Tzadikim That Married Prostitutes - JEWISH INTIMACY (41)

0:04we're back here on our Jewish Intimacy series Tuesday night. As we get closer and closer to the completion of this extraordinary series, it seems like the Yetzer Hara hates what we're doing with all of the amazing tikkunim and the wonderful technology failures. It's always a good sign when the Yetzer Hara stops what he's doing and takes notice of you and what you're doing, Baruch Hashem, when you're teaching Torah, when you're learning Torah, when you're doing Ma'asim Tovim, Shetavach Shemo La'ad. So tonight's shiur is going to be for the Refuah Shlema for Rabbi Ephraim ben Shulamit, Rabbanit Sarah bat Anat, Rabbanit Levana bat Sarah, and all of Am Yisrael and all the righteous Noachides that continue to watch and learn from the shiurim. Before we start, let me just confirm, even though we're very late, that the sound is good. If somebody can send me some messages to let me know that the sound is good. Okay.

1:32Okay, somebody send me messages. Everybody's sleeping; everybody gave up. Good, on Facebook. Thank you, Rosalie, you're doing a better job than my paid employees. Okay, we'll continue. This thing is going insane. Okay, I'll try this again. So, we are Continuing the Igeret HaKodesh by the holy Ramban, Nachmanides, who wrote one of the most important letters that is in the possession of Am Yisrael today. Unfortunately, not enough people know about this letter.

2:37uh, this Igeret HaKodesh, but needless to say, this is something that anyone that has read it and understood it, anyone that has watched the series over the past year or so with us for 40 lectures or so, if they have not transformed their life, perhaps they should check their hearing. and brainwaves because this has certainly woken up the dead. Now, many people have come to me, whether they are avid listeners who have really applied this to their lives, whether single, married, young or old, Jew or Gentile, and have told me that this has done wonders for their marriage, wonders for their life, their servitude of Hashem, and simply they found out things they never even knew were possible. achieved with, you know, which is, when it comes to intimacy. Now, in last week's lecture, we found out the true secret behind why HaKadosh Baruch Hu chose Avraham Avinu to be our forefather, why HaKadosh Baruch Hu chose Yitzchak Avinu to be our forefather, and why HaKadosh Baruch Hu chose Yaakov Avinu to be our forefather.

3:55As the Zohar HaKadosh says, the reason why HaKadosh Baruch Hu sent Yosef, one of the 12 tribes, to Egypt in the way that He did... The rest of the family was because HaKadosh Baruch Hu had to have someone pass the morality test in order for Am Yisrael to survive Egypt. Had Yosef failed the morality test with Eshes Potifar in Egypt, Am Yisrael would have never been allowed to leave Egypt. so, uh, we see that the issues of morality are not only something that is pertinent to our society today, but needless to say, it is one of the foundations, or the foundation, of the Torah. Now, last week, the Ramban taught us the secret of Avraham Avinu when he united with his wife. The rest of the family was because HaKadosh Baruch Hu had to have someone pass the morality test in order for Am Yisrael to survive Egypt. Had Yosef failed the morality test with Eshes Potifar in Egypt, Am Yisrael would have never been allowed to leave Egypt. Many decades they were together without the ability to actually produce a child of flesh and blood into this world, but the Zohar elaborates on that and shows that even though they were not able to bring children to the world for all of those years, they did create all of the nishamot, all of the souls, of the converts that will come into the world in the future. This is one of the reasons why... many decades they were together without the ability to actually produce a child of flesh and blood into this world, but the Zohar elaborates on that and shows that even though they were not able to bring children to the world for all of those years, they did create all of the neshamos, all of the souls, of the converts that will come into the world in the future. This is one of the reasons why

5:16When someone completes a conversion, an Orthodox Jewish conversion, they're called the son of Avraham and Sarah. They're called the daughter of Avraham and Sarah. Not because we want to make them feel good and be politically correct and pretty much make everybody a winner, even the guy in 50th place. Chas v'shalom, the Torah ha'kedoshah is not politically correct. The Torah ha'kedoshah does not take your current modern-day feelings into account the Torah tells you what HaKadosh Baruch Hu's will is, what HaKadosh Baruch Hu's emet, what a signature of emet looks like. And the Torah tells us that the sparks of Avraham Avinu were created throughout all of those years, all of those years that he was together with his wife, because even though they were not able to bring children to the world, there was still uniting with kedusha, with holiness. Now, this created the neshamot that would ultimately enter the people that are actually converting to Judaism now. Furthermore, the Ramban told us last week that something changed with Avraham Avinu after HaKadosh Baruch Hu, in Sefer Bereshit, chapter 25, verse 19.

6:35tells Avraham Avinu the ultimate promise. Tells Avraham Avinu the ultimate promise, "Sarah your wife will give birth to your son, and I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his seed after him." Once HaKadosh Baruch Hu told Avraham that he's about to have a son and this is the son he's been waiting for for a hundred years, this is the son that is going to be the forefather for Am Yisrael, despite Avraham Avinu's extraordinary level of wisdom and holiness and achieving kedushah at the highest possible level, he elevated himself even more As the Ramban says, where Avraham focused his intentions at the time of union with Sarah, with the highest wisdom and all of his good traits, while adhering his thoughts to the upper heavenly worlds, he also intended to sire a son who would be worthy of what God said of him. In so many words, Avraham Avinu

7:47took everything that he has gone through, everything that he has learned, everything that he knows to be good, to know that this is the will of Hashem, and put all of this into his mind at the time of intimacy with his tzaddeket wife Sarah, because he wanted to create a tzaddik just like himself. So this was not only a one-time thing, this was a whole life's work. culminating in this particular act because you can't expect to have a tzaddik just because you're thinking about a tzaddik but you act like a rasha your whole day and your whole life. If you're a womanizer, if you're an adulterer, if you're a thief, if you're a liar, if you're violating all different major parts of the Torah, you're wasting seed, violating Shabbat, and then say, "No, no, but I want Moshe to be my son." A tzaddik has a much easier time achieving those high-level thoughts than someone who does not live it. Why? Because someone who is a tzaddik is used to these thoughts, is used to clean thoughts, is used to only thinking about his wife, is used to doing good and only thinking good, running away from evil, both evil in thought and evil in action, evil in vision.

9:09whereas a wicked person may want to have Moshe Rabbeinu as his son, to arrive at the appropriate thoughts of holiness is nearly impossible for such a person since all day his eyes are looking at everything except his wife. So, we see here that to achieve holiness, one of the main things that we learn from Avraham Avinu is that you have to think about it, but also you have to put yourself in a position to succeed. Like they say, for example, in the world of money and capitalism and so on, everyone wants to say that such and such is a lucky person. And although it's nice to say that someone else succeeded because they're lucky because... That eliminates your own responsibility for your failure because you didn't get lucky. But the reality is that people who tend to be successful over a long period of time, not the one-time successes, not the new money type of people, but rather people who are successful over a long period of time tend to put themselves in positions to be successful. The same concept is with kedusha; when a person wants to achieve the highest level of kedusha, they put themselves in such a position to be able to become used to holiness. The question is, what happens if you marry a prostitute, whether it's a male prostitute or a female prostitute? Now, of course...

10:21the same concept is with kedusha; when a person wants to achieve the highest level of kedusha, they put themselves in such a position to be able to become used to holiness. The question is, what happens if you marry a prostitute, whether it's a male prostitute or a female prostitute? Now, of course this does not necessarily only mean someone that is doing this professionally where they charge money to do all types of filthy things with people. I'm talking about people that are promiscuous. What happens if somebody was promiscuous throughout their life, like many people are, and before they do teshuva, he was... before doing teshuva, he was... Arrogant even and proud of his achievements with all the different women that he was with before teshuva. She was proud of all the different men she was able to entertain. But now that she did teshuva and realized it's wrong, obviously, she wants to change her life. She wants to get married and settle down. He wants to get married and settle down. Can anything holy come from such a person?

11:46Needless to say, again, whether a prostitute for money or a prostitute for free doesn't really make much of a difference. The question is, can anything good come from a Ba'al Teshuva? that committed every crime under the sun, this so-called low generation that we live in. Everyone likes to talk about how everyone is in such a low generation, so Hashem is just simply going to change the Torah for them and, in so many words, accept their loserness. This is complete falsehood. Everyone is expected to follow the Torah, just like Moshe Rabbeinu did, just like David HaMelech did. And do the best you possibly can. You're forbidden from doing certain things. You're allowed to do other things. It's recommended to do certain things. It's forbidden to do other things. Some things are allowed and recommended. Some things are allowed and not recommended. Some things are forbidden. And that's the end of the conversation. But the key is, once you actually get out of this low generation excuse and you really want to make something out of yourself in the holy world, in the spiritual world, in the eternal world, can you fix yourself? Can you do better than your past? Not just avoid making the same mistakes, but now that you've made these mistakes and said you're sorry and cried and did teshuva, and did a tikkun or two or a thousand...

12:53low-generation excuse and you really want to make something out of yourself in the holy world, in the spiritual world, in the eternal world. Can you fix yourself? Can you do better than your past? Not just avoid making the same mistakes, but now that you've made these mistakes and said you're sorry, cried, and did teshuva, and did a tikkun or two or a thousand... still got this under my belt. Can anything good come from me? Do you know how many times I had to get people out of the gutter psychologically because they thought, "Yes, I did teshuva, and I'm not violating Shabbat anymore, and I'm not immoral anymore, and I'm not this, and I'm not that anymore. But still, how could God still accept me after everything I've done?" The problem is that you're taking your little human head and you're putting it on God, and you're thinking that He thinks like you. So, we have to find out. Worst case scenario: you are a prostitute. Can you bring something holy into the world? Can you become holy? Can you become holy and bring holiness into the world?

14:18No less than Avraham Avinu. Can you or not? You can say yes, but what's your proof? You can say no, but what's your proof? Tonight we're going to find out. The Holy Ramban is getting close to closing this letter and we're touching on some major issues. And Be'ezrat Hashem, HaKadosh Baruch Hu will put the right words in our minds, in our mouths, to be able to convey to each and every single one of you that is watching it today, to know exactly where you stand, whether your failure in the past is a permanent failure and a stain for eternity, like many people want to say, like to say, but only do it silently by simply calling you a low generation, as if you are permanently spiritually retarded,

15:19Other people that say, listen, every Jew is so holy, you're the best, no matter how you are. Wait, what if he's a violator of Shabbat? No matter how you are. What if he wastes seed every day? No matter how you are. What if she's a prostitute? No matter how you are. What if she wants to go with a married guy? No matter how you are. No. What do you mean, you're telling me that this prostitute is going to be in the same Gan Eden as Moshe Rabbeinu? Can it be? Question is, what if you used to be? What if you used to be bad? Used to be horrible. Used to be a disgrace. Do you have to live in this state of mind that I messed up? Now, I'm going to pay the bill even though I've changed my ways. I ...No. Forgiveness is not limited like it is in the world of humans, where the guy did something bad to you and then he says, "I'm sorry," and you say, "Ah, no problem, man," but you're never gonna do business with him again. You hate him really deeply in your heart, and you're never gonna invite him to a family event. Every time he doesn't show up, you're happy...

16:43you said, "No, no, no problem. Between us, we're friends." "Oh, how come you didn't invite me?" "Oh, I didn't invite you? I thought I did. Text messages don't work sometimes." "All right, so it so happened, the text message to you and the phone call to you and the next-door neighbor to you always don't work." Why? Because you still hate him in your heart. So forgiveness in this world is often limited. He did something to you, but you stayed married. 15 years later, you get into a fight and you remind them of it. Wait, I thought you forgave me. I thought that, yeah, I know I screwed up back then. And then I said, I'm sorry. And then I did whatever I could to make it up to you. And then you said, okay, I forgive you. So why are you reminding me of this 15 years later, which many women tend to do as if this is like some brownie point they keep bringing up? Did you forgive or you didn't forgive? The Baal Shem Tov says, the way you forgive is how they forgive you in Shamayim. If you're one of these fake forgivers, where you say I forgive, but in reality, you don't forgive, in Shamayim, you're going to be surprised at the account they show you. Well, I thought you forgive. We forgive, but temporarily. 15 years we forgive, until we have a reason to remind you.

18:13So now, Rabotai Yekarim, Mr. and Mrs. Low Generation, are you really a low generation that is incapable of bringing holiness into the world because of all of the mistakes all of us have made, some worse than others? Is it impossible for you to create Kedusha? You could say, yeah, I could create probably something good, but you know, it's more like a little candle. It's not a fire of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai. Do you have any proof for that statement? I just feel it, but we don't learn Torah from feelings. It may just be, perhaps you need to take Gas-X or something else for that feeling you have. We need proofs, Torah proofs. Once we have proofs, we know what the truth is. Good or bad, we're going to live with it. Says the Ramban, after Avraham Avinu found out about this precious prize he's going to get, he's going to get Yitzchak, he made sure not only to sanctify his actions throughout the day, but to sanctify his actions throughout the night when he unites with his wife Sarah.

19:36As the Midrash Rabbah says, Sarah was the most beautiful woman in history. So much so that the most beautiful woman of today looks like a monkey with hair on its face next to Sarah Imeinu. Sarah Imeinu, at her old age, was more beautiful than anything you can imagine. And if that wasn't enough, HaKadosh Baruch Hu miraculously made Sarah younger again. younger again, and for all of those naysayers and disbelievers, miraculously allowed Sarah to have strength beyond human nature, such that she was able to breastfeed the entire community's kids. Why would the entire community have kids all of a sudden? When HaKadosh Baruch Hu brought salvation to the tzaddikim, everyone else also gets their salvation. All of the women that were barren and not able to have kids, their, um, their fortune opened up as well, and everyone had kids at the same time. And now everybody has to feed the kids. She's tired, she doesn't feel good, it's not working. It is Sarah Imeinu to the rescue, Sarah Imeinu to the rescue. At 90 years old, Sarah Imeinu to the rescue.

20:56So now Avraham Avinu brought this extraordinary thing into the world, miracle after miracle, sanctified his mind, and Yitzchak turned out to be the perfect human being. As the Ramban here says, you already know that the Olah, the Korban Olah, the Olah offering, is the holiest of holy offerings, Kodesh Kodashim. And it needs to be given for sinful thoughts of the heart and conscious sins. As the Midrash Rabbah in chapter 7, section number 3 says, Korban Olah, why do we bring Korban Olah? You had filthy thoughts, things you saw on the internet, the girl that works next to you in the office. girl that sends you a text message and says, "Listen, maybe this, maybe that." The guy that paid attention to you for the first time in your life, all of a sudden you don't really care about whether it's adultery or not. All those garbage thoughts—you've got to bring a korban olah. Get ready; better is coming along with the Mashiach. Start saving money for the korban olah.

22:20And many other korbanot. And korban olah is the holy of holies. And it needs to be given for sinful thoughts of the heart and conscious sins. And therefore, the korban olah needs to be skinned, needs to be cut up, and needs to be completely burned by the fire. Because as you would learn from the Mishnah, as well as in the Gemara, when it talks about korban, Korban Pesach, and Masechet Pesachim, or even if you look at Masechet Shekalim in the Mishnah, it talks about korbanot. Some of the korbanot are eaten by the people, like Korban Pesach. Some of the korbanot are partially eaten by the people. Partially eaten by Kohanim, some korbanot are eaten only by Kohanim, some korbanot are partially burned. Partially eaten by the people or the Kohanim. But the korban olah is completely burned. Why completely burned? This korban is 100% kadosh to Hashem. What's kadosh to Hashem? Why does Hashem need your korban?

23:48When a person makes a sacrifice, taking from himself the gifts that Hashem gave him—the money Hashem gave him, the strength Hashem gave him, the skills Hashem gave him—and he says, "This is for the sake of Hashem," that shows Hashem that you believe in Him, that you are serving Him. That's why the korbanot, all of the korbanot, are called avodah. What's avodah? Servitude. It also means work. But what's work? Serving Hashem through the korbanot. The korban olah is completely burned. Why? No one is allowed to eat it. No one is allowed to eat it. This all goes for Hashem. And the Gemara in Masechet Yoma says at the time of the first Beit HaMikdash there was a lion A lion, the fire in the image of a lion that would come down from heaven and consume the Korban. Imagine seeing such a thing. Imagine seeing such a thing. A fire in the image of a lion comes from Shamayim and consumes the Korban, burns the Korban. I don't know how this is not compared to Har Sinai. Apparently, Har Sinai was even much greater.

25:12much, much greater. But this was every day. Unfortunately, at the time of the Second Beit HaMikdash, because of our many sins, the fire was in the image of a dog, symbolizing the sins, symbolizing the Satan. But the Korban Olah, Rabotai Yekarim needs to be prepared in a certain way in order for it to be perfect. If there's any type of imperfection in it, a mum, it is not allowed to be brought. If something impure touches it, it is not allowed to be brought. It has to be burned, cannot be consumed, cannot be done anything with, can't benefit from it. And so says the Ramban. Itzhak was called the perfect olah offering, as the Midrash Rabbah in section 64:3 says. Itzhak was the perfect sacrifice in so many words. Itzhak perfected himself. Perfected himself. Can you imagine? Perfect thoughts for an entire day, every day.

26:39only pure thoughts, only cleaving to Hakadosh, only purity, only good, never bad. Imagine such a mindset. All this is brought to the world and caused this by focusing his intentions for the sake of Heaven at the time of union with Sarah. And this way was practiced by all of the tzaddikim, all of the pious men of good heart throughout Am Yisrael's history, since their intentions were adhered to the upper heavenly worlds during union, so that they should give birth to sons worthy of holiness, purity, and diligence. Zehiru rabotai, We're learning something about these tzaddikim. How our forefathers thought during intimacy. How the tzaddikim we know of and the tzaddikim we don't know of thought during their lives when they were intimate. But not even just then. Someone came to the Steipler Gaon and asked him,

28:07How did you bring such a holy tzaddik into the world, Rav Kanievsky? The Steipler had a very big kippah. He says, "You see my kippah? Every day, I fill it with tears, crying to HaKadosh Baruch Hu." When he answered this, you would think, "Yeah, okay, so when Rav Kanievsky... was little. His father, the Steipler, was, you know, crying about him. He said, "No, I still cry about him right now, every day, that he becomes a tzaddik, that he becomes an eved Hashem." The listener was confused. At this time, the Steipler was in his 90s. Rav Kanievsky, his son, was in his 60s. He was already Gadol HaDor. He was already a giant. They’re both giants. What are you still crying about him every day for? Every day I cry about my son, that he serves Hashem, that he stays glued to Hashem. People look at the Abuchatzeira family: the Baba Sali, Rabbi David Abuchatzeira, all of the great tzaddikim.

29:39One after another with Ruach HaKodesh, one after another with Kedusha that's completely out of this world, seems like it belongs to different generations. What's the secret? The Abuchatzeira secret was the father would cry every single day into a cup. filling up the cup with his tears and then drinking it. How his body allowed him to cry that much to fill up a cup, I have no idea. But when you want to serve Hakadosh Baruch Hu and you want your children to serve Hakadosh Baruch Hu, He helps you. As the Gemara in Masechet Yoma says, "Haba l'taher, mesayin oto"—someone who comes to become purified, Hakadosh Baruch Hu helps him. Every day he would cry, filling up a cup with tears. People cry about refrigerators, watches, rings, and cars. Why didn't you get me the bigger house? Why didn't you buy me flowers? They cry about all types of nonsense. Did you cry about your kids? I'm not telling you to cry about the Shechinah not being with us anymore in the same way that it was in the past. I'm not telling you to cry about the Beit HaMikdash being destroyed, although you're supposed to.

31:07Question is, did you cry about your kids today? Today, did you cry about your kids? Did you cry about your kids being tzaddikim? Did you cry about your husband to be a tzaddik? Did you cry about your wife to be a tzaddeket? Did you cry about a Jew? Any Jew? Ever? That they be tzaddikim and they do teshuva? Oh Rabbi, can you help him? Can you help him? Or what can I do? Cry. Cry that HaKadosh Baruch Hu opens up his mind. Cry that HaKadosh Baruch Hu opens up his mind in such a way that he accepts his mistakes and he fixes them and he does teshuva. It's important to cry that tzaddikim cried about their kids in such a fashion that it literally shook up the heavens. But now a person, he sees this, says to themselves, "Listen..." It's great that we had Tzaddikim like that. It's fantastic that we're part of such a people, that such a people existed, that such people even exist now. But I'm not one of those people. So how can I ever achieve Kedusha? In fact, not only am I not one of these people, there are some people that say, listen, until not too long ago,

32:35Was that prostitute that you're talking about male or female? Can you answer the question of whether I could actually achieve anything good? Well, first and foremost, you should always know: anytime you hear stories of the Tzaddikim... Know this: who is directing that story for you to hear it? It is because you have something to learn from that story, and you can apply part of that story to your life in your capacity. You may not be able to do all of it or even half of it, but something you can definitely do. Maybe you can't cry about your kids to fill up a cup every single day, but you can cry about them once in a while. Maybe you can't fill a cup, but you could at least do something. Instead of crying about the refrigerators and the stock portfolios, cry about your kids, cry about your husbands, cry about your wives. Cry to HaKadosh Baruch Hu that sometimes you don't feel Him. That you can do. Everyone can do. I can do. You can do. We can all do.

33:50So again, when you hear stories of tzaddikim, no one is expecting you to be Avraham Avinu. But no one is expecting you to be one of these people who, if you can't get first place, don't want to play. If I can't be perfect, I don't want to do it. A person has to use all of the abilities and tools that HaKadosh Baruch Hu gave them. whether it's skills, possessions, or any other type of ability, use all of it to serve. Crying for somebody to do even if that somebody is yourself, it's part of serving Hashem. So now, if a person looks at the world at large, they don't exactly see too many tzaddikim, let's just say that. They see morality by leadership and the common folk alike. In fact, the leadership is worse than the common folk because at least they get exposed at some point or another. The average person out there is not exposed until they're caught by the people they hurt, but it usually doesn't hit the news.

35:13filth that's in your mind is only between you and HaKadosh Baruch Hu, and it will be shown to you at some point. Imagine the shame, imagine the embarrassment. All of the things of the past are haunting people, some even in the present. Well, let's see, let's see when a person is living a life of immorality, whether male or female, what do they have to expect? People will never respect them. Marriage tends to be a temporary agreement. Kids end up being a regret, if not early on, then later on. And life becomes tragic. Why? Because they have strayed from the path of holiness and righteousness. Who says that the world has to achieve holiness in order for it to continue having the right to exist? Therefore, when a person does the exact opposite, they become antithetical to the existence of the world. The Torah, in many places, including in this week's parasha, Parashat Shoftim, right after Matan Torah...

36:40After we learn about the thief that became a slave, we then learn about different types of people that commit other types of sins, one of them being a rapist, a promiscuous person, male or female, prostitutes, witchcraft, all types of things. All types of things that are forbidden. And the Torah wants to tell us that these laws of sanctity are close to the heart of Hashem, if you will. And therefore, when HaKadosh Baruch Hu punished the Egyptians, who are the most unholy of people, the Gemara says that ten levels of witchcraft came to the world. Nine were given to the Egyptians. Egyptians were full of witchcraft but also full of immorality. LGBTQ was standard practice over there. In fact, the behavior of the Egyptians was one of the places we learn about the immorality of LGBTQ, whether male and male or female and female. All forbidden, all considered disgusting in the eyes of Hashem. Now, when a person...

38:07Things are forbidden things. The Torah of the Maggid says even the thoughts of sin. You are watching something, and it causes you to think inappropriate things. You're a married woman, and you're thinking about a different man. You're a single woman, and you're thinking about somebody else that you're not allowed to be with. You're a man thinking about a woman. Whether it's on the screen or in real life, it's the same thing. these thoughts create a klipah. The thoughts of sin are worse than the sin, says the Gemara. Why? Because the sin is something that is temporary—it's an act that lasts only a certain amount of time, whereas the thought could come back whenever you want, however you want, for as long as you want, sometimes even beyond your control, or so it would seem once you allow the Satan into your head.

39:10It's much more difficult to let him out or kick him out. And therefore, the Torah of the Maggid says the thoughts of sin create a klipah. Klipah souls. These souls then search for a body in order to enter into it. And therefore, one's forbidden thoughts take these people into forbidden places. What forbidden places? At night, all of a sudden, instead of going to sleep, you want to do bad things. At night, you went to sleep. But instead of having a dream about tzaddikim, about good things, you think about, you dream about filthy things. You dream about cheating on your wife or husband. dream about all types of sins, all types of immorality. That all starts with the thoughts of the day, and that's why the Gemara says one must be careful with his eyes during the day, lest he have evil thoughts at night. These forbidden thoughts create the klippa souls.

40:33come back to the person at night looking for a body. So how could his dreams at night, his sins at night, create a body? Simple. Once those thoughts lead to sin, such as seed being wasted, now you have a bigger problem than you could even imagine because these klippot can use this as their bodies for the souls. Egypt. The Midrash Rabbah in Shemot, section 15, paragraph 15, section 27, which I first learned from my dear friend Adam Summers. The Midrash says the frog plague, one of the things that it did in punishing the Egyptians...

41:34was that the frogs were given the ability to emasculate the Egyptians because of their homosexuality and the promiscuous behavior of the women. So, the frogs, in essence, removed their ability to continue this disgusting behavior. The plague with the cattle was put on them as a measure for measure for their group relations. Hashem sent all types of animals at one time, just like they were committing animalistic acts altogether with different types and different things. And the Me'am Lo'ez in Parashat Shemot, chapter 8, section number 2, verse number 2, says that the frogs entered the insides of the Egyptians.

42:36in order to emasculate them, so we see from here that Hashem is not happy about those who live unholy lives. Let's just say that. What else does it say? says that when a woman, even if she chooses not to be promiscuous but looks like she is because she walks around with her arms and legs uncovered, she forgot to cover her body. The last time she covered her body was when she was wearing a robe after

43:43the daily bath, but outside it's almost the same outfit. These types of women, even if they don't act on it, have to know, as it says on page 47b, she's bringing death to the world. As the Gemara says, when who saw that there was an increased number of women walking with necks stretched forth and with winking eyes in a promiscuous manner, and the use of the bitter waters of the Sotah, meaning women became suspected of adultery not just because the husband is a jealous husband but because the woman multiple occasions was with a forbidden man in a private place. She violated the mitzvah of yichud, which prohibits being alone with another man or multiple men privately in a room. If you and your boss are working together in the office, you have a very serious problem.

45:09Why? If there's nobody else in the office, you have a problem of yichud. And a person needs to know about this. Therefore, the Gemara says that when the women put themselves in a situation where they were walking around like they're promiscuous, some were, but of course not everyone was promiscuous. Some just look promiscuous. Many women do that where they look like they're for sale. They look, but they don't do anything. No customers. Even that behavior brings death to the world. Why? HaKadosh Baruch Hu says after He saw this at the time of the Beit HaMikdash, He changed... like they're for sale. They look, but they don't do anything. No customers. Even that behavior brings death to the world. Why? HaKadosh Baruch Hu says after He saw this at the time of the Beit HaMikdash, He changed He changed the rules of the world. He saw this at the time of Noach. He changed the rules of the world. Each time He changed the rules of the world. How? He shortened the lifespan of people. He shortened the lifespan of people. So we see again another example: immorality is not good.

46:32Prostitution is not good, even if it's free. Even if it doesn't lead to an action. So how could such a person bring holiness to the world? Now, when it comes to yichud, one of the things that... is detested by most women, is body hair. Of course, body hair on a woman is not pretty. Do you know that Bnot Yisrael were known to not have body hair throughout almost all of history? The beauty of Bnot Yisrael was so extraordinary literally, their skin would shine, and the Gemara says on page 21a that Bnot Yisrael were known for their beauty among all of the nations. They were known that the daughters of Israel did not have hair under their arms or on other parts of their body.

48:01They were completely beautiful. She didn't have to go to the salon, do all these painful things, laser, wax, chas ve'shalom, no, none of that. No, she was born and stayed like a baby, beautiful. Beautiful skin all the time. She doesn't need to put cream on it if she doesn't feel like it. Unless she wants to put what the Gemara in Masechet Megillah says. She wants to take an olive that's a third of its size of growth and, in essence, to make her skin shine as if she's literally like the sun. So if her father was a Talmid Chacham, he would give her these things. But in so many words, she was beautiful. She didn't have to worry about body hair. She didn't have to worry about whether he is looking at her mustache or if her mustache is bigger than his. Hey, how are you doing? And that's the girl. Oh, what happened? This person doesn't want his wife to have a mustache, doesn't want her to have a beard. In today's world, this is one of the things that is a known thing, unacceptable. Guess what? It's nothing new. So how come the salons are making millions?

49:18Says the Gemara. Says the Gemara. This was a punishment. Even though the Jewish women were renowned in ancient times for the fact that they did not grow any body hair, the Chachamim teach us that the lack of body hair persisted among the Jewish women until the destruction of the first Beit HaMikdash. why? Because the women at that time were punished for their immodest behavior, as the prophet Yeshayahu says in chapter 3, verses 16 to 26. Look over there for more details. Hashem made His daughters, His princesses, beautiful—more than beautiful—without anything. She walks around... lights up the street. No one has to look at Shidduch resumes ever again. Why? They know she's beautiful. It's not like today, where you double-click on the resume and the guy is scared, wondering what's going to be on this one. No, everyone was beautiful.

50:42What happened? How come today some people have beards? How come today people have to spend half their salary in a salon? Punishment. Why? HaKadosh Baruch Hu created you beautiful in order for you to use that beauty for your husband. You decided to use it to get the attention of José from the supermarket. You decided to use it to get the attention of Steve from the bakery. you decided to use it for all types of other things except your husband. Hashem says, "Oh, you're not using My gift the way I gave it. Suffer now, go spend half your salary in a salon." You're gonna say, "Well, I didn't do it." What do you think? You're not connected? We're not connected? All of us are connected. We are all gilgulim (reincarnations). Anyone that's here today, that means that obviously they're connected to the past. That's why we all have to do teshuvah. But here we see, chaverim, the girl that's walking around immodestly to try to get attention, what does she bring to herself? So far, we know she's bringing herself a shorter life, problems, and ugliness.

52:13What else does the Torah say? The Gemara, Masechet Sanhedrin, gives us some more insights. Beautiful insights. Diamonds. Such beautiful diamonds, you're never going to believe it. And it's free. The Gemara in Masechet Sanhedrin, page 81b, brings a Mishnah. Mishnah says for all of you young men and women that are Jews that want to be with non-Jews: why? You like her Italian skin? She's pretty. You like his Puerto Rican accent and he's really nice to you? He bought you a Rolex watch. Yeah, but he's not Jewish. Yeah, but you know... Let me not say: one who cohabits with a non-Jew, a zealot may kill him. What does that mean? Rav Kahana came to Rav and said, "I want to know what does it mean?" Because we know that in the Torah we had Pinchas ben Elazar ben Aharon HaKohen. He saw Zimri, the Jew from the Shimon tribe, over 400 years old, and...

53:43sinning with a non-Jew and he killed him because he was a true zealot. But today, we don't do that; no one is that zealous. So what happens? What happens if no one kills him? He's sinning with the Goya; she's sinning with the Goy. What happens to them? Says the Gemara on page 82a, Sanhedrin... Yehudah dealt treacherously, and an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Yerushalayim, for Yehudah has profaned the holiness of Hashem, and he has loved and married the daughter of an alien god. This is a verse by the Prophet Malachi, Chapter 2, Verse 11. so from there we learn, says Rav, "Yehudah dealt treacherously" is referring to idolatry. Just as a wife treacherously leaves her husband, so you have acted treacherously with Me, house of Israel, says Hashem. "And an abomination has been committed in Israel"—this is referring to sodomy (LGBTQ).

55:10today's language, and so it says, "You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a woman; it is an abomination. For you would not profane the holiness of God." This is referring to a zona, a harlot, even one who is Jewish, and therefore it says shall not be a promiscuous woman among the daughters of Israel. There shall not be a promiscuous man among the sons of Israel. The married daughter of the alien god is referring to one who cohabits with a non-Jewish woman. Immediately after this, which I'll explain in a moment... Torah says, may God cut off the man that does this, one that initiates and one that answers, from the tents of Yaakov and him that offers a meal offering to the Lord of hosts. This verse means that if one cohabits with an idolatress, even if he is a Talmudic scholar, he will not have a son who will be a chacham and learn among the sages.

56:32is qualified to even answer questions. If he is a kohen, he will not be privileged to have a son who brings the korban to Hashem. Even if he is not a kohen, the punishment is severe. What is it? Anyone who cohabits with a Kuthian woman, says Rabbi Chiya bar Avuya, with a non-Jew, is regarded as having contracted marriage to an idol. And that's why it says you married an alien god. A Jew that cohabits with a non-Jew becomes attached to their god. Hence the reason why all of those people without exception, do you see making these idol worship videos for what they call themselves, the Christians call themselves today, uh, Messianic Jews. And you see all of these Jews that say, "Oh, I found Jesus," they found Yeshu. What they tell you many times in the story is, before they found Yeshu

57:57They found a non-Jewish girl. She found a non-Jewish guy. And he helped her find Yeshu. And that's what the Torah promises. It's considered an abomination. It's considered forbidden. And it brings a person to idolatry. So here we see, Rabotai, that the immorality is not just defined by society, where at least until now, pedophilia was viewed as forbidden in the eyes of all of society, where apparently that was a lie because when some of the research came in 1948, they said that much of the research was based on the information brought by pedophiles.

59:02and apparently, this is not a new thing, but today there are even people who like to call pedophilia a preference. Either way, all of this stuff that says that it's forbidden is not just about a person going to Gehenom. It's not just about a person getting punished in Kaf Hakela, reincarnates as a dog, or all types of other animals. But the Torah says a whole lot of bad things about this person. Rav Dimi says that one who cohabits with a Jew that cohabits with a non-Jew is liable to multiple sins: nida, issur nida, which is karet, issur shifcha, as if he was with a Canaanite slave woman.

1:00:03issur goya and issur eshet ish. In so many words, one act, he has a very serious problem. Obviously, the opposite is not much better, let's just say that, meaning a Jewish woman with a non-Jewish man. So now I just told you the bad news. Where's the good news? Where's the good news? All of this stuff, more or less, people know is forbidden. At least if they're watching my shiurim for a few years, or even a few hours, they know all of these things are forbidden. But we talked about what happens if I know I already made all these mistakes. And I want to do teshuva. I'm doing teshuva. Could something holy come from me? Or is it a lost cause because I was that stiff-necked woman who was looking for presents? I was the guy giving the presents. What happens if a person acted like a prostitute, for a fee or for free? What happens? Can they do anything good in their life?

1:01:35Can they do anything good in their life, rabotai? Well, what if I told you there were tzaddikim of the highest level that married prostitutes? Yehoshua bin Nun. No one can really be compared to Yehoshua bin Nun after him. When Rav Ovadia, alav ha-shalom, told one of his helpers that he wanted to make a trip to go to the grave site of Yehoshua bin Nun, which is in a dangerous place and difficult to get to, the Rav wasn’t known to go to grave sites often and was always very careful with his time. So he asked him, "Rav, why, why, uh, does the Rav want to go to the gravesite of Yehoshua? There are so many tzaddikim we can go to that are much easier to get to." The Rav responded, and this is in a recorded video, "Can you think of anyone greater than Yehoshua bin Nun whose gravesite you can visit?"

1:03:02The only one you could go to is Moshe Rabbeinu, but you don't know where he's buried. HaKadosh Baruch Hu wrote that in the Torah. No one's going to find out where Moshe Rabbeinu is buried. Aside from Moshe Rabbeinu, that said, you have Yehoshua bin Nun, the one who took leadership after Moshe Rabbeinu, the one who brought Am Yisrael to Eretz Yisrael. HaKadosh Baruch Hu split the Jordan River for Yehoshua bin Nun. So, Yehoshua bin Nun won wars. Yehoshua bin Nun spoke face to face with angels, spoke to HaKadosh Baruch Hu. Chazak v'ematz, HaKadosh Baruch Hu says to him, "Be strengthened. Don't worry about anybody else." Yehoshua bin Nun, HaKadosh Baruch Hu says to him, "Im lo briti yomam valayla chukot shamayim va'aretz lo samti. If not for My covenant, My Torah, My brit, kodesh, morality, if not for that..." The world does not have a right to exist. Yehoshua bin Nun married Rachav, who used to be a prostitute. Hoshea, the prophet Hoshea. Chapter one, verse number two. We find out Hoshea married a prostitute.

1:04:32a woman by the name of Gomer. Gomer as in finished, where everyone finished their desire with her. She was a prostitute. Why would these tzaddikim, these prophets, marry prostitutes? didn't we just hear about all the horrible things that happen to people who are immodest, promiscuous, intermarried, or forsake the word of Hashem? Why would these tzaddikim, Yehoshua bin Nun, Hoshea, marry people who were prostitutes, people about whom the books were literally written? Why? Furthermore, If you look at the Torah HaKedoshah, you see that these tzaddikim were not the only ones faced with a test of morality. Adam HaRishon, we begin the Torah Sefer Bereishit, we meet Adam HaRishon. Adam HaRishon, after the sin of eating from the Tree of Knowledge,

1:06:01he was so upset and he wanted to do teshuvah that he separated from Chava, his wife, for 130 years. This was not the will of Hashem. He did not ask Hashem before he did this. He did this on his own, and it was a mistake because for 130 years, seed left his body, and this created all types of mazikim, all types of demons. So we see that Adam HaRishon had the issue of morality. Of course, he didn't do things purposefully against God aside from that initial mistake. But nonetheless, we see already from the beginning of his life, if she would have never spoken to the serpent when the serpent approached her, if she would have never

1:07:02continued the conversation, not only would she have not ascended by eating from the Tree of Knowledge and then feeding it to her husband, where the Midrash says that she nagged him and nagged him all night until he was convinced to eat. It wasn't just like, "Here, take it," and he took it. She cried the whole night until he agreed to eat. Why? She didn't want to die alone. She said, if I'm dying, you're dying with me. I don't want you to marry another woman. If she wouldn't have spoken to the serpent, not only would this not have happened, the serpent would have never raped her. As the Gemara in Masechet Shabbat says, the serpent put his zohamah into Chava. This zohamah affected the neshama of Kayin. Kayin was evil. This is all the beginning of good versus evil. Not that Kayin was the son of the serpent, but the zohamah, the spiritual impurity of the serpent, came from there. So we see that Chava, the first woman, had a test of morality.

1:08:26Sort of like women today where she's happy with her life, everything is good, but all of a sudden, her husband's friend shows up at the house, thinking that her husband is home, but he's not there. So, he picks up and starts talking to the wife. So, what did you guys do this weekend? How are the kids? Wow, you look good. Are you losing weight? Yeah, I started a diet. Oh, wow, it looks good on you. And all of a sudden, they become friends. Send me a text message, a pic. And before you know it, adultery becomes their best friend. Had you not started the conversation, this would have never happened. Or women that go to... Male doctors, when there are plenty of female doctors as an option. When he's a doctor, he's a human. And if you have a choice, choose one that cannot be your potential partner. If people would hear the awful things that come to our desk and many other people that deal with the public, literally, your ears would fall.

1:09:42Your ears would fall off. Women all of a sudden decide they fall in love with somebody else's husband. Men all of a sudden decide that morality is not important anymore. They openly cheat on their wives. The wives are scared to leave their husbands. The husband is denying he's cheating on her. Literally, adultery has become almost second nature to people. There's even certain people that are discussing that literally the idolatry of Egypt has come back, where some part of our communities have decided to read and apply some of the so-called mysticism of the Egyptians and try to reach the dead—all types of crazy things. This is not new. Adam also had tests. They also failed tests. They also had to do teshuva. He was a righteous and complete person but lived in a generation where immorality was at its ultimate peak, so much so that wasting seed was not only standard

1:11:05But homosexuality and LGBTQ became a mitzvah. They would write a ketubah for marriage between men and men, women and women. They made it a mitzvah like they do today. Oh, I'm so happy for him and him. The two monkeys are married. Aren't they cute? Yes, put them in a zoo. because the flood is not available yet. If their fathers were just like them, they wouldn't be here. But apparently, no one thinks about that. No, it's my deeper feelings. No, that's called lust. That's called yetzer hara. That's called don't follow it. Because you're not an animal. And therefore, you should restrain yourself before HaKadosh Baruch Hu puts a leash on you. Just because you feel something doesn't mean you need to do it. Just because your mouth generates saliva does not mean you need to spit. Noach was a tzaddik, surrounded by reshaim. Avraham Avinu, brit milah, barren wife, surrounded by wicked people.

1:12:33Sodom and Gomorrah were where the term sodomy, the real name for LGBTQ, originated. That's where it was really named. The flag was created in the generation of Noach, the rainbow. The rainbow was a sign that HaKadosh Baruch Hu wants to destroy the world because of LGBTQ. The name for LGBTQ was created at the time of Noach, just 10 generations later, meaning people didn't learn. They came back to their sins of immorality. Avraham, despite all of the tests, stayed holy. Yitzchak, also, despite having a barren wife, stayed holy. Yaakov, surpassed both his father and his grandfather as he protected his breed to such an extent that seed did not leave his body until it was for the sake of bringing the event to life. When Yaakov was 87 years old, the first time seed left his body, he was a senior citizen, but he managed. He also got blessed with 12

1:13:50of the tribes and many other daughters. Yaakov was tested and he passed. Yehudah, his son, we are named Yehudim after Yehudah because even though Yehudah had two wicked sons, Er and Onan, that wasted seed and HaKadosh Baruch Hu killed them, Yehudah, after his wife died, was allowed to be with Tamar. He was allowed to be with her, even though she pretended to be a prostitute. Why? He was a king. Kings have different rules. But either way, this was before Matan Torah, before many of the rules that we discussed tonight also applied. But nonetheless, Yehudah was pushed on Tamar by HaKadosh Baruch Hu Himself, and once he realized this is what it is, instead of doing what a lot of guys do, where they say, "Oh, she's pregnant. Oh man, are you gonna keep it or are you gonna commit murder?" Yehudah says, "No, murder? Tzadkanit hi—she's righteous." He raised those sons.

1:15:16He married her and Mashiach comes from Yehudah. Mashiach comes from one of those sons, Peretz. Yehudah did teshuva in public. Everyone knew I made a mistake. I admit my mistakes. For that, we call ourselves after Yehudah, the Jewish people. His brother Yosef, As we said earlier, Yosef not only passed the test with Eshet Potifar, which the Gemara says is one of the four most beautiful women that ever lived. She beautified herself even more for Yosef. She would change clothes literally every hour just to try to see if he would ever look at her. Just to get him to look at her. Another outfit, another $5,000 dress, another $20,000 ring, another million-dollar crown. make a difference. Yosef kept his eyes to the ground. Yosef protected his brit to such an extent that he used that spiritual power that Yosef created to strengthen all of Israel that would come to Egypt, for them not to fall into immorality with the Egyptians, who were the most immoral people in history. Yosef passed the test.

1:16:38Binyamin, his brother, many people don't realize, but Binyamin sanctified the union with his wife each and every time because he wanted his kids to be tzaddikim like his brother Yosef. That's why he named each one of his kids after his brother Yosef. How do we know that he really sanctified himself even then? Maybe he just called them after his brother? Because the Gemara says that Binyamin is one of the four people that never sinned even once. The only reason why he died was due to the sin of Adam HaRishon. He never sinned once in his life, never had inappropriate thoughts or inappropriate behavior. He was a perfect person. Binyamin had all the tests in the world and passed. Moshe Rabbeinu, Moshe Rabbeinu, the prophet of all prophets, was a king of Cush, married to the queen of Cush, who used to be married to the former king of Cush and had a son with him, with the original king. But when Moshe Rabbeinu became the king of Cush, they gave him the queen and the baby. And this queen was beautiful. He was with her for 40 years, but he never touched her even once. After 40 years, when her baby son grew up, she wanted him to be king and she told the people, "Look, the reason why I'm married to this man for 40 years and there's not even a child. The only child that is heir to the original throne of my original husband, the king."

1:18:07he was with her for 40 years, but he never touched her even once. After 40 years, when her baby son grew up, she wanted him to be king, and she told the people, "Look, the reason why I'm married to this man for 40 years and there's not even a child is because the only child that is heir to the original throne is from my original husband, the king." because this current king, this current husband, hasn't even touched my hand in 40 years. Meaning that Moshe Rabbeinu not only had the test of Yosef HaTzadik, but he had it for 40 years straight, never touched a woman even once. And if that wasn't enough, after he left Cush, he went to Midian. married Tzipporah, took Am Yisrael out of Egypt, destroyed the Egyptians, all of course by the hand of God, brought down the Torah to Am Yisrael, who tells that he's still as young as a 20-year-old even though he's over 80.

1:19:27The Torah says in Sefer Devarim that when Moshe died at 120 years old, his eyes were bright and his face was clear like a young man, even at 120. Needless to say, when he was 80 and 85 and 90. Moshe was a gibbor. Yet, HaKadosh Baruch Hu tells Moshe, leave your wife. Leave your wife. Moshe Rabbeinu got the test no one else ever got. 40 years with a woman he's not allowed to be with, then finally, when he gets married and has kids, he has to leave the wife, the love of his life. He has to leave it. Why? Hashem says, "You're going to marry the Shechinah." Moshe, in essence, was the husband of the Shechinah. What, do you think Moshe Rabbeinu became Moshe Rabbeinu because of his good looks? Aharon HaKohen, Aharon HaKohen, Rodef Shalom, Ohev Shalom, chases peace, loves peace. Aharon HaKohen was the ultimate Shalom Bayit counselor. 22,000 babies born due to Aharon HaKohen's Shalom Bayit counseling. Meaning that Aharon HaKohen

1:20:56Would make sure that she did not leave her husband and he did not leave his wife time after time and never failed once, unlike, unfortunately, some people today. They tell somebody, "You know what, maybe you should divorce your husband." And as soon as she divorces him, he asks, "Oh, you want to go for a coffee? You want to go for a coffee, you want to go to Gehinnom together?" And... The Gemara in Masechet Gittin says, for such an act, HaKadosh Baruch Hu destroyed the Beit HaMikdash. One convinced another to divorce his wife because he wanted to be with her. And he ended up succeeding in getting the girl, but destroying the Beit HaMikdash. Today there are plenty of people that are destroying the Beit HaMikdash with their so-called counseling. She tells him, why don't you leave her? She's not good for you. So he leaves her, or sometimes he doesn't. But she decides, I'll be your new friend. I'm not pushy. You can do whatever you want. I can do whatever I want. Together, Sodom and Gomorrah. Aharon HaKohen brought shalom bayit.

1:22:19Tens of thousands of couples never failed once. How do we know? That's why he's still in the Torah. That's why there's Mishnah written about him. That's why the Torah quotes him. That's why the Torah compares him to Moshe Rabbeinu on the same level. He never once looked at a woman inappropriately. He never once touched a woman inappropriately. He never once uttered a word to a woman inappropriately. Not once. Say, "Oh no, he was not tested." He was tested more than the entire generation combined. Imagine a woman wants to leave her husband. She practically wants to throw herself at anybody that pays attention to her. Women sometimes go to different people, sometimes rabbis, sometimes psychiatrists, sometimes all types of so-called friends and neighbors and family, practically throwing themselves at anybody that pays attention to them. would say the same thing about guys, but obviously it's not the same thing. Women don't do the same thing as men. Men don't accept the same thing as women. But the point being is that plenty of people just throw themselves: "I'm available, why? I'm unhappy." Aharon HaKohen was tested time after time, tens of thousands of times, and succeeded in bringing shalom bayit.

1:23:48several other Sages had mentioned that they were tested with immorality. Beautiful women, Satan dressed up as a beautiful woman to get them to fail. David had a test with Bat Sheva. The Gemara says anyone who says David sinned is mistaken. What do you think, HaKadosh Baruch Hu brought the Mashiach from David HaMelech for no reason? David HaMelech was Kodesh Kodeshim. But still he had the tests. He had the tests. One of his wives, Michal, was given to him by her father, Shaul. But then Shaul took her back and said, you're going to marry this tzaddik named Palti ben Laish.

1:24:48says page 19b, Paltiel ben Laish was tamid, and he knew that he's not allowed to be with Michal because she really was married to David. But she was beautiful and she was his wife, and technically no one would say anything because King Shaul gave her to him. But he knew that, and therefore he took a sword and put it in the middle of the bed. It says... If I pass this sword, it's the end of me. And after David HaMelech took power, Paltiel ben Laish brought Michal back to David. He said, "Here’s your wife back." And he did it crying hysterically because he did love her, but he knew he was not allowed to be with her. The test of Yosef HaTzaddik

1:25:48the test of morality that you or I or anybody out there deals with. Let's just say they're not as big as the tests of some of the tzaddikim. Now you're gonna say, "Yeah, but we're not tzaddikim, we're just regular people, Rabbi." You're right, you're regular people, we're all regular people. So then we have to ask ourselves, what if we are not just regular people? We used to be prostitutes. Can we bring Kedusha? Because we see that Yehoshua Bin Nun and Hoshea the Navi married prostitutes. Why would they marry prostitutes? The Gemara says, Rachav. Though her past is her past, she was a Tzadikah Kodesh Kodashim to the extent that she sanctified herself, and seven prophets came from Rachav. All the prophets you know—Isaiah, Yechezkel, Yirmiyahu—they all came from Rachav. They are all descendants of Rachav. Hoshea married a prostitute, why?

1:27:16says the Torah, the prophet Hoshea says in the name of Hashem, in chapter one, verse number two: "Hashem said to Hoshea, 'Go take for yourself a wife of harlotry and beget children of harlotry, for the land has strayed completely from following Hashem.'" So he went and took Gomer, daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son. Later on, she conceived and bore him a daughter and another son. Each one was named in accordance with the will of God. Why did Hoshea marry Gomer the prostitute? Why did Yehoshua bin Nun marry Rachav the prostitute? Because it was the will of HaKadosh Baruch Hu. Yehoshua bin Nun knew that Rachav did teshuvah. And the Gemara says in Masechet Berachot, someone that does teshuvah can reach levels higher than someone that never sinned. She sanctified herself to such an extent that prophets became her descendants. Hoshea married Gomer.

1:28:40specifically instructed by Hashem to marry this prostitute, bring children into the world. Why? It's the will of Hashem. And guess what? This too will sanctify His name. Why? Because this will show that just like I'm telling you to go marry this prostitute, where you don't even know if the children are yours... Because sometimes it looks like she went back to her former self with the second kid. We're not really sure, maybe yes, maybe no. After all, that's where she was in the past. Says HaKadosh Baruch Hu, because people think like that. Because people see like that. But yet when I ask you, Hoshea, leave this prostitute, who you're not even sure if the kids are yours. Of course, Hashem knows whose kids they are. But you, a human being, you don't know if they're yours or not. After all, look at our past. Says Hoshea to HaKadosh Baruch Hu, I can't be like Moshe Rabbeinu whom you told to leave his wife. After all, I married her. I have kids with her. And I cannot see myself without her, Hashem.

1:30:03And then HaKadosh Baruch Hu says, "Here you learn the lesson. When you are approached with the question, with the issue that Am Yisrael is sinning, Am Yisrael is cheating on Me. You said, 'You know what, Hashem, You're so great, You're so glorious, just start with a new nation.' HaKadosh Baruch Hu says, 'Let Me make you feel how I feel, if you will.'" Understand how I feel, if you will. Go marry a prostitute. After she brings kids, little kids you play with, little kids you invest into, little kids you raise. And then I tell you, you know what, you're not even sure they're your kids. After all, she was this, she was that. You don't want to leave her. my kids, Am Yisrael, I know they're my kids. Why? I have a covenant with their forefathers, Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov, who protected their brit, who sanctified themselves to such an extent that all of their descendants that were in Egypt under slavery also did not violate the immorality.

1:31:17Therefore, I know they're my kids, and even though they did cheat on me, went to foreign gods, went to idolatry, went to immorality, you want me to leave them? Well, I want you to know, even if she was a prostitute, she could still bring holiness to the world. What does she need to do? She needs to change her ways, do complete Teshuvah, stop the sin, never go back to it, say "I'm sorry," and elevate her behavior and her actions, just like our forefathers, to the best of her ability, starting today. And prophets can come out of them. Why? After all, you're all the sons and daughters of prophets. all the sons and daughters of Himself. Therefore, there is no limit to how much holiness you can bring to the world. The only limitation is your behavior and your decisions. Once you decide that you're going to sanctify yourself, even a prophet would marry you, even if you were a prostitute.

1:32:43And that's why, Rabotai HaKedoshim, if anyone says, "Oh, we're in a low generation," trying to justify your sins, tell them, "You're in a low generation. I am the son of HaKadosh Baruch Hu. I am the daughter of HaKadosh Baruch Hu. And I could bring prophets to the world. How? I have to do teshuva. I have to change my ways. I have to sanctify myself. Don't tell me I'm a low generation. Because certainly, bad as the things that I did, most people didn't do what the prostitutes did. Maybe they behaved like them at times, but usually not as bad. And guess what? Even if it was as bad, HaKadosh Baruch Hu will still welcome you accept you with open arms and allow the ultimate holiness to come from you. And that's why the Chachamim say, in the place that Baalei Teshuva stand, even Tzadikim Gemurim, people that never sinned, cannot get to. Why? Because once you see the evil and how delicious it is, but you know it's poisonous and therefore you choose Hashem,

1:34:00where it's hard to change your ways. It's hard to change your mind. It's hard to not go when you want to go. It's hard to not touch when you want to touch. It's hard, but you do it because you want to connect to Hashem. Hashem says, now that you're with Me, I'm with you. And now I'm going to show you how holiness can come from you. Each and every single one of you that makes those decisions will be surprised at how extraordinary HaKadosh Baruch Hu is when He blesses you with things that the world can see. Be'ezrat Hashem, this too will be fulfilled in all of Am Yisrael's lives and be able to sanctify HaKadosh Baruch Hu's name, not only through our behavior, our teshuva, our chesed, but even the things that come from us, the fruits that come from us, will be so holy that everyone will simply notice it. Ah, you must come from a good place.

1:35:18Thank you very much for learning with me. HaKadosh Baruch Hu bless each and every single one of you. And B'ezrat Hashem, we'll learn again very soon. Kol Tuv. P'chai B'hatzlachah. The dean of Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus asked him, what can we do to protect ourselves from Chevlei Mashiach? He says, Torah and Gemilut Chassadim. Even if somebody does a nice thing or learns a lot or anything like that, it's never compared to bringing one of Hashem's lost kids that's been lost for the last 3,000 years back home. One of the beautiful things that we have in our organization is that we have both Torah and Zikui HaRabim because we have our kollels, we have our avreichim, and we also have our kiruv that we do around the world. Our lectures reach every corner of the world, Baruch Hashem, in multiple languages. But of course, we always want to do even more.

1:36:30Our feet will be on the streets of Jerusalem for the grand and extraordinary event of the closing of the Zohar and the Ruach table, held by an organization with the help of Hashem's name. It is possible that now we will hear the testimony of the Messiah. We have here with us the host from Florida, the head of the organization, the leader of the Arabs, Rabbi Yaron Reuven. With the help of Hashem, we will all do and succeed, and we will uphold the Torah, and we will lead the Arabs, and we will make heaven as it should be. You who are full of the Torah, go on, be a great light. Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, I would like to thank Rabbi Yaron Reuven, who is an old Rav, who keeps the Torah for the people of Israel in Israel, and also for the groups, and Shreya Masha Heko, who continues to do this and that. It is a great honor that he keeps the Torah for the people of Israel.

1:37:32while we have key work that we've done throughout the whole year, we also have the Torah that we're constantly producing more and more of, and last but not least, the chesed to feed the poor people in Israel. A very special thank you to all of our amazing guests who show real love for this Beit Midrash by taking the time out of their busy schedules and sharing their ups and downs with us. All for the sake of our Beit Midrash. one of the big things that we have aside from this campaign—you probably see this post or something similar to it—is also that we published some of the recent results that we have, or at least up to now, of the organization. One of the reasons why we do this each year is because we want to make sure that our partners, our donors, our talmidim, know where their money is going, unlike everybody else that you know.

1:38:35says a lot, does a lot. We want to show you what these results are. I could tell you from my experience and a little bit of knowledge about the whole Torah world, I don't know of anybody else, any other organization on planet Earth that produces dollar for dollar what we've produced over these last few years. This is nothing to be arrogant about. It's simply Siyata Dishmaya, HaKadosh Baruch Hu, who helped us. We made every sacrifice that we could possibly make in order to make it happen. producing nearly 300 Torah films, publishing 32 books, our own books, and distributing 154,000 books for free. Giving out 154,000 books is not a cheap endeavor. Anyone that wants to do such a thing has to be completely committed to HaKadosh Baruch Hu, to His children, and most importantly, to have bitachon, we also have fed over 160,000 people over these last several years. Each year, during Pesach, the High Holidays, and throughout the year, we help a lot of people eat, help make sure that they have groceries, food, all types of things. You guys have seen many of the videos that we've produced over the years to actually show you the people that are getting this food. You have here 160,000 people have eaten. Nearly 300 Torah films

1:39:35And then on top of all of it, we have 1.4 million USBs, CDs, and cars that have been given out for free. All of the work that we've done over the last 10 years on these USBs has been given out for free. Last but not least, 12,000 video and audio lectures are available online in about 14 different languages for the world to watch for free. ... Reuven, with the help of G-d, took upon himself one of the hardest goals in our generation: to fix the world in the kingdom of Heaven. Not to rely on one thing. To help not only poor people, not only people who hate the Holocaust, not only people who don't know the Jews, not only people who don't have a home, but to help the whole of Israel in every way. Reuven, with the help of G-d, took upon himself one of the hardest goals in our generation: to fix the world in the kingdom of Heaven. Not to rely on one thing. To help not only poor people, not only people who hate the Holocaust, not only people who don't know the Jews, not only people who don't have a home, but to help the whole of Israel in every way. Baruch Hashem, Chefetz Hashem, by our hand, succeeded more than a million Jews and Jews from Israel to the Middle East and the West. Imagine what power each and every one of the partners who were able to be each and every one according to his strength and ability, to what results they managed to reach and to what results they will still succeed.

1:40:52We're very happy to see the shalitim. We're going up now. It's a bit scary, the learning. The next parashiyot, you can see here. Everyone is sitting and studying. What a ra'ash of Torah. What a ra'ash. What a ra'ash. Look, there's another Midrash here. And there's another one here. Hashem HaKadosh Baruch Hu. Who is the man? Who is the man? This image is not such a distant image, because, as the Torah says, it is up to you to do it, so is this thing. Anyone who wants, anyone who wants, or wants to be partners with us, with this holy and wonderful organization, whose purpose is for the sake of heaven, to increase the Torah and the greatness of Torah, to help each and every one of the people of Israel, in all matters, in all fields, from the youngest child, who needs to be given birth, until the oldest man,

1:42:02who never made a prayer, and just before death, they have to make a prayer. If you also want to be involved in such great things, in the work of Torah and the work of the Chassidim, Baruch Hashem, you are welcome, with God's help, here, next to you, in your service, together with Klal Yisrael. Almost a million and a half discs that we shared. All of these things for more than 12,000 lessons. So all of these things, when a person sees how much his investment, whether it's in houses, apartments, or in all kinds of things, and he sees that the rent has risen 10% in one place and 1,000% in another place, then he understands where to invest next time. And the same thing here, there are many people who, thank G-d, watch our lessons, lessons of Rabbi Ephraim, lessons of Rabbi Shavit, and other rabbis in the organization, and now is the time to be partners in the great thing that we are doing, thank G-d. After somebody dies, their neshama naturally feels like it needs to be cleaned, and like it needs to go to Gehinom to go ahead and clean itself so it can feel better after. And one of the reasons why we do this, why we show these numbers, is because we want to show everyone what we've done to give you an indication, an indication of what we can do in the future. So this is a time where we need as much of your help as possible to push yourself more than you typically do. If you typically donate a couple of hundred dollars, donate a thousand.

1:43:17If you could afford the 8,000, 15,000, 50,000, whatever you could afford, this is the time to do it because this is going to be the help that we have to help all of these Avreichim, to feed these people, and perhaps, B'ezrat Hashem, one day, to get that building that we've been wanting to build here in the United States, to build a community. But all of these things require millions of dollars. If not now, then when?