The Hidden True Story Behind the Birth of Yeshua (Jesus) HOLD ON TO YOUR CHAIRS

0:07I'm going to tell you guys something very interesting. We're going to answer the question: is it better in Judaism to be more strict or not? Now, my dear talmidim initially said, "Yes, more stringent." You heard Naomi say, "No, no, it's not good. Yes, good." Everybody's confused. Why? Because, in one sense, it's good to be stringent. We heard from the story of Rabbi Ovadia. He was stringent in regards to shaking hands. It's good. Thank you. But, but, sometimes it's not good. One is not good. We heard a different story yesterday. Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu, somebody came to him, one of the Avreichim came to him and said, Rabbi, can I, from now on, get your permission to wear my tefillin all day so I can study while I'm wearing tefillin all day, like the tzaddikim in the Gemara. And Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu says no. Why no? Even though it's a mitzvah, even though it's fantastic, he says if this addition, this additional stringency will make you think in your heart that you're better than everybody else in the kollel, one time, your whole life, it's not worth it.

1:33Why would you think you're better? Because you have 500 people in the kollel, and you're the only one that's put on tefillin. So it's going to be distinguishable. So in essence, even if they're not saying anything to you, you're going to see yourself. You're going to say, wait, I'm wearing tefillin; nobody else is wearing tefillin. You're going to feel good about yourself. If you feel good about yourself, then you're better than anybody else one time in your entire life. And that's the essence. That dust of pride enters your heart. It was better off you never added the strings. Why? Because that's how much Hashem hates pride. So we see that stringency has a time and place. Now, the interesting part is that in both cases, there's a permission from the Torah to do, and there's a permission from the Torah not to do. Meaning, the Avrech came to his rabbi and said, "It says in the Torah to do it," but the rabbi said no. Why? Because he knows the student; in essence, the rabbi is right for saying no. At the time of Rav Ovadia, there was a leniency to shake hands. But the Rabbi said no. Why could it be, and so on and so forth? Meaning that it's not black and white. But in both cases, you see that it's not just a black-and-white law. There's also something called Daas Torah, the opinion of the Torah, based on this specific situation. What happens when you do not seek the opinion of the Torah, and you seek your own opinion first?

2:56I mean, after all, Tzelem Elokim, HaKadosh Baruch Hu created you in His image, no? It's so special. Your opinion should count for something, no? After all, you're smart. You finished a few Masechtot in the Gemara. Some people even call you Rabbi. No, Chacham, Chacham, no, no. Your opinion, no? The Gemara in Masechet Yevamot says... Someone that does not seek the assistance of a rabbi, meaning someone that does not ask his rabbi questions and, in essence, becomes their own rabbi. The Gemara, Masechet Yevamot, page 109b, says HaKadosh Baruch Hu hates this person. Why? Because, in essence, they are so proud that they think they know everything. And we have... one of the stories that you can listen to if you understand what I'm about to say to you; you may have to grab your chairs. Some time ago, I told you a story that's in the Gemara, Masechet Chagigah, page 4b. It says that there was a certain woman that the

4:18Satan decided to take someone out of the world, but by mistake. Mistake. Rav Bibi, one of the Tana'im, was friends with the Satan. Satan likes tzaddikim. So he came to him and said, "Do you want me to show you what I do?" He said, "Yeah." So, Rav Bibi was shown by the Satan how the Satan takes out neshamot. So, Satan tells one of his servants, "Go bring me the neshamah of Miriam the caretaker. Go bring me." And the servant goes and brings the neshamah of Miriam. Satan tells him, "Hey, it's the wrong Miriam. I didn't ask you for this Miriam." It's the wrong medium. Okay, so should I bring this one back? He goes, no, this one, leave it anyway. Go bring the other one anyway. We have to bring it. It's time for her to die. So it's a peculiar story. And then we go into the details: how, who, what, when, and how. But we're not going to go into that because we've already discussed that in the past. But just remember, now, who is this medium? And why does she deserve to die?

5:44No. Her name is mentioned if it was just some woman, then it doesn't matter who she is. Why would the Gemara mention her name? If your name is mentioned, there's a reason for it, meaning there's significance here of who and what and how. Who is this Miriam? You're not going to find that in Gemara Masechet Chagigah page 4b. You're going to find it somewhere else. You have to go to Gemara Masechet Gittin. Last page, page 90. Muhammad says, "What are the appropriate ways for a woman to behave and for a husband to let a woman behave?" He says there are some husbands that the way they eat is the way they treat their wife, in essence. And some people, if they see a fly in their drink, fly in their drink. They take the fly out and drink the water. He says, that's normal. That's a normal husband. That's a person that allows his wife to deal with regular people. Not to banter around and start talking to every guy on the street and so on. But if it's family, if it's friends, if it's hello, it's goodbye. General basic behavior. He's the bank teller. Here's the money. Thank you very much. Basic stuff. Normal, necessary conversation.

6:49and drink the water. He says that's normal. That's a normal husband. That's a person who allows his wife to deal with regular people—not to banter around and start talking to every guy on the street and so on. But if it's family, if it's friends, if it's hello, it's goodbye, general basic behavior. He's the bank teller. Here's the money. Thank you very much. Basic stuff. Normal, necessary conversation. This is what it represents. Because today, any one of us sees a fly in our drink, we throw it out. But that's because we're all rich in comparison to the people of 2,000 years ago. Back then... You know, if you weren't rich, you weren't going to throw out the water right away. So someone that just saw that something was flying in their water, they would take it out and drink it. That, in essence, makes them normal, representing a normal husband. A normal husband, which, in essence, allows his wife to act normally. If, let's say, a UPS guy comes to the house, she's able to answer the door. All right, thank you very much. Goodbye. Takes the box. No problem. It's allowed to take the box. She's not hugging the guy.

7:58Not saying, "Hey, how's your family? Where are your kids? Were you guys on vacation?" No, that's not allowed. But just basic conversation. "Thank you very much." "No problem." That's normal. Normal behavior, no problem. Then there's a guy that's a rasha. What's this guy that's a rasha? A guy that's a rasha that allows his wife... go out without modesty, sleeveless, and without kisui rosh, and he doesn't care. He doesn't care even if she goes into a bathhouse and there are still men there. He's like a guy that sees the fly and drinks the fly with the water. He doesn't care about anything. That's a rasha. But then there's a guy that sees the fly... Throws out the fly and the water together. He throws out everything. He says that's extreme fanatic behavior. Like who? Like a person by the name of Pappus ben Yehuda. Who's Pappus ben Yehuda? Pappus ben Yehuda lived at the time of the Gemara, and it says that Pappus ben Yehuda saw that his wife was one of the most beautiful women alive.

9:21something special. And he said, there's no way that people are not going to look at her, no way. So for modesty reasons, honey, whatever you need, I'll get it for you. Go on amazon.com, order whatever you want. You don't need to go to the store. You don't need to go to the mall. You want something, I'll give it to you, but you're not leaving the house. House, no store. No deli. No, it's not, no work. Nothing. Whatever you need, I'll bring it to the house. No problem. And Papu was very strict. Papu would leave the house and lock the door behind him, not allowing his wife to leave the house. The most she could do was look outside the porch to see the outside. Gemara says this, wait, it's a mitzvah. You think she's modest because of this? You think he's a tzaddik because of this? She says, look what happened. On Yom Kippur, on Yom Kippur, Papu says, wife, Miriam. The same Miriam from the Gemara Masechet Hagigah says. She's had it. Papu says to her, I'm

10:42I'm going to shul, tzaddik. Fasting, pray all day, see you tomorrow. He leaves. He leaves. This guy. This guy called Yosef Pandira. Notices as the husband left, And he knows Miriam from back in the day. He goes, "Miriam, Miriam, when are you ever going to come out?" And Miriam says, she's so annoyed already, she hasn't been out of the house in so long, she says, "Yosef, when are you going to save me?" He says, "Today." He climbs to the house, takes her out of the house, and they run away together and sin, committing adultery, on Yom Kippur. On Yom Kippur. Now, Rabotai, we say, what happened from the sin? What happened from the sin is they had a son. Who is their son? Their son, Rabotai, don't jump the gun yet. Don't start naming names yet. Don't start naming names. It's not nice. Their son, Rabotai,

12:03is named in the Gemara Masechet Shabbat. But if you read Masechet Shabbat, unless you know what Rabbi Ephraim Shechter wrote in his Achot L'Yisrael, Chelek Bet, all the commentary from the Chatam Sofer and other Chachamim, you're not going to know what's in Masechet Shabbat. Why? Because in the Gemara Masechet Shabbat, page 104b, it says, "Are we allowed to draw on our hands? Draw on our hands, make marks on our hands with our fingers. Is that violating Shabbat? Is that considered writing?" says, well, it should be considered writing because there was a person by the name of Ben Sitatda. Ben Sitatda wrote all types of witchcraft on his skin, all types of witchcraft on his skin. And because anytime he would get the witchcraft, the Egyptians would catch him at the border, and they wouldn't want him to take the witchcraft with him because that's, in essence, their possession, that's their stuff. So he couldn't write the spells on paper, so he wrote them on his skin. So he wrote them, he wrote them on his skin, and it worked. The Gemara says, no, no, we don't learn, we don't learn halachot from crazy people. So the Baalei HaTosafot says, who is this Ben Stada? Who is this Ben Stada? Ben Stada means Ben Sotah, the son of the wayward woman.

13:27Who's the wayward woman? The Chatam Sofer says the wayward woman is the same Miriam that cheated on her husband, Papus ben Yehuda, with Yosef ben Pandera. So who is the son? Okay, this is the wayward woman. She cheated. Chatam Sofer says a chiddush of a lifetime. Who is the son? Yeshu, the Christian. Yeshu y'mach sh'mo v'zichro. That's how he came to the world. From what? From his mother cheating on her original husband with some goy. That's how Yeshu came to the world, Rabotai. Where did he come from? Mitzvah? Modesty? There's a modesty in our life. Who asked you to be that modest? You lock yourself in a house. Meaning, Rabotai... That when a person does not listen to Da’at Torah and does not double-check themselves, even your mitzvah can turn into the biggest sin that's ever happened in history. How many millions of Jews have died because of this sin? It looks like a mitzvah. She wanted to be modest inside the house. He wanted her to be modest inside the house. No guy ever sees, no one ever sees her. Who asked you to do this? Who asked you?

14:48There are halachic permissions to do certain things. There are halachic restrictions to not do certain things. A person needs to know what to do, what not to do, based on the Torah, not based on their logic. Now, when a person takes things into their own mind, and they start deciding this is the halacha, this comes from pride. Because they assume they're right, and they don't have to double check. All of us have pride. This is why HaKadosh Baruch Hu had mercy on us and allowed us to write the Oral Torah as well. Why? Because now we can't use this pride as an excuse. Why? Because you can find out whether you're right or wrong by simply asking your rabbi, by simply looking at the Torah. Is what you said and what you think written in a book in the Torah, or is it simply your own idea that you're trying to be overly righteous? Don't be overly righteous. Don't be more righteous than what the Torah says. So, does that mean that every woman can just talk to anybody? No. Does that mean that every woman has to be closed up and be so modest that no one ever sees her? No. So, what does it mean then? It means you have certain guidelines. That's what we're going to go over now.