says something against this guy or this girl or this one or this one. Six months later, the guy is dead. No one knows what happened.

31:43All of a sudden, he had a mysterious accident. Unexplained. And no one wants to investigate. They're scared of dying too. Okay, I've said those. People think, wow, that's powerful. Like this moron, Soros, recently said, "I am God." Okay. So he thinks he's powerful. Let's see the next time he's constipated if he still thinks that. I'm serious. I'm not saying, let's say he gets cancer or loses money. No, no, no. The simplest, simplest problem. The tiniest thing. Let's see, who's God? This happened before. Titus. Titus came and ransacked the Beit HaMikdash. Took his sword, ripped the part that separates the Kodesh from the Kodesh HaKodashim. Hashem made a miracle that there was blood that came out of it. So he's like, "Ah, see, I killed their God." And then he took a Sefer Torah, he put it on the floor, and he actually brought a prostitute and he had his relations with her on the cloth inside the Kodesh HaKodashim, completely desecrating the most holy place. ripped the parochet that separates the Kodesh from the Kodesh HaKodashim. Hashem made a miracle that there was blood that came out of it. So he's like, "Ah, see, I killed their God." And then he took a Sefer Torah, he put it on the floor, and he actually brought a prostitute and he had relations with her on the cloth inside the Kodesh HaKodashim, completely desecrating the most

33:07evil, horrendous, anti-God action you can possibly do. He saw blood, he thinks, I beat it. I beat God. The Gemara in Masechet Avodah Zarah asks, why does Hashem let people do Avodah Zarah? If He hates it so much, which He talks about in this week's parashah, which we will start in the next hour or so, why does Hashem let These idol worshippers live b'chalal, kill them. Someone worships an idol, kill him on the spot. The Gemara says, if every single person that does Avodah Zarah would die, there would be no free choice. He's like, yeah, but okay, fine, don't take the free choice, but at least destroy the Avodah Zarah. Destroy the Avodah Zarah. So the Gemara responds, why is it that every time someone uses something for stupidity, Hashem has to destroy the world for it? So someone worships a stone, so Hashem has to destroy all the stones? There's not going to be any more stones anymore? So then you're going to say, someone worships the sun or the moon. So Hashem has to destroy the sun and the moon as well?

34:29Such good angels, they work so hard. He has to destroy them because some moron is worshipping them. Or morons, millions of them. So then he's going to have to destroy the world too. Why does He have to destroy the world? Because people worship people too. So then He has to destroy mankind. Well, He has to destroy every man now. And unfortunately, the idol worship... is across all religions, including our own. In India, we know that they have all forms of idols. They have over 80,000 different cults and idol worships, whether it's a cow or a tree they worship or different strange animals or motorcycles or rats. There's all types of idol worship. Anyone that wants, I could show you a bunch of pictures that Rav Vimesh sends me of different types of idol worship that they have over there. It's unbelievable how stupid people are. It's very much unbelievable. They have some idol worship holiday coming up soon where they worship this idol where half of his body is an elephant and the other half is a human. And they spend billions of dollars on this thing.

35:45Billions of dollars on this stupidity. To them, obviously, this is their life. But it's the craziest thing. Anyone that's outside of the garbage can see how this is garbage. So over there, we know. In Christianity, we also know, which we're also going to talk about. Unfortunately, their New Testament turned their guy, "JC," into an idol. either by splitting God into three, or by saying that the guy himself is God, or the son of God, or this God, or some version of God. And then obviously, after a couple of thousand years of stupidity, even some of the Christians realized this. Okay, we can't really say he's God. So what did they do? No, no, no, he's the Mashiach. Where is it written he's Mashiach? Where? It doesn't say that. It says he's God in the book. In the book, it says that he came through, pretty much, Hashem pretty much had relations, Hashem yerachem. They're saying that God had relations with his mom, and that's how he came to the world, and this God is three. It doesn't say he's the Mashiach in the book. They made it in these recent generations, they say he's the Mashiach. Why? Because they realize that the argument that they have in this stupid book is nonsense. No one, come on, people finally woke up. So they created a new thing.

37:09Because they fooled people for 2,000 years. We need another 2,000 years. That's why the Church is the most profitable and richest entity in the world. Because they've been fooling people for 2,000 years who don't want to investigate for themselves. So we have idol worship over there. Then you have, you know, Catholicism, Christianity, it's all the same. Messianic, which call themselves Messianic Judaism. It's another version of Christianity. It has nothing to do with Judaism. Jews for Jesus. Also, it's 100% Christianity just with talitot. They put a talit on and they worship idols and they call themselves Jews. Stupidity. No, some of them may be Jews as far as by birth, but they're idol worshipping. Then you have a... People from Islam, which we'll also talk about in today's parasha, this week's parasha, who have turned, you know, who've made some serious mistakes, turning their religion into something that's 100% against Hashem, saying that they are obligated to kill Jews.

38:17Because Jews have sinned against Hashem, they have become the new Sanhedrin. They've become the new judges, and they're taking it into their hands to go kill Jews. That's why in the book of Daniel, the prophet Daniel, which they believe in also, it says that in the end of times when he interpreted the dream for Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar was a rasha, but Hashem gave him prophecy. Hashem gave him a dream to see the end of the world. And he actually also told them that because of the kavod that he gave Hashem with the story that I'll tell you in a second, no king will ever be more powerful than Nebuchadnezzar until the Mashiach comes. See, the one who destroyed the Beit HaMikdash? Yes. So what's the story? It's a good story, right? It has to be a good story why this guy gets it, right? So this is what Chazal says. So...

39:18Nebuchadnezzar wasn't exactly born rich. He was actually born very, very poor. And he was also friends with Jeremiah the prophet. Jeremiah—Yirmiyahu, the Book of Yirmiyahu—he also wrote. He saw the Beit HaMikdash. They were friends when they were little kids. Nebuchadnezzar said to Jeremiah, "I wish God gave me the power so I could destroy the Beit HaMikdash." So Jeremiah saw in his prophecy that it's actually the moment of fortune for Nebuchadnezzar, meaning that Hashem is listening to his words and He's going to fulfill whatever he says. He's going to fulfill what he says. So Jeremiah, in his wisdom, said, "Okay, okay, listen." At least don't kill the holy people. "No, I'm going to kill them." At least don't destroy this. "No, I'm going to destroy it." So, in the end, he asked him for a few things. At least don't do this. At least don't do this. Nebuchadnezzar says, "No, I'm going to destroy everything." He says, "Okay, so give me something. It's little kids. Give me something," he says, "because we're friends. I'm a Jew. You're going to destroy my house."

40:43And Nebuchadnezzar thinks it's imaginary. But Yirmiyahu knows it's real. It's going to happen. So he said, okay, whoever can get out of the city the night before, I'll let them live. I'll let them live. And the story goes where Hashem actually did not want the people to live. He wanted people to die, so he actually made it so that Yirmiyahu had to leave town a few days before the Beit HaMikdash was attacked. So when he came back, he saw that there was already smoke and it was already too late to save people. So anyway, Nebuchadnezzar later on becomes a scribe. Scribe for the king. Writes his letters and so on. And the king hears of a miracle that happened in the Beit HaMikdash. And he says, "Come scribe, write a letter for me. I want you to write three sentences. Tell the Jewish king, which I believe was Chizkiyahu, but I’m not 100% sure, so don't quote me. Tell the Jewish king that I said, Shalom, you know, hello."

42:06to his people, hello, and to his God, hello. He's showing some respect because this is what he writes. He puts it in the envelope, gives it to the mailman, and then the scribe, Nevuchadnetzar, comes back and he says, "Your highness, this God of theirs, you really believe in Him?" "Sure, of course, what do you mean? You know what happened in Egypt?" You know, all the miracles that have happened, they have Beit HaMikdash, they have miracles, of course. He goes, so why are you disrespecting it so much? Disrespecting it? How can you say that? He goes, I don't know, if you really believe in their God, why are you putting their God last on the letter? He goes, oh, you're a smart scribe, go get it, go chase him. Chase the mailman to go get it. So Nevuchadnetzar started running, And the mailman was three steps outside of the castle. Three steps outside of the door of the castle. So he caught him three steps outside of the castle and he took the letter and he changed it. For that respect, for that kavod that he gave Hashem, Hashem decreed

43:27That no king will be more powerful than Nebuchadnezzar until Mashiach comes. And for that respect, for that honor that he got, until this day, each one of you is trying to undo it without even knowing. When are you trying to undo it? Every day you do Tefillat Shemoneh Esrei, you take three steps back. That's why you take three steps back. You take three steps back, we're trying to undo what Nebuchadnezzar did. We're trying to undo it. We're taking three steps back without even realizing the significance. Have no idea what we're doing in our whole life. Now we know. Now we know. Very sick. He was also king of the animals. He was speaking to the animals. He didn't have a horse. He had a lion. He rode a lion. But Hashem eventually punished him and made him into a... For a few years he became crazy. Crazy.

44:29became crazy, became part of the animals. He ran away from the kingdom, started hanging out in the jungle with the animals. Thought he was an animal, went crazy. And then he came back eventually. But anyway, how did we even get to this story? It's a good story though. So anyway, so you have a... Jeremiah tells us a lot of different secrets about what happened in those times. It's amazing. Going back to the story, this Wall Street to the Western Wall stuff, some people are connecting to it because they like the hope that Hashem is going to give us. Some people like the money part. You go from nothing to something, then you lose, but you're still okay. Shows that money really isn't everything. And even people who want to succeed in life, they connect to it also. Some people have the issue of intermarriage, and they see that there is obviously a reward and punishment, and the world is really serious. You know, Hashem is really serious about it. Whether someone is intermarried already or someone is going to be intermarried and didn't care until now.

45:45All of that stuff adds up. People connect to that part. And, Baruch Hashem, each person has taken a different part of the story and applied it to themselves. But I think the part that most people connect to the most is the lesson learned from all of it, which is, again, there is a benefit to suffering. This is one of the most difficult lessons for people to understand today. Most people think that they came to this world to hang out, to enjoy, to relax, go to the beach maybe, go to Cancun, a couple of vacations a year, build up their IRA account so they have money for retirement, maybe have a drink with a few friends once a week, relax. That's what most people think they came to the world to do.

46:48So when they don't have that, over an extended period of time, because they're not teenagers anymore, and once you grow up, you start having bills. You have to pay the rent, and it's always on time, the rent. The rent, the bill comes, always on time. The electricity, always on time. It's not like us, we're late to work every day. The bills come on time. The phone bill, same day every month. Clockwork, nothing—you don't even have to ask it to come on time; it comes. Sometimes they even send it early. My electric bill, they send it to me three weeks before I have to pay it. Three weeks! Without Torah, without Hashem, you already get stressed. I already have to come up with this money. Wow, just three weeks from now, I'm gonna have to come up with this money. I don't go to work for it, so we're given a paycheck. I Give it to you. Give it to you three weeks in advance just to think about it for three weeks. Get stressed out. How are you going to get this money? So when we live in this world, we live in a material world, we realize that all the dreams that we had when we were teenagers are not realistic. You can't go out and hang out with your friends in the bar every week if you want to have a good marriage because your wife needs you home to help her with the kids. You can't go and hang out with your friends at the bar every

48:16if you actually want to have a real career, if you want to have a relationship with your kids, if you want to actually have at least a chance at a successful future, real life hits. You get busy. In the little bit of time you have, you want to spend it with your loved ones. So you realize that all those dreams you had when you were a teenager of going on 16 vacations a year, you can't really do in real life. So then you start getting upset. What's the point of life then? If I can't go on 50 vacations a year, if I can't go to Ibiza or Australia or some other parade or drug party in the world, if I can't do that every weekend, what's the point of life? So reality hits you right in the face just when you have started your life. On top of that, you have a bunch of people that grow up thinking that life is supposed to be easy, just like their parents treated them. Every time they cried, parents gave them something. They went and played some type of competition in junior high school, they always got a trophy. Eighty people ran in a marathon, everyone got a trophy. No last place, everyone's first place, everyone's a winner.

49:39They played soccer; they got first place, but so did every single other team. Everyone got a trophy. No one loses, ever. They teach people this mentality that you're always supposed to get something, that you're always a winner just for participating, which is 100% developing the biggest losers we've had since creation. There’s one winner. Everyone else is not a winner. There’s no such thing as everyone wins. No such thing. Only with Hashem. You do what you want, you won. He can win and you can win. But as far as in the material world, there's no way. You don't hear, "listen, both of these guys got the gold medal for the same race." Why? Why in the Olympics do two people not get the gold medal? Because two people can't win. There's first place, there's second place, there's third place, and there's the rest of the losers. They're going to train for the next few years to hopefully be a winner next time. I'm not saying "losers" to insult them, but that's really what they are. They know that they are.

50:39Not insulting them like it wasn't worth it for them to do anything. Just, they lost. No, they weren't talented enough. The other guy was more talented. He wanted it more. Whatever the case may be. The point is, he's the winner. Everyone else is not. Even the second-place guy feels miserable about being in second place. Why? Because he was that much closer than everybody else to being in first place. He's going to eat his heart out even more than the guy that was in last place. Last place is like, alright, whatever, I didn't even have a chance. But the guy in second place, he's so close to first place, ooh, what? He's eating himself up for the next, I don't know, however many years it is, to the next Olympics. So the thing is, when you train kids to think that every time they cry they're going to get something, you're training losers. So now they go to school, They expect, "Oh wait, I'm going to go to, I don't know, Harvard. I'm going to go to Yale. I'm going to go to Yeshiva University. I'm going to go to whatever school. So of course my parents are going to pay for it." So the kid expects the parents to come up with $50,000 a year. "Like, I don't care where you get the money, Abba. I don't care where you get the money. I'm your kid. You're supposed to pay for me. And of course, since I'm going to go to school, you also have to get me a car. What do you want me to walk to school?"

52:02to get a car. And of course, school is far away. It's not next to the house. So you have to pay for the dorm room also. I don't care where you get the money. You brought me to this world. It's your problem to pay for me. That's the kid's mentality. It's your problem that you have to come up with $50,000 a year for me to get a communications degree I can't do anything with in real life. for me to go to bars every single night for the first two and a half years of school, because in reality, in college, for anyone that went, you don't actually even start learning until your senior year. The first two and a half years are a complete waste of time. even three years, complete waste of time. And in reality, even the four years are not useful because the real learning for what you're going to do in real life is only in grad school. It's not even in college. Right. So what do you do during those first few years? You take a bunch of electives, a bunch of classes that you have to take just so you can justify paying them $50,000 a year. And...

53:05you take a test, you go, you pick your own schedule, you wake up at three o'clock in the afternoon, start taking a class at four, or you can finish all the classes by nine-thirty in the morning and hang out the rest of the day. And every single night, fraternity parties... sorority parties, Gehinnom in this world. This is why when I went to college for one year, Baruch Hashem, only one year, I went to Binghamton University, nice school. A lot of Jewish people came to that school from yeshivot. And I was never around really yeshiva guys before. And I can tell you that all of the worry that people have today about sending kids to secular schools, People that are religious are very, very worried about sending their kids to secular schools, to university, to Harvard, to Yale, to Binghamton, to wherever. We're very worried. Why? Because when you were in yeshiva, we had control. There was just so much trouble you could get into. You're sending the guy away to upstate New York or a different state, a different place. God only knows what the guy's going to do.

54:17God only knows what this girl is going to do. So they're very, very worried about sending their children to these secular schools. Now, I went to school, this is more than 20 years ago. 20 years ago. Wow, I'm getting old. So, yeah, when you start talking in decades, you realize you're getting old. So... People are worried. The frum world, the religious world, even the Modern Orthodox world, they're all worried about what's going to happen once I send my kids to college. Well, I'm telling you from 20 years ago. I think back then, somebody told me, if I remember the statistic right, more than half the kids came from Jewish schools. More than half the kids were Jewish in this specific university. It's a good school, and it's close to, whatever, New York. You know, a lot of yeshiva people, a lot of seminary people. Twenty years ago, they weren't worried enough. Today's worry is not enough compared to the problem from twenty years ago. Today is much worse. The worst kids in the school were those kids. The girls that Hashem...

55:33used to be religious before they came to school. They go home, they go home, parents think they're religious. Oh, look, my daughter is so nice, she wears a long dress, and she says, Baruch Hashem. Worst, worst. Worst, as far as if anyone wants, you know, I'm talking about holiness here, not the tza'ar that they think is good in the world. Worst, the guys, biggest alcoholics, drug addicts, came from yeshivot. At least that was my experience. So this is 20 years ago. I don't know what's happening today. It didn't get better. Why is this happening, though? Why is this the case? One of the reasons is because when you have someone secluded their whole life, well, their whole life, all they saw is the books, the Torah, the community, everyone looks the same, black and white. Everyone goes to tefillah, everyone this, everyone that. Okay, fine, that's good. It's a system. But then you release them into Sodom and Gomorrah. You're not releasing them into the world little by little. You know, if it's not Hashem, he'll be fine. He'll develop yirat shamayim and know the difference between good and bad. You're going from nothing and seclusion 100% to Sodom and Gomorrah.

57:01College is 100% Sodom and Gomorrah. No innocent girl exists. No innocent guy exists. This is affecting everyone. I wasn't innocent. If anything, I was probably worse than most. Hashem hopefully will forgive me before I die. But I'm dead serious. I actually did teshuvah my second semester. I have no idea how it happened. Hashem had mercy on me. I did like half teshuvah. After my second semester, I finished the first semester. I went to Monsey because I had a break. I had a break, you know, school. And my father got one of his crazy ideas. He saw a rabbi. I actually think it was Rabbi Mizrachi, by the way. Rabbi Mizrachi doesn't remember it, but my parents swear it's Rabbi Mizrachi. He went to one of his lectures. I think he actually did a lecture at our house. Without a shame, when we get to Olam HaBa, we're going to see if it really was him or not because I don't remember it, but I do remember Rabbi Mizrachi from 20 years ago because I went to his house. But he says he doesn't remember it. So maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm right. I don't know. Maybe it's just I'm putting things together just because I'm a big fan. But anyway, he did a lecture and convinced my dad or somebody convinced my dad to send this boy he has

58:26from doing nothing to Monsey for a few weeks. So, I went to Monsey. I got into it; I liked it. The teshuvah started: keeping Shabbat, putting on a tallit, and staying away from TV. So, for the next maybe year and a half, excuse me, two years, I stayed religious. And then, you know, as soon as I stopped learning, I... learning Torah, meaning I fell off. It took me many years to come back, come back to Hashem. But anyway, I went to that school for one year. I got in trouble at the end of the year—a long story. But the point being is that I can tell you from personal experience, anyone that's worried about sending their kids to university is not worried enough. Not worried enough. Why? ...gain home. It's 100% very, very difficult to justify sending your kid away to school. Now, of course, you can't keep the kid like some people in the Jewish world keep their kids so secluded that the kid doesn't even know what technology is until he's 20 years old. That's also not good. Why? Because eventually the kid needs to get a job. Not everybody's going to become a Rav. And...

59:48So eventually, he needs to know what the world is. If the kid doesn't even know what a phone is until he's 25 years old, he's not going to have any job skills. He doesn't know how to use a calculator. He doesn't know how to use a computer. He doesn't even know what the internet is. What ends up happening is that as soon as they discover it, they go crazy. They go from nothing to everything. And a lot of them have a serious, serious problem. Those are the guys you see at the worst possible places. Because once they discover it, like the rest of the world, they can't control themselves. So it's mamash a big tikkun; it's very, very difficult, and parents need to pray for it every second, mamash. Parents really need to pray for it, because there's really no... Without Hashem, there's really no hope. You have to really raise a kid, and they... ...with 100 to have this kid even become a shomer mitzvot, just to keep mitzvot. Because again, if the kid wants to be a doctor, he has a brain; he wants to be a doctor, he wants to be a lawyer; she wants to be a lawyer, she wants to be a doctor; okay, fine. They're going to need to go to college. You know, it's not the days of the Gemara where you could learn on your own and just decide to be a doctor one day...

1:01:05Get a few people to sign off on you. Yes, he knows what he's talking about. So you became a doctor. No, you have to get degrees, licenses, and so on. So you have to go to college. The problem is getting that degree requires you to go to a little bit of Gehinnom or Sodom and Gomorrah. I'm not really sure which one is worse yet. So it's difficult. It's very, very difficult. Hopefully, the Mashiach comes before my daughter goes to college. But anyway, so people have a warped version of reality. They realize that as soon as they finish this college and their parents are almost bankrupt, they expect that as soon as they finish college, they have this degree and they're going to get a job that pays no less than $100,000 a year. Like, what do you mean? You want me to work for $30,000 a year? I just spent $200,000 on college. With $30,000 a year, I'm never going to pay this loan back. They actually expect to make big money coming out of college. Forget about just the debt, but the mindset that people have, and I tell you, hiring a lot of them in my career...

1:02:23They come in expecting to already be a millionaire, like on the path to being a millionaire within a few years. Kids from Harvard would come to me expecting jobs. I wouldn't even hire them sometimes. Why do you have a piece of paper? It's useless to me. I need a brain. I need a personality. I need a mouth. I need intuition. I need experience. You have none of them. You have a piece of paper that you paid $200,000 for. For most careers, it's irrelevant now. And in reality, in the old days, going to college, that was the point. You go to college, you get a job. In today's world, college is useless unless you go to grad school. If you just go to college, okay, you'll get a basic job that you probably could have gotten anyway. This is the reality. And if you want to really get this big-time job at Goldman Sachs, or some giant law firm, or at some big company that's very, very selective, you not only have to go to college, you have to go to the best college, the best university, the best grad school. You have to be at the top of the class, meaning you have to be practically perfect. You have to be valedictorian. Because now, in the old days, they used to have one valedictorian. Now, they have eight.

1:03:53So you have to be valedictorian, you have to be a top student. And on top of it, you have to have connections. And it will help you if you're like a minority. It would help. Why? Because Goldman Sachs wants to be politically correct. They want to say, "Well, we hire 18 Spanish people a year and 27 black people and 6 Jews." So to them, to the statistics of the political correctness world, it looks better. It's complete nonsense. But the point is that if you want to get that job, that top-paying job, you have to be like a robot. Okay, even if you're very, very smart, what's the chance of you being that guy? So this is a big reality check for most kids. They come out of school. They realize that they're not who they thought they were. They tried very, very hard. They studied, you know, they had many, many sleepless nights, but they went into the job market. Sometimes they can't get a job at all, and they end up becoming a secretary for somebody.

1:05:05Or they end up becoming a stockbroker that they could have been without anything. Or they end up doing something else. They end up working for Abba ve'ima at the factory. And Abba ve'ima could just show off, look, look, my son has a degree. Okay, what is the degree for? Communications. How is that communications helping you today? When you're lifting the boxes with the rest of the Mexicans. So the point is, it's a big reality check for the kid. Because until now, he got everything he wanted. Now, the real world hits. And the real world is very, very different than what he was taught for the first 20-plus years of his life. Now, the sayings that you hear in the secular world, like "life sucks" and all types of other vulgar sayings, come to fruition. Like you said, oh, that's what they meant. Until now, he was partying, enjoying this. As long as he gets an A, everybody's happy. But now it's like, wait, I have to pay rent? I have to pay gas? I have to pay electric? I have to pay for insurance for myself?

1:06:16i have to buy a $3,000 car because Abba and Ima are not going to buy me the $87,000 Mercedes-Benz or BMW or whatever cars are out there in the world. What do you mean you're not going to buy me a brand new car? How are you showing me your love, Abba, by not buying me a brand new car for $50,000? You know, some kids actually refuse to get cars because it's not good enough. Like I actually saw this a few times. A father would buy the kid a brand new car, $30,000, $30,000, $40,000. The kid wouldn't want it. No, it's not good enough. You know what my first car was? It was a $3,000 car that was completely beat up. And that was already with my own money. I saved the money. It was like, you know, I don't know. I guess I grew up in a different generation. But the point is that people... are raised today with a different, warped mentality, and they're set up to fail. They're set up to fail. So, as soon as they hit reality, they start thinking that life is terrible. They blame God. "God did this to me."

1:07:30It becomes very, very easy to view yourself like a victim. Like, I have many people contacting me, and they tell me their story, and they make it seem like they suffered the Holocaust three times. Not once, three times. Three times. Oh, I had such a difficult life, difficult childhood. My parents yelled at me. Okay. And people didn't, not everyone liked me in school. I'm reading this story. It's like, you know, people send you a megillah. And I look at it and I'm like, it's not even his fault. I can't blame the guy. I'm not gonna, you know, listen, poor guy thinks he suffered. Poor woman thinks she suffered. To me, it's Gan Eden. I look at their life. They tell me this story. I'm like, wow, what a good life. And at the end, they say, what should I do? Like, you know, it's like they're hopeless. Wow, it's such a good life. I wish I grew up like this. But that's the thing. It's not their fault. It's not their fault that they think that their life is suffering because they're 25 years old and they just got a job for $15 an hour. It's not their fault. They were raised with this mentality that they're supposed to be gifted everything in life. And now, when they didn't get it, they only have one place to blame, and they blame God.

1:08:56They blame God, so they justify being an atheist. They justify not being religious. And they ask stupid questions like, "If God is so good, where was He during the Holocaust?" Well, the good news is we made three lectures about it. Go watch them. So that's the thing that I think is very, very important for us to know. If... You want to get closer to the truth, you have to start realizing that not only is suffering part of life, but suffering is necessary. It's necessary in order to build you. In order for you to get to become the diamond that you can become, that Hashem knows you can become, you have to go through pressure. How does a diamond, in a natural way, happen? Through pressure. A diamond is not just, you know, born out of thin air. It's a chemical process that goes through the earth, which is a bunch of—yeah, exactly—it's pressure. A diamond is eventually made, and even after you get the diamond, it's a rough diamond. You look at it, it looks like a rock. If you don't know about diamonds, it just looks like an ugly rock.

1:10:12But then they take it to my dad's factory on 47th Street, and somebody starts cutting it, and voilà, you have a four-carat, deep, flawless diamond worth a couple hundred thousand dollars. Three weeks ago, the thing looked like a rock I wouldn't even throw at somebody, being embarrassed. It's an ugly rock. Today it's worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Why? You cut it, you shaped it, you destroyed it a little bit. You cut this piece, you cut that piece. It went through a lot of pressure, a lot of cutting. The diamond went through a lot of pain. It went through a lot of pain to become a diamond. But now it's priceless. You understand? That's what we have to do. If you want to be a priceless tzaddik... You want to be a major Talmid Chacham? Get ready to be treated like a diamond. Get ready to be treated like a diamond. And that's why Rabbi Elazar, he knew there are two types of Torah. You could be compliant with the Torah, learn Torah, enjoy Torah, have a cup of coffee with the Torah, maybe a little potato chips on the side.

1:11:29Enjoy your phone, somebody texts you, oh, ha ha ha, and you go back to the book. You know, you're enjoying the Torah. No problem. Okay, so you comply, you do some mitzvot, your tzitzit is hanging out, showing everybody you're Jewish. When you ride your little bicycle, everyone sees the tzitzit flying around. Great, you keep mitzvot, you go and keep Shabbat. Chazak u'Baruch. Good job. You are one of very, very few people in the world that actually has a chance of being saved when Mashiach comes. Good. Talmid Chacham? No chance. Zero chance. Negative, actually. Why? You have no idea what it takes in order to be a Talmid Chacham. In the Gemara, that you buy the Schottenstein. In the beginning of the Gemara, I'll show you one of the books. I think I said this in another shiur. There are a couple of blessings you recite before you learn. As you can see, all of this has nothing to do with the parasha. So we'll finish the introduction in a couple of minutes, then we'll start the parasha. So, before you start learning Gemara, there are a couple of blessings you should recite before you learn Torah.

1:12:55It says, and it mentions a few verses, and then it mentions the verse in Proverbs, Proverbs 2:6. It says, "For Hashem grants wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding." Meaning, Torah, you can learn it, but there are two types. There's the stuff that you learn and the stuff that's gifted to you. You learn a math book for 10 hours, you're going to get 10 hours of knowledge. You learn science for 10 hours, you're going to get 10 hours of knowledge. You learn Torah for 10 hours, you can get 10 hours of knowledge, or you can get a year of knowledge, or a week of knowledge.

1:13:55Question is: how much did you struggle to learn it? How much sweat, how much pain, how much suffering, how much sacrifice are you willing to endure to learn this Torah? So it's not easy. Another good thing to do is to say this lesson before you learn Gemara or really anything. But aside from that, another good thing to do before... before learning Torah, it's good to read a short Tehillim, specifically Psalm 134. Psalm 134 is a very, very short and good Tehillim to read before you start learning. So those are a couple of good things to know. about learning to life you want to earn it meaning you want to get Torah beyond your learning. You want to be a Talmid Chacham, get ready. You do like half suffering, half regular life. Do as much as you want. No, there's no requirement. You can do what you want. You’ve got to get 100% suffering. No, it doesn't necessarily mean you have to suffer your whole life.

1:15:25It means you have to sacrifice. You have to make major, major sacrifices. Major sacrifices. To be a Talmid Chacham, major sacrifice. Your whole life. No, listen. Sleep, you gotta sleep. But you're not gonna sleep eight hours a day. You know, life, you have to live. You have to eat, you have to do this, but there's certain things that you have to do that... I'll give you something. Okay. The Gemara says... Um, Chazal says that, uh, if a Talmid Chacham doesn't even know the difference between the taste of food, give him whatever you want, he has no idea, just eats, moves on with his life. Meaning that as long as you're still enjoying food, you're still not into it yet. Yeah, because for them, for some of us, they eat just to live. They don't live to eat. You understand? They just eat whatever they have to eat, whatever's in front of them—salty, not salty, sweet, not sweet—it's irrelevant. They don't know what it is. They're just doing it because they have to, because they're still in the body.

1:16:44But the whole time they're thinking about how soon can I finish this so I can also do the bracha and then go back to my study. So, again, it's a different mentality and it's required. That rabbi, Rav Meir Eliyahu, very, very smart guy and knows about teshuva, learned a lot in a relatively short period of time, knows a lot of Torah by heart. I saw a clip of his, he said a personal story about himself. Somebody asked him, how did you get so much Torah in such a short period of time? He said for a few years he didn't leave a room. Just went into a room, didn't leave. didn't go out, didn't go out, didn't go outside. He never went to celebrations. Only once a year, he allowed himself to be hosted at somebody's house. Other than that, he would not go to any celebrations, parties, gatherings, nothing. He just studied non-stop. What he did is not normal; he got a gift. But the point is, what he did is not normal. You want to be like him? That's what you have to do.

1:17:59expect to sleep eight hours a day, eat steak, you know, and enjoy the sweet tastes of different types of foods, and, you know, go on vacation a few times a year. Fine, you'll know Torah. I'm not saying you'll be an idiot. You're not. If you study, you learn, you know something. But to be the best, it's a different world. Your brain works differently. Your neshama works differently. So that's, again, you have to decide what you want in life. So now that we've finished the introduction, let's do some parasha. So Moshe Rabbeinu is delivering, continues to deliver his Mussar to Am Yisrael in the last five weeks of his life. And he tells Am Yisrael, then and forever, a serious reality check of how the Cheshbonot of Shamayim work. How the accounting of Shamayim works. See, I present before you today a blessing and a curse. is delivering, continues to deliver his Mussar to Am Yisrael in the last five weeks of his life. And he tells Am Yisrael, then and forever, a serious reality check of how the Cheshbonot Shamayim work. How the accounting of Shamayim works. See, I present before you today a blessing and a curse.

1:19:17The blessing that you hearken to the commandments of Hashem, your God, that I command you today, and the curse, if you do not hearken to the commandments of Hashem, your God, and you stray from the path that I command you today to follow gods of others that you did not know. So, he doesn't say you have a blessing or a curse. He says it's a blessing and a curse. which is a very, very, very big difference. One, if it's a blessing or a curse, that means we have free choice. If it's a blessing and a curse, that means we have choice. Explanation: a blessing or a curse means that if I go to work, I get paid. I don't go to work, I don't get paid. Simple. That's the free choice that college students of today think they have. I comply with Torah. I get reward. I don't comply with the Torah. I don't get reward. Nothing happens. God's merciful. Just give me a lower level Gan Eden. I won't be with Rabbi Akiva, Rabbi Shimon, Rabbi Elazar.

1:20:45No, I won't be with them. But I have, like, you know, a small little section in Gan Eden. That's free choice. Moshe Rabbeinu, the only prophet, the only person that ever spoke to Hashem face to face, the one who knew Hashem better than anyone else before or after him, the one who went to Shamayim and actually saw things that no man will ever see or saw before, at least not while alive, He's telling us it's not that. He's telling us it's not blessing or a curse. It's blessing and a curse. Meaning it comes together. It's a package deal. Meaning, you just have choice. You do what Hashem says, you get rewarded. You don't do it, you get punished. Reward and punishment is the basic foundation of Judaism that every Jew must believe. This is why it's one of the 13 principles of faith that the Rambam says are required in order for you to be a Jew. When you go through conversion, they're going to ask you, "What are the 13 principles of faith?" And if you don't believe in reward and punishment, you cannot convert. It's a basic principle in Judaism. So, what is it like?

1:22:06It's like if I go to work, I get paid. But if I don't go to work, the boss sends people to my house and beats me up. That's what we really have. That's the choice we have. We don't have free choice where nothing happens. That's what it means when Hashem is telling us here in His Torah: the blessing and the curse come together. It's a package deal. Now, the reason why it's very, very important for every single person to know that is because once you see that it comes together, once you see that there's a cost for not doing what Hashem says, then your perspective changes. Once you see that if I don't do what He says, I have a serious problem. if I do it, I have a serious reward. But the point is, not doing anything is a choice. Being an atheist is actually a belief. It's not that you believe in nothing. It's not that there's no belief. It's that you actually believe in nothing. It's someone that chooses to be secular. That is, in essence, an actual religion. You believe that there's no God.

1:23:36It's as simple as it gets. If you look at the Pew studies of intermarriage I recently reviewed, it verified a story that I heard that's very scary. After World War II, they did statistics, and they did a recent study again. What are the chances of your children coming out Jewish and your grandchildren coming out Jewish if you are an Orthodox Jewish couple, Conservative, Reform, or secular? And they calculated for four generations. It's obviously much higher. I think it was 80% or something like that. Meaning you can't really compare the numbers. coming out Jewish and your grandchildren coming out Jewish, if you are an Orthodox Jewish couple, Conservative, Reform, or secular. And they calculated for four generations. It's obviously much higher. I think it was 80% or something like that. Meaning you can't really compare the numbers. Meaning that being secular, statistically, not that Reform and Conservative is allowed, if you actually have a choice, you should be secular rather than Reform and Conservative, just because it's so bad, it's mocking the Torah. But nonetheless, being secular is, people don't realize that they are literally putting an atomic bomb in their family tree. Where at some point it's going to, it's like a mokesh, it's like a mine bomb.

1:25:05But not a regular mine, it's a mine that's like an atomic bomb. At one point it's going to explode, someone's going to intermarry. That's it, that's the end. That's the end of the lineage. And who knows if we have the merit to have somebody that we're going to marry, convert, not convert. I went through it, it's not an easy process. So people that are choosing to be secular have to realize that whatever they are today, there's a 99% chance their kids are going to be worse. However close they are to Hashem today, their kids will be less. Statistically. But then you throw God in it, and according to the Gemara Masechet Sotah, at the end of times, something unusual is going to happen for the first time in history. The kids, for the first time in the history of the end-of-times generation, are going to make their parents do teshuvah. Throughout all of history, our Torah was passed from father to son, from father to son, from father to son, and we all relied on our parents to keep us in the system. If our parents were religious, we would be religious.

1:26:25If we left the derech, it was at some point later in our life when we became parents or we became adults. But you wouldn't see an eight-year-old secular kid if the father is, you know, a rabbi. Just wouldn't happen. But then things change where the parents or the kid eventually grew up and decided to get off the system, get off the train, become secular, thinking that, okay, I don't want to be religious; I'll just keep Shabbat. keep Shabbat, I'll keep kosher, but all the other stuff is too much for me. Okay. His kid was, okay, kosher only in the house, Shabbat twice a year, or when someone dies. Okay. His kid is, no Shabbat, no kosher, but I'll keep the holidays. And little by little, eventually you get to the great, great, great, great-grandkid. He doesn't even know what the difference is between Judaism and Christianity. He thinks they're all crazy. So this is how religion was passed, Judaism was passed from generation to generation to generation.

1:27:37But Hashem has mercy on us, and He says that at the end of times, one of the prophecies, which we're seeing firsthand right now happening, is that you're seeing the younger generation connect to Torah much more than their parents are. And that's why I've seen at a lot of my shiurim, a lot of young people just like you fill the room up, hundreds of people, Baruch Hashem, and they're interested. Sometimes they bring their parents, and their parents are suffering being there. suffering until they start hearing the story. Sometimes they connect, but the kids are excited. They have to convince their parents to come. It's unbelievable. It's very, very opposite of what it's always been. So when someone understands that the blessing and the curse come together, there's a reward and a punishment, you start taking things into account. You start looking at things in a different way, and Now all of us are looking for blessings. And I had an idea, I already spoke to Hashem a while ago, but I mentioned it in my Hebrew shiur last week. I think it's a very good idea. We missed this in last week's parasha. Everyone is looking for the blessing part. No one wants the curse. Right? No one wants the curse. You ask anybody, what's the number one blessing they want?

1:29:03Eight out of ten people would say parnasa first. Then health, then this, then that, everything else. Zivug, this, that, but most people will mention parnasa. They go, and they spend fortunes going to these fake mekubalim. These babots give them special blessings or give them some stupid red string or some water they put in a weird-looking bottle that they actually got from the faucet, but they charge them a thousand dollars for it. All these strange things I heard recently, this Rasha Merusha, fake Mekubal, sold a woman a book for $15,000. Because she thought she has Ayin Hara on her. She doesn't even keep Shabbat, she doesn't keep anything, but she spent $15,000 on a book thinking that it's going to help her. Obviously, this guy is a Rasha Merusha that's been doing it for a long time already, cheating people, but more people are going to him, more and more every day.

1:30:08They're also at fault. Everyone's at fault. The point being is that people are spending fortunes, fortunes, trying to get this blessing. They go to rabbis, they stand in line for five hours, six hours, ten hours, waiting for a blessing. Blessing. They just want a blessing. Nothing wrong with getting a blessing from a real tzaddik. The problem is that it's very, very hard to know who's a real tzaddik and who's not when you're in a secular world. because even religious people fall for it. There's actually one guy in Israel that found this Mekubal is really a fake and did a videotaping of him where, at the beginning of the video, you see all these Charedi people, black and whites, Hasidim, kissing his hand, celebrating him, big giant, big this, big that. Fortunes they pay him to give blessings and all types of stuff. The other 75% of this video is inappropriate; you can't watch it because it lacks modesty. The whole time, he's hugging women, touching women, saying that the Torah is the same thing as everything else, that all religions were man-made, and that everything is okay. Let me ask you: if you're a hundred percent kofer, a hundred percent heretic, people think he's a mekubal.

1:31:35So people spend fortunes on this nonsense, but getting a bracha for parnassah, easiest thing in the world. Easiest thing in the world. Now, we already know we talked about Shabbat. Baruch Hashem, we talked enough about Shabbat. as far as when it connects to parnassah, we know that without Shabbat, we're not even, you know, we're not even considered Jewish. So that already is a prerequisite. Assuming you already keep Shabbat, if you don't keep Shabbat, nothing I'm going to say is going to work anyway. Then, of course, Shalom Bayit. Everyone knows you need to have Shalom Bayit. Happy wife, happy life, but not only happy life, but also a happy bank account. You can have a bank account, you can have good parnassah when you have a happy wife. So people know this. They've repeated this already. But the most undervalued way to get parnassah

1:32:37is also the most undervalued prayer, in my opinion, my lowly opinion, I think in all of Judaism, which is Birkat HaMazon. The Gemara in Masechet Brachot discusses last week's parasha, Sefer Devarim, chapter eight, Verse 10. You will eat and you will be satisfied and bless Hashem your God for the good land that He gave you. Chazal in Gemara Masechet Brachot spend multiple pages discussing Birkat Hamazon.

1:33:39how it was built, the significance of it, and confirming that it's the number one tefillah, number one blessing in all of Judaism. It's more important than Shema Yisrael, it's more important than Amidah, Tefillat Shemoneh Esrei, it's more important than every tefillah, every prayer, every blessing we have in the entire Torah. Why? Because it's the only one that we have exact instructions to do it, an understanding that we need to do it twice a day, and therefore we're required to do it. It also talks about how you're required to do it twice a day as an obligation, once in the morning and once at night, at specific times. And then also there's one you're supposed to do before you go to sleep. But that's to protect you from bad dreams, from demons, from wasting seed while you're sleeping, all types of things like this. But the major obligation is the morning prayer, shacharit, and the evening prayer, arvit. Amidah, you have to do three times a day. In every one of the prayers, that's what's called tefillah. When you say tefillah, that's what they mean.

1:35:02Tefillah means the Tefillat Shemoneh Esrei, also called Amidah. Those two prayers are the prayers you have to do every single day. And most people believe that they're the most important prayers in Judaism, and even though they are the two most important in Judaism, they're not as important as Birkat Hamazon. And the reason why is because those two, Amidah and Shema Yisrael, we have as an understanding from the Torah that we're obligated to do it. Whereas Birkat Hamazon, it's not an understanding, it's literal. It literally says you have to do it. You eat, you have to bless Hashem. Simple. So now, since Chazal saw that we're obligated to do it anyway, they constructed the Birkat Hamazon, the first part of Birkat Hamazon. And it goes in the Gemara, detailing each and every single one, what it means. Very, very, very interesting Gemara.

1:36:14The first paragraph that starts that Hashem nourishes the world with goodness and grace. The first paragraph was written by Moshe Rabbeinu. You want to know what Moses wrote? Here you go. First paragraph. When? Mount Sinai. Second paragraph. we thank you, Hashem, our God. You've given us a heritage to our forefathers in a land that's desirable, good, and spacious, with the Torah and life and food. Second paragraph written. Who is the G-d after Moshe?

1:37:16Come on, guys. Yeah, Joshua. Joshua, after Moshe died, who did he give the command to? He gave it to Yehoshua (Joshua). So Yehoshua wrote the second paragraph when? After we crossed the, uh, the river. Hashem split the sea, the Jordan River, just like He split the Sea of Reeds. He split it into two. We passed it, and we went into the Land of Israel. Yehoshua Bin-Nun with Ruach HaKodesh wrote the second paragraph of Birkat HaMazon. Then you have "Rachem Hashem Elokeinu aleinu ve'al Yisrael amecha ve'al Yerushalayim ircha." Have mercy Hashem our God on us and on Israel Your nation and on Jerusalem Your city. The third part was written by

1:38:18King David and his son, King Solomon. So now, these are the giants of giants: Moshe, Yehoshua, King David, and King Shlomo. We throw it on the side like we think some guy wrote it from a local beit knesset down the street. Then Chazal knew, we're obligated to do this anyway. He said, listen, we're already obligated to do it. Let's throw some requests in. Here, we're thanking Hashem. We're praising His name. Good. Have mercy, Hashem. Thank you. Good, 100%. If we're already obligated to do it, let's ask for everything we want. So what did they do? The tzaddikim from Yavneh, that's what they did. The whole section of Rachaman, The Merciful One may be praised on His throne. And they keep asking for different things. Give us mercy. Give us health. Success. Sustenance. A perfect cure. I mean, pretty much everything and anything that someone wants.

1:39:37a blessing like our forefathers, Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov. That everything that we want will come true. The Ramban just wrote that one. Everything we want will come true. That it will be on us, it will spread on us like a shelter of peace, no war. That it will implant this Torah. and make it easy for us to love Him deeply in our heart and fear Him at the same time, meaning the ultimate connection that Avraham, Yitzchak, Yaakov, Moshe, David, all of these giants had, we want it. They said, if we already have to do His blessing, add these requests. So that's what they added, the Rachaman. So now, We have ourselves a goldmine. Goldmine. All day, you know, people try to go to Beit Knesset. Sometimes they have a tough time connecting to Hashem during tefillah. Maybe the chazan is going too fast. Maybe he's going too slow. Maybe you're late for an appointment. Maybe you just lost your job. Maybe you have problems. You don't even know what's going on. You're not sure if you're asking for something or you have no idea what you're doing sometimes.

1:41:02You don't even know what to ask for sometimes. Chazal already knew you have no idea what you're doing. So they wrote it for you. All they said, let's do something simple. You're obligated to do it anyway. Eat a piece of bread and pray Birkat Hamazon, you'll get everything you want. But not Birkat Hamazon like you read the Shema Yisrael in seven seconds. Read the Birkat Hamazon and actually learn what the Birkat Hamazon says. Don't read it like a robot where in six seconds, you finished it. Read it; it doesn't matter how much time it takes you, but actually understand what it says. In the Gemara, Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi, the one who wrote the Mishnah before the Gemara, says if you have Zimun, which means you have three men, One can read out loud for everyone. In today's custom, I don't know why it has changed, but many people, if there are either three or ten men, the person reads out loud at the beginning, and then everyone reads for themselves quietly. But in the Gemara, it says differently. It says that one person reads for everyone out loud. That's really how it's supposed to be. Anyway,

1:42:27Rabbi, Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi says, if you're going to have someone read the Birkat Hamazon, the number one blessing in all of the Torah, and have somebody read it for you, make sure it's someone with a big heart that's generous. Why? Big heart, small heart. A guy came to my house. I want to honor him. He's an important guest. He's a nice guy. He's a rabbi. He's this, he's that. I want to give him Birkat Hamazon. People throw Birkat Hamazon at people like it's nothing. Yeah, yeah, he's a nice guy. He's my neighbor. He's this, he's that. He's my friend from high school. They give anybody Birkat Hamazon. Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi says, no, don't do that. Only give it to somebody you know is very generous. If they're holy, then usually, you know, that means they're generous. can't be holy without being a kamtzan, being cheap. Why? Why can't you be holy if you're cheap? Because being cheap is anti-God. One of the purposes of a person's life in this world is to emulate Hashem's character traits, emulate Hashem's middot.

1:43:45Whatever Hashem does, we need to learn how to do it. Hashem is kind, we need to learn how to be kind. Hashem is merciful, we need to learn how to be merciful. So Hashem, what does He do all day? He only gives. He gets nothing in return. Because nothing that we give Him, He actually needs. The blessings are for us. The prayers are for us. The Torah we learn is for us so we can get Olam HaBa. So we know what to do. Everything we do is for us. Nothing is for Him. Everything He actually only gives. So when someone is cheap, he's doing the opposite of what Hashem does all day. Because Hashem is only giving and someone is cheap, that means that they don't want to give. So it's 100% anti-God to be cheap. So the Gemara says, pick someone that's generous, has a big heart.

1:44:46Why? Because when he gets to the section of Harachaman, where he asks for all these things—refuah shlema, health, success, monetary success, spiritual success—all of these wonderful requests from Hashem, he's not one of these cheap people that's going to be scared about what the other guy has, thinking that if he has more, that means I have less. You want a guy that has a big heart, where he knows that the world is not limited, that Hashem is not limited. So when he asks for things from Hashem, he's asking for all of us. He actually means for all of us to get refuah sheleimah, for all of us to get parnasah, for all of us to have good things, not just him. So now I had an idea. You know, unfortunately, a lot of kosher restaurants are owned by not always the most kosher people. They're owned by secular people that are just capitalizing on the need of the Jewish community to eat kosher food. So, the...

1:46:13Many of these places, you go to a kosher restaurant, they keep the law, they have a mashgiach, at least they're supposed to. They have a mashgiach, they follow the kosher laws, but the people that are actually running the store, the people that are actually baal habayit, they don't really care. Well, this is why in Israel it's very different. If the baal habayit, if the owner of the store does not keep Shabbat, they don't give him a kosher stamp. And the reason why is because they're right. If he doesn't care enough about his own soul, why should I think that he's going to care enough about my soul to give me kosher food? Maybe he's buying a donkey from the Arabs for ten cents on the dollar. Maybe he's buying the neveilot. How do I know? He doesn't believe in God. He's not keeping Shabbat, so how do I know that he actually cares enough about kosher for me, for the food that I'm going to eat? In America, it's not the same. But nonetheless, there are mashgichim, there are people that monitor it, and there are legal issues and stuff like that, so if you know the mashgiach, you know who the restaurant is, even if the Baal HaBayit is not a Shomer Shabbat, there are other things to rely on if you did your research. But nonetheless, the reason why I mention this is because the Baal HaBayit, because the owner is not religious,

1:47:36or even sometimes if he is religious but he doesn't necessarily know what Birkat Hamazon really is, what happens is he doesn't utilize this Birkat Hamazon to his benefit. So they have a section in a lot of these restaurants where they have the Birkat Hamazon; they have the prayer on cards or something. But the only thing that you see on those cards is dust. No one uses it. They sit in the corner next to the sugar and the salt and whatever. And like once in a blue moon, somebody takes one. In reality, most people go, they get the shawarma, they eat, they leave. No blessing, no nothing. So I thought, I was in the business world a little bit. And you know, you learn a few things. And Baruch Hashem, with siyata dishmaya, of course. You combine business and Torah. Anyone that wants to have serious success in life must have a blessing. Must have a blessing. If Hashem doesn't sign off on you succeeding, you won't succeed. There's nothing you can do about it. So how do you bring blessing to your life?

1:48:48Easy. You have a kosher restaurant. Make a big poster, a permanent poster. Anyone that eats and says Birkat Hamazon after, and we know for sure you did Birkat Hamazon, will have their bill reduced by a dollar. Or two dollars. Whatever, depending on the business. If you sell steaks, then you can reduce it by two dollars. If you sell shawarma, you can reduce it by a dollar. What's a dollar? It's nothing. If your business' only profit margin is $1, then you really shouldn't be in the business anyway. But the point is, you reduce the bill by a dollar to encourage people to do the bracha; people will do it. Why? Because now they're not thinking about the bracha, they're just thinking about the dollar. Instead of paying $10, I'm going to pay $9. Why not? And they'll do it. And what ends up happening is that you actually end up bringing the number one blessing in the entire Torah into your restaurant. From morning to night, your restaurant turns into something like a kollel. If you use this idea, I think you will succeed with the help of Hashem. All day, from morning to night, you have Birkat Hamazon. You have the number one blessing inside your restaurant. All day. You have to try it. You have to try it. I mean, it's not even... Number one blessing, morning to night.

1:50:17Missing the biggest opportunity in the world. The biggest blessing in the entire Torah. No one's doing it. People are paying thousands and thousands of dollars for shtuyot, for nonsense. They have the best blessing in the world for free. Some people refuse to eat bread just because they don't want to say Birkat Hamazon. But then they cry to me and say, no, I don't have enough parnassah. Parnassah? When was the last time you said Birkat Hamazon? He goes, oh, on Shabbat. Okay, you only eat bread on Shabbat? No, the rest of the time I eat crackers. Why don't you eat bread? No, I eat less than a kezayit. I eat an extra small piece, just to make sure to avoid. I eat pizza. Okay, listen, you eat pizza, you have to do Birkat Hamazon. No, no, this one said it's sweet. It's sweet bread. In reality, unless it's made from 100% fruit juice, you have to do Birkat Hamazon. It's not. People are looking for all these different ways to avoid Birkat Hamazon is my point. It's like doing everything you possibly can to avoid winning the lottery. It's the dumbest thing in the world, but that's because of pure ignorance. It's not because people are just doing it on purpose. If we actually know what the Torah says about Birkat Hamazon, we'd start doing it.

1:51:50Yeah, of course. Then you're stealing from Hashem. Then you're stealing from Hashem. Then you have a serious problem. So in this week's parasha, it talks a lot about the kosher laws, which is constant Torah proof of... how Hashem controls nature. You know, we've talked about these Torah proofs before, which I don't really want to repeat, unless you guys haven't heard them before. As far as when Hashem said that the kosher animals, He gave us ten different animals as examples of kosher animals. And in order for the animal to be kosher, it has to have two signs, the split hooves, and to chew its cud. And then He gives us four...

1:52:51Out of all the animals that are out there, there are four animals that have only one sign. So Hashem is telling us, don't be fooled by these four animals, because the rest of the animals either have two signs, and they're kosher, which there are only about ten or so, or they have none. They have no signs whatsoever. But there are four... that have one sign. So don't be fooled by these four: the pig, the hare, the rabbit, and the camel. So the proof here is that obviously, Hashem is controlling the world. If He wants people to believe in the Torah, then He's only going to put things that He has control over. Which means that if it was a person that wrote the Torah, They wouldn't say, listen, there's only four animals with one sign. Because how would they know there are only four animals? There are two million species in the world. Because it means that if someone finds animal number five or animal number six, once they find animal number five that has only one sign, you have a mistake in the Torah. Once you have one mistake in the Torah,

1:54:07It's no longer divine. Then you don't know if this is the only mistake. Maybe there's another one. Maybe Shabbat is another mistake. Maybe family purity is a mistake. Maybe modesty is a mistake. You don't know anymore. It's no longer reliable when there's one mistake. And this is why anyone that comes to me with these things about how they say, no, there's wisdom in the New Testament. Maybe it means this, maybe it means that. I tell them, listen, whatever it says is meaningless. Whether the guy lived, whether he was righteous or not, whether he was a rasha or not, whether this happened, whether that happened, all of it is irrelevant. The whole book is meaningless. Why is it meaningless? Because there's a mistake on every single page. Not just one mistake, there's a mistake on every page. Number one, there's a mistake in that when they copy from the Torah, they say that Torah is the first part, and the New Testament is the second part. That's what they claim. Okay, so that means the first part and second part need to agree. So why do you say that Yaakov came to Egypt with 75 people when the Torah clearly says in no less than four places in the Chumash that he came with 70? Where is the extra five coming from? This is a serious, serious mistake that even a first grader who knows the Torah would not make.

1:55:38It's not one place in the entire Torah it says 70 people. It's no less than four places it mentions it. So that means you've made the mistake over and over again. That's one. Two, the location of where the Cave of Machpelah is. They have it, which you can verify today. Maybe Yaakov you can't verify because we weren't there. But the Cave of Machpelah you can verify. You can just go there. It's still around. In the New Testament, they put it in the wrong address, the wrong city, the wrong location. So, it's mistakes like this that are common sense. You know, I'm not even talking about the verses, whether this means this or this means that. All of that is irrelevant. This is why sometimes when people debate, they say, "Yeah, but this word means this and this word means that." All of that is irrelevant. The reason why I think, in my opinion, the most powerful debate...

1:56:38recorded debate between a Christian and a Jew is by Rabbi Mizrachi, and the reason why is because even though the Christian was doing the typical things that Christians do in debates, which is trying to prove that the Jews don't know how to speak Hebrew somehow, and somehow the Jews, that's their language, Hebrew, we don't know Hebrew, but they do. The non-Jews know Hebrew. But they don't know Hebrew. You ask him to speak Hebrew, he doesn't know how to speak Hebrew. He just knows like six words that he heard from somebody. And you're not really sure 100% how you pronounce them. So, what are they saying? They're saying that we're translating the verses in an incorrect way. How do you know? Well, look, it says in English over here that this is what it says. Okay, but the Torah was not written in English. It was written in Hebrew. How can you rely on this translation? And you know clearly, anyone that knows Hebrew, even a rasha, rasha Martin Luther, Martin Luther lived a few hundred years ago, was a rasha merusha, who killed many, many, many women, claiming that they're all witches. You know, there was a witchcraft situation that happened across the world, and especially where he was, and

1:58:08He would just say, no, this woman, she's a witch. Under what proof? No proof. No proof whatsoever. i did a paper on this. It's the only reason I know this. I did a paper on this 25 years ago almost, in a European history class. And they asked me to write a paper about this. I picked this as a topic, this craziness of witchcraft. And I found out that he is one of the key figures, this guy Martin Luther. was one of the key figures responsible for the killing of tens of thousands of women for absolutely no reason whatsoever. He just claimed she was a witch. Why? We have no idea. All of the so-called proof was nonsense. She wasn't a witch, just of a certain heritage or appearance. It's not like walking around with a broom or something, throwing, I don't know, stars at people or something. I don't know. Or cooking people in a soup. She’s not doing anything. It's like a regular person going to buy bread so she can feed her kids. The guy says, no, no, she's a witch. They kill her. They burn her on the spot.

1:59:24Rasha, Rasha, Rasha. Why do I remember this? Why do I remember? Out of all the things I ever took in high school, why do I remember this class and this Rasha Merusha? Why? Because I failed. The only time I ever failed in high school was on this paper. Why? Why did I fail? Because I cursed them out in my paper. Not Martin Luther King that lived in Arjun. So anyway, the point is, this Rasha Merusha, Martin Luther, even he said that there is no perfect way to translate the Holy Language. Why? Because there are certain words in the Holy Language that you can't translate. And he's like one of their scholars. He's like one of their big guys. He's like a sage. He's like a hero who killed millions of people, but he's a hero in Christianity. In essence, Even he said you can't translate Hebrew. So the point is, how is the Christian guy going to tell me how to speak Hebrew? So now, that's why I think it's a mistake to even battle the verses. Whether this verse means this, or this verse means that. Why? Because, number one, when you're battling the verses, unless you're a genius like Rabbi Tovia Singer—and pretty much no one else is—he knows the New Testament, the Old Testament, and anything in between better than anybody else. He's amazing.

2:00:51Everybody else should not do it. Why? Number one, even battling the verses, you're almost giving him credibility that there's even a chance that what they're saying has meaning. Two, you don't need to. Why? The whole book is a mistake. What difference does it make what the New Testament says? What Matthew said and John said and this one said and that one said. Who cares what they said? It's a man-made book. There's a mistake on every single page. They put 75 instead of 70. They put things in the wrong locations. They put 25 different names of lineages for their J.C. Penney guy. Two different lists of 25 people. Who are these 25 people? They say that he's a lineage of David, but in the beginning of the book, they said that he's from God. How could he be from David if God is his father? Like, the whole thing doesn't make sense. The whole book is garbage. Yeah, he says keep it, but then he says violate it. The point I'm trying to make here...

2:02:05is that it doesn't make any sense whatsoever. And that's why I thought that Rabbi Mizrachi's debate was amazing because he brought this out. It didn't matter what the verses said. Once there's a mistake in the book, even if 99%, you couldn't find a mistake. If there's one mistake, the rest of the 99% is garbage. The rest of the 99% is the same thing as Harry Potter. It may be entertaining, You may be able to learn something from it, but it's no longer divine. And that's the thing that we fail to understand. Now, why am I using such strong language that may offend some people who are Christian, who may be very, very nice people? I have some good friends who are Christian. Some of them are wonderful, wonderful people. I'm actually fulfilling the same Torah that they believe in by doing this. By calling him JC Penny, by calling it garbage. As a matter of fact, if I did it even more, it would be fulfilling an even bigger mitzvah. Where do I know this from? This week's parashah. This week's parashah says something very, very important. Actually, someone asked me if it's nice to say some of the things that I say. It's actually an obligation.

2:03:31And this week's parashah, chapter 12, book of Devarim, chapter 12, verse 3. It talks about idol worship. "You shall break apart their altars. You shall smash their pillars." Meaning when Am Yisrael goes into Eretz Yisrael, or anywhere they go, they see these things, they're obligated to fight idol worship. Because idol worship is the epitome mocking Hashem. You're replacing everything with nothing. That's what's happening. Hashem is everything, and idol worship is not even Hashem's creation. It's His creation's creation. It's the lowest form of creation. Even a bug is higher than idol worship. Why? Because it's a direct creation from Hashem. But idol worship is is the Creator's creation, His creation. It's the lowest form of anything. It's the garbage of the world. So now Hashem is telling us,

2:04:44You shall break apart their altars. You shall smash their pillars and their sacred trees, which, by the way, anyone that still has Christmas trees in the world, this is one of the sources that shows you're not allowed. It doesn't matter if you're Jewish, not Jewish, Christian, Catholic, anything. No one's allowed to have a tree in their house. This is one of many sources. There's no less than half a dozen sources in the Torah, in the book of Jeremiah, in the book of Deuteronomy, in the book of Exodus, Leviticus. Almost every single book has something about not being allowed to have these Christmas trees, these supposed idol-worshipping trees, sacred trees they call them, in the Torah, or asherah trees. Smash their pillars, their sacred trees shall burn in the fire. Their carved images shall you cut down. and you shall obliterate their names from that place. The Chazal explain to us, Rashi explains to us, what does it mean, obliterate their names? What am I, go to every building and erase the name? Erasing the name, maybe they don't have the name, maybe they don't have J.C. Penny on the church.

2:05:59What does it mean, obliterate their names? It means to make fun of them. It's a mitzvah to make fun of idol worship. Mitzvah. A commandment. Not mitzvah like it's nice. You are obligated. Obligated to make fun of idol worship. If you mention idol worship, you have to say it only in a way that's mocking it. Why? Because it's an enemy of Hashem. It's an enemy of Hashem. Now, how do you explain How do you explain sometimes you have, unfortunately, rabbis that created these organizations that are making peace between us and the church—the very same church that killed millions of us throughout history and would kill millions of us if they had the opportunity now? They make peace with them. No, we all want the same country. Really?

2:07:03So how do you explain that? This, my friends, is the outcome. It's the effect. From what cause? There's a cause and effect. Chazak U'Baruch. Political correctness. When you become a politically correct person, when you're trying to make peace with everyone. Why? Because you don't want to offend anyone. So what ends up happening at the end? You end up offending the only one that matters, Hashem Yitbarach. Hashem Yitbarach. Now, I'm going to finish off with a nice Chiddush that you probably have not heard about this specific issue. Now, as you know, I like to fight idol worship because, number one, I have a personal vested interest in the whole thing, which is the fact that I want to actually have a share in the World to Come, hopefully, b'ezrat Hashem. Number two, it's a mitzvah, so I want to fulfill more mitzvot. It's a rare mitzvah; not many are doing it.

2:08:05And number three, many, many dear people in the world need to hear it so we can save them. As a Jew, you are obligated to be a light to the nations. I remember once when I was a kid, this neighbor had a statue of JC. He used to come spit at it. And this old lady once came running after us. No, you don't need to necessarily act like an animal. No, you don't need to act like an animal. You don't go spit at other people's property. We're not the Sanhedrin. I'm not telling anyone to go to churches and start smashing idols over there or burning places up. Let's not be foolish. but to say it's okay to go to your friend's wedding in a church, to, uh, to, uh, you know, say anything about it is okay, to accept it in any way as any form of truth whatsoever, is not okay. So, if you can't say it's not okay, don't say anything. Be quiet at the very least. But to say it's okay? Not allowed.

2:09:16Not allowed. Not allowed to say that there's any validity whatsoever to their book. Not allowed to say that it's okay for them to believe in it, because it's not okay; it's 100% idol worship. And the reality of it is that there are a lot of people, Baruch Hashem, that are finding out. So my vested interest in doing this is to show them, show the ones that are truly looking for Hashem, The real answers, because even though there are many that are finding the Torah, Baruch Hashem, in our generation, as the Gemara Masechet Avodah Zarah, page 3b says, at the end of times, there will be a lot of gerim, a lot of converts, a lot of people will be in unusual circumstances, where they will find the truth, they'll find God. And as God said in two weeks ago's parasha, parashat Va'etchanan, Chapter 4: If you look for Me, you will find Me. If you look for Me with all of your heart and all of your soul, meaning if you look for God, you'll find Him. But if you look for Him with all your heart and all your soul. So now, I'm finding a lot of people are finding God. It's amazing. But once in a while, I encounter an issue where someone found God. They know the Torah is 100% true. But they're at a crossroads.

2:10:34They can't let go of the idol worship that they got used to. They can't let go. They say, okay, listen, Torah 100% true, no question to ask. New Testament has problems. But I need a sign. I need something to show me from the Torah that it's the only truth, that the Torah is the only truth and that the New Testament, specifically, is fake. I see the mistakes, I see this, I see this, I need something, I need a sign. How do I know this? Baruch Hashem from my Rebbetzin. She needed something. Everything was great, but she needed a sign. She needed something. So, Baruch Hashem, we try to look for different things, try to find different things. We talked about it a couple of weeks ago, Parashat Va'etchanan, how using Torah codes, you can see that in the very same verse that Hashem talks about the false gods, the god of wood and the god of stone. In that very same verse, using Torah codes, you can find a name for J.C. Penney, and you can also find the name for Mecca, for Islam. So there's actually something in this week's parasha. In this week's parasha, chapter 13, verse 2, it talks about how Hashem is giving, or Moshe, through his Ruach HaKodesh, through his prophecy, is giving us a prophecy of what's going to happen.

2:12:03He's talking about a false prophet in the future. False prophet. כי יקום בקרבך נביא או חולם חלום ונתן אליך אות או מופת ובא האות והמופת אשר דיבר אליך לאמור נלכה אחרי אלוהים אחרים אשר לא ידעתם ונעבדם. here it says if there should stand up in your midst a prophet or a dreamer of a dream and he will produce to you a sign or a wonder and the sign or the wonder comes about of which he spoke to you meaning you have some prophet you have somebody that dreams a dream that comes within your midst meaning he's one of you he's one of your Jews not some strange guy listen you have a little Asian guy coming from Chinatown his father's Asian his mother's Asian his heritage all the way back to Buddha to all Asian the sign or the wonder comes about of which he spoke to you, meaning you have some prophet, you have somebody that dreams a dream that comes within your midst, meaning he's one of you, he's one of your Jews, not some strange guy. Listen, you have a little Asian guy coming from Chinatown, his father's Asian, his mother's Asian, his heritage all the way back to Buddha, all Asian.

2:13:20Okay, he comes to you and gives you a prophecy. He's like, do me a favor, go back to your little statue over there. Don't give us any prophecies. You have a Middle Eastern guy coming, beard can sweep the floor. He's telling you, listen, this and this is going to happen. Or he walks on water. Or he makes somebody crippled start standing. Whatever, all types of... Maybe this is like the next Moshe Rabbeinu. So he says, when he comes from your midst, from inside of you, One of you. If there should stand up in your midst a prophet or a dreamer of a dream. A dreamer of a dream. And he will produce to you a sign or a wonder. And the sign or the wonder comes about. It actually comes true. He says something is going to happen. It actually comes true. Or he does something. He tries to make a miracle and it actually happens. Or of which he spoke to you, saying, let us follow other gods that you did not know, and we shall worship them. Meaning, now he tells you, okay listen, you saw that I make miracles. You saw that I predicted who’s going to win the game. You don’t have to keep Shabbat anymore. I'm bigger than the Shabbat. Like JC said.

2:14:43I'm bigger than Shabbat. They asked him, listen, how are you a rabbi? How are you a tzaddik? Your students are breaking Shabbat right now. He goes, no, no, I'm bigger than Shabbat. That's what he said in his book. So, in essence, he's creating a new religion. It says here, verse 4: Do not hearken to the words of that prophet. or to that dreamer of a dream. For Hashem, your God, is testing you to know whether you love Hashem, your God, with all of your heart and with all of your soul. And it continues. And the prophet said, It says, and then I'll show you the proof, because this sounds familiar, but I'll show you the proof of why it is 100% that. Hashem, your God, no, um,

2:15:55Hashem, your God, is testing you to know whether you love Hashem, your God, with all of your heart and with all of your soul. Hashem, your God, shall you follow, and Him shall you fear. His commandments shall you observe, not somebody else's made-up nonsense—that was my addition—and to His voice shall you hearken. Him shall you serve, and Him shall you cleave, meaning you'll be glued to Hashem. Don't leave Him for anything. And that prophet... Now we're going back to this rasha. That prophet, that dreamer of a dream, shall be put to death. For he has spoken perversion against Hashem, your God, who takes you out of the land of Egypt and who redeems you from the house of slavery, to make you stray from the path which Hashem, your God, has commanded you to go. And you shall destroy the evil from your midst. This is very interesting. This is very interesting, sounds like a very, very familiar story. But just like last week when I told you about Parashat Va'etchanan, when I said the god of wood and the god of stone. Wood, you know, it's the cross. Stone, you know, it's Mecca. How do we know this is specifically talking about J.C. Penney? Dream or dream, yeah, his mom dreamt a dream.

2:17:22But it still could be a coincidence. Anyone that's looking for a thing. So here's the key. When it says the first four words, "If there should stand up in your midst a prophet, within you a prophet." It's talking about Mary and JC. How do we know? Bekirbecha, which is within you, has the value of the letters, is the same value of the letters of Isha, the woman. Navi, which is the following word, prophet, same numerical value, 63, of Ubnah, her son.

2:18:23Which means that it says if there should stand a woman and her son that dreamt a dream, it will produce for you a sign and continues the rest of the verse. Out of all of the words, if I found another word, let's say if the word miracle had the same numerical value as her son, and then a different word had a numerical value of the woman. Then it's just random. It's nice, but it's random. But specifically, the two words that follow you somewhere, you can, in essence, write the same verse, but just switch the words. If there would be a woman and her son, or a dreamer of a dream, then you continue the rest of the verse. So again, this is not a coincidence because these things could happen anywhere. But you see that those specific words, "woman," "her son," and the last one, "Imach Shmo V'Zichro," and "Mecca." As a matter of fact, some actually say that the prophet that they're referring to is JC, but the Cholem Chalom, the one that's a dreamer of a dream, is actually referring to Muhammad from Islam.

2:19:47Yeah, it mentions in the same place that it talks about in the same Torah codes. It says Mecca. But also, if you look, I looked it up a little bit. If you continue the verse, you see that just as Hashem said, this false prophet... What happens to him? He'll be put to death. This is exactly what happened according to the history of the Christians, of what happened to J.C. Penney. So he was put to death. He didn't say he would just die, like Muhammad just died. Muhammad got sick one day and died. I don't know what kind of powerful prophet just gets sick and dies. He never gave a prophecy. But never gave any prophecy. The point is that they're saying that he's a prophet, he's this, he's that, he's this, but he just died like a dog dies in the street. Why? I don't understand. How is he somebody who's such a big deal if he just died? On top of that, a lot of actual Muslims have a problem with him. Why? Because if you look at the history, you'll see that at some point, he almost got killed by his own people for idol worship.

2:21:02What idol worship? It said that God has three daughters, and we need to worship them. It's called the story of the cranes. The story of the cranes. And God, he says that God has three daughters, and we need to worship them. So when the people started going against him, he changed his mind. He said, no, no, no, no. I just realized it wasn't the angel Gavriel that told me this. It was the Satan. Poor Satan, he blamed him for everything. He blamed him for it and he said, "No, no, don't believe it, it's nothing." So he tried doing something new and it didn't work. The other reason why there's a major problem with Islam is the fact that they also believe in J.C. Penney. No, no, it's in their Quran; they actually have in their Quran that they believe in J.C. Penney. And as a matter of fact, in Mecca, there is a tomb that's empty.

2:22:03that they leave waiting for "J.C. Penney" to come. There's the tomb where they say that Muhammad is and some other major person in their religion. And then there's one that's an empty grave that's specifically meant for "J.C. Penney" to come. It says in the Quran that his mother Miriam and Moshe Rabbeinu's sister with the same area yeah yeah they're so so to the point is that there yet the Quran mentions "J.C. Penney", so obviously there's a problem with the Quran also. And aside from the fact that there are nine thousand versions of it, it is mistaken all over. The point being is that there is nothing else but the law, and anyone that looks deeply enough will see that there is nothing else but the law. We're not obligated go fight Avodah Zarah to the same extent that we were obligated to in previous generations when we had the Sanhedrin. If you see an idol worshiper, you kill him on the spot; you stone him. We don't have the ability to stone anyone, but we do have the obligation to, number one, be a light to the nations. We do have an obligation to help whoever is willing to accept help. But one major thing for sure is

2:23:22is that we cannot, under any condition whatsoever, continue to be politically correct and inhale this poison and wipe it all over our perfect, amazing Torah and say that it's okay to be this and it's okay to be that, everybody's friends, everybody's that. No. I'm not saying we have to go to war with the world, even though it's going to happen and is happening anyway. What I am saying is that we have to keep true to Hashem. So it's not, it's a, understand that this is not exactly a sound, it's not about peace or war or anything like that. The key that we have to understand is that we have one God. There's no two gods, there's no three gods, there's no two religions or three religions or four religions. There's only one Torah. Jews are Jews and then there's the rest of the world. The rest of the world has a choice. They can either be Noahides, righteous Noahides, which means they comply by Torah just as a non-Jew, or they can become Jews. That's it. There's no option to be a righteous Christian or a righteous Muslim. They may be nice people, and I know many of them that are wonderful, wonderful people, wonderful people. Noahides, righteous Noahides, which means they comply with the Torah just as a non-Jew, or they can become Jews. That's it. There's no option to be a righteous Christian or a righteous Muslim. They may be nice people, and I know many of them who are wonderful, wonderful people.

2:24:45But my point in mentioning these things is to help those wonderful people, to show them that they're going about it the wrong way. If they really believe in God, they have to wake up, see, and check for themselves that there's a problem with their books. They already said that our book is true because if you're Christian, you believe that the Torah is the Old Testament, meaning it's true. If you're Muslim, you believe that the Torah is... Again, the Torah and then the Qur'an is number two, they're saying. So either way, no one is saying that the Torah is not true. All I'm saying here is that let's look at two things. Let's compare the facts between the book that we all agree is true, which is the Torah, versus... what the new so-called books are saying. And you will see countless contradictions and mistakes which put you in a situation where it's not possible for both of them to be true. It's not possible for the Torah and the Qur'an to be true. It's not possible for the Torah and the New Testament to be true. It's not possible. I remember a very good debate by Rabbi Tovia Singer.

2:26:05He's such an impressive, impressive person. And he said that there's something called a postulate. There's something called a postulate, meaning that there's something that everyone agrees on where it cannot be anything other. It cannot be contradicted. Meaning, everyone agrees, everyone agrees, meaning whether you're Christian or you're Jewish, that the Torah is true. can be true and the New Testament can be false. Everyone agrees that that's possible. Everyone also agrees that it's not possible for the Torah to be false and the New Testament to be real. That's not possible. Why? Because the New Testament relies on the Old Testament, a.k.a Torah. Meaning that the Torah has to be true in order for the New Testament to be true. But if the Torah is fake, that means that the New Testament is also fake. Meaning there's nothing true then. But it is possible that just the Torah is real. That is possible. So everyone agrees to that. What I'm saying is that it is not possible.

2:27:24I'm adding one point to Rabbi Singer. With kol hakavod, I think that he knows it also, but I think he's much more politically correct than I am, but he also is doing it the right way. I'm not calling him out in any way, shape, or form. He knows how to do it. He's helping thousands and thousands of Jews and non-Jews get to Hashem in an amazing way that I could only imagine doing one day. But One thing I would say, as far as my own opinion based on what I've learned, is that it's actually not possible for the Torah to be true and the New Testament to be true. That's not a possibility. Once you look at the facts, it's not a possibility. Meaning there are only two possibilities. Here we said there are three possibilities: Torah true, New Testament true; Torah true, New Testament false. everything false. That's the three possibilities. I say there's only two. Either the Torah is true, the New Testament is fake, or everything is fake. And the reason why is because it cannot be that both of them are true and they contradict each other. It's not possible. Meaning it's either they're both fake or only one is true, meaning the Torah.

2:28:44So that's the new chiddush on that end. And I think that when you look at the literal Torah, and what it specifically says, you look at the mistakes in the New Testament, you look at the Torah codes, you look at the Gematria, you look at the sages, you look at the Gemara, you look at the endless amount of wisdom, you look at the questions, at the Rambam, had maybe 800 questions that, until this day, no one's been able to answer about Christianity and their falsehood. I think that you'll find yourself in an impossible situation preserving anything remotely close to the New Testament and anything that's against the Torah. And again, not every non-Jew is obligated to become Jewish. But if we're going to be a light to the nations at the end of times that we're finding ourselves in, it's time for us to face facts and start telling people that the only option is Torah. Meaning that you either observe the Torah as a Jew or you observe the Torah as a non-Jew. There is no other option.

2:30:08I'm sure there's going to be some wars on this, and I'm sure there's going to be some fighting and all types of things, but the reality is that there are too many people looking for the truth for us to keep tiptoeing around it, hoping they find it on their own. This is how they find it. If they're watching this right now, that means they've been watching a shiur Torah for over two hours. That means they're looking for the truth. It's our job to show them. Any questions? I know as soon as I turn off the camera, there are questions. You spoke earlier about the subject of miracles. Yes. Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. I was waiting to hear it. So, actually, you know what? This actually reminds me of something else that I want to discuss as well. A lot of people... saw the clip that we made recently about how anyone that wants miracles, all they have to do is obviously do teshuva. You don't just get, if you're a rasha, you're not going to get any special treatment from Hashem, at least not on a permanent basis. But it says in the book of Yirmiyahu, chapter 15, verse 19,

2:31:32Therefore, thus said Hashem, if you repent, I will bring you back and let you stand before Me. Meaning, if you do teshuva, Hashem will always accept you. But if you bring forth an honorable person from a glutton, then you will be like My own mouth. Meaning that if you help somebody else do teshuva, you'll be like My own mouth. And Chazal, as we've mentioned in previous lectures, says that Hashem specifically is telling us that just like Hashem said, "I created the heaven and the earth." By my words, I was able to change nature, and I am nature. You'll be able to do the same. Meaning your prayers, your requests will have VIP treatment. When you help people do teshuva, you'll be able to change nature with your words. You'll be able to perform miracles. How? By helping somebody else do teshuva. But not if you just do it once in your life. There's a big reward for it, but specifically mentioning here that someone is doing it actively. So in a whole lecture that I did about kiruv, there's countless sources of how

2:32:44There's a huge merit in doing it, helping people do teshuva, helping people get closer to Hashem. There are countless sources of reward, countless sources of miracles. This is just one off the top of my head that I remembered. But people ask me, you know, okay, it's nice. Prove it. One story, two stories. Okay, it's nice. One verse, it's nice. God said this, God said that. It's nice. Time to prove it. So, Baruch Hashem, we've shown a lot of, we've mentioned some stories in the past. But I'd like to give you a nice update on what Kiruv does. Here are two stories for you. Two stories happening right now. Happening right now. So this is live. You're getting it live. First time I'm publicizing both stories.

2:33:44Anyone that watched my lectures in New York, I did about the Holocaust. Where was God during the Holocaust? Or the lecture I did with the Chazaq event and TorahAnytime. And another lecture I did, "Elections Are Coming. How Do We Avoid the Next Holocaust?" or something like that, I think it's called. And I think in all three of them, at least in two of them, I mentioned a story about a specific person that helps me named Emmanuel. Emmanuel, tzaddik that he is, was not born Jewish. In my opinion, he is one of the most righteous people that I know and has complete yirat Shamayim. He discovered the truth. He came from the complete opposite end, discovered the truth, looked for Hashem, and found Him. ...found him in Judaism, found him in the Torah. He learns non-stop. He changed his job just so he could keep Shabbat. He's in the process of converting. But as I mentioned in the story, he's in the middle of Bulgaria. Where he is, there are no Jews. Forget about there being no Judaism, there are just no Jews. Nothing. He left his regular job and became a shepherd, right?

2:35:11Why? So he could learn Torah and keep Shabbat. I have to beg Jews sometimes to keep Shabbat and not work seven days a week in their, you know, restaurant. This guy left his job so he could become a shepherd just so he could keep Shabbat. And he's hoping that one day he could actually sell Chalav Yisrael. This is the level of Yirat Shamayim this person has. So he helps me a lot, Baruch Hashem, him and also Vimlesh. Vimlesh is a tzaddik from India. Surrounded by idol worship is a perfect diamond. It's Vimlesh. So I told a story about Emmanuel and how he helps me. He posts things on the internet for us, the videos, and the Be'ezrat Hashem webpage on Facebook. And he helps us with doing the kiruv. I mentioned a story, and then a few weeks ago, he went forth and had surgery for Brit Milah. He had a circumcision. Now, when you're eight days old and you have a Brit Milah, it's not usually such a big deal if you're a healthy little boy. You don't remember it when you're 20 years old. But when you're a grown man in your 20s, you have a Brit Milah.

2:36:34It's a little bit of a different story. You're never going to forget it. Not that you're not going to remember. You're never going to forget it. Avraham Avinu had Brit Milah. He was a grown man. So somebody having a Brit Milah, it's a big deal. Shows you can't be a fake convert. You could be a fake convert. It's much easier to be a fake convert as a woman than it is to be a man. Because, you know, she doesn't really have to do anything. She just answers some questions and she could jump in a mikveh, and the next day walk around half naked. If the rabbi that's helping the woman convert is not verifying everything, making sure that she's 100% kosher, it could be a very, very big problem. And a lot of problems have happened. But a guy doing a circumcision, I don't think there's a chance in the world that guy's going to be a fake convert. And you have to be very careful with converts. I love converts personally. I think that Hashem specifically mentions them in the Torah more than anything else, more than any mitzvah in the Torah, for a reason. Not only because they're very special people when they're righteous, but also because, at the end of times that we're finding ourselves in, there's going to be many, many, many millions of them.

2:37:49As you guys know, I mentioned last week's shiur, and I posted it. There's about 25 million of them in Africa with one king that just converted. There's another rabbi from Africa, from Igbo, who also has 25 million. And they're all lost tribes. And there's another maybe 15, 16 million in Afghanistan. So it's not converts. These are all Jews, but unfortunately they've been lost. So they probably all have to do a formal conversion, or conversions for safek. But there's a lot more Jews than 15 million in the world. I can tell you that for sure. So anyone that thinks that they're very special, no, Hashem loves all of us. He's going to save us. He only has 15 million Jews. He's not going to punish all of us. It's all nonsense. There are a lot of converts, and there's actually a lot of Jews in the world that we didn't know existed until we're finding them right now. So anyway, this special guy, Emmanuel, goes to a brit milah. Still doesn't have a rabbi. Still doesn't have anything. He's doing it because he knows it's the right thing to do. It's just one part of the step. There's no promise of anything. Later that day,

2:39:18I get posts on the internet. I see from Emanuel. So I text him, like, what, the surgery didn't happen? And he says to me, no, no, no, it happened. I had the surgery this morning. I'm like, aren't you in pain? He says, yeah, yeah, I'm in pain. So I said, so why don't you go rest? So he tells me, where are the Jews going to get their Torah if I'm sleeping? So, on a day of his circumcision, he's still doing kiruv. And yet, my own brothers and sisters, I have to beg them to give out a CD for a dollar. The guy is not even obligated to do kiruv on the day of a circumcision. So that was the story that I said in the lectures. Moved a lot of people, Baruch Hashem. What does it have to do with miracles? Right? That's the part that Amos has been waiting for this whole time. Two hours plus he's waiting for this story. So a lot of people were moved by this story. And as Hashem would have it in His perfect self that He is, He made sure that at least a few of those people who were moved by this story were watching this lecture in Bulgaria.

2:40:43in a very small Jewish community in Bulgaria, three hours away from where Emmanuel is. Well, it's Tzaddik Rabbi Yoel who hears about this and contacts me less than a week ago, four or five days, a week ago, let's say, call it a week ago. contacts me and he says, some of the people in my kehillah watch your lecture and they mentioned you said something about a tzaddik from Bulgaria. We'd like to help him convert, whatever needs to happen. So I said, yeah, you know, what we need is, you know, he's a tzaddik, he's learning Torah, he's got Yirat Shamayim, he's helping us with Q. The only problem is we don't have any rabbis to convert him anywhere near where he is. Can you help?

2:41:47So the rabbi responds to me and he says, yes, I actually have a conversion program. It takes about a year or two, a year. But if he knows as much as you say, it could take even less. But that wasn't enough. That's not enough. When Hashem gives it to you, it says, salvation of Hashem is faster than the blink of an eye. But the salvation of Hashem is not like a human being. It's not a lotto ticket. Salvation of Hashem, when He gives it to you, He gives you the whole bank. So this is just the beginning. So I tell this to Emmanuel. Emmanuel cries, pretty much. Ike starts crying. My wife starts crying. Everyone's crying. Vimesh is crying. This is just... What are the chances? Think about this. What are the chances of mentioning the story of Eglah and the story... Okay, so let's say it's a good story. I tell the story. What are the chances of somebody in Bulgaria actually watching this shiur? Out of all the shiurim there are in the world. On top of it, what are the chances of that specific viewer of mine watching the shiur, and last but not least, them actually caring? The chances are infinite. It's infinite; it's just not humanly possible.

2:43:05Any one of those things. And on top of it, actually caring. And last but not least, actually being able to help. Even if they care, a lot of people care. They care about dogs, they care about cats, they care about some little guy that's been walking around half-naked for the last 30 years. I've been in America, the same little kid in Africa with a fly on his head. They care about him too, and they give money to the Red Cross, even though 99 cents out of every dollar goes to the CEO and the rest of his friends, not the little kid that's already grown up with a fly on his head. They care about a lot of things, but most people can't do anything about it. So, think about Hashem, how amazing and perfect Hashem is. The one guy who can help tells another guy, and he watches. The Rabbi ends up being a tzaddik and wants to help. I tell this to Emmanuel. Emmanuel says, "I hope they have patience for me because all the money that I had..." I spent it on the circumcision. As he's finishing sending me this message, he gets a call or a message, I think a call. And he sends me the message. He goes, something very unusual is happening, Rabbi. He says, a Mr. Cohen from the kehillah called me and he said that

2:44:33Not only do they want to help me, but they're going to pay for everything for me. They're going to pay for me to come there. They're going to give me a tallit, tefillin, siddur, tzitzit. Everything is paid for and they're going to help me move there. He's finishing the sentence. He's saying, I don't have any money. I don't have any money to pay. I hope they have patience for me. As he finishes the sentence, he says, He gets the call from one of the people, apparently the person that watched the shiur. Watched the shiur, he says, you have nothing to worry about. Hashem is watching. You see now why we mentioned why Hashem gets so upset when someone is idol worshipping? You leave the endless ocean and you go to a little hole in the middle of the desert?

2:45:34That's what Hashem said about idol worshippers. That's what He says about people who are not religious and connected to Him on a regular basis and want to stay secular because they want to have fun. Do you understand why it's so offensive to go against Hashem? Whether it's idol worship, secular mentality, or modernizing something that you're not even allowed to touch. He's everything. He's watching in the middle of a place that has no Jews. He created a kehillah just for somebody that wanted to seek the truth. Any proof that I've been teaching for the last couple of years, I think this is better than all of them. But it's not it. It's one kiruv story. You could say, ah, it's a coincidence. I have another guy helping me. Tzadik. Daniel. My student for a little while. He's trying to help us. He joined Team Hashem. And he's got a... He's trying to build his life. He's trying to get stuff together. He definitely lives in a difficult situation. He's in America? He's in America. He's in New York.

2:47:02and uh... does he post our things on the internet? Baruch Hashem, our numbers have gone through the roof, reaching tens of thousands of people every single week just through his posts, aside from all the other things we do. Seventy-five to eighty thousand people each week just through his posts, another seventy thousand here, not a hundred thousand. That’s amazing. Hundreds of thousands of things going throughout the entire world, spreading the purity of Torah in its purest form to people, at least the way I know it, the way it says it. And he's a soldier, non-stop, non-stop posting, non-stop posting. The only one that I know who does more than anybody else is Rav Mizrachi. Rav Mizrachi, I can't wait to see the miracles that are going to happen to him when he's in the final stage. I think, honestly, Hashem is going to split the ocean for him. No one does more kiruv than Rav Mizrachi, by the way. I wish I could do as much as Rav Mizrachi. But anyway, you have Daniel. Daniel is in a tough situation. He says...

2:48:11gotta get out of this situation, but he's older now. He's not, you know, he's not 12 or 15. I wish I could go to yeshiva. What do you think? What should I do? Maybe I should go to yeshiva, but 20-something years old, which yeshiva? There's no yeshiva, and you want to go to kollel, you know, which is the yeshiva for adults. You already have to be in the game. They're not going to teach you basic, you know, Chumash and Gemara and so on. Kollel means they're going to pay you. They're going to, you know, you're going to learn. And, you know, you're not living a life or anything with a fancy car and a house. But the point is it's a job. But it's for somebody that's already in it. He says, maybe it's time for me to get out of this where I'm at. Go to yeshiva. Am I creating yeshiva? I'm not. Less than 24 hours later. Yes, I think it's actually even less than 24 hours. Half a day maybe. Half a day later.

2:49:28Let's actually think about it now. I don't know, a lot of things happened. I get a message from him. I have no idea what's going on. He tells me they just announced, in a place right next to me, 15 minutes from my house, that's starting next week. They're opening a yeshiva for beginners. All are welcome. I tell him, this is good. Call this rabbi, ta-ta-ta, make the contacts. B'ezrat Hashem, he's being connected even to another yeshiva that's in Monsey. that's starting next week. They're opening a yeshiva for beginners. All are welcome. I tell him, this is good. Call this rabbi, ta-ta-ta, make the contacts. B'ezrat Hashem, he's being connected even to another yeshiva that's in Monsey. Long story short, b'ezrat Hashem, he is going to be in yeshiva in the next couple of days. From impossible to Hashem signs the check and you already know it cleared. When you look for Hashem, you'll find Him. When you look for excuses, you'll also find them. The only difference is

2:50:54When you look for Hashem, you have the ultimate reward. You have miracles. You have extraordinary things happening in your life on a day-to-day basis. And I tell people that this is a very, very simple thing to do if you want miracles. One, do teshuva. Do teshuva, keep Shabbat, keep kosher, be modest. Lay tefillin, taharat hamishpacha, which is family purity. A woman must be modest. A man also must be modest. Start watching your words. You know, do the basics of Judaism. That's step number one. Number two, every day, same time, spend a few minutes thanking Hashem. Don't ask for anything. Stop asking. Thank Hashem. Thank Hashem. I do it every day, Baruch Hashem, I try. 12:30 in the afternoon, sometimes later, but I try to put an alarm on my phone. This thing won't stop ringing until I start. It says, "Time to thank Hashem." Thank Hashem. Stop asking for things all day. Okay, He knows what you want. Start thanking Him. Step number three. Don't miss out on an opportunity of a lifetime.

2:52:10to ask for everything by using the Sfat HaKodesh of Birkat HaMazon. Every single day, at the very least once a day, you must put yourself in a situation where you say Birkat HaMazon at least once a day. If you actually know how significant it is, you'd eat bread all day just to do Birkat HaMazon. You wouldn't go to work, just do Birkat HaMazon all day and tell people about this. That's step number three. Step number four: Every day... Before you go to sleep, after you pray, after you take a moment, talk to Hashem. Five minutes. Tell Him what's on your mind. Hashem, I need help with parnasah. He knows, but you still tell Him. Hashem, I need a zivug. Hashem, I need—I'm not, I don't remember everything I just learned. Help me with my Torah. Help me with my zivug. Help me with parnasah tova. Help me with my husband. Help me with my children. Help me with my whatever. Talk to Hashem. Tell Him what's on your mind. You already thanked Him. Now it's time to ask. Because you're going to go meet Him in a few minutes. You go to sleep, your neshama comes out. So already have the message. Last, but definitely not least.

2:53:30The key to making it all come together and making miracles: a minimum of five minutes a day, obviously much more if you can. You must be involved in kiruv. You must be involved in kiruv. Post things on the internet, arrange lectures, make videos, give out CDs, sponsor CDs. Do something. Every day. What's Shabbat? Obviously, you start doing it on Shabbat. On Friday, you do it before Shabbat. The rest of the week you do whatever. Every day. Be involved in kiruv. If you make Hashem's children your personal responsibility on a daily basis, Hashem will make you and anyone you love also His personal responsibility with special attention on a daily basis. Any other questions? Questions?

2:54:30You're still in the shock of Immanuel. Ask questions. Go ask. Ask. It's probably been three hours by now, so it's good. Anybody who wants to leave, it's up to you. If you have questions, you can ask. Are you guys again in the competition? No. So it says when the baby is in the womb, right? Yes, learns all the Torah. Right. Yes. And then whatever it taps you, and then you forget it. That's only for Jews, or it's for everyone? Are you asking me if non-Jews learn the Torah while in the womb? Yeah. I never heard that they do, but I doubt they come out completely empty-handed. You know, so they do get something. It's probably not... I don't know. I don't know. Don't quote me on this. I only learned...

2:55:31...that the Jews learn the entire Torah in the womb, but as far as the non-Jews, I assume that they do get something. I just haven't learned it, because number one, they're also Hashem's creation. Number two, many of them, especially in our generation, have an unusual interest in Torah, which they would not have if they weren't connected to it in some way or another. So I believe that there is something, I just don't know what it is. Shul actually just spoke about this. He said there was one kid in Israel who the Malach didn't pinch, and he didn't forget. Yes, there is, yeah. And anything you tell him, he's a little kid, he knows all the Gemarot, everything. Less than 20 years ago. Less than 20 years. So they said, actually, it's a good thing that we forgot the Torah. And even if you learn now, you'll still forget it. The next day you're going to learn, you'll always find something new. So they say it's actually a good thing to forget. Yeah, forgetting is good and bad. But as far as that kid, that boy, it was less than 20 years ago. He didn't forget his Torah. And by the time he was three years old, he knew everything already; he was teaching. And then the big rabbis came, a couple of mekubalim came, and they made him forget it. He could have been like the perfect one who knew everything.

2:56:53Torah is not about knowing everything. Torah is about ameilut baTorah; it's to work for Torah. Knowing everything is more likely to make him not want to learn Torah. Why are you saying you forget Torah? To show us that what the Torah says is real. That's at least one reason for it. It's a proof. People like proofs. Is it on YouTube, this kid? No, not that I know of. Not that I know of. I heard the story originally from Rav Nisi Magen, Zecher Tzadik Livracha. He knew it. He knew the story firsthand. His chavruta was the kid. The kid or the kid's relative, something like that. He was personally connected to the story. Next. I have a question. But I don't know how relevant it is. There's no relevance. Now it's questions and answers. Um... I've kind of cleared out all of my confusion when it comes to Christianity. But I'm still very confused; I don't understand the whole concept of Mashiach. Because I feel that what I've been taught—I was raised as a Seventh-day Adventist. Right. So we looked at, not we because I'm not anymore, but at the time, I looked at every other Christian as being crazy and we were the only smart ones. Right. Because we understood

2:58:18how, you know, eschatology better than they did. So the idea that Mashiach, in like messianic circles, is going to come and be in Israel, and what I'm learning about how, what Judaism says that Mashiach is gonna do, it seems so similar; it's confusing to me. No, but the thing is that in Christianity they say that Mashiach already came and he's going to come back. In Judaism, it says he's only coming once. And two, there's actually two of them. There's two Mashiachs. There's Mashiach ben Yosef and Mashiach ben David. There's not one. There is a prophecy that Mashiach ben Yosef dies in the war. But we can pray for that prophecy not to come true, meaning that Mashiach ben Yosef will live and Mashiach ben David will live. Mashiach ben Yosef will be much more active in the war than Mashiach ben David, which is the reason why he's in more...

2:59:25Mashiach ben David is going to be a miracle worker, where he's going to have the miraculous ability to smell the sins of people and destroy them with his words. He's going to be able to do things that are not natural to us humans, but he's going to be a human being. He never died before. regular person, that just Hashem instills power in at that point. He does not know he's the Mashiach until he becomes the Mashiach. He doesn't grow up thinking, "Oh, I'm holy, I'm anything." As a matter of fact, he's a Baal Teshuva. He's someone that wasn't religious from birth. He did Teshuva at some point. I don't know where it's written about him never making a sin after he makes Teshuva. I don't know where it says that he never made a sin after he made teshuva. I don't remember that. I know I heard it from the boy, but I don't remember reading it in the book. But also, the End of Times has certain events that play out, one of them being that there's a world war where...

3:00:35originally it starts between Edom and Yishmael, meaning the Christians and the Muslims go to war with each other. It becomes a world war, and then they stop and gang up together to go against Israel. And then it becomes the war of Gog and Magog, which, according to what we know today, has already started; it's just quiet. ... then as the world war which, at some point, one of the prophecies is that Yishmael, which is the Muslims, take over Israel for nine months. Some say the whole world, some say just Israel. But nonetheless, they take over. It's going to be a very, very difficult time. Two-thirds of the world dies... Yes. Again, it's one of the prophecies. Not all of them have to come true. But two-thirds of the world dies. That is a reality. And that's in the beginning. According to the Arizal, the two-thirds of the world dying is in eight minutes.

3:01:57Now, when he wrote it, it wasn't possible for something like that to happen. Now we know it is possible because we have atomic weapons and biological weapons and so on. After this war, then the Mashiach comes. So he's a man. Yeah, he's not a robot. But he's not going to be flying down? Because that's where the confusion comes from? Oh, will he be flying? No, I mean, I don't know exactly how he's going to come. I mean, he's not like a homeless guy or something like that. I mean, he's a regular person. He's not coming from outer space? No, he's not a UFO. He's living here. Yeah, it's one of the prophecies, coming on a donkey, but I don't think it's necessarily like a donkey that's like, you know, that he brought in Netanya, you know, the neighborhood of Sela with all the biryonim, all the gangsters. Like, first of all, if it is the donkey, it's the same donkey that was created bein hashmashot, which is one of the ten creations that Hashem made between sunset and dusk.

3:03:12On the sixth day of creation, there was a donkey that Avraham Avinu rode on. It's a special donkey. If that's the donkey, then yes. But again, I don't think it's anything like we visualize. Like some guy riding on a donkey saying, "Hey guys, hey, how are you? Read your Gemara. I'm the Mashiach." No, it's not that. It's going to be a lot of miraculous events. Before he even comes, Elijah the prophet, Eliyahu HaNavi, is going to announce it to the world. Three days before he comes. That's in the book of Zechariah. Three days before he comes, three days before the Mashiach is disclosed to the world, Elijah the prophet comes and tells us that he's coming. This will be one of the proofs. A reincarnated Mashiach? Elijah the Prophet, he never died. Elijah the Prophet became an angel. He never died. He was one of the few people that Hashem decided not to let die, and he lived for a few hundred years. Eventually, Hashem made him into an angel. So, he'll be coming down. I guess so, yeah. And Elijah the Prophet is going to announce that he's coming.

3:04:36...then three days later the Mashiach will be announced with a shofar. It's going to be a horn, which is going to be one of the, uh, not just any horn. It's going to be a horn that, um, was one of the two horns of the... ram that was slaughtered at the Akeidat Yitzchak, when Avraham was supposed to kill his son as a korban, as a sacrifice. And when Hashem showed His mercy and told him, no, I don't mean that. I mean, you know, sacrifice the ram. So they sacrificed the ram. They used every part of the ram's body. For the korban, they made one shofar from one of the horns, and the second shofar is hidden somewhere, and it's going to be used to announce the Mashiach. So that will be used, and that shofar will be heard around the world, meaning there's not going to be any corner in the world

3:05:45that will not hear this shofar, meaning in the book of Jeremiah, I believe it is chapter 19, Hashem is saying that at the time of Mashiach they're no longer going to call Him the God of Israel that took them out of Egypt, but rather the God of Israel that took them out of the land of the north and the rest of the world, which land of the world... we know it is the land of the north. We know it is North America; it’s the only thing that’s called North America. South America is a continent, and the rest of the world is because we have Jews all over the world. But specifically, North America is very, very interesting that it is mentioned in the verse.

3:06:46because it's where the most Jews in the world are located, other than Israel, Canada, and America. so yes, this is Jeremiah, chapter sixteen, verses fourteen and fifteen. However, behold, days are coming, the word of Hashem, when it will no longer be said, "As Hashem lives who took out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt," but rather, "As Hashem lives who took out the children of Israel from the land of the north and from all the lands" where He had scattered them, and I shall return them to their land which I gave to their forefathers. It continues with some other prophecies about this. We are going to witness an enormous amount of miracles at the time of Mashiach, miracles that are even greater than those we saw in Egypt. This is my point. meaning the reason why it's going to be recognized that Hashem is the God of Israel that took them out of the land of the north, why this new event will be the newly recognized event

3:07:56and not the same event that we've been mentioning in the entire Torah, which is the God of Am Yisrael that took us out of Egypt, took us out of Egypt. We mention in our prayer, you know, several times a day that He took us out of Egypt. We're constantly commanded, even in this week's parashah, at the end of the parashah, I mention it no less than three times, that remember God who took you out of Egypt. Don't forget, God took you out of Egypt. God took you out of Egypt. Okay, we got it. We got it. We got it. He took us out of Egypt. We got it the first time, the second time, the 80th time. I got it. Here he's saying, no, He's not the God who took you out of Egypt. He's the God who took you out of the land of the north and all of the nations. Why? Because what's going to happen at the time of Mashiach is going to be bigger than Egypt. Bigger miracles. Meaning there's not going to be any doubt. that this is the Mashiach, this is what's happening, this is the end, this is it. And this is one of the things that Christianity failed to understand, where they thought that the Mashiach can just come and be like an average guy, maybe make, whether he made the miracles or not is irrelevant. He could have done it through wizardry, he could have done it through a million other different ways. Anyway, anything that is written about what the guy did,

3:09:13is not really a big deal in Judaism because all of the sages that are mentioned in the Gemara, every single sage that's mentioned by name in the Gemara was mentioned by name because they qualified. Qualified for what? If their name is mentioned in the Gemara, they qualified where they had the holiness and ability to bring back the dead. Meaning, there are plenty of sages in the Gemara that are not mentioned by name. It just says, "someone said," whatever he said. Okay, but he said something very important. This person that said this, is obviously holy, is obviously righteous, is obviously amazing. Why don't you mention him by name? He goes, no, no, he doesn't qualify. He doesn't qualify. Why? He wasn't able to bring back the dead. So whether the miracles that Jesus did or didn't do, it doesn't really make a difference. What he did was not really a big deal. But that's one of the things that the Christians fail to understand. The second thing they fail to understand is that they think that the Mashiach is going to be like a normal event, something that some people can doubt. It will not be a doubtable event. Meaning that when Hashem made sure that He gave us the Torah, no one in history has ever doubted Mount Sinai.

3:10:34Even the biggest anti-Semites in history, like Haman or Hitler, did not doubt Mount Sinai, unless they were atheists and just didn't believe in anything. They believe, I don't know, we're all monkeys or something. Anyone that believed in the Torah knew, or any religion really for that matter, even the Chinese, knew Mount Sinai happened. Why? Because Hashem made enough miracles so that everyone knew. When Hashem wants to make Himself noticed, He makes sure everyone knows. Now, if He made sure that He was going to make known the biggest event in history, the giving of the Torah, why would He make a bigger event, the end of the world, the culmination of the world, the ultimate purpose being achieved, the end, discreet?

3:11:34Like, you know, you watch a program. It's a crazy movie, and then all of a sudden it just shuts off. But there's, like, no, like, nobody beats up somebody else. There's, like, no fight. Nothing happens. It just shuts off in the middle. I think that's how some show that went on for many, many years, like, the last show that they had after, like, I don't know, like, 15 years of having this show, they just had a regular episode, and in the middle of the episode, it just shut off. like that was the end. of this 15-year series. Obviously, a lot of people were very, very disappointed. It was a very stupid ending. But this is human beings being stupid. Hashem is perfect. If He made sure it's the ultimate event, everyone knows. The goyim know, the Jews know, the believers know, the non-believers know. No one is doubting Mount Sinai because Hashem made sure that that's provable, knowable, no questions asked. Mashiach, He's saying specifically, is going to be bigger.

3:12:37It's going to be a bigger event. So to say that he already came, but we missed him, or that he came but pretty much 90% of the world at the time didn't believe it, doesn't make any sense. And so, it goes against the Torah. So last but not least, also, every single prophecy must come true. When it talks about the sheep and the leopard being together, and peace in the world, and there's no war—I mean, none of these prophecies came true. None of them. There's still war, there's still disease, there's still hatred, there's still antisemitism. If anything, it's worse than ever. So when Mashiach comes, the Rambam says we're only going to know exactly what's going to happen once it happens. Everything else is just possibilities based on our Torah. Our Torah gives us all of the possibilities. We know all of the possibilities, and what we do know for sure is the reason why it's obvious that it never happened is because none of these possibilities ever happened.

3:14:00It's not like you could say, listen, you know, there were a hundred possibilities, three happened. So maybe it happened. None. Nothing happened. As a matter of fact, we didn't have any of the signs. Out of all the signs we have for the end of times, we didn't have any of the signs at all 50 years ago. None. And then only now we have sign after sign after sign. sign after sign after sign to the point where right now, as we speak, practically every single one of the signs has come true except one, which is the Mashiach himself. So the biggest thing about Mashiach that I think is the most helpful for anyone is that we have all the signs; it's happening as we speak. But it also means that we're running out of time. Because once he comes, that's it. No more teshuva, no more conversion. It's over. Wherever you are, you are. Unless, you know, again, some people are going to be in a process of conversion, which, of course, if they're righteous, it's going to be something that's taken into account. If someone is already starting serious teshuva but has not completed it,

3:15:26things like that will be taken into account, but that's going to be one of the things where it says that the, uh... that they don't mean. The people that are in the middle will have to choose a side. You know, some people want to play both fields, both sides. You know, they're like half-religious; they're religious but not always. They're this, they're that. So the people that are in the middle, that are truly in the middle, that actually have yirat shamayim, and are serious but sometimes they fall, they have to pick a side. And, uh... There's going to be a war against the Mashiach. That's the biggest thing. That's also the biggest proof that we know it didn't happen because the first thing that happens after Mashiach comes is that everyone goes to war with him. And he wins. He doesn't die. You know, so... What does that mean? He wins? No, what does that mean? They go to war with him. They try to kill him. Who's the north and the... everyone, including the Jews that are wicked—not all Jews, the Erev Rav. The Erev Rav is a group of Jews that we've had a problem with since Mount Sinai. They're wicked Jews that are anti-Torah, or even some of them pretend to be rabbis but they're really anti-Torah. They're just wicked, wicked people, and they're going to go to war with him—go to war with Mashiach.

3:16:55Try to kill him. God. No, he won't need weapons. You won't need... it's not like a natural war where they'll use weapons. They'll use atomic bombs. They'll use tanks. They'll use whatever they can. Already. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, it's not going to be like a... uh, a natural war where, like, he's shooting and then he's ducking and he's shooting and he's ducking. Oh, I got him! Yes, no, it's not gonna be like that. It's not like when we were little kids playing with our brothers. No, it's, if he says a word, he could destroy civilization. You know, the most mystical war, there are two major wars... a few, but two that I know a little bit about, they're very, very mystical, very unnatural, that have happened in the Torah. One of them was actually when we, the nation of Israel, went against Amalek. In the book, it seems like it's a traditional war, like Amalek attacked us from behind, beat up some old people, and you know

3:18:11weaklings. But in reality, it was a completely supernatural war, and they say that all of the wars of all of the world that will ever happen will not be like that war. That's how big that war was. To the point where Moshe had to keep the sun in the sky in order for Am Yisrael to win. Scientists are able to prove that, by the way. Like I heard, there was some scientific thing where it made an atheist into a believer. Wow, I never, so that's one. Another war is the war of the 12 tribes. The 12 tribes went to war, Yaakov and his 12 sons, against all of the nations. It's in the Midrash, Me'am Loez, and a few other places. You read that Midrash. First of all, it's very, very, very stimulating and entertaining. But second of all, you find out the source of practically every superhero. I did a shiur about it maybe a year ago. Superheroes. No, but you see, Incredible Hulk is Yehuda. The guy that runs really fast is Naftali. The guy that's a werewolf is Binyamin. Superheroes. Superman would fly.

3:19:32Actually, a few of them were able to jump really high, almost fly. Yaakov was stronger than everyone. So, yeah, so really, really cool stuff. It's a very interesting Midrash. But you see, the source of all superheroes is actually the Torah. So, that was also a very, very supernatural war. Also, there was the war of Avraham Avinu versus the four kings. He didn't fight them with regular weapons; he took sand and threw it in the air, and each one of the grains of sand turned into spears and killed everyone. So, actually, I'll give you a story. You guys like stories. Rabbi Akiva, his rabbi, one of his rabbis, was Nachum Ish Gamzu. In the Gemara, I believe it's Masechet Berachot, Tractate of Berachot, it says that Nachum Ish Gamzu was called Nachum Ish Gamzu,

3:20:48because he would always say, "Gam zu l'tovah," everything is for the good. So one day, there was a decree on Israel from the king at the time. They said, "Listen, maybe if we give this king our treasures, we can convince him to change the decree." But everybody was scared. "Nachum Ish Gamzu, you take the treasure and bring it to the king. You're used to miracles. You have miracles all the time happening to you. So go, bring the treasure." No problem. Nachum Ish Gamzu takes the treasure chest full of gold and diamonds and whatever. give this king our treasures, we can convince him to change the decree. But everybody was scared. "Nachum Ish Gamzu, you take the treasure and bring it to the king. You're used to miracles. You have miracles all the time happening to you. So go, bring the treasure." No problem. Nachum Ish Gamzu takes the treasure chest full of gold and diamonds and whatever. At some point in the middle of the way, he stops at a certain place, and these three robbers, these bandits, say, "Hey, what are you doing here?" He says, "Oh, I'm going to visit the king." OK, they wait for him to go to sleep. They see that he came with a chest. They take the chest and fill it up with sand instead.

3:22:17So Nachum Ish Gam Zu wakes up the next morning. He takes the treasure chest to the king. He says, "Here, the nation of Israel is giving you a present, Your Highness. This is our present. This is our treasure." The king opens it, or one of the servants opens it, and he sees a bunch of sand. He gets really angry. "Are you guys mocking me?" Are you giving me sand? But then he thought to himself, how could it be? This guy came all the way here. If you want to mock me, mock me behind my back. Came all the way down here to give me sand? What, are they crazy? So one of his servants said, "Your Highness, Your Highness, maybe this is much bigger than you think. That's why..." Their forefather, Avraham, he beat four nations with sand. Maybe this is the sand. She says, "Oh, is this what it is?" Nachum comes and goes, "Yeah, yeah, it's good, it's good. It's holy." He doesn't care. Yesterday there were diamonds in there. Now there's sand.

3:23:36So what did he say? He says, the fact that there's sand in there, that's what Hashem wants. No questions asked. He wasn't like us every two seconds. We didn't win the lotto, we're questioning if God exists. You know, we didn't get the job, we think that God hates us. He says, this too is for the good. He goes, yeah, yeah, this is good. This is good. So the king says, okay, let's try it. They take a few sands and they throw them in the air and they see it all turns into spears. King celebrated, "Wow, amazing!" He says, "Listen, go bring him my treasures." He takes some treasures, and they fill up a treasure chest full of diamonds. They say, "Give this back to your leaders, to your nation, whatever decree is passed." So now he goes and he stops in the same hotel where those bandits robbed him. Now he has these treasure chests full of diamonds, even more than what he had before. And these guys are laughing at him. They're like, how are you still alive, Bechler? How are you still alive? He goes, no, I gave them the treasure chest. He goes, what do you mean, the treasure chest? The ones that we filled up for you with sand? He goes, yeah, yeah, yeah, they liked it. They liked it. They gave me actually a few treasure chests full of diamonds. So these bandits couldn't have enough. So they took a couple of treasure chests. They went with sand. They went to the king.

3:25:03And as soon as they arrived, and obviously the sand wasn't like the sand of the Jews, all of their heads were hung. That's it? Other questions? You guys are tired? One of the proofs J.C. can't be Mashiach is because he died. Yeah, we said that already. He has to be alive. The thing is, though, that the whole book is fake. And that's really all that matters. That's really all that matters. The whole book is fake. It's complete nonsense. There are proofs in the Torah that it's going to happen. It's not a surprise. The only issue is, what do we do with this information? Most are choosing to just not say anything. Some are choosing to publicize that it's fake, like Rabbi Tovia Singer. like Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi, I'm trying to do it because it's necessary, number one, for the protection of our Torah, and number two, for the protection of the truth and to save people with the truth. Unfortunately, there are a few, like this heretic, that wrote a book called "Kosher Jesus" or another...

3:26:34Uh, Kosher? No, no, it's another guy who said Kosher Jesus. Oh, there's two of them? Yeah, there's another. Yeah, that "Kosher Pig" is by another rasha. He's actually the one that wrote "Kosher Pig." You know that he's actually, um, it talks about him in this week's parasha that... talks about him in this parasha. Calls himself a rabbi. Calls himself a rabbi, and he tells people that JC is real and he's Jewish. And actually, as a matter of fact, it talks about him in this parasha, where it says, even if someone, I'll tell you right now. Hmm. Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba. Ah, okay. Chapter 13, verse 7. If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is like your own soul, will entice you secretly saying, let us go and worship the gods of others, that you did not know, you or your forefathers, from the gods of the people that are all around you,

3:27:54those near to you and those far from you, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth. You shall not accede to him and not hearken to him. Your eye shall not take pity on him. You shall not be compassionate nor conceal him. Rather, you shall surely kill him. Your hand shall be the first against him to kill him and the hand of the entire people afterwards. You shall pelt him with stones, and he shall die, for he sought to make you stray from near Hashem, your God, who took you out of Egypt from the house of slavery. So it says here, this is four verses, specifically talking about this, what's his name? Yitzchak Shapira and his Kosher Pig book, and any of the people that are helping him. He has actually several verses in Italian. This week's parasha, they're talking about him. It says here, even if this guy is your brother, if he's your mother, if he's your son, if he's anything, if he's your best friend, like he's your own soul. Meaning, you know, sometimes you have friends that you consider even more than your own brother.

3:29:13He tells you to go against Hashem. Go worship JC Penny. Go worship Islam. Go worship Buddha. Go worship anything but Torah. If the Sanhedrin was still around today, they would actually make you kill him. They wouldn't force you if you can't do it, but they would say that the preference of what it says in His saying is you yourself, don't cover for him, don't feel bad for him, don't have mercy for him, don't try to help him, nothing. Nothing. You actually have to kill him. Why? Because he tried to get you away from Hashem. So people like that, like this messianic movement, are telling people that it's really Judaism when in reality it's completely Christianity. It's even worse than Christianity because it pretends to be something else. So it's a, people like that are very, very wicked, and they have a special place in Gehinnom for them unless they do teshuva somehow, miraculously. Reza Hashemi sees this video, I don't know what to tell him, but it's a, there's an endless amount, endless amount of proofs against the New Testament.

3:30:29it's complete nonsense. I've seen a debate that he had, or at least a few minutes of a debate that he had with somebody, which again, fell under the same mistake, which is using mistranslations and all kinds of nonsense. The point is, you believe in JC, that means you believe in the New Testament. You believe in the New Testament because there's no other book from that time, and actually for hundreds of years later, was written with his name on it, meaning not even a newspaper article, not even a newspaper mentioned this guy, which is the reason why some doubt he even existed. Yeah, but I'm saying some people are saying that he didn't even exist because the only source of his existence at the time that he supposedly lived is the New Testament. That's the first time he's ever mentioned. But the New Testament is written between 70 to 300 years after he died, which means there's nothing written about him at the time he actually lived. No one ever saw him. No one ever actually saw him that's written in that book. Moshe, you can see there's Egyptian journalists who wrote about him.

3:31:42Some guy won the lotto 50, 60 years ago. Somebody wrote about him. Somebody slipped on a banana and broke his leg. Some newspaper wrote it. It's somewhere. Journalists have always existed. To say that somebody was the Mashiach, a prophet, a tzaddik, anything, and no one wrote about it? No one? Not one person wrote about it? Not even a college journal or something? Or a high school newspaper wrote about him? Nothing? No one wrote about it. There’s no proof. So anyone that believes in JC has to believe in the New Testament. But we already know you can’t believe in the New Testament because it’s full of mistakes. And if there’s even one mistake, not the tens of thousands of mistakes that it has, but one mistake, then it’s not divine. If it's not divine, it's worthless. So that’s why anyone that’s doing this Messianic movement or anything else is mistaken. There are clear proofs for it. And it's time to wake up because once time runs out, once Mashiach is here, you're not going to get the news from me. It's easier when it's from me. And it's our responsibility to tell people that, to tell people the truth. B'ezrat Hashem, wake them up. Anything else? Now we're finished. I'll wait two minutes. Let's see.

3:33:07Is when Mashiach is here, is it going to be like in the beginning? No, not right away. Initially, it's going to be a very difficult time. Something called Chevlei Mashiach, there will be a lot of dead bodies. One of the things is that he's going to have to bury all the dead bodies for seven years. It's going to be a difficult, difficult time in the beginning. And then it's going to be a good time. But are they going to live for a thousand years? You're going to let people live? Oh yeah, people, once the Mashiach comes, whoever is still alive, meaning whoever was chosen, was righteous, completed their teshuva, you know, and was really chosen to stay alive, not only have the merit of seeing Mashiach, but actually living it, will never die. Will never die. Well, I mean, they'll only die when they finish, they won't die, they would finish this world. It does say that everyone has to feel the pain of death. but not necessarily permanent death, meaning that they may die momentarily, just like we did at Mount Sinai, and then Hashem brought us back. Every time Hashem said the first two commandments, every time He completed a commandment, the holiness of His words and His voice was too much for human beings to take, even though they all became prophets, and we all died. Everyone died. Hashem brought us back to life. Then He said the second commandment.

3:34:36Everyone died again. He brought us back to life. And they told Moshe, "Please stop Him from talking, or else we're going to die. You go and talk to Him, and whatever He says, we will do and we will listen." There's a verse in the Tehillim. "You go talk to Him, or else we'll die." The reason why was because every time He talked, everyone died. So that could potentially be where everyone dies that way. Again, like I said, the Rambam says that the exact details of what's going to happen at the time of Mashiach, we're not going to know until it happens. But I do know that it says that everyone has to have the taste of death. And then there's also going to be 40 years after the Mashiach comes, there's going to be the resurrection of the dead. It's going to be Beit HaMikdash. It's going to be the Mashiach. And pretty much whoever lives and survives the Mashiach, their Yetzer Hara will be destroyed. There's not going to be any more Yetzer Hara. There's not going to be more evil inclination. No more sin. It becomes a... After the initial difficult time, which is called Chevlei HaMashiach, it's going to be, in essence, Gan Eden.

3:35:57So then, what's... Okay, so are we waiting to go to the Olam HaBa? Yes. Yes, so first there is... First there is the last thousand years of this world, or a little over a thousand years of this world, until the end of the last 6,000. And... There's going to be the resurrection of the dead. You're going to see Moshe. You're going to see Avraham, Yitzchak, Yaakov. You're going to see King David learn Torah all day. Yeah, but they all come here. Once the Mashiach comes, everyone comes. All the righteous people will come. The righteous people will be resurrected from the dead. And we're going to be here for approximately another thousand years or so, a little over a thousand years. But after this world is completed, then there is Olam HaBa, and then there is the completion of the completion, which is a completely different story for another lecture. But yeah, in so many words, someone who survives Mashiach, only good.

3:37:20It's our goal. It's our goal. What do you think? We've got a chance? I don't know. I hope so. I think if we do enough teshuva, we'll have a chance. If we do enough teshuva, we'll have a chance. I don't compare myself. I don't know. All I know is whatever the Torah says, it's all we know. Hopefully, we'll have a chance. Anything else? It's only, it's still early. I think it's what, two o'clock in the morning? No, no, no. It's a quarter to one. You guys are still up. All right. Amen.