THE END IS JUST THE BEGINNING

0:14We're back in Sunny Isles. We're starting a week. Today's shiur will be for a refuah shlema for David ben Esriah, Doris bat Jorah, Levana bat Sara, Rav Efraim ben Shulamit, Rabbanit Sara bat Anat, Yochevet bat Batya, Batya bat Sara, and also for teshuva shlema for all of Am Yisrael, be'ezrat Hashem. Teshuva shlema. So just a few minor updates or reminders for anyone that's either watching for the first time or just doesn't know or perhaps has a bad memory... and also for teshuva shlema for all of Am Yisrael, be'ezrat Hashem. Teshuva shlema. So just a few minor updates or reminders for anyone that's either watching for the first time or just doesn't know or perhaps has a bad memory, um anyone that wants to get daily updates, short clips that, Baruch Hashem, Team Hashem makes of our shiurim—five to ten-minute clips—updates of our upcoming events, different long shiurim when they get publicized, the best thing to do is to join our WhatsApp groups,

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9:06but if we don't have people, then I promise you, we're going to have a serious problem. And that's some of the things that I want to talk about today. Right now, anyone that's been paying attention over the last few days has noticed that almost every rabbi, English, Hebrew, Russian, that has a little bit of truth in him, with Baruch Hashem there are a few, is not really giving the typical shiur Torah over the last few days. Everyone has all of a sudden become a politician. Over the last few days, every rabbi has put on his political hat. But that's not because they want or care for politics, but rather because we are in... with, Baruch Hashem, there are a few, is not really giving the typical shiur Torah over the last few days. Everyone has all of a sudden become a politician. Over the last few days, every rabbi has put on his political hat. But that's not because they want or care for politics, but rather because we are in a sefer like The Epic of the Messiah by Rav Elchonon Wasserman, a talmid of the Chofetz Chaim, written almost 80 years ago, years before the Holocaust. And you'll see how he literally describes the day, describes everything that happened in his day, what was happening with the Chofetz Chaim, what was happening with the nation, what was happening with the government, and so on and so forth.

10:34The Epic of the Messiah by Rav Elchonon Wasserman, a talmid of the Chofetz Chaim, written almost 80 years ago, years before the Holocaust. And you'll see how he literally describes the day, describes everything that happened in his day, what was happening with the Chofetz Chaim, what was happening with the nation, what was happening with the government, and so on and so forth. And a lot of people listened and did nothing. Hence, the Holocaust came. Right now, we're at that time. And we've talked about this many times, but something new came up. Why did everybody change their tone? Why did Rav Mizrachi, shlita, all of a sudden decide to do a whole lecture about government in Hebrew? Not one, but five or six of them, one after another. Rav Zamir Cohen, probably the least... the least likely to ever pick a battle with anybody. Such a tzaddik doesn't pick a battle with anyone. You have to force him to get mad, and he still doesn't. All of a sudden, he did a shiur about politics. What do you have to do with politics? You're not running for office. It's enough running a big organization. What are you talking about politics for?

12:04Rabbi Efraim Kachlon, our dear rabbi, gave two shiurim already in the last couple of days about the government. Why? Why does everybody care about the government all of a sudden? In the next 48 hours, Israel is going to have an election. Again. They're going to have an election again. The government system in Israel is a little dysfunctional, so they have an election it seems like almost every other day. But the point is that we have a problem we've never really faced before, which is that in the past, the people that hated the Torah, the Zionists, the lefty liberals, whether it was Ben-Gurion who used the Tanach in his United Nations speech in order to convince the UN to give them the land. Does he keep anything the Tanach says? Did he even read the Tanach? I highly doubt it. But it was good for the argument. It worked. It worked. The rest of his Zionist friends did similar things. Now their hatred for Judaism

13:05them the land. Does he keep anything the Tanakh says? Did he even read the Tanakh? I highly doubt it. But it was good for the argument. It worked. It worked. The rest of his Zionist friends did similar things. Now, their hatred for Judaism was always hidden. Herzl, yimach shemo, had a communication with the Pope saying that his solution to anti-Semitism is that he believes that all of the Jews should convert to Christianity. Just like his son did. He converted his son to Christianity. There's no sound on this. You can take the thing. Special kaparat avonot with this... So, is that sound now? New link? Okay. Okay.

14:27...so wanted to solve the Jewish problem by converting all the Jews to Christianity, showing that his problem was not religion per se but rather the Torah itself. However, this was only found later on after he died, in his private journal; he wasn't public about it. Many of the Zionists hid their hatred for Judaism. They weren't active about it, and they weren't practicing, but they pretended that they could cope... for the first time in history, the Jewish lefty liberal haters of Judaism are as vocal about it as Hamas is about terrorism. Right now we have two people running for government to take the position in Eretz Yisrael. Lapid, Avigdor Lieberman, whatever his name is. These two resha'im

15:30are outright telling the people that their strategy, their goal, pretty much their dream, is to completely break up the Rabbanut. No more Rabbanut in Eretz Yisrael. Allow people to eat pig freely. There's a rule, there's a law in Eretz Yisrael about pig. Where you're allowed to sell it, where you're not allowed to sell it, There's a rule about people getting married; you have to go to the Rabbanut. They want to completely break up everything. Allow people to marry whoever they want. If Simcha wants to marry Mustafa, let her marry him, don't get in the way. If they want to marry a dog, let them marry. If a guy wants to marry a guy, let him marry. If a guy wants to marry his sister, let him marry. Let people do whatever they want. You want to eat pig, eat pig. Whatever you want, eat. Do what you want. You want to convert to Christianity, they'll help you. They helped an organization two weeks ago, three weeks ago.

16:53The government gave them a permit to do public conversions to Christianity. They didn't let a Jewish organization, a Jewish artist—they didn't let him have a concert for religious people because they said, no, no, you're not allowed to have a concert where men and women are separated. But what are you allowed to do? You're allowed to Christianize the Jews. That's what you're allowed to do. Baptize the Jews. That you're allowed to do. Help the Christians—we help. But keep the Jews Jewish. No, chas v'shalom. So these lefty liberals have had a secret for many years, but the secret is out, and that's actually their pitch. Their pitch to the people is the first target is Judaism. The first target, as soon as they get into office, is to destroy the Rabbanut, to destroy the Torah, to close the yeshivot. They even said on the news that one of the people actually said if he could, he would not allow religious Jews to have kids. So, if he could, they're having a TV show or saying who hates religious people more. One guy says, "I hate them so much. I'm going to close all the yeshivot." Another guy says, "What? Not only that, I hate them so much that as soon as I have the ability, anybody that studies Torah, I put them in jail."

18:18As soon as I have the ability, anybody that studies Torah, I will put them in jail. The third guy says, "Ah, no, come on. I hate them so much. If it was up to me," he says, "I wouldn't allow them to have kids." Meaning, they're thinking of things that even the Greeks and the Romans didn't think. Pharaoh didn't think. Fulfilling the verse, "Your conquerors, your destroyers will come from within you." Now, these are the people that are running for government right now in Eretz Yisrael. And what makes it more scary is that HaKadosh Baruch Hu is showing us that this is very likely to happen. Meaning, this is very likely to come to fruition unless we do something. One of the signs is that for the first time in history, Yishmael...

19:19Joining forces with the liberal leftists, the Arab terrorists who never concerned themselves with Israeli politics—they're in the government, but they don't care about who, what, when, and how. They have their own place, and they care less about joining forces with Jews. For the first time ever, they said, "We're gonna help the lefty liberals. We're gonna help the lefty liberals destroy the Torah." So we see here that HaKadosh Baruch Hu is increasing the danger, showing us that the signs are as clear as day, and the truth is we're still sleeping. Now I'm not really so worried about what's going to happen in two days. I'm not really even worried so much about the religious people staying religious. Whoever is real is going to stay real. Whoever is a faker is a faker now, and he's going to be a faker in two days. Nothing's going to change. The problem is that Kol Yisrael arevim zeh lazeh. All of Am Yisrael is responsible for each other.

20:47If we fall, we fall as a unit. We fall as a nation. HaKadosh Baruch Hu, when He sent Hitler, when He sent Haman, when He sent Nebuchadnezzar, He didn't send them to go and just kill secular people. He didn't send Haman, Nebuchadnezzar, Hitler, and all of the other terrorists to just go kill the Mechalel Shabbat. To just go kill the sinner. To just go kill all the people that didn't want to come to the shiur. They wanted to stay home, watch basketball, watch football. He didn't just do them. What did he say? He said, Haman to everybody. Where? In every corner of the world. Meaning all these people that are running to Eretz Yisrael thinking it's going to save them. Oh, you got to do aliyah. People send me an email at least three times a week: "You got to do aliyah. Danger, danger." I'm like, wait, you think you're safer over there? If there's a gezeira coming, it's coming everywhere. Anyone that doesn't think that's possible is dreaming, is living in ashlayot. Things are happening in the world. The only thing that's going to help us is teshuva. But the problem is that most people don't actually see that. They're still sleeping. So I'm not necessarily too worried about what's going to happen in a couple of days as far as the election. And the reason why is because whether they win or not, whether these reshaim win or not, it doesn't really make a difference.

22:14And the reason why is because if they don't win now, they're going to win in the future. Meaning, if they don't win in a couple of days, let's be hopeful. Guys, please, with the potato chips, you have to stop. It's extremely distracting for me. I'm trying to focus and you're making, I don't know, theatrics with the potato chips. Please. Take a bunch, put it in your hand, and enjoy the food. I don't care about the pack, the wrapper, all that stuff. There's one, two, three, seventeen of you eating potato chips. It's distracting, I promise you. If you were in my chair, it would be distracting to you also. Take a bowl, put it in a bowl, a cup. Chavot. Now, the problem is not that they're two days from now or a day from now. That's not the problem. The problem is that the cancer is already inside the nation. Meaning, if, let's say, some person comes to the doctor and says, "Doc, check me." The doctor checks him and says, "Yes, sir. Yes, ma'am. You've got growth. You've got a tumor. But come back to me in four years from now, come back to me in four months from now, come back to me in a year from now, and we'll check it again."

23:40Now, that person, the doctor just told him he has a tumor. Do you think that person could sleep for a minute over the next four months or four years or whatever time it is until he sees the doctor again? No, he can't. Why? Because he knows that, no matter what, he has a tumor. There's something there. What's going to happen in four months or four years? Who knows what's going to happen? For sure, I know there's a tumor inside. Meaning, it's not getting better. It's either going to stay the same, which is not exactly great. No one wants to walk around with a tumor. Or it's going to get worse. The point is, the fact that we have people that hate the religion so badly that they're so vocal about their aspiration to destroy it. to destroy the Rabbanut, to destroy the Yeshivot, to destroy the Kolelim, to destroy Judaism altogether, and they still call themselves Jews. The fact that we have that, and those people are in power, shows us that the Nevuah, the prophecy, in the Gemara Masechet Sotah, page 49, is coming true, and it's happening fast. The Gemara says,

25:05that in Ben David Ba, the Mashiach is not going to come until certain signs are going to happen. One of those signs is that the leaders are going to do the opposite of what's good for the people. This didn't make sense for a very long time until we started seeing how the picture is playing out. You're seeing that people who call themselves Jews want to destroy Judaism. It doesn't make any sense. No one ever thought such a thing like this would happen. Even during the times of the Churban Bet HaMikdash, the first one, second one, we didn't have such people. We had people that didn't follow the Torah. We had people that were against certain things, but not vocal about their mission to destroy the Torah, even more than the Christians. No one ever thought in their wildest dreams such a thing would happen. These people are giving entire lectures. Inspirational lectures might be as inspirational as Hitler's lectures. You don't have to understand German to be inspired by Hitler's lectures. Why? His voice scares you to death, and you want to do whatever he says. Yeah, him, sure, sure, whatever you're saying, I'm doing it. Why? Because he was such an inspirational speaker; people idolized him. These reshaim (wicked people) are having the same effect now. Why? Because HaKadosh Baruch Hu is saying you're running out of time.

26:25Now, whether they win or not in a couple of days doesn't really make much of a difference. And the reason why is because, like I said, if they don't win now, this tumor doesn't go away. They already tried running some time ago; they lost. They came back stronger. This time, if they lose again, b'ezrat Hashem, it's only a matter of time before they do it again. A few months, a year maximum, that's it. Four years. Meaning it's only a matter of time. You're not buying yourself that much more time. And every time they keep coming back, they keep coming back stronger, with more money, with more influence, with more everything. This means that we're running out of time fast. The end is beginning. Now, as I always told you, everything that you want to know is always going to be in the parasha. Now, people like these lefty liberals, haters of the Torah, are never going to tell you that. Why? Because they can never admit that there's anything true in the Torah. During the Yom Kippur War, 1973, when everything was happening

27:47They asked, Golda Meir was giving a speech, an inspirational speech. It was a very, very scary war. People almost thought that this was the end. People thought this was going to be it, a second Holocaust. So, Golda Meir yimach shema, and all the Zionists that are offended by it, good for you. You should be, because you have no idea who you're dealing with. Golda Meir was asked to do one thing aside from inspiring the people. "You don't need anybody to do that. What would she ask in your speech? In your speech, leave it, leave it, leave it, leave it, please. In your speech, please say Be'ezrat Hashem." You have a speech? You're going to try and inspire the people? One favor, please. We're Jewish people, right? We're Jewish, you're Jewish. American Jew, you. Okay, now. You ate kosher at some point in your life? Yeah? Okay. Say Be'ezrat Hashem in your speech. That's it. Everything else you say, whatever shtuyot you want to say, say. She refused to say Be'ezrat Hashem.

29:05Leader of the Jewish people, Eretz Yisrael, refused to say Be'ezrat Hashem. Why? She says, no, no, no, I cannot say Be'ezrat Hashem. Why can't you say Hashem? With the help of Hashem, you're in a tragedy right now. People are thinking that this is the end, this is the Holocaust. Why can't you say we need Hashem's help right now? She goes, no, if I say Be'ezrat Hashem, people are going to panic, they're going to think, oh no, we've lost all hope. No, no. Arrogance of the Reshaim is so strong that even at the gate of Gehinnom they don't do teshuva. So don't think, "No, no, don't be so insulting to these liberals, to these lefties, they're still Jewish." If you are merciful to Reshaim, you are a Rasha yourself. That's what the Torah says. Why? Because it's only a matter of time that you will use that mercy, that unwarranted mercy that's given wrongly to somebody, and you're going to use the opposite. The opposite on someone that deserves it. That's what the Torah tells us. You're not allowed to be merciful to Reshaim. Someone that's not willing to say, b'ezrat Hashem, that's not a Rasha, I don't know what is. Now,

30:26The Torah tells us some interesting things. Before the Holocaust happened, we had our G'dolei HaDor tell us some interesting things from the Torah. The Chafetz Chaim was 92 years old, nine years before the Holocaust. Some Chachamim say that, in reality, he was 102 years old, not 92, because 10 years against ayin hara. He didn't tell people; only his close associates knew his real age. He was really one hundred and two years old, and he was so old that he couldn't travel anymore to give shiurim. So, people would come to his house to learn. At one hundred and two years old, he had some people in his house. Rav Elchonon Wasserman was one of the people. Explained to them that he sees that there's going to be rivers of blood coming very soon if Am Yisrael does not do teshuva. Every person needs to do kiruv. In one of the meetings, Rav Elchonon Wasserman was there. He had regular people. He told them, "Listen..."

31:49I see there's going to be rivers of blood coming. We must force Am Yisrael to do teshuva. Now I'm willing, he says, I'm willing to go from house to house to convince people to do teshuva. 102 years old. I'm willing to go from house to house. Hello? Yes, let me tell you about HaKadosh Baruch Hu, Parashat, HaKadosh Baruch Hu created the world. Give us the Torah, Moshe, Yehoshua ben Nun, and so on and so forth, no? Until we convince them. Finished? Next house, next house, next house. 102 years old, can't move. They called him Zaken. Zaken, he was old already. He says, we have to get Am Yisrael to do teshuva. I'm willing, he says, myself to contribute by going from house to house. Who here is willing to help me? Silence. Silence. Not a single person raised their hand. The Chafetz Chaim continued. And he said, "You might think that I'm kidding. You might think that I'm exaggerating. What's coming will make the First World War look like child's play in comparison. Who here is willing to help me change the future of this generation?"

33:18Unfortunately for six million Jews, silence was the only response he received. Now imagine the pain that the Chafetz Chaim had at that moment when he saw the future. He saw the rivers of blood. He saw millions and millions of his brothers and sisters being massacred in the streets. but he can't do anything about it. Why? Because the guys that have money, they want to buy houses with it. They want to buy more cars with it. They want to buy another watch with it. They want to do more investments with it. They don't want to help people do teshuva. Ah, somebody else can help them. The guys with no money are too busy chasing money. Listen, Rabbi, we're trying to survive here. We don't have time. Get the rich people to do it. The rich people say get the poor people to do it. The middle-class guys are like, listen, I don't want to be poor. I'm here. Everybody's minding their own business. Why? I'm too busy. I'm too broke. I'm too this. I'm too that. Everybody's too, too, too, too, too. Guess what? The Holocaust came. Six million people died. If we don't do something about what's happening right now, the same thing is going to happen, but it's going to be much worse. And the reason why is because this is the way the prophecy says.

34:43Gog u'Magog is going to have three parts. The first two parts already happened: the First World War and the Second World War. The First World War was the scariest war anybody had ever seen, until they saw the Second World War. The Second World War made the First World War look like it was children playing with BB guns. And the Chafetz Chaim said that the Third World War, the last part of Gog u'Magog, is going to make the Second World War look like it was people playing with toys. But nobody in their wildest dreams thought that it's gonna start with us. But that's what's happening. We thought, figured, the Russians are going to lose their minds. Maybe press the red button one too many times. The Americans lose their minds, press the red button. The Chinese, the Koreans, the Iranians, somebody. No, no, my friends. It's starting with Am Yisrael. It's starting with Eretz Yisrael. And it's just going to grow from there. The Iranians are already telling us in public news, we can't wait to go to war with you. They announced today or yesterday, they're fully prepared for a full-out war with America. Which means...

35:57According to them, it's right after they bomb a nuclear weapon on Eretz Yisrael. But that's what they're saying. Because they know, as soon as they bomb Eretz Yisrael, America has to respond as an ally. Now, why would HaKadosh Baruch Hu allow the Iranians to actually do such a thing? Rav Elchanan Wasserman writes in his sefer Ikveta DeMeshicha, Following, in the name of the Chafetz Chaim, he says, "Those whose riches are still in their possession, let them not take comfort in vain fancies that their wealth will endure with them indefinitely. For the Jewish people will be left like an empty vessel." Had they but sense in their heads, surely they would know now how to make use of this money while there's still time. The Chafetz Chaim told the students, the world, all of these people think that they're going to protect themselves from this. Because they have money, they're going to buy themselves a bunker in the mountains.

37:18They have money. They do a special deal with Trump to give him, you know, be like one of these, you know, witness protection programs. No one's going to know they're a Jew. The Chafetz Chaim says all the people that have money, that take comfort in it, not only will they be punished for it, but they'll see how stupid they are before they are. Why? Because it's one of the prophecies that everyone is going to be poor. Now, Rav Wasserman continues, and he says, 20 years have passed since the Chafetz Chaim uttered these words. And now they have come true in their entirety in regard to the majority of the Hebrew people. The Gemara prophesies such a state that the son of David shall not come until perutah ceases from the purse. Meaning that everyone is going to be broke.

38:18Rav Wasserman says, we see that the wheel of time revolves now with lightning speed, that all of the rich people had their money taken by the Nazis. People that had literally millions of dollars in the bank, with paintings, with jewels, money, gold, all that stuff—nothing was safe. Now this, like I told you, what happened in World War II is going to be like child's play in comparison to what's going to happen. And the reason why is because here, it's only Am Yisrael that was affected. The third part, all of the world is going to be affected. Now, I haven't been in the market since I left the business six years ago. I haven't followed the market. The only time I get any news about the market is when people tell me. They ask me my opinion. They tell me, oh, the market went up today. So now I know the market went up. That's all I know. don't follow it. I don't care for it. But I took a little five-minute look a few days ago, and the same exact thing—that we had this perfect numbing silence, where everything just continues to go up. Once in a while, there's a little bump just to check if everybody's still awake, and

39:44But in reality, it's been going up steadily, and no one really cares to pay attention to what's actually making it go up, what's behind all of it. Same exact thing that happened right before the crash of 2008. Now, guess what? All the things that caused the 2008 crash—people are under the assumption they're no longer there. Like, people think that all the things that caused the crash—the subprime market, mortgage-backed securities, credit default swaps, all the different exotic vehicles that made the crash massive and quick—people think they're not there anymore. That's the mistake. They're all still there. They're actually much bigger. They just call them a different name. Just call them a different name. Just changed the name. spent probably less than five minutes. I looked at a few stocks that I remember from the old days. The multiples, meaning the valuation of these companies, are completely obnoxious. Even the dot-com time did not have such valuations in some cases. Companies are being valued 10, 20, 30 times their revenues. Forget about profits. No one has profits, with a few exceptions at the top that are also crazy. And

41:09Every Joe Schmo with some technology or some app that they developed has some insane valuation. Companies that sell convenience to a few people get valuations as if they are the next Walmart. The crash is going to be severe, but it's not going to be just with stocks. It's not going to be just with gold. It's not going to be just with these fake currencies called digital currency, the bitcoins, and all these other fake money. It's not going to be just with bonds. Currency itself will become worthless. Anyone that wants a hint, just look at Venezuela. Look at Argentina. Look at Greece. Look at all of these governments that pretty much declared bankruptcy over the last decade, many of them in the last three or four years. Their currency became completely worthless. That's what's going to happen everywhere, including America. And that has to lead to a war. Why? That's one of the main things that happen. One of the main tools that governments use to get themselves out of depression is war.

42:28Donald Trump has a daughter that apparently converted to Judaism. She doesn't act very Jewish, but nonetheless, she converted to Judaism. People are questioning it. That's really neither here nor there. Everyone was extremely happy when he came into office. Quite frankly, he was much better than the Mustafa that was before him. But things have changed. Why? Am Yisrael didn't do teshuva. Who gave them a present? A president that's actually coping with them, likes them, supports them. Hashem gave us a present. We didn’t take it. We became more secular. So now I could also see what's the reason. The reason is the present. The present being the president is the reason why people actually became more secular, why they're more confident and... No, come on. We're protected. Trump's our boy. Trumpy. That's our boy. He's going to protect us from Hamas, from Iran, from whoever. All the Jews, the Orthodox Jews I'm talking about. All the Orthodox Jews are much more confident than they were in the last few years. Everybody all of a sudden became a politician. Every two days they tell you about some new policy. Trump is passing this, that, and the other thing. Trump a week ago comes out and says, by the way, these Jewish people...

43:52If they don't vote for me, they're traitors, they're this, they're that, they're ungrateful. Well, hold on a second. How come nobody ever said that about the Chinese people? Or the Mexican people? Or the Italian people? Or the Greek people? Or the Arabs? Why do you mention the few little, like, rounding error called Jews? Like, just think about it. How many Jews are there in America? Let's say six million? Let's say six million. Even if all of them vote for you or don't vote for you, what difference does it make? Showing you clearly this is Yad Hashem. You got the attention of the president that you love so much, but not in a good way. Not in a good way this time. He didn't mention Mustafa. He didn't mention José. He didn't mention Chang. He didn't mention all those people. He doesn't care about them. Why? Because HaKadosh Baruch Hu is getting involved. The thing you had so much faith in, I'm going to use it to hurt you. Why? You idolized him. You think you can get salvation from him? I'll show you not. He could turn into Gog in 24 hours. He has all the character traits to fit. The Iranians can't wait to go to war. The Americans are not really sure what they want to do, but something is definitely happening. If there's a market crash, for sure there's going to be a war.

45:16And if you think that Israel is not going to be involved, you're dreaming. So now, how can we find everything I just said in the Torah? Last week's parasha. And this week's parasha. Last week's parasha says the following: You will go out to war against your enemies. Why? Why are we going to war? What do we need to go to war for? What do we need to go to war for? First, the parasha talks to us about a ben soreh u'moreh. Why do we have a ben soreh u'moreh? Because we're intermarried. It talks about a woman that comes out of war and so on and so forth. It's not an ideal woman. Yeah, but she'll convert. Who says you need to convert people? Go find a Jew. Yeah, but you found one. Okay, not everybody is lucky, my friend. You only win a lot of once. What my wife did, none of people's wives are going to do. Why? Go, go sacrifice your life. Go find a person who's willing to sacrifice their life. You're not going to find many. All the converts that I meet, every single one of them has a story no different than Mount Sinai. Every single one of them that actually succeeded in converting, not wants to convert. Wants to convert, I even have dogs that want to convert.

46:41People that succeeded in conversion, mamash, put their life on the line. Mamash, 100%. I got a kid in Eretz Yisrael, his father tried to kill him, mamash, with a gun. When he found out that he wanted to convert, he continued. Baruch Hashem, he's a kosher Jew right now learning in yeshiva. People that convert, mamash, put their life on the line. It's not that many of those. Not that many of those. You think you're going to find any girl in some club who's going to want to convert? Why? Because your parents are going to be happy when they're violating Shabbat, but they have her, she's Jewish too. Why? You have to be Jewish first before you have to be Jewish. Or vice versa. So first and foremost, the parashah tells us, you're going to be intermarried, you're going to go with goyim, goyot, that's going to lead you to a problem. What's the problem? Rebellious, you're considered a ben sorer u'moreh. You yourself are considered, and you're going to have wayward children. Today, people have no value whatsoever for marriage. People have kids with two, three, four, five people without even marriage. Without even contemplating marriage. Oh yeah, this is my son from my first husband, second husband, third husband, fourth husband, fifth. How many husbands do you have?

48:01How many have was a monopoly? You landed on this and go to jail, go back to this thing. What happened? How come? What? Okay, divorce happens. I understand. Unfortunately, it happens in the world. But why so many? I mean, after it failed the first two times, didn't you maybe want to call it quits? I got one woman. She called me over there crying about her fourth husband. I can't help somebody. I said, why? Fourth husband, it's you. First one, I could say it's him. Second one, I could say it's him. After you kill three, the fourth one, it's you. Fourth one, it's you. It cannot be three people. Cannot be. There's chazakah already. But this, rabotai, people are treating marriage like they’re treating baffle. They eat baffle, don’t like the taste, throw it in the garbage. So, we are going against Hashem. The parashah continues. Talks about business. Concern for your brothers and sisters. Many times we see people struggling financially. We tell them, listen, why don't you pray to Hashem? Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai says, someone that tells another person that's struggling to go pray to Hashem, when he's able to help them financially, that's a sin.

49:20He's not looking for you to give him spiritual guidance; he's looking for you to give him money. You want to help him? Give him money. You're a friend. He's your friend. He's your brother. He's your sister. He's struggling. He can't pay the rent. Don't give him spiritual advice; give him money. Why? Because that's what's going to pay the bills, not your spiritual advice. If he wants spiritual advice, he's going to go to his rabbi. But people want to give spiritual advice to everybody. "Oh, yeah, we're struggling financially. Oh, I just came to you; I drove for half an hour to the house for you to give me a shiur." But that's why. Why do people do such things? Why do people have such carelessness? Because they don't care about anybody else. They don't care about anybody else's property. And that's what it says in the parashah. It says, if you see your neighbor's donkey, ox, something, it's fallen in the hole. Don't just walk away. Say, "Oh, it's not my donkey. No, it's not my problem." Why? He's struggling. It's not my problem. "Oh, somebody else will do it." That type of attitude is hated by HaKadosh Baruch Hu. What else are we doing? What else are we doing? The parashah says men’s garb shall not be on a woman, and men should not wear women’s garments. For anyone who does this is considered an abomination to Hashem. Men dressing like women, women dressing like men.

50:46It's considered disgusting in the eyes of Hashem. Little do we have it, so we're going to get to the rest of it, all the other filthy stuff that they do. We're just talking about clothes. Modesty is simply unheard of. Women think that they're the only ones obligated to be modest. Men also. All these guys that are wearing tight jeans, these tight pants, skinny pants, whatever you guys call it in this filthy generation... of skinny jeans and fashion artists, it's 100% assur. You're not allowed to show your body that way. This is the reason why our sages wore clothes that are similar to what the Arabs wear, this gelima, this clothing. It wasn't because that was the style. It was for modesty reasons. All these guys that are wearing clothes where you can pretty much see their body parts, like they’re the Greek god Zeus or something, walking down the street, guess what? You have a problem. Why? It says over here, you’re dressed like a woman. Dressed like a woman, but also, all women that are wearing pants, guess what? Pants are men’s clothes. You’re not allowed to wear pants. Yeah, but I’m comfortable. Okay, in Gehinnom, they have a lot of comfort over there. The comfort in, comfort out, comfort, a lot of comforts.

51:57Why? That's what the Torah says, not out. Why? Because this leads people's mentality to go away from HaKadosh Baruch Hu. Something as simple as that. Something as simple as that. Now, Tzitzit is the next mitzvah that's mentioned in the Torah. After Shiluach HaKen, most people don't even know what that mitzvah is, so we'll skip it. simply to get the eggs from a nest and shoo the mommy bird away. But if you do that today in America, most likely they'll send you some department of animal affairs or something that's going to put you in jail for stealing chicken eggs. You could eat it, but you can't steal it. You could eat the pig, but don't, you know, Don't feed them a non-kosher diet. But then it says, you shall make yourself twisted threads on the four corners of your garment, which you shall cover yourself with. It says, you have to. It says, if you have four corners, like it says in the Torah, four corners. So the Gemara says, okay, so if you don't wear it, it's okay. If you don't have four corners, let's say you have, it's round.

53:23round. That's why you don't wear tzitzit. It's okay. The Gemara says, well, I don't know, if you consider being the first one to get punished when there's a decree on the nation, okay, then yeah, it's okay. Wait, hold on a second. What do you mean punish? You just said, I'm allowed if there's no four corners. Yeah, you're allowed. You don't have to wear tzitzit. You don't have to wear the tzitzit unless you have the four corners. But if there's a decree from Heaven, punish the people like the Beit HaMikdash, like the Inquisition, like the Holocaust, like unfortunately what's coming? Guess what? The first people that get punished are people that don't wear tzitzit. Why first people? How come it's not the Mechalel Shabbat? How come it doesn't say the guy that went with another guy? How come it says the guy that doesn't wear tzitzit? This is because the guy that didn't wear tzitzit knows he chose not to. He chose not to. Why? He says, listen, that guy is viewed in Shamayim as someone that's extremely arrogant. Where he said he didn't, he had a free mitzvah. What? To wear a shirt with strings. And he can make a mitzvah every second he exists. But instead of doing it, he didn't do it. So, in Shamayim they say, oh, why are you so arrogant about all the mitzvot you're going to have? You're so arrogant that you don't even want to get this free mitzvah. We'll show you a day you're going to need that mitzvah. When? The time when Hashem is with you.

54:46That's what all the guys that are not wearing tzitzit say. You want to wear tzitzit? I have some in my car. You can have them. I'll even give them to you for free. Just please wear tzitzit. You have to beg people to wear tzitzit. "Oh, I'm hot." Like you're not hot anyway. It's 900 degrees in Florida. The air conditioner is at 60, and it's still 900 degrees somehow. Then... We say later, next mitzvah. So far, have you guys found anything we haven't violated? Next mitzvah. It says there's a guy who marries a woman but didn't really like her. So then he starts saying all types of accusations against her. Comes out with all types of things. That's all people do on the internet: come out with lashon hara and rechilut. If it's not against their wives, or their ex-wives, or their ex-husbands, or their boss, or their ex-boss, or the rabbi, or the ex-rabbi, or something. That's all people do all day. All day, people make comments against others. All day. Now, if you're a rabbi or what?

56:05You actually say the truth, you have letters, WhatsApp messages, all types of things. You have like two mailing lists. One with like three decent messages, 5,000 of resha'im that keep cursing you out. That's the way it is. Why? That's the way people are. Last week, last week, one guy that, Baruch Hashem, I helped him do teshuva. decided to make a public comment on the internet. Please, everybody, don't send me any more videos from Rabbi Yaron Reuven and Rabbi Mizrahi anymore. I'm just not into him anymore. The guy did teshuvah because of us. He was a donkey just a couple of years ago. Now he did teshuvah. He says to people, no, no, I don't want it anymore. Some other guy that we helped made a comment. He goes, yeah, you know what? I agree. And then they started getting a thread. They had to make a public comment about it. So Baruch Hashem, Baruch Hashem it happened. It shows us how ungrateful people really are in the world. Now, Next, it talks about adultery, cheating. I don't even have to go into details about this one. The divorce rate in America in some places is 90%. On a good day, it's 81%. I mean, you have a better chance of throwing a coin in the middle of an ocean and finding it than actually surviving a 10-year marriage in America. Why? People are cheaters. People are liars.

57:20Every other day somebody calls, "Oh, listen, I don't know what to do." "What happened?" "Oh, listen, I don't know, I'm married." "Oh, well, yeah, I'm married, but I also have a girlfriend." "Okay, so break up with her." "No, I can't. We have a kid together." "With the wife?" "No, no, with the girlfriend." When do you have time? Oh, we've been going out already for five years. I'm like, how? How do you do it? How? How do you live two lives? Every other day is like this. I had two stories inside of one month. Two stories inside of one month. Two stories. I thought it was the same one. I think I told you guys this. In one month, someone tells me, yeah, one guy tells me, yeah, we just found out that my father has a girlfriend on the side with four kids. Girlfriend on the side for already 18 years with four kids. Somebody else came up to me and said, "Listen, I need to help my friend. I need to convince him to leave this girlfriend he has four kids with already." I said, "Oh yeah, I already know about the story." He goes, "How do you know?" I said, "The son told me." He goes, "He doesn't have a son; he has four daughters. Different person."

58:37Forbidden restricted marriages. We just talked about it. Now, there's an interesting section here where it talks about who we're not allowed to marry, who we're allowed to marry, but also talks about conversions. It says, it says, Ammonites and Moabites are not allowed to convert. So then someone who hasn't read commentary will say, wait a minute, hold on a second. Mashiach is coming from them. It says over here, you're not allowed to take conversions from the Moabites. David HaMelech's grandmother was Ruth from Moav. So how come he's going to be the... Mashiach comes from her. How is that allowed? If you look at the language, the Hebrew language is very different from English. Male and female are spelled differently. When it's referring to a male, it's spelled one way. When it's referring to a female, the same word is spelled differently. So here it's referring to the male. The male Ammonites and the male Moabites, they're not allowed to convert. But the females are. Which means that Ruth's conversion...

59:56was 100% permissible. Now, another place that mentions the Moabites and the Ammonites in the Torah is in another peculiar place, in the book of Judges, Sefer Shoftim. HaKadosh Baruch Hu rebukes the people, and He says, the children of Israel continue to do that which was evil in the eyes of Hashem, and they worshipped the Baalim, the Ashtarot, the gods of Aram, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the children of Ammon, the gods of the Philistines. They forsook Hashem and did not serve Him. So, here it's talking about 18 years that Am Yisrael went against HaKadosh Baruch Hu by serving all of these different gods. But it ends with a very interesting thing where it says, wait a minute, they went and worshipped all these gods, seven different gods: the gods of the Moabites, the Ammonites, this one, that one, the Philistines, and they didn't serve Hashem.

1:01:11Chazal says, wait a minute, obviously if they're serving the Moabite idol, or the Baalim, or the Ammonites, or the Christians, or the Arabs, or whoever they're serving, obviously they're not serving Hashem. Why are you mentioning that they're not serving Hashem? This, Rabotai, if it doesn't break your heart, you should check, go to the doctor tomorrow, get an x-ray, see if you have one. What is HaKadosh Baruch Hu telling Am Yisrael? Pay attention to this one. It was worth it to come to the world just to listen to this. Most of us, when we cry, what do we cry about? We cry about money. We cry about shtuyot. We don't cry about the Shechinah. We don't cry about HaKadosh Baruch Hu. What do we cry about? We cry about that we didn't get, that they just ran out of potato chips at the shiur. That's what we cry about. HaKadosh Baruch Hu is saying this. He went... You went and worshipped the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Philistines, all types of other gods. You went to Christianity, you went to Islam, you went to atheism, you went to Buddha, you went to the Indian people, you worshipped the cow, the rat, the mouse, the bicycle, Wall Street. You worshipped everything and you didn't worship Me.

1:02:28Meaning what? What does HaKadosh Baruch Hu say? He says, you know what? Fine. You want to worship all these gods? You're crazy enough to go worship Wall Street, go worship money, go worship girls, go worship gods, go worship all these shtuyot? Fine. At least worship Me also. Meaning, fine, you're already worshiping everything else. Throw Me in the mix. HaKadosh Baruch Hu is crying. Okay, fine. You worship all these gods? Fine. At least give Me a... At least say Shema Yisrael for Me also. But that's the busha, Rabotai. That's the busha, that's the rebuke of rebukes. That with all of our stupidity and our idolatry, we chase after money, we chase after girls, we chase after boys, we chase after basketball, we chase after all types of material, we chase after everything except God. You tell a guy, listen, you want to come to the basketball game? It's 10 o'clock at night. Starts in 20 minutes. Sure, I'll be right at your house. Five minutes, I'll be there.

1:03:29You call the same guy. Listen, we're not going to go to the game. We'll go to the shul instead. No, I'm tired, man. You know what? Thank God you called. I'm so tired. I'm so tired. I'm already in bed. I was going to call you. I'm not coming. To go watch some idiots throw a pigskin and put it in some round hole, then you're going to go at 10:30 at night. Go to shul. I'm tired. Tired. Tired. Listen, we're going to have a couple of drinks. You want to come? For sure. When? We're going to go pick you up at 12:30 at night. When everybody else is sleeping, that's normal. We're going to pick you up. Okay, no problem. Listen, in the morning we're going to go pray. No, no, I'm tired. I'm tired. But to go out at 12 o'clock at night, you're not tired. To go in the morning, you're tired. To go pray to HaKadosh Baruch Hu, we're tired. To go out at 1 o'clock in the morning, do some ecstasy, we're not tired. You tell a guy, listen, we have to work overtime. You have to start working Sundays. No problem, boss. No problem, boss. HaKadosh Baruch Hu says, listen, you need to learn every day. You need to learn every day. I don't have time, Hashem. To work overtime, we have time. To work six days a week, we have time. But to learn Torah every day, we never have time somehow. To go make money, to chase money, we have time. So now you would say, okay, you know what?

1:04:57He's working so much he can't come to the shiur. He works so much he can't come to the shiur. So, Elish, you know what? He's probably making so many millions. Probably making so many millions, he's building yeshivot. He's building kiruv organizations. There's a new Hidabroot, a new Be'ezrat Hashem every week. You ask the guy, so how's everything? Struggling, man, struggling. What do you mean? You're working nine days a week. How are you struggling? What's the point of working if you're struggling? Go work 9 to 5 at McDonald's or something already if you're struggling anyway. You're struggling anyway, might as well struggle on a normal schedule. Go wash cars. You'll struggle also, but at least you have a normal schedule. He's not struggling. He's wasting every bit of his energy chasing a false god, and he gets no bracha. He loses in both places. Kadosh Baruch Hu tells us, you went, you chased money, but what did you do with this money? Did you donate some money so you can help Am Yisrael do teshuva? Did you donate for somebody to do teshuva? Did you donate for somebody to learn Torah? Did you publicize Torah with this money? No. What did you do with this money? You bought another watch. Donation, $200. Watch, $20,000. Yeah, it's the same thing, right? Mazel. Just with fewer zeros. Watch, $20,000. Wedding, $50,000.

1:06:27Donation: $20 monthly, just an automatic charge on the credit card. Automatic charge on the credit card monthly: $20. The car: $1,300 a month. But still, he borrows like a little kid, still borrows from the Beit Knesset. He can't give $20. Why? We're chasing everything except HaKadosh Baruch Hu. Parashat continues. It talks about wasting seed. It says a person who wastes seed has to be thrown out of the camp. Chapter 23, verse 10: "When the camp goes out against your enemies, you shall guard against anything evil. If there will be among you a man who will not be clean because of a nocturnal occurrence, he shall go outside the camp. He shall not enter the midst of the camp."

1:07:27I'm sorry to tell you, if this was still valid in the sense that it was applicable, where we knew who and what and when, we'd simply have no soldiers. Why? Everybody would be out of the camp. Today, it's an epidemic where wasting seed has simply become mutar in the eyes of people. It's such an epidemic in the secular world It's such an epidemic in the religious world that when you tell young boys, young men, older men, avreichim, and even in some cases rabbis, that you're not allowed to waste seed, it's like, no, it's impossible. The Shulchan Aruch says you're not allowed. The Gemara says you're not allowed. The Torah says you're not allowed. I have almost 30 shiurim, 30-something shiurim, talking about maybe 500-600 sources from across the Torah saying it's the worst sin in the Torah. I never heard this. So what did you learn? I don't know, I learned the halachot Shabbat. Okay, halachot Shabbat also talks about it. Go ahead, Gemara Masechet Shabbat also talks about it. Oh, we skipped that part. What else did you learn? Halachot Avodah Zarah. Oh, Gemara Masechet Avodah Zarah also mentions it.

1:08:56Masechet Niddah also mentions it. Almost every tractate in the Gemara mentions it. How come you don't know? The secret is, Rabotai Yekarim, is what Rabbi Wasserman says. Rabbi Wasserman says that as long as a person is noge’a, as long as a person is biased, meaning he still likes to sin, he's still connected to the sin, he's still sinning. He cannot see the truth. You can show him all the proofs in the world. You could bring Moshe Rabbeinu. Moshe Rabbeinu comes. I'm going to sit in the crowd with you guys. Moshe Rabbeinu is going to come next week. He's going to give a shiur about wasting seed. Guess what? No one's going to listen anyway. Why? Because most people are still doing it. This is the reason why HaKadosh Baruch Hu made the next parasha, which we'll go into in a minute. Parashat Ki Tavo. Why? Telling people it's not allowed is not enough. Not enough. Why? Because people just say, "No, he says it's not allowed, the book says it's not allowed, but nobody else says it. So maybe it's just his opinion." Yeah, but it's not his book. He's reading Shulchan Aruch, which says it's the worst thing in the Torah. He's reading the Zohar, he's reading the Gemara, he's reading the Chumash, he's reading all the Torah. Yeah, but he's the only one doing it. There are thousands of rabbis, thousands of rabbis around the world, and only one, two, maybe three rabbis speak about it in English.

1:10:26Why are you going to say thousands of rabbis are lying, and this guy from Wall Street is telling the truth? Nah, come on. It's probably the opposite. Probably the opposite. He's a liar trying to get an audience. Shock jock, shock jock. He's just starting much more. He's trying to get attention by putting up some taboo subject on the internet so people could listen to him, get views, and... One of the biggest tikkunim that you have doing this is dealing with Pgam HaBrit. Why? Number one, the list never ends. Every day there are new people that contact me, and I try to help them one-on-one. Guidance, this, that, the other thing. It's a never-ending list. You pretty much see that they come from all walks of life. All walks of life. Male, female, old, young, rabbi, student, secular, religious, non-Jews, everybody. Pretty much, you have 8 billion people. If they're male, most likely they're wasting seed. It's mamash, an epidemic, just like the Zohar HaKadosh says. It's going to be a tikkun of the generation. So you have a never-ending list of people that need guidance. That's not necessarily such a bad thing. What's the bad thing? You get to hear everybody's details every two seconds.

1:11:50I know more about the male member than most people who are doctors. And you try to help people. And then you try to pick them up when they fail. And then they tell you five minutes later when they fail again. And this and that. And then on top of all of it, while you're trying to help people for free and do whatever you can, finally, they stop. Finally, they stop. Baruch Hashem. They go to shul. They tell their rabbi, "Rabbi, look, I'm 50 days without wasting seed." The rabbi, who secretly wastes seed himself, tells him, "What? What are you talking about? It's not relevant for our generation. Who told you that?" "Rabbi Reuven told me that." He goes, "Ah, no, come on. He doesn't know what he's talking about." Finally, you got this kid after two years—you finally convinced him to stop wasting seed for 50 days straight. He's proud of it. He finally went to shul. He goes to shul, and the rabbi ruins him in two minutes. You're back to square one. You're back to square one. If he doesn't have an emunah sheleimah, doesn't have a spine, he's not going to survive. Why? Because most likely he's going to go to people and ask for a second opinion. The second opinion is not going to agree. Why? The second opinion either doesn't know or is a sinner himself. And...

1:13:06Wasting seed, rabotai yekarim, is one of those things where you're not going to be able to see the clear truth unless you're outside of it, like anything else in the world. That's what Rav Wasserman says. Rav Wasserman says that as long as you are biased, you're not going to be able to see the picture clearly. People ask advice about marriage, about divorce, about all types of things. Women ask me all the time, "Oh, I hate my husband. I want to leave. I want this. I want that." Okay, listen, go to the Rabbanut and get a divorce. "No, but I love him." You just told me you hate him. You wrote me a thesis, five pages, explaining to me how much you hate the guy and you want him to die a mitah meshunah—a strange death, an unusual death. I tell you, "Go to the Rabbanut. Why are you coming to me? I'm not the Rabbanut." Okay, you already hate him. You already established that truth. Okay, finish. Go to the Rabbanut and say, "I want to divorce him." "No, but I love him." So why did you make me read five pages? It's still biased. It's still biased. You're not going to be able to see the truth. Next, it talks further in regard to sexual purity. Promiscuity for men or for women is considered disgusting in the eyes of Hashem. So much so that He says in Deuteronomy 23:18,

1:14:31There shall not be a promiscuous woman among the daughters of Israel, and there shall not be a promiscuous man among the sons of Israel. You shall not bring a harlot's hire or the price of a dog to the house of Hashem your God for any vow, for both of them are an abomination to Hashem your God. HaKadosh Baruch Hu considers people who are promiscuous an abomination. If you have a girlfriend without marriage, you're considered promiscuous, even if she's the only girl you've ever been with. Even if he's the only boy you've ever been with, you're not married, you're considered promiscuous. Now, how do we ever get to a point of being promiscuous? Promiscuity shouldn't be a problem. Why? If you keep yourself, it shouldn't be a problem. You look at the verse before it. All of the ladies, grab your chairs because this refers to you. HaKadosh Baruch Hu loves the prayer of women. Loves them. Why? Why?

1:15:31When a woman prays, she cries very easily. She connects emotionally to HaKadosh Baruch Hu in two seconds. Guys, maybe you hit them with a bat in the face, maybe they'll stop crying. Women, two seconds. She thinks about her son, she starts crying. She thinks about her husband, she starts crying. She thinks about how she doesn't have a son or a husband, she starts crying. She thinks about how she's a little overweight, she starts crying. She thinks maybe she's losing too much weight, everything, she starts crying. She connects to HaKadosh Baruch Hu, mamash, it's like it's speed dial. HaKadosh Baruch Hu loves the prayers of B'not Yisrael. Loves them. But sometimes HaKadosh Baruch Hu says, I don't want your prayers. Your prayer is rejected. When? Chapter 23, verse number 15. At the end of the verse: ולא יראה בך ערוות דבר ושב מאחריך. Says that He will not see a shameful thing among you and turn away from behind you. If HaKadosh Baruch Hu sees erva, which in English is translated to shameful, we'll explain what shameful means. If HaKadosh Baruch Hu sees erva, He runs away. He runs away from you, turns away from you. So the Gemara asks, what's erva? Erva?

1:16:58Erva is nakedness. The literal translation of erva is nakedness. The Safah HaKodesh does not have names for the male member or the female private part. It's such a holy language, there actually isn't a word. There isn't a word like there is in English or other languages that, if you say that word, you know for sure that's what it's talking about. There is no word that says the male member. There is no word for the female member. There isn't. It doesn't exist. That's how holy the holy language is. Hashem does not use such language. Even when HaKadosh Baruch Hu talks about promiscuity, He talks about it in the opposite way. Meaning, He says, "Lo tihiyeh kedesha mibnot Yisrael, velo yihiyeh kadesh." Kedesha sounds like, wait, there shouldn't be a holy woman? There shouldn't be a holy man? No. Kedesha, kedesha. Here it's being used opposite. Meaning, the opposite of kadosh is promiscuous. So erva means nakedness. Erva means nakedness. And

1:18:06HaKadosh Baruch Hu Himself says here, when there is nakedness on a woman, Hashem runs away from her. Chazal say, what is considered nakedness? The Gemara in Masechet Berachot says, Kol Isha Erva. What does it mean that the entire woman is considered nakedness? Does it mean the entire woman is considered naked? Should she just put on a sack that covers her face from head to toe? No. Everything that is supposed to be covered normally, according to the normal society that existed 3,000 years ago, not today, is supposed to be covered. If it's not covered, it's considered nakedness. Meaning, the face, allowed to see it. The hands, the palms, allowed to see it. The feet, allowed to see it. The neck, allowed to see it. That's it. If she shows her chest, if she shows her arms beyond the elbow, if she shows more than a third of her leg, meaning beyond her calf, everything is considered ervah (nakedness).

1:19:10But then Chazal elaborates even further. Kol B'Isha Ervah also includes her voice. A male is not allowed to listen, a Jewish male is not allowed to listen to a female sing. Why? Because that leads him to think all types of things, just like as if she was naked. Women don't understand this. Why? Because they don't think like men. They look at a guy and they say, "Wow, he looks funny. Wow, he looks generous. Wow, he looks like a nice guy." Guys don't think like that. They think, "Wow, she looks... okay, we're going to get married tonight." That's what he thinks. He doesn't think about her personality, nor does he care. Why? He thinks one thing, one direction, unless he's holy. If he's holy, he doesn't look at girls. But a person that's a normal male, that's the way he thinks. So HaKadosh Baruch Hu says, if you know what she looks like, you're not allowed to even listen to her sing. Why? Because if you know what she looks like, you're going to hear her voice, you're going to imagine. So much so, the mind of the male is so flawed to such an extent, meaning so not flawed, but rather so...

1:20:28vulnerable, I should say, so vulnerable that if he sees a woman's clothes hanging outside, he is not allowed to look at them if he knows what she looks like. Why? Because he's going to imagine her in the outfit when he sees her next or out of the outfit. Now, this leads a man to wasting seed. Now, women, the ladies... Unfortunately, sometimes they don't understand what modesty means because no one ever taught them. So modesty does not only mean covering your body, it also means that you have to make sure that you behave modestly. You don't talk to strange men just because you want to be friends with them. No girl should ever have boyfriends, meaning even as friends, there's no such thing as a platonic relationship in Judaism. If he's your husband, good, you're allowed to be friends with him. If not, he can be friends with somebody else. Unless she's your sister, there's really no reason to be friends with her. Why? He's not thinking the same way you are. He's not thinking the same way you are. The next thing is also, she has to understand that if her clothes or attitude grab the attention of the public, it's not modest. If her clothes are so tight that any average guy could simply...

1:21:53No, without much imagination, what her figure looks like, it's not modest. You cannot wear tight clothes as a woman. Why? Because it's the same thing as being naked. You're not leaving anything to the imagination. The only person that should know what you look like naked is your husband. This is extremely important, not only for the guys, but for the women. Why? Because all the time that you pray to HaKadosh Baruch Hu, you're going to cry, right? Why waste your tears? Why are you wasting your tears? If you're not going to be modest, don't even pray. He's not listening to you. It's what He says. If you're not going to cover your hair, if you're not going to cover your body, if you're not going to control your attitude, don't even bother praying. Why? Because who's running away from you anyway? So the least, the least that a woman should do is understand that that HaKadosh Baruch Hu loves you and loves you so much that He wants to protect you from yourself. He wants to listen to your prayers. But there are certain conditions. In order for Him to open all the gates of heaven, in order for Him to listen to all the things that you want Him to listen to, whether it's to bring a child to the world, or improve your Shalom Bayit, or improve your Parnassah,

1:23:14or whatever it is that you're crying about, is a simple minimum requirement. Just be modest according to halacha. There are rules in the Torah. You're not allowed to show things that are considered ervah. Ervah is not a rabbinical mitzvah, like some people think. It's not an opinion by me. It's not an opinion by Rabbi Mizrachi. It's not an opinion by Rabbi Yashiv or Rabbi Ovadia. It's not an opinion by a rabbi. It's what the Torah says. A woman must be modest, meaning everything that does not bring attraction, By itself, it's something that's normally seen. You're allowed to show, which, like I said, is the face, the hands, the feet, a certain small part of the leg, the ankle. That's pretty much it. If you're going to buy shirts, make sure they cover the bones. The bones on the neckline must be covered. If you're going to buy shirts, they have to be long sleeve. Why? Because even if it's short sleeve, for sure it's not modest.

1:24:15If it's tight, for sure it's not modest. But if it's long sleeve and you don't necessarily want to cover all the way to your wrist, you can cover but still cover your elbow. The point being, Rabotai, is that every one of us has problems. Every one of us has a need for Hashem or is going to need Hashem. So HaKadosh Baruch Hu says, you want Me to listen to your prayers? There's a small little requirement, Bat Yisrael. Small little requirement, please be modest. Why? If you're not modest, I can't come. I can't listen to you. Purity of a person is extremely important to HaKadosh Baruch Hu. This is why He writes the next mitzvah. He talks about the things that have to do with vows, have to do with your word, have to do with the sanctity of HaKadosh Baruch Hu's name. HaKadosh Baruch Hu takes this stuff very, very seriously. After that, He starts talking about how people manage their business, their finances in regards to paying back debt.

1:25:16Paying employees on time. I did a short show about it last week, about people that have employees. If you have employees, make sure you pay them on time because every second you don't, it's considered gezel. You have to be very, very careful with paying your employees on time. Don't be one of these people that tells people, "Listen, I'll pay you on Monday." Well, it's Friday though. I expect I work, so I get the payment on Friday. "Yeah, but the company's not doing that good. So I'll pay you on Monday." It's not my problem. If I'm an employee, it's not my problem that your company's not doing good. If I'm an employee, I'm working for wages. I'm working for a salary. I'm not working for profits. Whether you make a profit or not is not my problem. Why? Because if you made more money, you're not going to pay me more. So that's the point of being a partner. If I want to be a partner, then, yes, that profit should affect me. But if I'm not a partner, you have to pay me on time. People do not understand this. They just dodge their employees and pay them whenever they feel like it because they know it's not so easy to get a job. This is a very serious problem.

1:26:17So, it talks about people who do not hold these laws very dear to them. People who embarrass others in public. A person who embarrasses another fellow Jew in public loses his share in Olam HaBa. And then the parashah says, Ends up with the mitzvah to remember Amalek. It's a mitzvah to remember Amalek. What does Amalek have to do with this? Anybody ever think of that? What does Amalek have to do with all these mitzvot? Why didn't he bring it in the beginning of the parashah? At least when I'm talking about war. What does that have to do with the end of the parashah? If you notice, one time, one little insight could be that it says, "Remember Amalek." Why? Because he did not fear God. Amalek did not fear God.

1:27:30So we don't have to do anything. All of these sins that we talked about, the only way to follow, the only way not to sin with immodesty, the only way not to sin with payment, with business, with interest, with sexual purity, with vows, with your word, with everything, is Yirat Shamayim. With Yirat Shamayim, you, my friend, will be a holy person. If not, you'll simply turn into Amalek, a lefty liberal. No Yirat Shamayim, that's what the result is. Now what happens to Amalek? What happens to Amalek? The person doesn't have Yirat Shamayim. What happens to him? That's the definition. Rav Zilber wrote, to remain a Jew, what's the definition of Amalek? Somebody doesn't have Yirat Shamayim. That's what it is. So, what happens to Amalek? This week's parasha. These lefty liberals that are trying to take over the Israeli government, they already took over the control of many things here in America. They're trying to do the same thing in Eretz Yisrael. What happens to them? Parashat Ki Tavo, this week's parasha. This week's parasha starts talking business. It says you're going to call to Hashem and

1:28:56Hashem is going to have to fulfill the Torah. Also, there are blessings and curses, Moshe says. In chapter 27, verse number 11, Moshe Rabbeinu says to the people, "These shall stand to bless the people on Mount Gerizim." He tells the six tribes that are over there. And Mount Eval, the other six tribes. And then he says, says a person that makes a molten image, a graven image, is an abomination to Hashem even if he does it in secret and the entire nation curses him and says "Amen." A curse is the person who moves the boundary of his fellow. A curse is a person

1:29:58who puts an obstacle in front of a blind person, perverts the judgment of a convert, or an orphan, a curse is a person who does not uphold the words of the Torah. Someone who goes against the Torah openly, or someone who tells people not to go to a shiur, or someone who even cancels a shiur for no reason, that person is cursed. And all of the tzaddikim in heaven, Avraham, Yitzchak, Yaakov, Moshe, Aharon, David, Shlomo, Rabbi Akiva, Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, Rabbi Meir Baal Hanes, all of them say Amen. Meaning, all of the tzaddikim curse this person in Shamayim. What happens to these Amalekites, these people that keep violating the Torah regularly? HaKadosh Baruch Hu goes to a list of curses that happen to these people. We're not going to go into the details, but you should watch my shiur about Parashat Ki Tavo, because it literally describes the Holocaust. It literally describes everything that happened to us in the Holocaust, in the Spanish Inquisition, in the Beit HaMikdash, the first one, the second one, all the details, to the last cent, every part of it.

1:31:22says that the beatings that HaKadosh Baruch Hu will give us if we don't do teshuva will be to such an extent that we'll go crazy. Blindness and confounding of heart mean that a person is simply going to lose their mind. They are not going to know what to do with themselves as one tragedy strikes before they get over the previous tragedy. There's another one, and before they get over that one, there's yet another tragedy. So many tragedies. They're going to miss the tragedy of yesterday. Yeah, but yesterday you lost three people that you know; they all died. Yeah, but today was far worse. Yesterday was better. Yeah, but yesterday you lost all your money. Yeah, today you lost a child or something. The punishment is so bad at the time of the decree from HaKadosh Baruch Hu, you don't want to mess with HaKadosh Baruch Hu. He talks about all types of diseases that exist, that don't exist in this world. The first time I ever went over this parasha in a shiur was five, six years ago.

1:32:32I went over each one of the curses, and I showed how almost every single one of them happened to me personally. I think the only reason the others didn't happen is because I didn't get to them yet. People think that HaKadosh Baruch Hu is just going to sit there quietly forever. Please, make sure to read the parasha and understand HaKadosh Baruch Hu is not joking. Now, He says a lot of things that are very scary. And He says all the things that once there's a decree that comes from Shamayim, there's a gezeira, nothing will help it. It's too late. Which means, Rabotai, that we have to use our brains. And see that it's not a coincidence or happenstance that all of the things that are happening in the last couple of weeks happened to occur during these parashot. They could have happened in Parashat Bereshit. They could have happened in Parashat Lech Lecha. They could have happened in Sefer Shemot. They could have happened in any parasha. It's happening now for a reason. HaKadosh Baruch Hu tells you, look at all the sins. We reviewed all the sins. Did any one of them not match everyone in this generation practically?

1:33:57we can pretty much see ourselves or somebody we know in almost every sin. You did it, you're doing it, or you know somebody who is doing it. Every sin—everybody knows somebody or is a perpetrator themselves. So HaKadosh Baruch Hu says if you don't start taking things seriously and start doing teshuvah, stop focusing on potato chips and cell phones, and start paying attention to your neshama, then... Only bad things follow. What's an example? 70 years ago. Now, many times you tell people this, people run away. They don't want to hear it. It's too harsh. It's too scary. I need a softer rabbi. I need a softer shiur. So, what are you going to do with the parasha then? You're just going to skip it? As if it doesn't exist? This is what the parasha talks about. I didn't add anything. In fact, I didn't tell you everything. There's much worse. It talks about one of the levels of sins, the fifth level of sins, that we get to such a level of starvation, we start eating children. We didn't even go into the details of what that looks like in real life. It happened.

1:35:16It happened to Am Yisrael several times. The first Beit HaMikdash, second Beit HaMikdash, and including the Holocaust too. Parents ate their own children. Not because they wanted to. Desperation. Rabbi Yagen, z"l, says that he spoke to one of the Holocaust survivors and told them in the train when the Nazis would put them on trains and lock them in there for weeks. People would die in the train. They would open the train. There were 3,000 who went on the train. Six or 700 survived. The rest of them died. One of the Holocaust survivors said, as soon as somebody died, everybody jumped on him. Why? Felt bad? No. To take the liver to eat it. That's how much starvation makes a person go crazy. You can't judge them. We would do worse. But that's what happened during those times. Now, HaKadosh Baruch Hu doesn't want to bring us to that. But we're bringing ourselves to that. And one of the reasons is because as soon as we hear the truth, many times we either run away or we just keep it to ourselves. Now, there is something you can learn from the Resha'im. You can learn something. I was telling somebody today, we had a conversation, and they mentioned something that I really wasn't interested in.

1:36:45Something, I don't know, a mole or something. And she said, oh, you're not interested. I said, no, no, I'm interested. I'm not interested in the subject, but I'm learning. Keep talking. Why? You can learn something from everything. Even straight, you can learn something from it if you're looking at it the right way. Now, you can learn from Resha'im. What can you learn from Resha'im? The Chazon Ish, Alav HaShalom, He's one of the greatest men that lived in the last hundred years, probably not just a hundred years, ever. In his Emunah u'Bitachon, in the section about Bitachon, chapter 5. Chapter 4, actually. He says the following: If a person lacks Bitachon in Hashem, It's considered as if it's a machshavah nefesh. It's like a flaw in his thinking. It's a flaw of thinking. To such an extent, if he doesn't have bitachon, to such an extent that it's as if he has no part, no connection to the basic tenets of Judaism. He has no bitachon. It's almost like he has a different religion. He's not considered necessarily a rasha.

1:38:05Just like what he has and what real Judaism is, it's different. Why? How could you say you have emunah and you're not even confident in this? This being that you think my seichel too. It's a problem, but it doesn't make him wicked or somebody that we hate, chas v'shalom. That's almost all of us, by the way; all of us have enough bitachon. But then he continues... a zaifan, but the false sense of trust is far worse than that. It's wholly bad. He says, the person who doesn't have bitachon, it's almost like he's not connected to real Judaism. But the person who has false bitachon, fake bitachon, he teaches emunah, but he doesn't have real emunah. He talks emunah, but doesn't really have it. He says that one is much, much worse. That's mamash a tragedy. This person who trusts falsely is no better than one who does not trust at all. In fact, he who does not trust avoids much of the outrage and destructiveness that's associated with the faker, the false truster.

1:39:31The guy that doesn't have enough emunah, he's not as destructive. He's independent by himself. He doesn't have emunah. He's suffering by himself pretty much. But the faker, the faker, he is destructive. How? The one who lacks emunah does not attract disciples nor teach anyone about trusting in Hashem. But the one that has fake emunah, he teaches others to be false just like him. He's totally without trust himself and will not cause, the one that doesn't have trust will not cause any desecration of Hashem's name. But the falsehood of the false one, when that's revealed, his despicable actions against his fellow man will become known and then people will say of him, "Look at that man who studied Mussar..." But look how shameful his actions are. Look how ugly his actions are. He says the person that's a faker, all of these fake speakers, whatever they are, these self-help people, some Jewish, some not. He says those people are much worse than anybody else. Why? Because they have disciples. They teach people their faking. They teach people their falsehood. Now,

1:40:59The Chazon Ish says earlier that it's easy to have bitachon in times when there's no urgent need to trust. It's not really playing an important part in your life. Meaning, right now, everybody's doing good financially. Most people have a job. If you invested in the last few years, you probably made money. If you have a house, it increased in value. Most people, if you own a business, you're probably doing okay. Right? Most people are doing well financially. So right now it's easy to have emunah. Why? Because everything is going okay, more or less. But the Chazon Ish says that times like these are easy to have bitachon in Hashem. Times like these are very easy. When is the time that bitachon is tested? When it’s not the time to Scream out bitachon when there's blood in the streets. When you don't have a job. When there's a holocaust happening—a spiritual one, a physical one, whatever it is. When everything that could go wrong is going wrong. Now, how could somebody ever get to such a level of bitachon? We've talked about it. We've talked about how you have to build bitachon based on yirat Shamayim.

1:42:20But if you look at most of the teachings today in the world, a lot of them don't talk about yirat Shamayim, but every average Joe just starts doing videos on YouTube, starts talking about emunah. Everybody's an emunah teacher. Emunah.com, Emunah.org, Emunah.this, Emunah.that. Everybody's an emunah expert. But yirat Shamayim, almost nobody talks about. Why? It's much more sellable to tell people to just have faith. But any real chacham will know that actually that type of teaching is not only said by the Chazon Ish, that a person like that is a rasha, and you have to stay away from him, but it's actually the opinion of the Gemara. The Gemara in Masechet Sanhedrin says that we are forbidden, page 21b, from teaching Torah based on a reward.

1:43:22Forbidden. The Yaakov Yosef says in the name of the Gemara the following. The Yaakov Yosef says the following: He says, one must understand the fundamental principles of the Torah, that the main purpose of fulfilling the mitzvot is simply because God decreed so, and not because we understand the reasons behind them. as it says in the Gemara, Masechet Sanhedrin, page 21b, Rabbi Yitzchak says, why were the reasons for the mitzvot not revealed? Meaning, how come we don't know why we're doing mitzvot? How come we don't know the real reason behind keeping Shabbat? Now you could say, oh, it's a break. Yeah, but that's not the real reason. Why, did Hashem really give you Shabbat just so you could take a break? Why do we eat kosher? Oh, it's healthy. You really think Hashem made kosher food just for unique species of animals that you can eat just for health reasons? It's better off just giving you the manna. The manna, no one ever got sick. So it's not for that. In reality, we don't know the reasons for all of the mitzvot except two. Shlomo HaMelech says, how come the secret of the mitzvot wasn't revealed? And the reason is because two were revealed.

1:44:40and let the smartest man that ever lived make a mistake with him. The first mitzvah, it says that a king should not have many wives. So Shlomo HaMelech, the smartest man of all time, says, why does it say don't have many wives? Because the Torah says don't have many wives because your heart will stray away from Hashem. So Shlomo HaMelech says, I'm so wise, I know this. So I'm going to have many wives and I'm not going to stray away from Hashem. Yeah, this mitzvah is for everybody else. It's not as wise as me. What happened with Shlomo HaMelech? In the book of Kings I, chapter 11, verse 4, it says, "And when Shlomo was aged, his wives inclined his heart." And the Torah says that in the end of his life, Hashem looked at him unfavorably because his wives steered his heart against Him. Away from Hashem, not becoming necessarily a rasha or anything, but he did not reach his full potential because of his many wives. The same exact thing happened when Shlomo HaMelech saw the other mitzvah, which is to not return, not to have many horses. Not to have any horses, because that will lead you to go back to Egypt. So Shlomo HaMelech says, okay, I'll have a lot of horses.

1:46:03but I'm just not going to send anybody to Egypt. But what does it say? Again, the same exact thing happened. One day, Shlomo HaMelech wanted to buy some unique horses, but the main horse market was where? In Egypt. So he sent his people to Egypt to go buy him some horses. So the Torah says here, teaching the details of the mitzvot is not good for Am Yisrael. The smartest man of all time failed at it. Needless to say, we will fail at it. But from there we learn, the Gemara says, from there we learn that we are not allowed to learn or to teach the mitzvot based on the reward. This pretty much cancels out a good portion of shiurim. Why? Most people are trying to convince you, you know, if you do this, you're going to get a lot of money. If you go to the Knesset, you're going to get a lot of money. You keep Shabbat, you're going to get a lot of money. You get this, you're going to find zivug. You get this, you're going to have shalom bayit. You get this. If that's the reason why you're doing the mitzvah, the Gemara says it's only a matter of time before you break Shabbat. Why? If the reason why you're doing the mitzvah is because of the reward,

1:47:11Satan will one day come to you and tell you, "You know what? That's a good reward, but who needs it anyway? Come on. You're not ready to get married anyway. Don't keep Shabbat. No, you're not ready. You don't need a lot of money. You already have enough. Don't do this." The reward one day will become unfavorable in your eyes, and if you're only doing the mitzvah because of the reward in this world, then... says it's only a matter of time before you break that mitzvah. You commit a sin. Why? Because eventually you're going to say, you know what? I don't want the reward, and I don't want the mitzvah that goes along with it. So now we have ourselves a generation of atheist liberals, lefties, and then we have a good portion of secular Jews that are not lefty liberals but are ignorant, clueless, like most of us were at some point in our lives. And then we have a few religious people...

1:48:13It's important for all of us to know. If, chas v'shalom, a decree comes, whoever didn't act now will be part of it. Someone who did not take advantage of the opportunity that they have information that they can share with people to help them do teshuva, they have money, that they could use in order to help people do teshuva. They have time, they have a skill to help people do teshuva, and they don't use it, they're not excluding themselves by being in the middle of nowhere. It's the opposite. They're throwing themselves in the basket of others. Why? Because they're the reason why nobody else knows. Hashem gave them a certain amount of money, So they could use that money to publicize Torah. They didn't use that money to publicize Torah. They used it to buy cars and houses and horses and all types of things. Hashem says, "Okay, there's a certain amount of people that did not do teshuva because you didn't invest the money. A certain amount of people did not do teshuva because you didn't share the lecture. A certain amount of people didn't do teshuva because you didn't share the truth in any other way or form. You are at fault. You can't just say, 'Okay, they're going to go to Gan Eden, they're going to go to Gehinnom, and you're going to go to Gan Eden.' It doesn't work that way."

1:49:34So this, Rabotai, is very, very important news. You have to know that right now we're in dangerous times. Right now we are in scary times. And every one of us has to take the bull by the horns, if you will, and do something about it. Do something about it. The religious people cannot just think that they're going to protect themselves. The secular people cannot just think that they don't need the religious people. If there's no religious people in the world, there's no Am Yisrael, period. There's no world. Hashem wrote this Torah. Even the secular people admit that Hashem wrote this Torah. He didn't write this Torah for secular people that violate Shabbat. He wrote the Torah for the people that keep the Torah. So if there's no people keeping the Torah, then obviously there's no reason for the world. So the secular people need the religious people a lot more than they realize. But the same thing goes vice versa. The religious people need the secular people. Why? Because you need somebody to do teshuva to give you a purpose in your life, to give you a way to do teshuva. There are certain sins that each one of us has committed that we simply cannot fix by ourselves. We need somebody else to fix them for us. Somebody wasted seed for the first 20, 30 years of their life; you can't fix that by yourself.

1:50:57You need somebody else to do teshuva for it. Somebody violated Shabbat for the first 20, 30 years of their life; you can't fix that by yourself. The most you can keep in one week is one Shabbat. The only way you can keep more than one Shabbat is if you get other people to keep Shabbat. Somebody was immodest for the first 10, 20, 30 years of their life. Guess what? You can't fix that by yourself. Even if you become a Rabbanit right now, a Tzadikah, everything is good. Still, what about the first 30 years you got Am Yisrael to sin and everybody else to sin? That doesn't go away by itself. The only way is to get other daughters of Am Yisrael to start becoming modest. Every girl has to become like a little Rabbanit. Has to become honest. Why? Because of you. Because you're telling them, listen, don't make the same mistakes I made when I was 16. Don't make the same mistakes that I made when I was 18. Don't make the same mistakes when I was 25. What do you get out of being immodest? A bunch of construction workers to whistle at you like you're a dog? What do you get? A bunch of guys to undress you with their eyes? What do you get? What do you get out of it? Attention? You know what also gives attention to girls that are immodest? Stalkers.

1:52:07Rapists, all types of sick people, they also give attention. You're not going to find them stalking some really big tzadika for two reasons. Number one, they're not interested. Why? Because she's not dressed immodestly. There are plenty of half-naked women who have already done half the job for them, easier customers. And two, they don't have the shemirah, the protection of HaKadosh Baruch Hu. Tzadika has the protection of HaKadosh Baruch Hu. She walks the street with millions of malachim. The girl that's not tzanua, that's not modest, she walks with shedim. She doesn't realize, she doesn't see them though. Because every time a guy sees her, it creates a sin. He creates a sin, it creates a demon. That demon walks with her wherever she goes for the rest of her life, until she does teshuva. So, you don't get anything out of being immodest anyway. No one wants to be arm candy. No one wants to be the girl on the side. Everyone wants to be a respectable woman, a woman who is admired, a woman who is respected, a woman who is appreciated. You have to appreciate yourself. You have to respect yourself. You have to act as if you are a princess because, in the eyes of HaKadosh Baruch Hu, you are. Princesses do not walk around immodestly.

1:53:28It doesn't work that way. They walk around with gowns all the time. That's how a Bat Yisrael is supposed to walk around. So, if you tell people, listen, if you're modest, you'll find a zivug. It's only a matter of time before one of those girls tells you, "Take your Torah and give it to somebody else." Why? Because sometimes it doesn't work that way. Sometimes, yes, part of her tikkun is to be modest, but that's not necessarily the reason why Hashem is going to give her a zivug. So if you tell her, "If you're modest, you're going to get a zivug," unless you have ruach hakodesh or you have a special high level of prayer. You're making a mistake. Why? Because sometimes HaKadosh Baruch Hu is not going to make it happen. And if she's not strong enough and she's going to be modest for a year, she's not going to find a zivug, she can leave the whole thing. So you cannot teach the Torah based on reward. So right now, all of the religious people need to understand: you need the secular people because you yourself have to do teshuva. You yourself have to make sure that your children do not end up like the secular liberal people.

1:54:32And guess what? If there are more liberal lefties in the world, that means there's a higher likelihood of your children, your grandchildren, ending up married to them. If you're even fortunate enough for them to marry Jews. In this generation, you're lucky if your kids marry Jews. Needless to say, religious and so on. So, The point is that there's really not that much time. There's not much time to sugarcoat. There's not much time to beat around the bush. There's not much time to wait for people. Every person gets one shot. You give them the information, they show interest, you continue. They don't necessarily need to do teshuvah on day one. They show interest, you continue. They don't show an interest, move on. Why? Not enough time. It's not enough time to just sit there and wait for the guy for three years until he starts keeping Shabbat, putting on tefillin. It's not enough time. There are millions of easy customers, millions of them. Millions of our brothers and sisters are interested. They just don't know they are yet. So don't waste your time and energy just on one, two, or three people because they're close to you. Their blood is not any redder than some other Jew's blood.

1:55:50You have to work on them, you have to work on everybody. But the point is, Rabotai, every one of us has to do something. And the reason why, we'll finish with this, the last thing the Gemara says that happened before HaKadosh Baruch Hu decided to pass the decree to destroy the Beit HaMikdash is when no one wanted to do anything about it anymore. And we say it in our Tefillat Shacharit on Mondays and Thursdays. A pasuk from the Gemara, Masechet Chagigah, says, "There were no more people to tell the truth. No more people to tell the truth about emunah in Hashem." Once no one cared anymore, the religious people didn't care anymore. Who says that means that there's no way for anybody to do teshuvah from all of these rabbis? Why? Because all of these fakers—what are they doing? They're spreading false emunah, not real emunah. They're just creating a chilul Hashem. They're just creating a falsehood, creating a bunch of false teachers. And that's what's happening: these false teachers are creating tragedies, tragedies and...

1:57:04One of these people that I've mentioned in shiurim that I told you guys you have to stay away from, some people didn't want to listen to me. They continued listening to him. They even got marriage advice from the guy. Specifically, I told people to run away from this guy because of his flawed marriage advice. In the name of emunah. Well, guess what happened? The marriage advice didn't work. They got a divorce. So you have another divorced couple in the world. Not only were they divorced, both went off the derech. Now we're trying to pick up the pieces. In the name of Emunah. Emunah without Yirat Shamayim is not Emunah. It's delusion. It's being drunk. So this, Rabotai, is what we have to understand. We have to take into account. We have a very critical couple of days today. in front of us, but even more than that, we have a critical Rosh Hashanah coming up in the next couple of weeks. You have to start taking some things upon yourself. You have to start taking things seriously. Anyone that wants to help our work in the coming year can contribute, like I said, on the website. If you have something that's a um

1:58:24a way to publicize our Torah by making a shiur in your community, please let us know. But the point being, Rabotai, is that everything starts with our own independent teshuva. Everybody starts with their own teshuva, their rebuke on themselves, and little by little, if every one of us rebukes ourselves, we're going to become holier than what we are, and we're going to influence the public much more than we could imagine. But at the very least, you have to understand the danger that's around us. Because it's one of those times where pretty much there's no other way to say it. There's no nicer way to say this. It's a difficult time. It's a scary time. And it looks like there's not going to be a corner in the world that's going to be safe. America, Israel, Europe, everywhere. All this stuff is happening everywhere. All you got to do is pay attention. Now, to delve into it too much and go into every detail and start monitoring the news and every pro-lesbian, pro-gay event you're highlighting or every single rabbi that's wicked you're highlighting and every single anti-Torah thing you're highlighting, to become obsessed with it is not going to help anyone either. The only way to beat the Tumah is by adding Kedushah to the world. So each one of us has to increase the Kedushah in the world by our own actions and by Siata Dishmaya.

1:59:46we will show HaKadosh Baruch Hu that at least we may not be as righteous as we should be, but at least we didn't stop fighting. We didn't stop fighting to honor His name. So at least we have some more time. We have some more time to help more of our brothers and sisters do teshuva, whether they wear a shtreimel, a baseball hat, a small kippah, or they're bald. It's irrelevant. The point is, if you see a Jew, try to help him. If they're willing to accept it, Continue. If they reject it and they even go against it, move on. There are too many easy customers waiting, waiting to be helped. Any questions? We have a shiur; the next shiur is going to be on Tuesday. We're going to continue our Iggeret HaRamban, a very different shiur than tonight. And then Wednesday, we'll have our shiur about questions and answers. Also, pay attention to the schedule; we'll update it probably in the next couple of days. During the next month, there are not going to be many shiurim. There's going to be, on average, maybe one shiur per week because of the holiday falling on days of our shiurim and so on.

2:01:00So at most, there's probably going to be about one shiur a week. I'll try to maintain that, B'ezrat Hashem. But the point is that if you're a local, you should take advantage of every shiur that we're going to have in the next week and a half or so. Baruch Adonai le'olam. Amen ve'amen. Amen.