Who Is Esav? Toldot | STUMP THE RABBI (286)

0:05We're back here on our Wednesday night, Be'ezrat Hashem Torah Center in Lauderhill, Florida, to do a little bit of Divrei Torah. Then after that, Be'ezrat Hashem, we'll have a little bit of a simcha, celebrating the upcoming Chatan and Kalah of Gavriel and his wife-to-be, Chaya, Be'ezrat Hashem. Tonight's shiur is going to be for the refuah shleimah of Shmuel Yishayahu ben Batsheva, and for all of Am Yisrael and all of the righteous Noahides that continue to learn, support. Anyone that wants to support can go on the website, Be'ezrat Hashem.org or bh.org. Be'ezrat Hashem, as you can see, the remodeling is happening. And just in case anybody was wondering, they're not doing it for free. So, we have Parashat Toledot, and here we learn a bunch of different things. We learn about shidduchim, we learn about Yaakov, we learn about Esav, we also learn about Avraham. And we learn so many different things; we'll try to cover a few things, to see what we can take and apply into our lives.

1:36In the beginning of the parashah, as we said on Sunday, Rivka is said to be barren, just like Sarai Imeinu was. And then Sarai prayed to HaKadosh Baruch Hu, and HaKadosh Baruch Hu answered her prayers. Rivka prayed to HaKadosh Baruch Hu, and then He answered her prayers. So the Chachamim ask, how come Hashem made them this way? They're already tzaddikot. Why give them such a difficult thing to do? You know, you have to, if you're a woman, you want to have kids. So why make them barren? So much so that they need a miracle in order to have kids. So Chazal say that HaKadosh Baruch Hu loves the prayers of the tzaddikim, meaning he gives them certain tests, not because he thinks they'll fail it, but rather because he wants them to pray. He loves their prayers. But as one of the things we see here is that Yitzchak is 40 years old when he marries Rivka. And they have kids when he's 60, meaning 20 years difference. So for those of you that saw my shiur,

3:03some time ago when I explained that Rashi, alav hashalom, says that when Rivka left her father's house to go marry Yitzchak, she was three years old. The antisemites that like to distort and manipulate the Torah in an unfavorable way say, oh look what, the Torah promotes pedophilia, promotes adults marrying kids. So there's two things to that. Number one, we explained in the past that the three-year-olds back then were not the same thing physically as the three-year-olds of today. And we see it as a proof where Rivka was able to bring water to satiate ten different camels and the people that were riding them. Now, you go try as an adult to go give enough water to one camel and see if you're not exhausted for the next weeks, next two or three weeks, just for one camel. When I went to a museum some time ago with the kids in New York, there was a biblical museum, and he explained how much camels actually have to drink. It's an enormous amount. They don't drink for a long time because they go to the desert, but when they finally drink, they have to drink. She had to bring something like maybe six to eight different buckets of water for each camel. Times that by 10.

4:31So obviously, we see a three-year-old cannot even carry such a bucket. So needless to say, she wasn't physically the same thing like a three-year-old is today. But aside from that, this Parashah also answers the question that all of the dirty-minded people think, "But wait, a three-year-old, a forty-year-old, how could it be?" They didn't have kids until she was 23 years old. Even if you go with what Rashi says, that she was three years old, they didn't have kids until she was 23. because he was 40 years old when they got married, and they had kids when he was 60, 20 years later. Now, another thing that we learn when we start looking at the verses is that Rivka got a prophecy from Hakadosh Baruch Hu that she has twins. And these twins are gonna be two different nations. one is gonna be Yaakov, that's later named Yisrael. And the other one is Esav, which is Edom. Now, usually, if you have a mother, she has twins. If the mother is Jewish, both twins are Jewish. If the mother is not Jewish, both twins are not Jewish. How could it be that one is a Jew and the other one is not Jewish?

6:01Because here, this is sometime before, there's a few hundred years before the Torah was given to us in the way that we have it today. And the belief system that Esav had was what made him what he was. Because originally he had enough potential to be so righteous that he was supposed to be a father of six out of the twelve tribes, and Yaakov father to the other six of the tribes. In fact, the Chachamim say that David HaMelech had the same type of personality traits as Esav. He also looked like him. But Dovid used the personality traits that he had for good. Eisav did not. Both of them had a desire for blood. Dovid used it in order to be the one that checks if a woman is niddah or not. Used it for bris milah. Used it for a war of mitzvah to defend the Jewish people. Eisav simply used it to murder people.

7:23And on the day of the blessing, Esav murdered Nimrod. Nimrod, until that time, for hundreds of years, Nimrod was the most powerful man in the world. And one of the things that made him powerful was that he took the special coat of Adam HaRishon. Adam HaRishon, if you guys remember, after Adam HaRishon made a sin, And Hashem punished him, but in order to appease him, to show him that Hashem is still with him, Hashem gave him a special, He dressed him and He dressed Chava. So this special garment gave whoever wore it, you could call it superpowers. So no one could kill Nimrod while he was wearing it. This went from Adam HaRishon all the way to Noach. Noach gave it to Shem, but later on, Nimrod stole it, and he became the most powerful man in the world. And Esav challenged him. He said, "Listen, fight me, but without the coat. Fight me without the coat." Nimrod was challenged. He took off the coat.

8:36Esav pushed him out of the way, put the coat on himself and killed Nimrod. So Esav is called Edom. Why is he called Edom? It all starts off with how Esav looked at the world. It says that when Esav came back from the fields after murdering Nimrod, he was very hungry. And he said to Yaakov, he said, "Pour it to me now, some of this very red stuff." And then it says, "And because of this, he's called Edom. Now, you guys are all, Baruch Hashem, eating the Rabbanit's schnitzel and the rice. I promise you, after this shiur, you're not going to be called schnitzel. Tzahakam Esav, he ate something red. He ate more, you know, pretty much he ate chamin, or some type of Sephardi food, because it's all red. So he ate something red, and we call him Edom, why?

9:56Why are we calling him after a food that he ate? The answer is because Esav's behavior of how much he was willing to give just for the sake of something material showed his essence. meaning he cared less about being the firstborn and all the spiritual benefits that it has, because at that time, it was before Matan Torah, so the firstborns were considered the Kohanim. They were the ones that would bring sacrifices. they were the ones that were supposed to serve Hashem the most. And only after Matan Torah did this change, that it changed into the Kohanim. So Esav did not care about anything spiritual. He didn't care about a connection with Hashem. Esav only cared about something material. He cared about power. He cared about money. He cared about women. He cared about all the different material possessions that a person chases. So much so that anything spiritual meant nothing to him.

11:01So he says, give me this red stuff. Yaakov says, okay, so give me the firstborn rights. Obviously, everyone knows that Eisav was born first. So what does it mean, give me your firstborn rights? Even if you say yes, everybody's still going to know that Eisav was born first. So what does it really mean? It means all of the things that you're supposed to do as a firstborn, make me in charge. I now have the rights, meaning to serve HaKadosh Baruch Hu, to bring korbanot, to do all the different things the firstborn do, let me do it. Let me be the religious one. Esav says, you want to be religious? Chavod, go, take it. Just give me this tzulin. Well, you don't care about giving korbanot, you don't care about praying to Hashem, you don't care about serving? No, I care about eating right now. And in fact, This is the reason why Hashem let this transaction take place, because technically, if you do an unfair transaction in Judaism, then it's called ona'ah, which means that the transaction is null and void from the beginning.

12:21As an example, I gave a few years ago, there was a guy that had a basement. He got a house. He had a basement that his parents had. And he saw that in the basement there was a bunch of old records. Now, he wasn't much of a music person. So he saw all these old records. He's not into the records. He put them all in the garbage. Put them all, waiting for the bulk to pick it up. And that's it. the next door neighbor, he knew a thing or two about records. So when he saw this garbage, he looked at it. He couldn't believe his fortune. He took all the records from the garbage and brought them into his house. Made a few calls. Made a few transactions. And before you know it, he says, okay, we're moving out, family. Where are we moving to? We're moving to the new mansion we're buying. Mansion? How? Who?

13:22I saw the records. So now, before they decide to move, you know, the neighbors, the kids were playing together. And the kid of the guy that threw out the records plays with the kid, with the next-door neighbor's kid. Says, "Yeah, we're moving away." "Where are you moving to?" "Oh, we're moving to such and such a neighborhood." "Wow, those are big houses over there. Rich people." "Yeah, yeah, we're rich now." "Really? You became? How did you become rich?" Says, "My father found these records, and they were worth millions. They're worth millions of dollars, and he sold some of them, so we're going there. The kid obviously goes and tells his father, "Wow, you heard? He found records, he sold them, made millions of dollars, and now they're moving!" Of course, the father realized, "What do you mean he found records? It was my records!" He goes, knocks on his door, he goes, "Listen, that money, it's all mine." He goes, "No, no, no, you threw it in the garbage. It was yours while it was in your house. The moment you threw it in the garbage, that's it. It's hefker. It belongs to everybody. Now, if I asked you who's right, if you know the answer already, don't answer. But if you don't know the answer, meaning you haven't heard me say it before, typically a person would say, yeah, the neighbor that found the wreckage is right. Why? The guy threw it out. If the neighbor didn't take it, then the sanitation department would have taken it.

14:48So the moment he threw it out, he lost it already. That's the logical answer. But it's the opposite of the Torah. The Torah says, it's called mekach ta'ut. It's a transaction that's flawed from the beginning. Why? Had he known that the records are worth millions of dollars, he would have never thrown them out. And therefore, when the guy found it, since they were both Jewish, he was obligated to tell the neighbor, "Hey, you're about to throw $10 million worth of records out," and return him the records. "So, yes, but I worked and I sold them." Okay, I'll pay you a transaction fee. I'll pay you a broker's fee. But it's not 50-50, it's not even 75-25. Why? The records are his. It's called. Same thing where if you, let's say for example, you sell somebody a product. You tell him, listen, this is a product. I'll sell it to you for $200,000. And let's just call it, let's say you sell him a Ferrari, a fancy car. And the guy buys a $200,000 car. Then he takes it to the shop to make sure everything's okay.

16:11And they tell him, listen, we're sorry to tell you, but the only thing that's real about this Ferrari is its color. The paint is real. Everything else is fake. Everything else is made in China. The engine is fake. The system is fake. The electronics are fake. They made, just like they make the watches today, better than even the real watches, they made a fake Ferrari. So the guy goes back to the, "Listen, you sold me a fake Ferrari." He goes, "Listen, we made a transaction. You paid me $200,000. We shook on it. You could have checked ahead of time." "No, no, no, no, no. It doesn't work that way. The transaction was flawed from the beginning. You cheated me." In Judaism, that's how it works. Law of the land, not so much. law of America, law of Israel, law of Europe, law of everything. It's not so much that way. But as far as the law of the Torah, the transaction is flawed from the beginning. So when we look at the transaction between Yaakov and Esav, we see that this looks like a flawed transaction. Why? Yaakov got, by being the Bechor, he got the blessing.

17:24He also, as far as inheritance, all of the two-thirds of the inheritance goes to Yaakov. Meaning if Yitzchak has $100 million, he was a multimillionaire, most of the money goes to Yaakov. On top of that, more blessings from Hashem and so on. And he gets to do things that Eisav is not able to do. You're replacing all of that. You're replacing $75 million out of $100 million inheritance. for some cholent, for some beans and sauce. That doesn't seem like a fair transaction. So how come Hashem allowed it? It's because of the pasuk, it's because of the verse in chapter 25, verse 34. Vayivez Eisav et ha-bechora. Eisav disrespected the birthright. Vayivez. Vayivez means he disrespected it. meaning he himself declared that the value of all of this birthright is worthless in his eyes. So once you determined yourself that this is worthless, it is no longer a flawed transaction. You determined that it's worthless, so it became worthless in your eyes. In his eyes, it's priceless. In your eyes, it's worth less than even the beans and the sauce that you got.

18:50So if that's what you think it's worth, then yeah, the transaction is valid. If you intended to buy the fake Ferrari, if you intended to sell and you intended to do it where you knew what you were getting and you still did it, then it's on you. So from there, we see that Esav was very, very different than Yaakov, but not only different from Yaakov, he was different from his father, he was different from his grandfather, Avraham. The next thing we see is one of the verses that's a few hundred years before we received the Torah at Har Sinai, we learn how we already had the entire Torah, before we got it at Mount Sinai. How so? In chapter 26, verse five, it says, it tells Yitzchak why he loved Avraham, his father. He says, because Avraham obeyed My voice and observed My safeguards, My commandments, My decrees, and My Torahs, plural.

20:14meaning that Avraham was not just a good guy that wanted to do good, but rather Avraham, as the Gemara says, observed the entire Torah. Even the rabbinical laws that would be enacted years later, he already observed them. How do we know? Because we see here that if it was just the written Torah, then it would just say "and my Torah," but it says "Torahs. Furthermore, if it was just the written Torah and part of the Oral Torah, then it wouldn't say Mishmarti, which are the rabbinic enactments. If it was just that, then it wouldn't say Mitzvotai, which are my commandments, the specific Mitzvot. And if it was just the things that are clearly written, and not the things that we extrapolate by using the rules of the Torah, then it wouldn't say Chukotai, which is my decrees. Because some of the Torah, when a person starts learning the Gemara, also known as the Talmud, they learn that there are certain parts of the Talmud that teach you

21:33things that happen at certain times, the behind-the-scenes story, either about what happened during that time or what happened to one of the sages. The other thing it tells you is why this is the law and not something else, meaning the Mishnah said one thing, and the Gemara tells you what the Mishnah means and what it doesn't mean. It doesn't just tell you this is the halacha, it also tells you why everything else is not. As I was explaining before to someone, for example, if let's just say hypothetically speaking, we'd say the Mishnah says that you have to wear a white shirt. This is a made up halacha, this is not a real halacha. Don't worry, if you're wearing a blue shirt, you're good. Let's say the Mishnah says you wear a white shirt. Now the Mishnah doesn't tell you why. Mishnah simply tells you, white shirt. God wants you to wear a white shirt. The Gemara now has a debate between the sages of why a white shirt is what it means and not pink,

22:46and not blue, and not black, and not every other possible answer that you can possibly think of, meaning they're not arguing whether it's white or not, we already know it's white, they're telling you why it's not everything else. Because you have a mind, you think, listen, Sure, he said white, but maybe he meant off-white. And if he already meant off-white, potentially it could be gray. And you know what? When it's really late at night, you can't even tell the color, so you might as well wear black. And if you're already wearing black, I actually think navy blue is better. And if you're wearing navy blue, maybe his wife likes the Twitter color. She likes, before he became X, she likes the light blue. And you know what? Light blue, pink, they go together really nice. You start arguing, why? Because it makes sense. The Gemara tells you, no, no, no. All those things, we thought about it. And that's why we argued to tell you this is the final law. The Mishnah told you what it is; we'll explain to you why. The other thing that's in the Gemara is the Gemara teaches you that

23:59Aside from receiving the written Torah at Mount Sinai, which is not just what's written in front of us, but also the vowel system, also the story behind the story, what actually happened when, for example, at Yam Suf, it says that, you know, we crossed the ocean. Now, when they made it into a movie 50 years ago, everyone thinks that that's just like the movie, where we were there, Hashem split the ocean, and we went in the middle. That's not what happened. Hashem did not split the ocean into two. He split it into 12 different tunnels, and each tribe went into its own tunnel. And also, the splitting of the ocean wasn't from one end to the other, where you have, let's say, the ocean is this, and let's say the mechitzah in front of me is the split. That's in the movie. In reality, what happened, as the Rambam writes, it was the shape of a rainbow, meaning we started here, we went all the way around, and we came back here. And it was twelve different tunnels. So in the Written Torah, it doesn't say that. It just tells you, "Split the ocean.

25:13So one of the things the Gemara teaches us is how we use the rules of the Torah. There are different 18 hermeneutical rules of how to understand the Torah, how to arrive at what happened, how to arrive at what to do. Furthermore, it's also how to arrive at an actual law, meaning you can't just decide to say, listen, I believe we have to wear white shirts because this verse says white shirts in it. Even though it's talking about laundering white shirts, if it's already mentioning white shirts, then we have to wear white shirts. Torah says, no, no, no, you can't do that. Talmud teaches us, you can't just use any verse you want, because that verse has to be available for you to use. And if they already are using that verse to learn something else, you can't use it for this. If it's already used for teaching you how to do laundry, then you can't use it for what clothes to wear. Every verse is specifically meant for a specific type of teaching. So the rules of the Torah are the foundational principles that the Talmud uses in order to explain to us

26:33Number one, there are certain things that were, as we know, from Mount Sinai, it's not up for debate. This is what it is. For example, tefillin. Tefillin, meaning that it's always going to be black, it's always going to be square, it's always going to be from an animal that we're allowed to eat. We're not allowed to make tefillin from lion skin. So, and there's over a thousand laws when it comes to tefillin. But, and one of the things that we saw, for example, when there was modern state Israel in 1948, people from all over, Jews from all over the world, from Poland, from Ukraine, from Germany, from Morocco, Yemen, Syria, and everyone came to Israel and everyone had the same exact tefillin. It was black, it was square, it was from a kosher animal, and so on and so forth. So even though these people never knew each other, there wasn't WhatsApp, there wasn't TikTok, there wasn't Facebook, there wasn't social media, there was no email, but they all came from different parts of the world, but everybody had the same exact law for thousands of years.

27:42Because that was a Halacha L'Moshe MiSinai, meaning this law we know already from Mount Sinai, it's not up for debate. Then there are laws where the Gemara tells you, we arrive at this law even though using the same exact tools that God gave us at Mount Sinai, we could arrive at a different law. You could, let's say, for example, arrive at white shirt and off-white shirt. It was determined by the sages that white shirt is it and not off-white. why? Even though they're both right, they're both right. It was determined by the Sages that this is what we're going to go with. Why? Because the Torah itself, one of the things that God gave to the Sages, it's in the Torah, is that they're allowed to determine the law as long as they're using the rules of the Torah. So Esav didn't care for any of this stuff. he didn't want to be religious. In fact, the Midrash says that he had a tattoo of a snake on his thigh. He was an admirer of the serpent that made Adam HaRishon sin. It was also a form of idolatry. And Esav cared less about any of this stuff. And therefore, when he had an opportunity to get some food, he didn't care about

29:08getting rid of this. So now the question is, if he was so against the Torah, how is it that Yitzchak, who was a big tzaddik, a righteous person, as righteous as can be, why is he giving him a blessing? Needless to say, not only giving him the blessing, but he wants to give him a blessing at all, like the guy is a rasha. So, huh? So the first thing is, we know that Rivka never told her husband, Yitzchak, about the prophecy that she got that two babies are in her belly, and they're going to be two different nations. One of them is going to be attracted to idolatry, the other one is going to be attracted to Kedushah, to holiness. She didn't tell him this. she didn't tell him this for decades, meaning that if God did not speak in our house, that's really what it comes down to. I mean, imagine you have somebody in your neighborhood, he does bad things. I remember when I was a kid, if anybody found out that somebody smoked cigarettes, that's it. No one's allowed to hang out with him anymore. No one's allowed to hang out with anyone. Today they can, what they can do and no one cares, you know, the parents sometimes do it with the kids.

30:32But in my days, somebody in the neighborhood smoked cigarettes? No, no, not to hang out with him. Why? He's a bad kid. That's how it was. You found out. How'd you find out? You didn't see him smoke a cigarette. You didn't see him do anything bad. But somebody saw him and they spread the information. Within five minutes, the whole neighborhood knew. This Esav is doing all this bad stuff inside the house, but Rivka is not telling her husband. And in fact, the Me'am Loez says that Yitzchak suffered from the curse of Avimelech. Avimelech, after he tried to kidnap, or he kidnapped Sarah, because he says that he thought that Sarah was Avraham Avinu's sister. And then, yes? Avimelech is? He was a king. He wasn't Pharaoh, but he was a king, yes. So Avimelech kidnapped her, and he wanted to marry her. But then he found out that she's already married to Avraham. And Hashem made him suffer to the point where he wasn't able to even touch the finger of Sarah Imeinu. And after Avimelech gave her back, he cursed Sarah.

31:58and the curse went on Yitzchak, and Yitzchak became blind later on. Yitzchak became blind relatively young. And that's why in Chapter 27 it says, "And it came to pass that when Yitzchak had become old, and his eyes dimmed from seeing." Now, He's been old since the beginning. He got married when he was 40. He had the kids when he was 60. He's been old for a long time, but he's been blind this whole time. So all the stuff that was happening with Esav, he didn't see any of it. He didn't see any of this stuff. Because anytime that Esav would come to Yitzchak, he would pretend to be a righteous person. He'd pretend like he was learning. He'd pretend like he was doing good things. So the only way for Yitzchak to find out what Esav is doing is if Rivkah would tell him, "Listen, Esav just robbed the bank today. Esav is selling drugs. Esav is doing this. Esav is doing that." But she never says any of this stuff. She only complains about Esav one time. One time in the entire parashah she complains about Esav. And it's not really about Esav, it's about his wives. She complains about his wives.

33:18She never even says, by the way, you know that your son, Esav, he's a murderer, right? By the way, you know that Esav, he kills for fun. You know, Esav is degenerate. Everyone's scared of him. He's the mafia boss of the town. She never says anything. So now the first question is, how could it be that he decides to bless Esav? You could say he didn't know, but it's not enough. We need proof. So, I had this chiddush, maybe something like ten years ago: we see that before we talk about the blessing, the verse right before it tells us that Esav, when he was forty years old, he took a wife named Yehudit, Judith, Yehudit.

34:21and also another wife named Basmat. Why is it telling us that Esav married two girls and even telling us their names? What do we need to know their names for? Chazal teaches us that Esav, part of his trick was to make everyone think that he's a good guy. before he cheats them, before he lies to them, before he kills them, before everything, including his parents. He says, look, Abba, I married a tzaddekes, her name is Yehudit. Her name is Jewish. And the other one, her name is Basmat, meaning she smells good, like our actions are good. So this was part of Esav's manipulation. Later on, when Rivka complains about Esav to Yitzchak, she says, "I can't take it anymore with Esav's wives. These are such evil women. They're tormenting me. There's no way that I would allow Yaakov to marry a woman like Esav married. You have to get him out of here. You have to get Yaakov out of here." In reality, she was trying to get Yaakov out of there to save him from Esav. But this was the excuse he used.

35:41Listen, Yitzchak, I know you love your son and everything, but you have to know, his wives are criminals. Yeah, but her name is Yehudit. Yeah, yeah, it's fake. It's fake. Her name is Basmat. Yeah, yeah. The opposite. It's the opposite. Her actions don't smell good. So that's the first reason. Second thing is, is that also tells us that Esav married these two girls, and therefore Yitzchak wanted to bless him, which also allows us to understand the logic behind this, because if he's married, he needs more than his brother that's not married. What is it like? It's a story of two brothers. Many, many years ago, and they were partners in the field. They'd grow the crops, they'd collect the crops together, they'd work hard together, and then they'd split the profits. One of the brothers, we'll call him Reuven, he was married with kids. And Shimon was single, didn't have children.

37:09didn't have a wife and kids. One night, moving things, my brother, he's scared he doesn't have anybody. He doesn't have a wife, he doesn't have kids. He's probably going to need to get married soon, but he's not going to have enough money from taking half the profits. I already have a wife, I already built a house, I already made those investments. So I don't need all this extra money. So you know what? I'm going to give him more, but I know he's a righteous person, so he's not going to take from me. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to bring it to him while he's sleeping. I'll bring the crops to his side. We're going to split it today, 50-50. I get 50 bushels, he gets 50. But then after I go to sleep, I'm going to bring it and leave 25 in his camp. At the same time, Shimon is thinking, I don't understand, how greedy could I be? I don't have a family, I don't have any kids. My brother, poor guy, he has a family, he has kids. He probably has a lot of expenses. I don't need all this extra money. Why am I taking half the profits? You know what? Tonight, I'm gonna go, I'm gonna drop off 25 bushels at his place because surely he has more expenses than I do. He has a family, he has to feed them. So both of them do this.

38:31and they both wake up in the morning, and you see what do they have? The same exact thing they had before. It's like, what happened here? I went, I dropped off 25, I had 25 left, I went to sleep, I woke up, I have 50 again. It doesn't make sense. Okay, I have to drop off today. So the night comes, so okay, I'm gonna drop it off. Maybe the Yetzer Hara is trying to force me to be greedy. I'll go drop it off. Shimon comes, he drops it off. After he goes to sleep, he wakes up in the morning. What does he have? 50 again. Why? Because Reuven did the same thing again. By the third night, they don't know really what's going on here. They decide to go out at night and both go out at the same exact time. And they go out at the same exact time and they run into each other. And he sees, oh, you have 25 bushels in your, you have 25. And they hug each other and realize how much they love each other. When Yitzchak saw that his son, Eisav, was married to two women, it's clear that his son needs more money.

39:52women, you have kids, you have bills. They always come on time, the bills, doesn't matter if you're working or you're not working, they're always on time. I wish the employees were like that. So, surely he needs a bigger blessing. Yaakov is still single, still a bachelor. Another thought that the Chachamim say is that Yitzchak wanted to bless Eisav with the blessings where he says, "And may Hashem give you the dew of the heavens and the fatness of the earth and the abundant grain," meaning he gave him a blessing that he's going to be rich, rich and powerful and so on. And the Chachamim say, that really he wanted to give this blessing to Esav because he knew that Yaakov wants to be a Talmid Chacham. He wants to learn Torah. How are you gonna have time to learn Torah if all day you're managing billions of dollars? You're managing an empire of money. You have ships, you have boats, you have planes, you have trains, you have employees, you have factories. When are you gonna have time to learn Torah?

41:12So you know what? Let me give the blessing of all the money to Esav so Yaakov has just enough to live so he can learn Torah. A couple hundred years ago, there was a tzaddik named Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev. He was a special tzaddik that helped a lot of people do teshuvah, and miracles were an everyday thing for him. One day, Yom Kippur arrives, and everybody prays, and after, everybody knows, after the Shacharit prayer on Yom Kippur is very long, then there's a short break depending on whether you're Sephardi or Ashkenazi depends how long the break is. If you're Ashkenazi, you have a few hours. If you're Sephardi, you have about 10 minutes, because we pray pretty much forever. But you have a little break. During that break, sometimes people don't go home. Why? By the time you get home, you have to come back already. So a lot of times, people stay in the shul. Either they rest, maybe they learn Torah,

42:39The Rav stayed at the shul and fell asleep on his chair. By the time it came time to pray, everybody showed up, and the Rav wakes up. Oh, oh, Baruch Hashem, it's a dream. So of course, everybody asks, what happened? What happened? He tells them, I was just in Shamayim. Hashem took my Neshama and brought it up to Shamayim. And I saw that there's an angel begging Hashem, please make the Jewish people rich. Make them really rich this year. Make everyone a millionaire. Everyone a billionaire. Please, Hashem, I beg you. Give them all the money they want. They're asking for it. Give it to them, Hashem. begging Hashem that every single Jew that's praying in this Kehillah will become a multi-millionaire. So everybody's happy. Yeah. So what happened? What did Hashem say? He said, as soon as I saw this, I started screaming to Hashem, no, no. He says, because the angel that was praying for you to become rich was the Satan.

44:04The one that was praying for you to become rich, he was the Satan. He wanted you to become rich because he knew it was going to ruin all of you. He knew it was going to ruin all of you. That's why Chachamim say the money test is harder than the poverty test. Having a lot of money, even though I know that's the natural inclination for most people to want to have a lot of money, it's a much more difficult test than being poor. And it's not just for Jews, it's for everyone. In fact, if you look around the world, even the Jewish world and non-Jewish world, the most religious people in the world are poor. It's a normal thing. You go to a third world country, you see people barely have enough money to get bread, but they'll pray to whatever they believe in fifty-seven times a day if they have to. You go to Beverly Hills, you go to, I don't know, Miami Beach, you go to Fifth Avenue in New York City. You go to those places, people are screaming in the streets of how they don't think there's a God. Why? When a person is poor, they realize that they need help beyond their own ability.

45:32When a person is rich, they get to a point where they feel like they don't need anybody. I don't need anybody. I can just buy it. I don't need friends. I can buy them. I don't need this. I can buy it. And little by little, it makes them think that they're much more powerful and much more in control than what they really are, and they get a G-d complex. Now, of course, there are some rich people that are very righteous, but it's a much more difficult test. because the guy that's struggling constantly has reasons to pray, because he knows he needs more than what he has. Whereas the guy that's rich, he also struggles, but he still has hope that his money will save him. He still has hope. Listen, I'm sick, but I got $5 billion in the bank. Surely I can buy a new liver. Surely I could buy new lungs. I have $5 billion in the bank. Well, guess what? Steve Jobs was not able to buy new liver, even though he had a lot of money. If Hashem wants a person to live, he'll live. If a person, He wants him to die, he'll die. But when a person is more connected to his money than he is to Hashem, in essence, what they're doing is they're following in the footsteps of Esav. And that was the biggest difference between Esav and Yaakov.

46:55even though they both end up becoming very rich in their lifetime, their perspective of what money was and what money is, it's two completely different things. Esav, tried to accumulate every material thing that he possibly can during his life, from something as simple as the chullin that he wanted to buy from his brother, to more wives, to more money, to an army, to everything else. Why? Because he felt the more material he has, the more significant he becomes, the more powerful he is, and so on and so forth. He defined his life by the material. That's why his name is Edom. just like the food that he got was adom, it was red, and in essence it described his essence. He was looking for something material. The Torah says, he wants material, we'll call him by a materialistic thing. Yaakov, on the other hand, he simply wanted to serve Hashem. He wanted to get married. He wanted to do honest business. He wanted to give tzedakah. He wanted to honor his parents. And in the process, Hashem decided to make him rich.

48:11That wasn't his goal. His goal was to serve Hashem, and Hashem simply decided to give him a blessing. So here we see that Even though the story itself, when you learn the story itself, it seems like a kid's story. Okay, there's these two brothers. They don't like each other. Then one of them runs away. And then he gets, the other one stays angry for a long time. Then, you know, the other one gets married. Then eventually they get together again. Everyone thinks that maybe the guy's going to kill the other one. He doesn't kill him. It looks like a kid's story, but in reality, the more you investigate the Torah and see the words that were chosen by Hashem to be put to describe every single thing, the more you realize that, delve into it and delve into it, because everything is in it. And everything that we said today is not even one percent of one percent of what's really in it. It's just simply what we're learning this week about it. If you watch my lectures about this parasha,

49:17which I've done at least once every year for the last 12 years. You'll see that every single year we learn something else from the parasha, and every year the lessons that we learn are applicable to us at that very moment that we're actually learning them. And that's why I always tell people, if you start learning Torah on a regular basis, especially if you start learning the Chumash with commentary so you can understand what's actually happening there, and not just assume that you could interpret Hebrew, but simply understand what's happening there. Read the words, read the translation, and then read the commentary by the sages. And fulfill the mitzvah that Shulchan Aruch Paskins to do. For every Jew, you have to do, you have to read the weekly parashah twice and the commentary once. Every week. If you do that, you're not only going to allow yourself to learn more and more about what's the difference between Yaakov and Esav, But also, you'll be able to get answers to any question you have in your life from the Parasha. Why? There's a certain divine assistance when you do this that you'll have specific questions during that week. And if you learn the Parasha, you'll find the answer from that Parasha. And every week we do this already for 12 years. Every time people ask questions, your answer is in this Parasha.

50:42your answer is in the parasha. You guys, if anyone's been watching my shiur for over the years, questions, I always tell them, "Oh, your answer is in the parasha." I show them the verse that's in the parasha. It's not that I know the entire Torah. It just happens to be that Hashem wants your answer to be in the parasha. That's how it works. That's how you know this is a divine document and not some man-made book, like some of the other religions. There's a man that wrote the book. How do you know if something is a man-made book versus a divine book? Simple. If it has mistakes, it's man-made. if there's even one mistake, it's man-made. Why? God does not make mistakes. A God that makes mistakes is not God. Now, if we don't understand something, that doesn't mean it's a mistake. But if we know something for sure is a mistake, then okay, then it's a mistake. For example, in last week's parasha, we had Avraham Avinu by the and the Torah tells us the exact location of the Me'arat Hamachpela. The good news is you can go to the Me'arat Hamachpela today.

52:05meaning it's not like a story, like, for example, where it says that Moshe died and Hashem buried him. No one knows where Moshe Rabbeinu was buried. So some people say, listen, we went to a certain cave, there's stories like this, went to a certain cave in the mountains and we saw that there is some type of tomb at the end. As we got closer to it, it disappeared and it went behind us. Then we went behind us, we got close to it and then disappeared and went somewhere else in the cave. So they speculate maybe this is the cave, maybe this is the grave of Moshe Rabbenu. We're not talking about that. We're talking about the people go there every day. People go there every day. Huh? What did you ask? The Cave of Machpelah where Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov and Adam HaRishon are buried. The Cave of Machpelah. Sorry. Mounted, yeah, but the Torah specifically, yes. So that's also, that's also, yes. Yes. Right, but the difference here is that when the Torah tells us that Avraham Avinu comes to Ephron and he tells him that he wants to buy the Me'arat HaMachpelah, the cave of Machpelah.

53:30and he tells them exactly where it is. And I'll give you guys the verse so you see it. Hold on. Okay, so, it says in Chapter 23, verse 19, "And afterwards Avraham buried Sarah, his wife, in the Cave of the Field of Machpelah, facing Mamre, which is Hebron, in the land of Canaan," which was the name of Israel at the time, Canaan. So, we see that Ma'arat Hamachpelah is in Hebron. So, that means that if a different book says that is somewhere else, who's wrong? The Torah or the other book? The other book. Well, if you look at the New Testament that the Christians hold dear, the New Testament says that it is in Nablus, a completely different city, not even close. It's a completely different city. It's not even close to Hebron. It's not like you can throw a rock and reach it.

54:56So we see here, this is a clear mistake. If God wrote the New Testament like they say, then He's either a forgetful God or He doesn't know directions. So obviously, God doesn't make mistakes. If He wrote it in Chevron, then it has to be in Chevron. And guess what? Since we have the Me'arat Hamachpela, we have the key of Machpela to this day. You go check, and you'll see, where is it? It's in Chevron. It's not Nablus. So there are many things like this that show us that there are certain things that are so clear that it's not just we want to say that the Torah is true and everything is fake because we want to be the winners and we are better. No, it's not that. It has nothing to do with that. It has to do with there has to be a single truth that can be challenged and it stands the challenge, meaning if you're telling me that your belief system

56:00is the truth, that means it has to be tested. And if it passes the test, then yeah, you have the truth. But if you're telling me that the Twin Towers that were blown up twenty something years ago, twenty-five years ago, were located in Dallas, Texas, I know that whatever you're saying is complete nonsense. Why? I was there. I know it was in New York City. So you're telling me it's in Dallas, Texas. I know you have no clue. Maybe you drank too much. Maybe you got drunk off of the food. The schnitzel is delicious. I know. Whatever it is, I know you have no idea what you're talking about. Why? The Twin Towers are not in Dallas, Texas. Which means that everything else you say after that is not reliable. It's not reliable anymore. Why? It's your opinion. So the Torah has many things that people wanted to challenge, and it's always provable. On the other hand, when you do the same thing with the New Testament, with the Quran, you see that these things, these tests, they fail these tests miserably. And even when you ask Christians some of these questions, you'll have a hundred Christians, a hundred different answers. So for example, they want to say that the word Alma means virgin.

57:25Now, anyone that knows Biblical Hebrew knows that Alma does not mean virgin. Alma means young woman. And how do we know it? We know it from this week's Parsha. It says that Rivka was an Alma. in a couple of other places, it's referring to other women also as an Alma, but not referring to whether they were or weren't. Point is, we have a woman that's young as one word, a woman that's a virgin is a different word. Another example is, for example, in the Quran. The Quran, they say that Jesus' mother,

58:25was Moshe Rabbeinu's sister. Miriam, who is Moshe Rabbeinu's righteous sister, the Quran says this Miriam is the same woman as Mary, the mother of Jesus. Now, what's the problem with this? Aside from it's completely stupid, what's the problem with this? that anyone that knows anything about the Torah knows that first and foremost, the Torah was written 3,300 years ago. It was given to us on Mount Sinai, 3,339 years ago. The New Testament came out 2,000 years ago, approximately, a little less than 2,000 years ago, meaning you're talking about a difference of almost 1,500 years. And the New Testament, what is it about? It's about the life of Yoshke, of Jesus, that lived around that time, not 2,000 years before. The New Testament is, according to them, it's a continuation of the Old Testament, but it's everything that happened after the New Testament. Now, if you read the Torah, you read the Old Testament, the Old Testament says that Miriam, the sister of Moshe Rabbeinu,

59:49died in the desert. She never entered the Land of Israel. She died before Aaron, she died before Moshe Rabbeinu. So how could she be still alive 1,500 years later to give birth to Yeshua? So this is in the Quran. It's a well-known thing by anyone that investigates this stuff. And there's many things like this. So when a person knows some of these things, You don't need to read the whole book from Aleph to Taf to know it's wrong. One of these mistakes you already know, the rest of it is unreliable. Because if it has a mistake, it cannot be from God. Humans make mistakes, God does not. A God that makes mistakes is not a God. So the more you delve into the Torah, the more you'll be able to identify what the truth looks like. And that's why there's no need for a person to look anywhere else. Because when you investigate the truth, you're gonna be a lot more prepared to identify the lie than if you investigate all the lies. And one of the examples I learned, I used to work in a store,

1:01:10When I was a teenager, it was a clothing store. And the guy that was in charge of security, he also had a second job where he worked for the government. He was in charge of the money supply. He was in charge of printing money. and so I would joke with them and say, "Take some for yourself. Can you give me some? I mean, there's so much over there. They don't need all of it." And this guy, you know, would tell us different things. But one of the reasons why he was head of security is because he was able to identify if something was a fake bill or a real bill without using the markers, without using the different things, the tools that were available. Why? He knew what the real thing looked like better than anybody else. He didn't study. He didn't spend any time at all studying the fake ones. Why? If you study the fake one, you're really good at knowing this one, but guess what? The criminals will make fifteen other versions.

1:02:21So what are you going to study? Every fake version that comes out, you're not going to know if it's fake until it's too late. So what do they do when they train them to be these types of people? They train them on what the real thing looks like, what the real deal looks like. Once you're an expert on what's real, then it's much easier to know what's fake. And that's why it's a complete waste of time to study other religions, other texts, other ideologies, other things, in order to determine anything. Because the more you study Torah, the more you'll realize what the truth looks like. So even if a missionary comes to you, or an imam comes to you, or whoever comes to you with whatever argument they have, within two seconds you say, "Listen, the debate's over." Why? "I can give you two, three, four different points and I know you don't have an answer for it. Why? You haven't had an answer for it in 2,000 years.

1:03:21You're not going to answer it today. And if I ask you, you give me an answer, even if you're charismatic and you have a good way to argue and you know how to manipulate the words and so on, guess what? Your answer cannot be better than the answer that the Pope gave because he was closer to the source than you are. And he didn't give this answer. There's no way that you today, representative of some church, know more than the Pope, the original Pope. And he didn't give this answer. There's no way that you today as an Imam today know more than, let's say, some of the leaders of Islam from a thousand years ago. And they didn't give your answer. So whatever answer you give me, it's simply, you're arguing it. You're debating it. You're manipulating the words. But in reality, it's not the answer. It's not valid. Yes? I have several lectures...

1:04:23talking specifically about the New Testament, showing why the whole thing is one man-made scam. But I'll give you a short answer. First and foremost, in order to be a Mashiach, you have to be righteous. You can't just be good looking, you can't be rich, you can't be with good style and good shoes and good hat and nice kippah. None of that stuff counts. There are certain requirements in order for someone to fit being a Mashiach. And the Rambam in Hilchot Melachim gives us all of the different details of what the Torah tells us that the Mashiach has to be. One of them is that the Mashiach has to be from the descendants of King David. There are other requirements, but that in itself already disqualifies Yeshu, why is this disqualified? Yeshu, because the only document on planet Earth written at the time he existed that talks about him in a favorable way is the New Testament. There is no other document that existed at that time that wrote about him in a favorable way.

1:05:45The Talmud mentions him several times in a very unfavorable way. Like, for example, where he is right now, which is in Gehenom, in boiling feces because of what he did. But the point being is, and there's also why, how he died, there's different details. How he was as a kid, there's all types of other details in the Talmud. There's all details in Midrash that talk about him, but not in a favorable way. I'll get to it. So now, since the only document that speaks about him in a favorable way is the New Testament, we have to use that, the source of truth, if you will, right? As a source of truth of determining whether he qualifies to be Mashiach. Now, the New Testament, even though the New Testament was written somewhere between 70 to 300 years after Yeshu died, meaning none of the people that wrote the New Testament ever saw Yeshu alive, and

1:06:54Still, everyone says everyone that believes in Christianity must believe in the New Testament. You can't be a Christian and not believe in the New Testament. It doesn't work. It's like saying, you can't be a Jew but be an anti-Semite at the same time. It doesn't work. It doesn't work. So now, the New Testament says in two different places the genealogy. The two lists of 25 are completely different from each other. 25 names. Let's just, for argument's sake, there's Joe, Steve, Moshe, David, and so on. And the other one says it's Juan, it's Edwin, it's Thomas, completely 25 different names. This list, they're saying this is how he's connected to two different lists. One is from Mary, one is from Joseph. Some say it's both from Joseph, and everybody has different answers. But the reason why neither one of these lists matter is because in there it says there was an immaculate conception and he's the son of God. How are you a descendant of King David if God is your father?

1:08:18There's nothing. It's bubkes. You know what bubkes is? Bubkes is nothing. It's a bunch of nonsense that people make up. They throw paint at the wall and tell people it's a painting. The point is that in order to qualify to be Mashiach, first requirement, you have to be a descendant of King David. that's the first requirement. If the New Testament says that he was born, that God is his father, which is idiotic to begin with, but nonetheless, even if somebody wants to believe this crazy thing, if God is your father, then you're not a descendant of King David. Why? God is not the grandson of King David. God is not. Is God the grandson of King David? No. God is not the grandson of anyone. So you have to be a descendant of King David. I know everything.

1:09:21he was? No, it doesn't say he was. It doesn't mention Jesus' name. Isaiah 53, in order to understand who the suffering servant is, you have to learn Isaiah 52, Isaiah 51, Isaiah 50, Isaiah 49, Isaiah 48, and all the other ones before it. Why? Because in all of those other ones, it gives you details that the suffering servant is not referring to a person, but rather to a nation called Israel. Jewish has nothing to do with what we're saying here. The fact that Isaiah is referring to a nation and the Christian church wants you to think it's a person, it's a manipulation of the text. Now, as far as Yeshu and who and what he was, if you want to know the real story, this is the real story. The real story is that Miriam was married to a Jewish sage. But this Jewish sage was a jealous person, so much so that he did not want her to leave the house. Apparently, she was a pretty woman. He was scared that people were going to steal her away. So anytime he would leave the house, he would lock her in the house, and she had to stay home. Next door, they had a non-Jewish guy named Joseph the carpenter.

1:10:44And this Joseph the carpenter, he liked the way this little Mary looked like, and he would call her from the window, and he would talk to her while her husband was away. On Yom Kippur, her husband went to synagogue, as I said before, the prayer on Yom Kippur is long. So Joseph the carpenter, he's not Jewish. He calls Mary, he goes, why don't you run away with me? And she does. She runs away with him and leaves her husband. And from this comes the mamzerut, meaning that Jesus came from an adulterous marriage. Now, they can't tell people that this actually happened because in those days, if you committed adultery, you would get stoned to death. So how do you explain that this woman that just appeared here is pregnant? Oh, it's an immaculate conception. He just made her pregnant. Now, further than that, since she was Jewish, that made Yeshu a Jew.

1:11:58But he was a problem child that everyone knew. Even at the time of Rabbi Akiva, he spoke about it. He spoke about there's one time that Rabbi Akiva and two of his, two of the other Chachamim, were walking, and they saw a child running by them that everyone knew was a bad kid. And one of the Chachamim says, I say that his mom, when he was conceived, she was Nida. Niddah, meaning that she was during a menstrual cycle. She didn't dip in the mikvah. The other one says, I think that she committed adultery. Rabbi Akiva says, both of them are true. He says, Rabbi Akiva, how do you know such a thing? He says, come and I'll show you. They go to Mariya's house, and Rabbi Akiva tells her, I promise you a big reward if you tell us the truth. When this child was conceived, were you niddah on committing adultery? He says, Rabbi, you promise I'm going to get good reward for this? He says, yes. He says, Rabbi, you're right. Rabbi, you're right.

1:13:12Now, there are many, many other stories about it. If you're interested in this topic, I have lectures where it talks about Yeshu according to Kabbalah. I have at least a half a dozen lectures about this topic, showing different sources, different proofs of why the New Testament, which is really the only thing that Christianity stands on, is simply a man-made document. So the fact that he was Jewish doesn't make him into anything. I'm Jewish, that doesn't mean I'm a Mashiach. So there's plenty of Jews. Korach was also a Jew and he's in Gehinom. He went against Moshe Rabbeinu. Being Jewish doesn't necessarily make you, by default, Mashiach or righteous or anything. So, but again, Yeshu grew up. He actually, his rabbi was Rabbi Yehoshua ben Perachiah. Rabbi Yehoshua ben Perachiah had to flee the country because there was a decree against the Jews. And he took his students with him. One of his students was Yeshu. And the Gemara in Masechet Avodah Zarah says that one day he got a letter from his sister.

1:14:29that Rabbi Yehoshua ben Perachia got a letter from his sister that the decree has been canceled and he's able to come back home. So he came back, he started coming back home and he took his students with him. His main student was Yeshu. On the way, they stopped at an inn and Yeshu is sitting there with the rabbi at the inn and they're being served food. And the lady of the house is very kind. So Rabbi Yehoshua ben Prachia tells Yeshu, "Look how nice her ways are," meaning complimenting that she's a kind person. Yeshu interprets this as "Nice? She's ugly. Look how big her eyes are." Meaning, he thought that his Rabbi was complimenting the way she looks. So he said, no, she's ugly. So the rabbi rebuked him and kicked him out. He says, what, you think I'm like you? I look at women. And he kicked him out. And there's a whole story of how he

1:15:37asked for forgiveness, or wanted to ask for forgiveness a couple of times, but the rabbi was testing him and did not respond to him the first couple of times. But after he stopped coming, the rabbi came to him to try to get him to do teshuvah, but Yeshu already decided to go against and decided to start his own thing to get people to follow him. Now, many of the stories that they tell in the church and in different versions of Christianity, because there's no two Christians that are the same. You're never going to find two Christians with the same exact belief. If a lot of people do something, it doesn't default make it right. as the average person out there lies multiple times per day, but we both agree that it's wrong to lie. The average business out there cheats somebody, either the customer or the employees or the government or somewhere in between, but we both can agree that it's wrong to cheat.

1:16:52So just because everyone does something doesn't make it right. The majority doesn't rule here. Now, as far as if you're asking, why would God allow such a thing to happen, to bring such a religion of falsehood to the world where it becomes a majority? Well, in fact, you have two of them. You have Islam, you have Christianity. The Rambam already answered that 800 years ago. And before him, Rav Saadia Gaon also answered it. And the answer is as follows: Before Mount Sinai, we had the, at the time of Avraham, he was called the Hebrew. Then his grandson, Yaakov, we would turn into Israelites. And then when we fast forward to Mount Sinai, that's when Judaism officially started because we received the Torah. So now, at Mount Sinai, we have two options: we have Judaism and we have idolatry. That's it. not just the Golden Calf, the rest of the world. Yes. They're called Israelites. Yes. Idolatry. Believing in statues and stars. There's no other religions

1:18:16or some form of idol. There are many different types of idolatry. Some people pray to a little statue, some people pray to a big statue, some people pray to a bronze statue, some people pray to a statue, and they all serve it differently. There's the Baal, which the way to serve him was in order to excrete your waste, your number two on him. There was a different idol where the way to serve him was to throw rocks at him. There are different types of idols. Why is it so popular that That's a man-made invention of today. Today, it's a recent invention. It's not even like an old one, it's a new one. That's what the Messianic Jews do, because they wanted to change their strategy. And I'm going to come back to your question. The strategy of missionizing for nearly 2,000 years, like, for example, at the time of the Spanish Inquisition, they came to the Jews and said, either convert or we kill you.

1:19:18convert or we kill you. That was well before the Muslims, much worse than the Muslims. Convert or we kill you. That was the Spanish Inquisition, about 500 years ago. There was also the Crusades. There were eight Crusades that would come to Jewish towns, and they would put the entire town in the square, which is in essence the middle of the town, line everyone up. Whoever converts to Christianity lives. Whoever doesn't, they chop off his head on the spot. And there was eight of these. Hold on, hold on. Let me just finish one question at a time. I know you have a lot of them, but I got to answer one question at a time. So now, Christianity's strategy of converting was convert or die. That was what it was for nearly 2,000 years. Somewhere around the 1970s, especially after what happened to the Jewish people in the Holocaust, they realized that they have to change their strategy. And they decided that in order for them to succeed in converting Jews, which is part of their religion, in order for you to be a loyal Christian, you have to be a missionary. You cannot be a loyal Christian without being a missionary. And your number one target is the Jew.

1:20:37Because that's, again, that's part of their belief system. It's not like the Jew is better looking or the Jew is richer. They don't care about that. They give Jewish people money just to convert. That's part of the belief system. The ideology is the Jews are the target. Now, the strategy changed that instead of threatening to kill them, we're going to show them a Jewish version of Jesus, meaning we're gonna call ourselves, instead of calling ourselves Christians, we're gonna call ourselves Messianic Jews or Jews for Jesus. These two groups decided to start manipulating the speech, the text, the argument, in order to make it seem like it's not really changing. By leaving Judaism to come to Messianic Judaism, you're still a Jew, you just believe he's Mashiach, he's Messiah. There's no difference, you just believe that he's Messiah. And they even use the argument that, look, that many of the Chabadniks believe that the Lubavitcher Rebbe is Messiah, so it's no different. All types of things like this. Now, the reason why all of this,

1:21:44nonsensical is because, again, the only document that exists on planet Earth that speaks about Jesus in a favorable way is the New Testament. The moment you prove that the New Testament is a man-made, flawed document, all beliefs in Jesus go into the garbage. any story, any favorable thing, any supposed miracle, any of that stuff is irrelevant. Why? Because in order for us to determine that something is superior to the Torah, it at the very least has to be on the same level of the Torah. Meaning, the Torah is divine, therefore it doesn't have any mistakes. We see, it's tested, no mistakes. New Testament, I can give you a thousand mistakes if you'd like. Every single page has mistakes, every single page. Archeological mistakes, biblical mistakes. Like for example, they say that Yaakov Avinu, we're going to learn this in two weeks, Yaakov Avinu comes to Egypt with his family of 70 souls. The New Testament says 75. So there's things like this. So it shows that the New Testament is a flawed document. Therefore, it's not reliable. It's not divine. Therefore, the main character in it

1:23:03is irrelevant to me. It's irrelevant to me. Now, as far as why did Hashem allow this to happen, the Rambam writes that since there was only Judaism or idolatry from the time of Mount Sinai until nearly 1400 years later, about 2000 years ago, and Hashem wanted to bring the world into a place where the salvation is going to come. Hashem did not create the world where He's going to create the world and He's going to destroy everything like He did at the time of Noach. if you look at the prophecies of Zechariah or the prophecies of Jeremiah or Isaiah about the end of days, it talks about how two thirds of the world will be destroyed because they're wicked and one third will remain and be tested and many of them will survive. So that means that if, let's say for argument's sake, you have nine billion people, six billion gone, but there's still three billion. That's a lot of people. Three billion is a lot of people. Now, of course, morally, a person that's not really familiar with the fact that Hashem runs the world starts thinking, "Well, why is He killing six billion people?" Well, He's God. He can do whatever He wants. But the point being is, there are still three billion people. Right? It's a lot of people. We don't have three billion Jews. So that means there's going to be Jews and a whole lot more non-Jews. So Hashem did not create the non-Jews just to destroy them. There's going to be plenty of them that survive and end up becoming righteous non-Jews.

1:24:29So, but in order to get them to a point where they're even capable of becoming righteous non-Jews, you can't just take them from praying to an idol to praying to God. It's too far a transition. So what did God do? The Rambam explains, God gave them a stepping stone. And the stepping stone is these other religions that appear, and even their own believers believe it is monotheistic. Meaning, the Christians do not believe that they believe in an idol. They believe that they believe in the same God as the Jews. Even though according to the Torah, believing that God has three pieces is considered idolatry. Believing that God became a human is idolatry. But to them, if you ask any Christian out there, are you an idol worshiper? They'll tell you, absolutely not. What do you mean? I pray to the same God as you. He just became a human, He just has three parts. In so many words, they believe that they're monotheistic. The Muslims, same concept, they pray to Allah. Even though their version of Allah tells you to kill the Jews that's hiding behind the rock, kill the Jew that's hiding behind the tree. That's also in their Quran. At the end of the day, that's what God is telling them to do, the tree's telling them to do. But the point is, you ask a Muslim, do you believe in an idol? They'll tell you, absolutely not. I'm 100% I believe the same God as you. So to go from that, from believing in a single God,

1:25:55even though flawed belief, even though mistakes, even though a lot of things, but still monotheistic, to the actual truth of the Torah is much easier now for them than it was if they were believing in what people in India believe, which is praying to a rat, or praying to a cow, or praying to a Harley Davidson motorcycle that's tied to a tree. No, I'm not making this up. This actually exists. There's a religion in India where they pray to a Harley Davidson that's tied to a tree. There's millions of people, hundreds of millions of them that pray to the cow. And they take every single, every so often, they take the urine of the cow and they purify their house with it. There's a temple where they bring a sacrifice of milk to bring to their god, which is the rats. There are over 80,000 religions there. And each one of them is a different form of idolatry that they believe is 100% true. Now, to bring a guy that prays to a rat or a motorcycle or a cow to go believe in the God of Israel, it's too far of a stretch.

1:27:09And yes, of course, I have some students that I brought from those horrible places to become monotheistic and, in some cases, even to convert to Judaism. But that's one here, one there, one here, one there. To bring a whole nation to do that, billions of people, it's not happening. Right. So now, but to bring millions of Christians or Muslims that believe, in a monotheistic belief to the truth of the Torah is much, much easier. So to be kind to the nations that He created, He created this stepping stone for them. Why? Because at the end of days, each one of us is going to have the moment of truth to either go with Hashem 100% or go against Him. And guess what? Some of the people that will go against Mashiach when he arrives will be Jewish people. They're called the Erev Rav. Not all Jews will go to Heaven. Not all Jews will be saved by the Mashiach. This is not a lottery win. This is only a lottery win for people that prepared for it ahead of time by being righteous, by following the Torah. Anyone who doesn't, you lost your opportunity. So Hashem created these other religions that are closer

1:28:31to get to the truth. And we see today, especially now, that in the last 40 years or so, the amount of non-Jews that have converted to Judaism in the last 40 years is more than the amount of non-Jews that converted to Judaism in the last 2000 years. Why? Because we're getting closer and closer to the end. Hashem is giving everyone a chance. There's also a wealth of information much more readily available today to people than there was in the past. If you needed to learn something in the old days, then you had to travel to a different town and find someone that has the book and then convince them to lend you the book or let you study in his house for six months until you could complete the book. Today, click of a button, you have an entire library of two million books. So there's much more information, whether you're able to read, whether you're not, whether you're blind, or you're deaf, or you speak a different language, the information is available to all. And that's why you see a lot more people converting today, a lot more people getting closer to the truth, and for that. But that does not mean that everyone's okay. No, that's why we're here. We're here because everyone's not okay. There's still a lot of work to do.

1:29:49But everything that I tell you, I make sure that I have sources for every single thing. It's not like, you know, you're bad and I'm good. I went through the whole transition of investigating everything. Because one of the things that I had to do myself is that I had to understand, is Judaism number one, and then there's number two, whoever it is, and then there's number three, or is it something else? My whole life, I believed that Judaism was number one, and then you have, let's say, Christianity or Islam as number two, and then Christianity, the other one, number three, meaning that everyone had truth. And then I realized that's completely wrong. There's only one truth. There's Judaism, which is the Torah. Everything else is a lie. not because I said so, because I looked into it. And when you investigate, what is Judaism based on? Judaism is not based on the Jews that live in Brooklyn. Judaism is not based on the Jews that live in Monsey, or the ones that live in Bnei Brak, or in Meah Shearim, or in Tel Aviv, or in New York. Judaism is based on what's written in the Torah.

1:31:07If we see that the Torah itself is 100% true, to the point where you see that this is divine, meaning no human being could have ever written all the information that's there, where you have literally secrets in the Torah that have been discovered that show that the Torah already has information about the future. whether it's the Holocaust or it's specific types of people or it's medicines, all types of things. Literally everything is in the Torah. You just need to know how to find it. You see that the Torah has literally everything in it. And you see that there's information in the Torah that no human being could have ever known. For example, the fact that there are only four animals, out of the tens of thousands of animals that are out there, there are only four animals that have one sign. There's two signs in order for an animal to be kosher: it has to have split hooves and chew its cud. Okay, so let's say a cow, a deer, you know, animals like that. But as far as the rest of the animals, a lion, I don't know, whatever, a porcupine, all these other different animals, they don't have any signs. But then there are four animals, out of all the animals in the world, and the Torah tells us specifically what they are, that they have one sign, and they're not kosher.

1:32:35The pig, the hare, the rabbit, and the camel. The pig, they have one sign, one out of those two signs. So in order for it to be a kosher animal, it has to have split hooves and it has to chew its cud. So one sign that it's, so the cow, you see, every time you see a cow, it's always chewing. Okay, so it's chewing its cud. It chews, it swallows, it regurgitates, it chews it again, okay? Then the hooves are split. Okay, so that's a sign that the cow is kosher. Right, so the cow, the bull, the different animals that are kosher that we eat, the deer, these are all animals that have two signs. They chew their cud and they have split hooves. All animals that are not kosher, have no, they don't do either one of those things. They don't chew their cud and they don't have split hooves. So the lion does not have split hooves. He doesn't chew his cud. But the Torah tells us specifically that there are four animals that have one of those two signs. Now, what's the significance of this? That if I were to write a book that I want everyone to believe in,

1:33:59I need to make sure that no one can find a mistake. I need to make sure to write it in a way that there's no clear mistake. Now, if I wrote you a book and I said that, you know, the U.S. government and the, what is it called, that building where the president lived, the White House? The White House is located in Beverly Hills. If I wrote that in my book, you would say, "Listen, you have no idea what you're talking about. The White House is located in Washington D.C., so your book has a mistake. So I'm not going to believe the rest of the book. Your book has a mistake. It's not from God; it's a mistake." So now, when God writes that there are four animals that have only a single sign, that's something we can check. So you have tens of thousands of animals that have been discovered over the years, and there are more discoveries every year of new species.

1:35:00And there has never been a fifth animal ever found that has that one sign. Which means that no human being could have ever known that there will always be only four animals—these four specific animals: the camel, the pig, the hare, and the rabbit—that have one sign. That means that whoever wrote this had to have known all of the creatures that ever existed or will ever exist. Because the moment you find a fifth animal, needless to say, a sixth animal that has one sign, that means there is a mistake in the Torah. So there's plenty of that information in there that you see that the Torah was written by God and not by a human being. And there are many, there's also proofs like that in the Talmud, for example, where the Talmud tells you in the Gemara Maseches Brachos, on page 32b, the number of stars in the universe. There's a lot of different things that were not known at the time the Talmud was written by the scientists, the philosophers, the best of the best, because there was no telescope.

1:36:18that's only a relatively recent invention, about 500 years ago. But the Talmud was written nearly 2,000 years ago. Yes? I don't think it's a question of if the Torah was it all going on. It's more like, in my opinion, I don't know, stop me if I'm wrong, right? I mean, it feels like it's almost like over, like you can, from today, you can look back into time.

1:37:21Years later, Jews fighting, Christians fighting, monks themselves fighting sparks this No, it's a nice theory, but it's not the truth. The truth is this. And now it's actually going to be the last one, and then we'll start putting some music on to celebrate, so we can't forget the actual second part of the event. We have a vort here today. And then we'll ask some more questions, we'll give you some more answers, but we'll also have some more simcha. But the thing is, Christianity started with a single person. That's Yeshu. He got a bunch of ignorant, illiterate Jews to follow him. He didn't get the gentiles, he got Jews to follow him. And initially Christianity was so similar to Judaism that people did not know the difference. People did not know the difference. Yes, but the point is that initially it started off that way. Later on, it was changed drastically, where they started Catholicism, which is radically different than the original Christianity. But it all started with Yeshu wanting people to follow him instead of God. He writes in the New Testament that he's above the Shabbat, which is the fourth commandment in our 10 commandments, and things of that nature. Now, that started because he went, got rebuked by his rabbi, didn't like it,

1:38:48found a way to get people to follow him because he used what's called Kabbalah Ma'asit by using the name of Hashem in a certain way in order to make certain miracles. And people followed him. He got notoriety, he got fame, he got a certain amount of fortune, and he got killed. But the point is, is that this started as a... egomaniac that is no different than many egomaniacs of today that got a following and got a 15 minutes of fame for a certain amount of time. Now, Islam, on the other hand, is only from 1400 years ago, 600 years after Christianity. Islam was a completely different story where there was a Yemenite Jew that went on a trip and was hosted by a Muslim family. This Muslim family was very kind to him and so on. And they let him stay with them for, I believe it was something like a couple of years, two or three years. And this Muslim family had a kid. And this Muslim family was idolaters. They believed in all types of forms of idolatry.

1:39:59There was no Islam at the time, and this Yemenite Jew liked to tell stories. And he told the little kid stories about the Jewish sages. That kid was a smart kid. He liked the stories. He knew how to tell them in a certain way, and he grew up to be Muhammad, and he took those stories as his own. He invented Islam. Muhammad invented Islam. No, no, meaning they were an Arab family, sorry. They were an Arab family, they were idolaters, and they had a kid named Muhammad, that his name was originally something different. And then he's the one, he's the little kid that learned from a Yemenite Jew. Jewish stories. He took it as his own. He invented the religion. He told people that an angel Gavriel spoke to him in the middle of the desert. There's no witnesses, no one ever saw this. It's according to him. And he was a very charismatic, very well, you know, good speaker. And he got people to follow him. Eventually he got such a big following that he wanted to convince the Jewish sages to also follow him. He came to the Jewish sages and started telling them their own stories.

1:41:15Say, look, I know this story, I know that story. He goes, yeah, we also know these stories. You didn't invent them. You're just stealing from us. This is our Torah. So he didn't like that answer, so he killed all of them. And after he massacred them, He gained even more notoriety, more of his people became soldiers, and he started becoming a tyrant that would go from place to place, either converting people to follow Islam or killing them. And even this one particular city that was very full of warriors, that he didn't want to fight them, they made peace. this particular city, I forget the name right now, they lived in peace with him for some time. Then one day they went to attack a different city. And while they went, he murdered all the kids and the women, took some of the women, killed some of them. And when they came back, they were so distraught that he was able to attack them and kill them.

1:42:16So the point is, is that this is Islam. This is not something I invented. This is in the Quran. This is in their history books. This is all stuff. So this is Islam. It's not what people would like to hear. It doesn't sound nice, but that's the reality. So when it comes to Judaism, what I did in my life is I wanted to make sure that if there is a number one, a number two, and a number three, I wanted to make sure I picked the best one. But when I found out that there is no number one, number two, number three, there's only one. Everything else, the more you look at it, the more you test it, the more you find more errors in it, the more you realize, no, there's just truth and everything else is a lie. The average person doesn't do what I did. The average person doesn't investigate their stuff. The average Jew doesn't know what I know. The average Christian doesn't know what I know. They don't look for it. They just simply assume that what people tell them is true. When you watch the news,

1:43:23until recent history, where you know there's fake news, the word "fake news" did not exist. When people watched the news, they assumed they were being told the truth. "What? This is the news! It was on TV! The president said it or whoever said it. It must be true!" Or some people say, "Listen, it's on the internet! It must be true. It's on the internet, you know?" But then Once people became more skeptical and they put things to the test, they realized that more times than not, what people believed is true is not. It's just simply not. So when you investigate things, which takes a lot of time, a lot of effort, a lot of headaches, you find out that there is a single truth. But when a person is going to be just naive, then it's like a blind person walking in the darkness. There's no chance for them. So our goal is to spread as much truth as possible. So whoever is looking for it, wherever they might be and whatever language they speak, at least it exists somewhere. So we have channels that my lectures are translated currently to 16 different languages.

1:44:36We have 26,000 people following our Spanish channel, 16,000 or 15,000 Portuguese. I don't know, something like 12 or 13,000 in Russian, Korean, Chinese, many different languages. And I have students literally in six out of the seven continents. Right, there's nobody there. That's why. That's why. I was actually going to ask if one of you guys want to move to Antarctica. At least I can tell people I got seven continents. So that's the thing. So there's literally people everywhere. Why are these people watching this Jewish rabbi from Florida? Why? Because they were looking for the truth. And Hashem says in the Sefer Devarim, in the Book of Deuteronomy, He says, "If you look for me, you will find me, but only if you look for me with all of your heart and all of your soul." Meaning you can't look for Hashem just for a few minutes and say, "Oh, I didn't find Him, that's it." If you're really looking for Him, you're really looking for the truth, He will give you the truth. But if you're just saying, listen, I'll just go to this place and hopefully it's okay, at least investigate it as much as you investigate a property before you buy it. Investigate before you take on a job, before you, you know, when they offer you something. Investigate before you decide who to marry. Investigate it, you know, before you do something. Because everything else we do, we investigate before we do it. We don't just say, you know what, I'm going to buy this car. You want to drive it, test drive it? No, no, I'm just going to buy it.

1:46:04Okay, go ahead, sir. Then you, oh, how come it doesn't turn on? Oh, yeah, we're going to tell you, this one doesn't have an engine. No, I want my money back. No, no, sir, we asked you, "You want to test it?" You said no. Now it's yours. So, but before you buy a car, what do you do? You test it. You test it, you get the reviews, you check on the internet, you ask people what their opinion is. Today, people test everything. Same concept with your belief system. You have to test it. You have to test what you believe in. Because if you just simply say, I have blind faith, I just believe, I just want to be a good person, it doesn't work that way. It's not a punishment. It's like I said, it's a stepping stone. When we got the First Temple broken, right? Then the second one, we come out, we still have the Temple going down. Could it be that we weren't waking up as a people and that was like a form of punishment of making a new people, a new nation? Because we were getting punished for not listening.

1:47:14to the word of God that was given to us at Mount Sinai. Is that possible? The Ariza'l writes, the Ariza'l teaches, So there's something called, like this last one, because I really don't want to forget about the music like I did last time. But the Arizal had a talmid named Rabbi Chaim Vital, who wrote all of his teachings. And in there is something called Shaar HaGilgulim, which is reincarnation. And as I mentioned, I believe the other day, there is reincarnation where somebody that does not complete their mission in this world, they get reincarnated. And they have to get, it's like, for example, you go to school, you take the tests, Every semester, if you fail everything, what happens? You get left back. You have to take the test again. Same concept in this world. A person goes through this life. Hashem gives them tests. Hashem gives them tests. If they fail everything, they have to take the test again in different ways. Sometimes the test is returning to this world. Sometimes the test is returning to the world in a different way. Sometimes it's a male, a Jew will turn as a non-Jew even.

1:48:27So, yes, there is a test that a person can get where they failed miserably, really miserably in their life, they abandoned Judaism, and their tikkun is to be reincarnated as a non-Jew whose tikkun is to convert to Judaism. And this is also the reason why I've dealt with so many converts in my life. The vast majority of converts are not normal people. Why am I saying not normal people? They're wonderful people, but they're not normal people. Why are they not normal people? Because anyone that converts to Judaism, they don't convert to Judaism because it makes sense. They convert to Judaism because they cannot allow themselves to exist for another minute without being Jewish, meaning they have an unnatural desire to become Jewish. it's not a normal, they simply, they say, "Listen, this is the truth. I'm leaving everything and anything I have just to become Jewish." This is not a normal thing. You don't just wake up in the morning and say, "You know what? I'm leaving everything and I'm gonna become a rabbi. I'm gonna leave everything and I'm gonna become a...

1:49:41so this is in many cases, people that don't even live next to Jews, meaning it's a guy that lives in Ecuador, it's a guy that lives in India, it's a guy that lives in places where many times they've never even met a Jew in person. But they saw something, they heard something, they had a certain thing, they opened a book, whatever it is, and from that moment on a certain spark happened, and they have this desire they can't control. It's not like one of those things was like, you know what, forget it, I'm not gonna do it. It just... They live their lives and say, listen, one day I'm going to do it. In some cases, it takes many years because they have to make certain changes. In other cases, it's relatively quick. It depends on the person. But usually, a convert goes through a transition that is not something like anybody else, because the typical Jew, if they weren't born religious or they left religion and then later on they did Teshuvah,

1:50:43it's not because they felt one day they woke up and that's it, I have to become religious. It doesn't happen that way. What happens is, usually, whatever it is that they're doing, they hear something, they see something, say, you know what, let me start doing some good stuff. Let me start giving some tzedakah, let me put on tefillin, but I'm not becoming a rabbi right now. Relax, can you put on the kippah? No, no, it's too religious for me. Okay, no problem, just put on tefillin, keep Shabbat. Oh, Shabbat, that's too much. Meaning it's a transition. It's a transition to go from zero to religious. Initially, it's this, then it's another step, then it's another step. But the converts, it's not that way. The moment they get that spark, they want every, even though they don't know what they're talking about, they don't even know what they want. They say, I want everything. I want to do all of it. I want to be Moshe Rabbeinu. I want to be Sarai Imeinu. I want to be everything. They have this unnatural inclination where it's like that becomes their priority in life, and it's an amazing thing. So, Be'ezrat Hashem,

1:51:46we, the ones that were born Jewish, and we, the ones that have already converted, and we, the ones that have done Teshuvah, and we as Am Yisrael, and we, the ones that have not converted and want to, we have the same exact desire every single day, not just the one that just gets us into the door. And now we're gonna have a little bit of simcha. We're gonna have some songs. Rav Gavriel, you're the DJ. So what song? I'll pick this one, but I don't know if it's any good. If you want, I can pick Yeshiva music. But we'll have a little bit of... There we go. So if you eat good, there's, I think, more food. If you drink good, there's more drinks. And if you didn't dance, then start. Huh? Siyum? Oh, okay. Oh, we have a Siyum Masechet, too. So that's what happens with Talmidei Chachamim. They also do stuff like that. Yeah, probably. Salaam alaikum.

1:53:08I don't mind the, I like the questions, it's just that we gotta do the simchatos. It was supposed to be only an hour shiur, it ended up being two. It's your fault, I blame you guys for asking questions. What you got? Ken, of course. No, they can't see you, they only see me. You can show me what you have. I got a drawing from one of the kids here. There are things that don't make sense? Okay, what doesn't make sense? If our way is the only way and the only way, why not just talk to the Muslims and tell them? they believe that they also have the truth. Exactly, and we are a lie. They believe that their Torah is from Ishmael. Yes, 100%. So what if it doesn't make sense? Okay, but you're saying that their book is a lie. There are proofs that their book is a lie. There are proofs that their book is a lie. So if you show them the proofs, then... Why not?

1:54:33It's a false belief, it's not... Even if you show them this, show them that it's written there that Miriam, and they say that it's the same thing as Mary, they'll tell you, I don't know, my imam will explain it, or he'll explain everything to you, he'll just tell you that... You said that they have their own Talmud, and all kinds of... Not Talmud, they believe that we changed the Torah. That our Torah, our Torah, they'll explain it, we changed it. So it's not, to explain to someone... Did you read the Koran? I read a lot of things in the Book of G-d. Did you read it? I did. I made notes on topics, specific topics. There are many, you know, Christians who come to the friends in Isaiah 53, Daniel 9, yes, and it shows that it's true. What did you say? The mother. The mother also comes from King David, according to what it shows. I asked Gemini. It shows that it comes from Natan, David's son, but he's from Solomon, from Natan's son. So it doesn't matter at all. Okay, but it shows that he's still connected to David. No, but it has to be through Solomon, first of all. Secondly, it's not an absolute belief that it comes from him.

1:55:58They say it's from the father and then from the mother. Yes, but the point is, it doesn't matter where the mother comes from. It has to be from the father. The father is not Jewish at all. And secondly, they can say that the father is the name. So the point is that they have so many secrets, so many things that they don't... But it's two different lists. One is from the mother, one is from the father? No, that's what I'm asking you. There are Christians who say one is from the mother, one is from the father. There are Christians who say it's two from the father. It's not like it's written there, this is the list from the father, this is the list from the mother. It's not written. It's a description of today's people who say that. It's not... It's... Yes, come on. Guys, we're going to do an end of the Masechet. What Masechet? Masechet Tamid, B'ezrat Hashem Tamid, Yiheyeh Simcha. Siyum, siyum, quick siyum. The Chatan is going to do a siyum. Chaverim. Oh, Rav, maybe you'll do it with a microphone so they can hear you, or you'll be next to me. B'ezrat Hashem. Sephardi.

1:57:15But everyone is learning. There are Ashkenazim here, there are Hasidim here, there's everyone. The prayer, the procession is Sephardic, but the rest of the things, everything. Kevodo lives here in the area? Yes, so every first and fourth day at 8 o'clock. What's the name of Kevodo? Gadi, Yaron Reuven. Very nice, that's the name. Can you give him one of the tablets and also one of my books? Yes, you came here last week. Yes, you came here last week, both of you guys. God bless. You guys are from Boca. Yes, I serve Boca.

1:58:15Instagram and then like I started watching your videos and I didn't know you were in Florida and I saw you posted the address. I'm like, I saw it Wednesday, he's having a lecture Wednesday, boom, came right here. Sundays and Wednesdays, nights, food, questions, answers. Love it. And you guys bring the questions every time. You guys bring good ones. Yes. Thank you. You've got answers. Yeah. Baruch Hashem. Baruch Hashem. That's it. Chazak Yom Kippur. Shalom Yitzer. Shalom Yitzer. And then we're going to do some dancing with the chatan over here. He's getting... Guys, guys, it was Yoma sechat. That's the problem. They were a little bit free. For a second, they bring him a little bit of zichri Arabim there. They bring Gadi and his son a little bit of stuff. What? No, that microphone echoes. No, he has, he's next to me. They're going to hear him. Yallah, yallah.

1:59:34Baruch Hashem, he's saying thank you for everything. Let's go to the Masechet. It's very interesting. Yes, he's mentioning the story that I said about the two brothers that gave to each other. Also, the continuation of that story in the Midrash is that in that place that those brothers met at the end, where they saw they were giving to each other, that's exactly where they built up the Beit HaMikdash. There is another story that says that there were also two brothers, one married and one single. But the married one said, he has no money, he has no family to support, I will take him. And the single one said, he already has a house, a family, I will take him.

2:00:38And there's another Midrash of a completely opposite story, another story of a completely opposite Haggadah, opposite story, where there was one brother that would say, listen, I'm married, he's not. Let me just take his, he doesn't need this money. And the other one said, listen, he's married already, he doesn't need the money, I need to build a house, let me take his money. Meaning the exact opposite of the story that we mentioned. And he says that for three days they were stealing from each other and then eventually they ran into each other and that's exactly where the Israeli government was built. The Mishnah is talking about the song that they would sing at the Bet HaMikdash. The first two days, the first two days, the first two days, the first two days,

2:01:44On the fifth day, they would say, "Let us see our Lord, let us see the Lord of Yaakov." On the sixth day, they would say, "The time has come, let us wear the clothes of the Lord, let us wear the clothes of the Lord." On the seventh day, they would say, "Let us sing a song on the Shabbat. Let us sing a song for the future, for the day when all of us, on the Shabbat, will be blessed with the life of the world. So each day they would sing a different song. Each one of them is Tehillim. One for the first day of the week, one for a different one for a second day of the week, third day of the week. Each one was going to be a different one. And the one they would sing on Shabbat is Mizmor Shir L'Yom HaShabbat, which is what Adam HaRishon wrote. There is a custom that all Jewish people do, that the bride buys the groom gold. There's a custom that Chasanim buy the wife, Jewish Chasanim, buy the wife gold. Where is the custom from? It says that the Kadosh Baruch Hu created all the gold in the world for the sake of the Beit HaMikdash.

2:02:53So it says that you build it, and I will, you know, I'll come there. And it says that a man, the Mishnah says that if a man and a woman are meritorious, the Shechinah comes there. Similar to the Beit HaMikdash. So every Jewish house that's built, not a physical house, meaning a marriage, it's like building the Beit HaMikdash. And that's why we buy gold, because just like all the gold was created for the sake of the Beit HaMikdash, when a man, a Jewish man, a Jewish woman get married, you bring gold to the Beit HaMikdash, you build it. Baruch Hashem, we always end the series by talking about the gold in the Beit HaMikdash. And Baruch Hashem, the way he's completing Maseches Tamid, that there at the end it talks about the songs of the Beis HaMikdash. This shows that a house has to be full of happiness and also gold. That's good, too. It doesn't contradict. It doesn't contradict.

2:05:43Amen. Amen. Amen, amen, amen, amen, amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. This is a song, by the way, a new song we have. It's about this week's parashah. It's the coolest song ever. Watch. Listen to it.

2:07:18So the question was, do the Arabs and the Christians actually know that Hashem is real and their god is fake, or do they actually believe that ours is fake and their god is real? The Christians, they believe it's a... They both believe that they believe in the same thing, but they're mistaken. Because the Christians believe that, but they believe that Hashem has three parts instead of only one, and that also he became a human being. They believe that, that he, that Hashem was divided into three. They don't believe in Hashem. They believe that Hashem has three parts. And the Muslims believe it's the same Hashem, but He changed His mind about the Jews. He gave up on the Jews. So, it's a, Chazaku Baruch. How are you? Baruch Hashem, Baruch Hashem. I like to shoot a lot. It's good? Yeah, yeah. My name is Amit, by the way. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Do you live around here? I live in Stony Island. Oh, okay. So, Baruch Hashem. You're not that far? Yeah, not that far. So, come every week, Baruch Hashem. We're in shul. It's private. Okay. Let me take off the mics.

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