Uncensored TORAH SECRETS About Pittsburgh Massacre
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1:08Now, when Am Yisrael crossed the Yam Suf, Hashem split the ocean into twelve paths, one for each tribe to cross, and when the millions and millions of Egyptians that followed them drowned, the Mal'achim wanted to sing with Am Yisrael. Hashem rebuked the malachim, the angels. He told them, "My creation is drowning, and you want to sing?" This means that regardless of whether it's Jew or Gentile, regardless of whether it's wicked or righteous, Hashem does not like to kill anybody, even though He's the one pulling the trigger. The Gemara says that when Hashem took the neshama (soul) of Moshe Rabbeinu up to Shamayim (Heaven) to be closer to him, it doesn't mean Moshe Rabbeinu is further away now. In fact, he's closer to Moshe Rabbeinu. Yet, Hashem cried. Hashem Himself cried. He said, "Who's going to rebuke my people and tell them to do teshuvah like my servant Moshe?"
2:29Who's gonna do it? Who's gonna be a rebuker like Moshe Rabbeinu? Tells him the truth no matter what. They want to throw rocks at him and kill him, he still tells them the truth. They call him names, make fun of him, take this, take that, it doesn't make a difference. He still tells them the truth. Hashem says, "Who's gonna be a rebuker like him?" So, with that being said, no one is ever celebrating the death of anyone. Whether Jew or Gentile, whether wicked or righteous, chas v'shalom, we're not looking to celebrate. But the reality is, rabotai, that sometimes it takes a disaster, a massacre, or a murder in order to create a kiddush Hashem. Sometimes it requires for people to die in cold blood in order for Hashem's name to be sanctified. There was one time a Mechalel Shabbat, a very, very disgusting human being, who would dafka go against the rabbis, dafka go and try to convince people to violate Shabbat. He would open a store on Shabbat in Israel and...
3:47One day, on Yom Kippur, as the head rabbi of the city was passing by, he came across a man eating a big baguette sandwich outside his store. The man called out, "Hey, Kvoda Rav, what do you think of this?" The rabbi glanced at him, and at that moment, the man suddenly died. It wasn't because the rabbi looked at him; rather, it was divine intervention, as Hashem gave him a heart attack, and he died on the spot. People were shocked. What's happening? The rabbi said, Baruch Hashem. Baruch Hashem, somebody died. Because this is Kiddush Hashem. This is Kiddush Hashem. Why is this a Kiddush Hashem? Why was Hashem's name sanctified? Some Jew just died now. It's because Hashem says if you eat on Yom Kippur, He'll kill you. So he ate on Yom Kippur, and He killed him. It's Kiddush Hashem. Hashem fulfilled the Torah on the spot. You guys are used to Him fulfilling the Torah six months later, six years later, 60 years later. So you're a little weirded out that it just happened now. For me, it's normal. I'm surprised it doesn't happen all the time. Hashem says, someone who violates Shabbat has the din of a goy. If
5:17This Jew that violates Shabbat wants to have an aliyah to the Torah. You're not allowed to give him an aliyah if it's one of the seven people on Shabbat. There are seven people who are given aliyot on Shabbat to the Torah. If the Mechalel Shabbat wants to be one of those seven, you're not allowed to give him one of those seven. Why? Because if he says the bracha, the entire crowd is forbidden from saying amen because it will be a bracha le'vatala. Because he's considered a goy, he's not considered a Jew. However, for the sake of peace, according to halacha, you can give him the hosafah, meaning you can add him if you are increasing the number beyond the required seven. Whether it's eight, nine, ten, or even more, there's no real obligation there, so it is permissible to add them. If he comes to your house for Shabbat and he touches the wine, assuming it's a good quality wine and not mevushal, then it becomes problematic according to halacha.
6:19You have to take the wine and pour it in the garbage, in the bathroom. You're not allowed to drink it. There's no way of making it kosher again. If you want to get married and you need two witnesses, and one of your best friends or your father is a Mechallel Shabbat, he's not allowed to be one of the witnesses. If he is, your marriage is not valid. Why? Because he's not allowed to be a witness. Meaning that if he's Mechalel Shabbat, he's considered a Goy L'chol D'var according to the Shulchan Aruch. Secondly, any Jew, even if he keeps Shabbat, keeps Shabbat, he keeps Taharat HaMishpacha, he keeps kosher, and he learns Torah every day. But he says there's one Pasuk in the Torah...
7:21Better yet, one word in the Gemara, one word in the Gemara, one letter, one letter in the entire Torah, whether written or in the Oral Torah: if someone says, "I don't agree with this letter. I think it's wrong. I think Rashi, I think Rabbi Akiva, I think Moshe Rabbeinu, I think somebody here is wrong," that person is considered a kofeir, a heretic. They are in the same category. Unfortunately, our brothers and sisters, whom we don't really know if they're still our brothers and sisters, because many of them have intermarried so deeply, we don't even know if they're still Jewish, but they started originally as our brothers and sisters a few hundred years ago, and they started what they call, until this day, the Reform and Conservative movement. What does it mean by Reform and Conservative movement? Why is it a movement? Why is an Orthodox called a movement? Why wasn't Judaism ever called a movement until 200 years ago? Because until 200 years ago, there were really only two types of Jews: one that keeps mitzvot, and one that violates them. That's it. There's nothing in between. The Sadducees and Boethusians of 2,000 years ago, they didn't call themselves Jews.
8:43What do they say? We're a different religion. We're something else. The Christians never call themselves Jews. They say we're a different religion. Catholics, same thing. But the Reform and the Conservative have expanded today. We have Reconstructionist, Open Orthodoxy, and all types of bells and whistles. Next thing, they're going to call it Orthodox with rims, Orthodox without rims, with a car seat, without a car seat, Orthodox with a rabbi, Orthodox without a rabbi, Orthodox with a dog as a rabbi, Orthodox with a girl as a rabbi. They add different things. Why is it considered a movement? Why is it called a movement? Because it's a movement away from the Emet. The Emet is here, and we're moving away from it. There's a movement—where's the movement? Away from the Emet. So the Conservative and the Reform have decided to move away from the Emet and reestablish it. So much so that many of their members are predominantly not Jewish, especially in the Reform movement.
9:51The ones that are Jewish are intermarried for the most part. But virtually everyone does not keep Torah and mitzvot. Virtually everyone violates Shabbat. Virtually everyone believes in things that are against the Torah, like gay marriage, intermarriage, giving bar mitzvahs to dogs, and treating dogs better than people. giving, you know, having unity with the goyim, and so on and so forth. Most of all, they do not believe the Torah came from Hashem. They believe that it was manipulated. Therefore, they don't want to follow it; they want to create their own. That's why it's called a movement. So this movement is a departure from the emet. Every day, the people who do not practice this tradition, unlike those who practice Judaism, pray three times a day. When we pray three times a day, every prayer, no matter what, whether it's Shacharit, Mincha, or Arvit, always has the same conclusion. What is it? Aleinu l'shabeach.
11:14It's our duty to praise the Master of all, to ascribe greatness to the Former of creation, for He has not made us like the nations of the world. Has not placed us among the families of the earth. Why do we say that we’re so grateful to Hashem that He didn’t make us like the goyim? What’s such a big deal? I mean, listen, I know plenty of goyim. They’re very nice people. They’re very happy being goyim. Why is a Jew celebrating no less than four times a day, Birkot HaShachar, three prayers, and Aleinu L'shabeach, no less than four times a day, Baruch Shelo Asani Goy? Why? There are plenty of non-Jews, wonderful people. What's the problem being a non-Jew? Because if you notice, the world, for the most part,
12:31Changed drastically where there are natural disasters on a weekly basis now. It could be a volcano, a tsunami, an earthquake, or a terrorist attack. Something is happening, a fire or something else is happening on a regular basis, but for the most part, the large damage... There are tens of people, hundreds of people, thousands of people that die for the most part. It happens to the goyim, of course. Unfortunately, we have Amalek, who kills Jews every week. Unfortunately, with the terrorists, they kill one or two people here and there, but for the most part, we don't see large-scale damage. But here, this Shabbat is... There was what, in our eyes as Jews, is considered large-scale damage. Unlike the Goyim, where you have almost half a million Syrians murdered in cold blood over the last year and a half by their own government—no one really cares. No one cares. Millions of people have died all over Asia, all over Africa, in the last few years, from all types of natural disasters, from their governments, from this, from that, all types of things. No one really cares. But Am Yisrael loses one Jew, the whole world needs to know about it. Ten Hashem Yirachem.
13:54But Am Yisrael loses one Jew, the whole world needs to know about it. Then Hashem Yerachem. Here's eleven—where? On Shabbat. Does this make any sense? On Shabbat, Hashem is going to kill eleven Jews? Let's see. The same Aleinu L'Shabbeach says, The reason why we thank Hashem that we're not like the goyim is because the goyim have this misfortune of relying on luck and fortune. Whereas Am Yisrael is beyond fortune. Hashem changes the fortune for them. The goyim could look at the stars and... Identify what their sign is and how they connect to this sign, and it actually can't technically work. Jews are above the mazal. Hashem changes nature; in fact, Hashem will sometimes make a certain damage happen in the world just for the Jews to do teshuva, meaning He's gonna kill a million non-Jews so one Jew maybe could do teshuva. That's how much He loves Am Yisrael.
15:11was saying thank you for not making us like those who go through such suffering. Why? He did not assign our portion like their portion, for our lot is not like theirs. We don't rely on mazal, we don't rely on misfortune, we don't rely on any of those things. Why? Because we are Am Yisrael. So, now, when somebody says this three times a day, you should know what it means. It means that there were natural disasters, and they didn't happen to you. You should know why. It’s because you're a Jew. Now, if it happened to you, there’s a serious problem. A serious problem. It happened to us this weekend. Eleven of our brothers and sisters died this weekend. How could such a thing happen? Who could explain such a thing? The answer is, rabotai, that the synagogue was not part of us. It was not part of the mesorah that we received at Har Sinai. The synagogue was part of the Conservative movement, meaning a deviation from the emet. Now some people are going to say, hey, this is not the time to have separation between Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform.
16:40Is not the time. When is the time? You're telling me that there's a certain amount of time during the year or during the day when it's allowed to insult my Father in Heaven? You're allowed to do it? So let me explain to you something else, maybe you haven't heard about. Almost everyone knows that it was a Conservative shul, which means that everyone who was involved over there, for the most part, was a kofar gamur. The same one that Hashem says I'd kill him if he's a Michalel Shabbat, right? But if that wasn't enough, why were all those people in shul? It wasn't because of Shabbat. You know why they were in shul? They were doing a brit milah for twin boys that were adopted by a gay couple. Do you understand? Meaning, two people that are kufrim gemurim, two people that are not, they're worse than Mechalel Shabbat. Meaning, a Mechalel Shabbat can do teshuva, because one day he's going to realize, you know what, it's not so bad to keep Shabbat. Or one day he's going to be in hospice, he can't violate Shabbat in hospice, he's dying.
17:49Know one day he's going to regret his actions; he almost died and yet will eventually keep Shabbat even if not on purpose. But the gay person, he decides, "No, no, I want to be gay. I want to go against Hashem on a regular basis; I cannot contain my desires." The fact that he has feelings—whether born with it or not born with it—is a different argument. We have already argued about this in several shiurim before. We have a whole shiur about this for anyone that wants to know more. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about someone who is deciding to take his despicable sin against Hashem and force Am Yisrael to accept it, tolerate it, and celebrate it. How? He goes and adopts two boys. Miskinim, the boys, what do they do? You're giving them two Abbas. What do they do? You're giving them two Imas. What's the boy going to say? Who's Abba today? Who's Ima today? You're Ima today? Okay, so you're going to wear the skirt today, and you're going to wear the pants, and tomorrow we're going to switch again. So the boy is naturally inclined to grow up and think, well, it's okay to be gay. It's okay to be an enemy of Hashem. You're bringing two kids into the world, teaching them to grow into being a Hitler against Hashem.
19:04Not only that, I want to give you Brit Milah in the synagogue. When did they do this, Rabotai? Remember I told you, remember I told you, anytime you want to know something, find me in the parasha. When did they do this Brit Milah? When? In the parasha, where Hashem destroys Sedom V'Amorah. Why Sedom V'Amorah? Why? Why did He destroy? Why did He destroy Sedom V'Amorah? Why? They didn't give enough tzedakah. What happened in Sedom V'Amorah? What happened? Do you remember what happened in Sedom V'Amorah? I remember. I'll remind you. Maybe you don't remember. I'll remind you what happened in Sedom V'Amorah. The malachim came to visit Lot. The malachim came to visit Lot. They told him, "Listen, because of Avraham, whom Hashem loves, we're going to help you out." Lot lets them in. The people of Sedom were so despicable and disgusting that they came to the door of Lot and said to him, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we may 'know' them."
20:09They called out to Lot and they said to him, "Where are the men—meaning the angels—who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we may know them." Chazal says, what do you mean "we may know them"? What, are they going to start having coffee together? What does it mean "we may know them"? We go to Sefer Bereishit. Adam yada et ishto. The Adam got to know his wife. How did he get to know his wife? They had a baby. How? They were in intimacy. Meaning the people of S'dom were so disgusting and despicable, they told him, the two men that came to you, bring them out here so we can rape them, so we can perform homosexuality with them. Hashem says a place like this has no right to exist, and He destroyed the whole place. Such is the hatred of such behavior by Hashem. These people, who have such horrible desires. Everyone knows that in Kohelet, Shlomo HaMelech wrote, there's no such thing as a righteous person who's so righteous he doesn't sin. Everybody sins. No one told you to go publicize it, no one told you to be proud of it, and no one told you to go out and say, "look at me, I'm a sinner." If you want to sin, do it in a closed room, hopefully, you will do teshuva one day. But here we see people have become such proud sinners.
21:21No one told you to publicize it. No one told you to be proud of it. No one told you to go out and say, "Look at me, I'm a sinner against Hashem." If you want to sin, do it in a closed room, and hopefully, you will stop one day. But here, we see people have become such proud sinners. Not only do they perform the sins, but they also convince the world to accept, tolerate, and celebrate it, and now they put Hashem's name on it. Well, Hashem wasn't having it, so people had to perish. That, my friends, is a Kiddush Hashem. It's a Kiddush Hashem. There is no such thing as suffering without sin. No such thing as anyone in the world getting punished for no reason. I'm surprised any of them survived. I'm surprised the Bet Knesset didn't blow up with everyone in it. The rest of them, maybe Hashem had mercy on them. He says maybe, maybe they'll see such a horrible, massive amount of blood in front of their eyes and you know what?
22:35This is not normal. On Shabbat, Hashem is killing Jews. On Shabbat? Even Gehenom is turned off on Shabbat. You're going to go to synagogue and kill Jews on Shabbat? Something's wrong. Hopefully, they see. Listen, my grandfather died. My uncle died. My friend died. When? On Shabbat. What do you mean on Shabbat? At Beit Knesset. Are you out of your mind? What happened? Oh, yeah, it was part of the movement. He was part of the movement against Hashem. He was part of the movement supporting gay marriage. He was part of the movement that ruined the lives of two little babies by giving them both two Abbas, and giving them a Brit Milah, putting Hashem's name on it. This, Rabotai, is the truth. Anyone who doesn't like it does not have a problem with me. I care less what you think. I never cared, not in the beginning and not after. Hashem does, though. You have a problem with Hashem, and He can do something about it. Me, I can just accept and delete your emails. That's it. The reality is, rabotai, that there's only a single truth. Anyone that tells you otherwise is a liar.
23:59Anyone that tells you no, but this, but that, anything else other than what I just said is not true. Why? It has no source. I can give you a thousand more sources, but this is a question and answer shiur. I just wanted to give you the first question and the first answer. Bechavod with the rest of the questions.
