YESOD HaKeDusha (Wasting Seed 3)

0:12We're back at Sunny Isles doing our Sunday night shiurim. These shiurim, just so you know, all of you that are coming, you have a lot of zechuyot in Shamayim apparently because the shiurim on Sunday are having, Baruch Hashem, a lot of success. A lot of interesting chiddushim. A lot of new people have actually started watching the shiurim as a result of the Sunday shiurim. Baruch Hashem, many Ba'alei Teshuva from the Sunday shiurim. I know just from the lecture we did about wasting seed a few weeks ago that alone had an impeccable result. It was, Baruch Hashem, a lot of people are doing the opposite of what the Erev Rav want them to do, which is they're doing Teshuva. Why do I say Erev Rav? Because... In today's world, there's a lot of people that call themselves rabbis, Rav, but they say that you cannot tell people about reward and punishment, you can't tell them about the mitzvah of Kedusha, which is the issues of intimacy, wasting seed, man and woman, and so on, homosexuality, Shalom Aleichem. You can't tell people the truth about it because it's too much for people, but the reality is the opposite.

1:34Every single person that is watching these shiurim, even if they themselves admit, "Listen, I can't do this right now," they admit it's true, which is unbelievable. But Baruch Hashem, I'm seeing a lot of results from people that are coming out of the woodwork now, telling me they've been, since they watched the original wasting seed shiur a few years ago, they started keeping their brit. Just last week, there was a half a dozen guys that I never heard from in my life telling me they've been watching their brit for ten months, for a year and a half, for six months, four months. Baruch Hashem, it's having a lot of results, which, of course, like anything else in life, if you get results in something, if it's worthwhile, you have to continue. You have to continue. And according to the Zohar HaKadosh, according to the Chachamim, the generation before Mashiach is going to have two major tikkunim, two major obstacles to overcome. For the men, it's going to be wasting seed, the issue of wasting seed and all of its ramifications, as well as

2:46not just wasting seed by a person by himself, but also with his wife as a niddah, if his wife doesn't go to a mikveh, or perhaps if he's intimate with somebody before marriage. Every woman, a Jewish woman of course, that he's with before she's married, that means she didn't go to the mikveh, that means that he's assur niddah, which is karet. It's one of the 36 crimes in the Torah that a person, if he doesn't do teshuva for it, loses a share in the World to Come. Needless to say, if he's with a goya or a zonah, a non-Jewish woman or a prostitute, it's also wasting seed. Hashem yerachem aleinu is the amount of guys that think it's okay to do such things is impeccable. And I'm not even talking about the obvious secular-minded people. I'm talking about people that call themselves religious, that think it's okay to go to all types of places where they get a massage and then they get something at the end, thinking, well, it's not a big deal. I'm married. I'm not marrying this other woman. It's not a big deal. And they don't understand that they just destroyed the entire Torah.

4:00They just destroyed the entire Torah. They destroyed the holy letters of Kedusha that they have imprinted on their neshama. And the Shechinah ran away from them at that moment. Why? For 30 seconds of pleasure. So I see that a lot of people, believe it or not, more people are becoming frum. More people are actually doing teshuva, baruch Hashem. It's a mamash siyata dishmaya and it's to your merit. More people are becoming frum and starting to keep Shabbat, starting to keep Taharat HaMishpacha, starting to keep all of the other mitzvot as a result of starting with the most difficult tikkun, which is wasting seed. Which is unbelievable because most people say, "Listen, just get the guy to keep Shabbat, get him to keep kosher, and then we'll get to the hard stuff." It's unbelievable to me how many guys are actually starting their teshuva with this difficult step. It's unbelievable. It shows how the purity of their neshamot still exists, and they just want the truth. They want the hard truth, as difficult as it is.

5:10And once they see, "Oh, this is real, okay, I'll take the rest of it." Why? Because the neshama at that point became purified. They're not wasting seed anymore. So now when they hear about Shabbat, the neshama can accept it. They hear a shiur about Parashat HaShavua, the neshama can accept it. They hear about halacha, the neshama can accept it. Why? Because they've cleaned out the vessel. the vessel that holds their neshama, and that vessel is now becoming little by little purer and purer. And they're seeing results, Baruch Hashem. Results in parnassah, results in shalom bayit if they're married, results in everything else in their life. The physical aspect of it takes a little bit more time, where some guys that already started getting some of these side effects, physical side effects that I talked about in the first, in the original, wasting seed shiur about three years ago, we went into the medical aspect of it and how there is a book that was written about 180 years ago that talks about all of the physical consequences of a person that wastes seed, all types of ailments, all types of losing hair, pain in the bones, all types of sweating, bad smell, all types of disgusting things that people think, no, no, it's because I'm stressed out. No, no, it's because I'm getting older. No, no, it's because of this. No, no, no, no, it's wasting seed. It's wasting seed. That's what it is. To such an extent that the Zohar HaKadosh says all of a person's problems, all of them,

6:19pain in the bones, all types of sweating, bad smell, all types of disgusting things that people think, no, no, it's because I'm stressed out. No, no, it's because I'm getting older. No, no, it's because of this. No, no, no, no, it's wasting seed. It's wasting seed. That's what it is. To such an extent that the Zohar HaKadosh says all of a person's problems, all of them, His wife, his kid, his parnasa, his bad leg, bad arm, bad eye, bad this. All of his problems come from wasting seed if he's wasting seed. If he's wasting seed, all of his problems are from there. It's not even from Chilul Shabbat. All of his problems start there. Why? If you're not doing that, everything else is tafel anyway. Everything else doesn't matter anyway. And the reality is that you can't say, "Oh yeah, what if he's not wasting seed?" You can't say that, Lali. Why? Because if he's not wasting seed, usually he's a very holy person who's not doing such bad things otherwise. Which means that the difficulties he has in his life are different. They're not necessarily the same level of kaparat avonot that many other people get as a result of their sins. So the tikkun for men in the generation before Mashiach is the tikkun habrit.

7:38Tikkun for women is modesty. What do you mean? It seems like, how could these two compare? Okay, he has to change his entire life and how comfortable he is and uncomfortable he is with his own body. She just has to put some clothes on. What's the big deal? The big deal is, Rabotai, anybody that had the courage to read the book that we posted, the free book that's on our website, bezrat Hashem.org, on our store, Guarding Your Eyes in Tikkun HaBrit, 192 pages of Kedusha, has a section in there specifically for women that every woman should read. In reality, every person should read the whole thing, but if it's a woman, she should start with that section. It's towards the end of the book. Anyone that reads it, which we'll go over some of it today, b'ezrat Hashem, will see how much of a partner she is in the crime to such an extent that there are many opinions that say she's actually worse than the guy, meaning she's more responsible for what the men do than the men are for themselves.

8:51Obviously, every person is responsible for themselves. But what the sages are trying to teach us is that there's no free lunch for anybody. You think that dressing immodestly and acting in a provocative and flirtatious way is not a big deal. And the fact that your wig is getting longer and longer, your skirt is getting shorter and shorter, is not a big deal because you call yourself a religious person, because you keep Shabbat and you eat cholent and you are a... light some candles, the reality is quite different according to our Torah. The reality is quite different according to our Torah. So tonight, unless you guys have some serious questions, we're going to take the opportunity to continue this issue, obviously with some new things about the Tikkun HaBrit. This is also called Yesod HaKedusha. Yesod HaKedusha meaning it's the foundation of holiness. When Hashem in Parashat Kedoshim said, "You be holy because I am holy," Chazal said, what is he talking about? You be holy. What can make you holy? What if you pray 87 times a day, does that make you holy? No. with some new things about the Tikkun HaBrit. This is also called Yesod HaKedusha. Yesod HaKedusha means it's the foundation of holiness. When Hashem in Parashat Kedoshim said, "You be holy because I am holy," Chazal said, what is He talking about? You be holy. What can make you holy? What if you pray 87 times a day, does that make you holy? No.

10:06Your beard, you grow it from here to Arkansas. Does that make you holy? No. There are actually many idol worshippers that have beards longer and nicer than yours. If your kippa covers your whole head, not just half a quarter, does that make you holy? No. You have a big kippa, you're like Abu Salam. You know, Muhammad had one of these turbans on his head. Does that make you holy? No. Muhammad had a turban this big, but he was a sheikh who killed people for fun. What makes you holy? What makes you holy is your actions. But not your actions in the Beit Knesset. Your actions in the Beit Knesset are very easy. Very easy to be a tzaddik in the Beit Knesset. Why? You're busy praying if you're actually there to pray. And even if you're not there to pray, you're one of these reshaim that comes to talk. You're one of these people that comes to talk and ruin the prayer for everybody else. I call a person rasha because that's what the Rambam calls them, not because I have some type of animosity towards them. That's what the Rambam calls them. If somebody likes that, I call them rasha. Why? Shulchan Aruch says, the sin of talking in Beit Knesset is too big for you. Why? The entire kehilah, the entire kehilah's prayer is on hold because of you. What is it like? The Gemara in Masechet Rosh Hashanah...

11:31says something extraordinary. It says that if a person brings a korban to the Beit HaMikdash, whether it is a korban chatat because he made a sin or he wants to do something good, there are different reasons he might want to bring a korban. He wants to bring a korban. Now, everyone knows the essence of something called pigul. Pigul means if the person made a sin, he has to bring, in the days of the Beit HaMikdash, a korban. Today, we don't have the Beit HaMikdash, so how do we do teshuva? What do we do? We pray. We pray. That's how we do teshuva. So, if somebody comes, he made a sin. He went out and he did something by accident, not on purpose. If it's on purpose, then they kill him, if it's something like that. But if it's an accidental sin, like he accidentally turned on the light on Shabbat. Accidentally he forgot it's Shabbat. He forgot it's Shabbat. He woke up in a rush, ran to the bathroom because he had to go, turned on the light. Oh, I forgot Shabbat. I forgot Shabbat. He was in a hurry. So...

12:37In a hurry to go, he forgot it's Shabbat for a second. It's an accident. So for that, he has to bring a korban. He has to bring a nice big cow, $25,000. For what? For an accident. Also shows you what kind of tzaddikim we had 2,000 years ago, 2,500 years ago, that they admitted to an accidental sin. Us, we don't even admit to the ones on purpose. A person murders people in public with lashon hara, rechilut, and all types of things. No, no, I didn't say anything. What did I say? I only said that you shouldn't go to his shiurim. That's all I said. I only said that, you know, his wife is this. I only said that her husband is that. I only said that there's a possibility that they're thieves. What do you mean? The guy went bankrupt because of you. The guy went, did you have any evidence that he's a thief, that he stole something? No, I just thought maybe. I don't know. He just, like, he went from nothing. He's already 25 years old, bought a house for a million and a half dollars. I figured maybe he's stealing. So I said, you know, you should watch your back. Don't do business with him. Why? I don't know. Maybe he's stealing.

13:37So maybe stealing, you ruined as well. Everybody else got the one lashon hara that went to the other. Everybody shut their business with him. Nobody wants to do business with him. He went bankrupt. He went from the top to the bottom. Shomer rachamim. Why? You were just checking? Lashon hara murdered people in public. People think, "Oh no, I didn't do anything." That's a purposeful sin now. Torah tells us that if a person comes to the Beit HaMikdash with a $25,000 cow, a nice, juicy, delicious cow, he comes, he's not going to enjoy this cow. He's giving it as a korban. But in his mind, he's one of these fools that says, you know, in reality, I'm only giving this korban because I'm a tzaddik. Not because I made a sin. Not because I made a sin. I didn't really make a sin. But I... Listen... Let's go. For Hashem. For Hashem. Hashem needs your cow. For Hashem, I'm doing this to show other people you should bring korbanot. I'm going to be a good example. Not because I made a sin. We call that pigul. What's pigul? Pigul means that this korban is rejected. This korban is rejected. There's no teshuva. There's no nothing. He has to get punished. But that's if he does it himself.

14:52The Gemara in Masechet Rosh Hashanah says something really dangerous. Dangerous for us not to pay attention to. It says, if the guy makes the mistake of not doing teshuva, brings a korban, we know, that's pigul. But what about if the Kohen himself, the Kohen, righteous person, tzaddik, the Kohen himself says, you know, this korban... we're going to eat this one. After we burn it, we're going to eat it. Make nice steaks. We're going to eat this one. We're not going to bring this one. We're going to burn it for everybody. But we're not going to burn the whole thing. We're going to keep some for ourselves. He says that's also pigul. Amaral says that's also pigul. No teshuva. For who? For the Kohen? For the guy that brought the korban. Yeah, but what did he do? He had all the right thoughts. He had all the right thoughts. But the Kohen didn't have the right thoughts. The Kohen didn't have the right thoughts. You lose anyway. What does that mean for us? In a time that we don't have a Beit HaMikdash?

16:00If you're going to a Beit Knesset that has a chazan that likes to talk in the middle of prayer, that likes to talk to everybody and chit-chat in between Chazarat HaShatz, sometimes when he's not the one saying Kaddish, he likes to have a conversation when we're supposed to be honoring Hashem, he wants to have a conversation among his peers. He wants to talk to the rabbi, maybe he is the rabbi, he's talking to other people, maybe he could get some money, whatever he's doing. That's a pigul. That's a pigul. Why? His prayer is definitely not being accepted in Shamayim. Why? He's talking in the middle of prayer. But that's not enough. What is the Torah trying to teach us here? The entire kehillah, Gemara, Masechet Ta'anit 16a, says the entire kehillah gets cursed because of him. Entire kehillah. Why? I didn't know he was going to talk. You should have known. You can't just go to any Beit Knesset and say, no, no, this is my Beit Knesset. It's closer to my house. People have to understand, you're going to go to a Beit Knesset, if the Chazan, if they put a Chazan that's not Yireh Shamayim, doesn't have Yirat Shamayim, don't go there. Don't go. Why? Are you going to go to get cursed or get blessings?

17:24I'm not recommending people don't go to Beit Knesset. Avai, go to Beit Knesset. You need to go to Beit Knesset. You need to go to Beit Knesset and have somebody with Yirat Shamayim. If he doesn't have Yirat Shamayim, go to a rabbi and say, Kvoda Rav, listen, I'm sorry to tell you, this is a Gemara, I saw it, Masechet Ta'anit, Masechet Rosh Hashana, I'll give you 15 other sources. It says somebody who talks in the middle of the prayer is a problem. If the Chazan talks in the middle of the prayer, Hashem Yirachem, Kvoda Rav, I can't come here, I have kids. I have a wife. I have kids. The last thing I need is more curses in my life. Oh, if the rabbi answers like this: "Ah, no, stop being a fanatic. Stop being a fanatic. He's a nice guy. He means well. He's one of those." Run from the Beit Knesset. Why? The rabbi is the problem. That Chazan is the problem. The rabbi is the problem now. The Chazan is just doing what the rabbi taught him to do. So, In this generation, we have a lot of people that are confused. They're confused about what it is that they're supposed to be doing. And the shiur b'ezrat Hashem will be for Iluy Nishmat, David ben Mas'uda, and refuah shlema for David ben Nesria, Doris bat Zhora, Viola bat Zhora, Elisheva, Chaya bat Sarah, Levana bat Sarah, Devorah bat Mercedes,

18:42And all of Am Yisrael b'ezrat Hashem will have refuah shlema, refuat ha-nefesh, refuat ha-guf. We see here, rabotai yekarim, that the confusion that we have in today's world is not necessarily only our fault. Meaning, It's not only because we're ignorant and we choose to be ignorant. It's also because even if sometimes somebody tries to go to a shiur Torah or somebody goes on the internet, presses the play button on something that looks like a shiur Torah, he's not necessarily guaranteed to get a shiur Torah. He pressed play. The guy on the screen has a beard. The guy on the screen has a beard. Maybe even some peyot. The woman on the screen has a kisui rosh. She looks like she's from the days of the Rambam. She looks tzaddeket. So he's assuming, she's assuming, I'm seeing somebody that is at a big organization, small organization, whatever it is. They say the word Torah. They say the word tzaddikim. They say the word Hashem. It sounds like a shiur Torah. Sounds like a shiur Torah. But the parasha, last week, parashat Bo,

19:56tries to give us an explanation of what's going on, Rabotai. It says, in chapter 12 in last week's parasha, verse 37, It says the children of Israel journeyed from Ramses to Sukkot, about 600,000 men on foot, aside from children, meaning all the men between the ages of 20 and 60, the Gemara says. Also, the Erev Rav, the mixed multitude, went up with them, and flocks and cattle, very much livestock. So here we see one of the original mentions of the Erev Rav that have been torturing us for over 3,000 years. Now, a logical, rational person would say, wait a minute.

21:02These Erev Rav, aren't they the same Erev Rav that I mentioned at Mount Sinai, that they brought the golden calf? Yes. These Erev Rav, aren't they the same ones that caused problems for Am Yisrael from that moment all the way to today? Yes. So kill them. No, let's get rid of them. Let's at least talk. You know what? Don't kill them. We're liberal. We don't want to kill people. Let's just say, you go your way, we will go our way. You go your way. Go make your own religion. Go to Christians. Go to Muslims. Go to Buddha. Go to Atheist land. Go wherever you want. Go to hell. Whatever you can. Go somewhere. Leave us alone, Am Yisrael. Leave us alone. No. You're causing us problems. Constantly going against Hashem. Erev Rav. Torah Kedoshah, is not saying, "Hey, this Erev Rav is always going to be distinguishable." It says, by the way, meaning you can't tell the difference sometimes until you see the actions. It's the same. One verse is next to the other. Why? Yisrael, Erev Rav. He looks like a Jew. He looks like a Jew. He acts like a Jew sometimes. He acts like a Jew sometimes. He has a beard. He has a beard. Sometimes you can't tell the difference.

22:33When can you tell the difference? When it comes to the moment of truth. What is coming out of their mouth? What kind of actions are their hands doing? What kind of actions are their eyes doing? What are they doing? Now, I'm not going to mention a name because the last time I mentioned a name, it actually worked against the Torah. Meaning that we mention a name of a certain kofar that was spreading heresy and still is spreading heresy among the world. But back when I mentioned him, he was only known by his locals. Since I mentioned him, for whatever reason or another, about a hundred more people subscribe to his channel. So even if he's still nothing in his channel, the point is that at least a hundred or 150 more people subscribe to his channel. I don't know, maybe they want to get a laugh. Maybe they want to be heretics and go to Gehinnom. I'm not really sure why they subscribe to his channel. But the point is, is that since we mentioned this heretic's name, more people watch this channel.

23:38so this next one that I'm going to mention now, I'm not going to mention a name, and please don't ask me the name because he's an unknown person really for the most part except as a kofer. But I could tell you, I could show you the video if you want, so if you question it. I saw somebody that looks more religious than anybody in this room. In fact, I saw somebody who looks more religious than anybody you know. The peyos reached beyond the shoulders, beyond the shoulders went straight down. He had the tzitzit from wool. You know, you're supposed to, wool, wool, not just tzitzit of cotton, it's a kula, it's not, no, no, tzitzit of wool on the outside, meaning he's expressing his Judaism. He has shiurim on the internet. Every third word is a curse word. And I don't mean curse words like the light curses that you really shouldn't say. I'm talking about every word that you can hear truck drivers say. Every second word he curses. He tells people that he just wants to make sure that everybody becomes like him. What? Get married but don't have any kids. Waste seed.

24:53Go out with goyot like he did. He's a rabbi. He went out. He says on a video, he says on his video, "Yeah, I tried going out with someone that was in the process of conversion for two years, but then she failed the test, so I broke up with her." Wait, so what you're saying is that you went out and dated a goya for two years, and you're a rabbi. You went out with a goya for two years, and you're a rabbi. Hashem yerachem. And all types of garbage and filth coming out of this person's mouth to no end. Wasting seed. The guy that brought this to my attention tells me that Hashem, what this person is doing to the kehillah. There's already several married women that, Hashem, fell for this guy. Married women. Single women that were betulot, were virgins. Hashem. This guy is mamash a spiritual terrorist. But no one's doing anything. Why? People are afraid of their own shadow these days. Or maybe they don't see that there's anything wrong. I'm not really sure what's wrong. All I know, Rabotai, is that the filth in the world today from Erev Rav is not decreasing. And the only way to win against the Erev Rav, the only way to win against the Tum'ah of the world,

26:12is by bringing more Kedusha. We can't go to places and start killing people. We're not Pinchas. We're not a generation of Pinchas. You can't go out there and start killing people. That's not what we do. We can't go out there and start beating up people. That's not what we do. We have to bring more Kedusha. But that Kedusha starts with the Yesod. Yesod means the foundation. If Am Yisrael does not have the Yesod HaKedusha, we have nothing. As the Zohar HaKadosh says, a person could literally fulfill the entire Torah, and the Yetzer Hara can help him. Help him finish some other masechet. Help him do the mitzvah of tefillin. Help him keep Shabbat. Help him give tzedakah. The Yetzer Hara is helping. I'm not saying Hashem is helping. Hashem is watching this whole thing. He's saying, my son, I hope you pass the test. Hashem is praying for him. I hope you pass the test. I hope you pass the test. Why? Because I'm making everything easy for you. The problem is, the Yetzer Hara is also making it easy for you. You have parnasah, you have a kallah, you have this, you have kids, you have money, you have everything.

27:18Yetzer Hara is helping him. Why? He says, give me your Brit. Give me your Brit. You're doing the whole Torah, but you're wasting seed. Every single mitzvah the person does gives power to the Sitra Achra. Gives power to the evil inclination. Gives power to the Satan himself. He is a better employee of the Satan than someone that murders people for fun. Because he's generating kedusha, and the kedusha gives power to the Satan. That's how much the Yetzer Hara wants a person's kedusha. How much he wants his brit. A woman who does not watch her self, as far as modesty is concerned, whether it's modesty in the way she behaves when she's intimate with her husband or modesty when she's out in the street going to the supermarket or going to work or taking the kids to school or she wants to make sure that every Steve and Joe look at her on the way there. She has no idea what kind of damage she's causing in the world. But I don't just mean in the world that she never saw before, unless she had a near-death experience, which most likely she won't commit that sin anymore after she did, but rather the world that is called our children and

28:40The world that is called our children. For every normal mother, our prized possession, the most important asset that she has in her life is our children. And a woman does not know what kind of damage she's causing to our children. When she's not modest, we think, "Oh, no. Okay, so I sinned, so I get damaged. Okay, so one day I'll do teshuva. What does that have to do with my kids?" Be'ezrat Hashem, today we're going to go over some of the things that have to do with Kedusha that will show Am Yisrael that to do teshuva for the yesod, for the brit, for the modesty, you're not doing anyone a favor other than yourself. In fact, the more you learn about this topic, the more you start saying to yourself, even if there's no reward whatsoever, They're not going to call me a tzaddik in the next life. They're not going to give me any more rewards. They're not going to give me 310 or anything. They're not going to give me anything, even though it's a huge reward. The amount of reward is something you can't even comprehend. But even if they don't give me a special crown as a woman, they give me a crown as a woman because I was modest, and they give me a special world. No, they don't give you anything. The more you learn about this mitzvah, the more you say, "Hashem, even if You don't give me anything for this mitzvah,"

30:03Thank you. Thank you for forcing me to do it. Because of how much damage I would have caused myself and the people I love for not fulfilling it. To begin, we start with the Ohr HaChaim HaKadosh. The Ohr HaChaim HaKadosh, Rabbi Chaim ben Attar, was about 350 years ago, One of the Kedoshim from Am Yisrael, he was not only a Kadosh in his generation, but was considered one of the Kedoshim in all generations. From the time of Moshe Rabbeinu until today, he is one of the people whose Torah was accepted among all traditions, among all sects of Judaism. Many of the things that we learn today when it comes to mysticism and Midrashim and so on, you have heard his Torah before in my Shiurim and I'm sure in many other people's Shiurim. To give you an example of what we're dealing with here, the Baal Shem Tov lived in the same generation. And they tried to meet. The Ohr HaChaim HaKadosh and the Baal Shem Tov, they tried to meet. And many say that if they would have succeeded in meeting, they would have brought the Mashiach. The Kedusha that came from both sides of the world,

31:20was so extraordinary. He said if they would have succeeded in meeting, they had the power to bring the Mashiach. Just like Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai and his son, or Rabbi Chiya and his children, and many other tzaddikim throughout history, had the power to bring Mashiach by themselves. The Baal Shem Tov HaKadosh said, one day during Seudah Shlishit, "Oh, the light, the western light of the world," was just put out, was just shut down. So, as the talmidim say, "Kvod HaRav, what does that mean?" He says, "The Or HaChaim HaKadosh just died." He says, "Kvodo, how do you know?" He says, "Because there is one sod in the world, there's a secret in the world about the mitzvah of netilat yadayim." Washing your hands is a special mitzvah that Heaven only discloses to one person per generation. And I was just given that secret because he died. The Ohr HaChaim had it until now. He died, and I was just given this secret. To such an extent, this

32:40Holy sage of ours is not just anybody that you read about in books. Oh, wow. It's a nice Chidush. Many, many stories are told about him, things that he did, things that he saw, things that he said. And he talks extensively about the issue of Kedusha, but not in a way that we've heard before, a little bit different. Leviticus chapter 12, verse 2. The verse says it's a parasha that starts with the issue of niddah, the mitzvah of niddah, a woman that's impure because she has a menstrual cycle, and she's assurah to ba'alah. She's not allowed to be with her husband for that time that she's bleeding, and then After that, seven more days, and then she has to go to the mikveh, and then they're able to be together. So approximately half the month, a woman is not allowed to be with her husband, some women more, some women less, depending on their body, but it's usually somewhere in the neighborhood of about 12 days a month that a woman is forbidden from her husband. Now, this chapter says, has a verse, chapter 12, verse 2, it says, Isha ki tazria ve'yalda zakhar.

34:08when a woman conceives and gives birth, that's what the verse says: a woman conceives and gives birth, and it also means she is now impure to her husband. As soon as a woman is pregnant, as soon as her water breaks, she is considered niddah. So, which means that this, in the beginning, was a very difficult mitzvah for us. But Baruch Hashem, we overcame it. As soon as my wife and I had our first child, we had to do this. You can't do this without a kid. What happens as soon as the water breaks? You can't touch each other. Why? Why is it such a big deal? You're not a sick-minded person, and she just had the kid. What are you going to touch now? You can't anyway, even if you're not religious. It's not that; it's usually when a woman is going through such anguish of bringing a child into the world. It's not an easy time, so what normal people, or those who don't have Torah—I call them normal in the sense of the secular world—would do. Think, oh, I should hold her hand. I should give her a hug. I should be supportive. And you know, all the things that we saw as kids in movies. You know, the husband learns how to breathe. Also, he's breathing, she's breathing. It's like they're both giving birth. You don't really know who's giving birth because his stomach is bigger than hers. That's where we're at. But the reality is, Rabotai, you're not allowed to even touch her finger. Why? As soon as the water breaks, niddah. So this is very difficult for some people.

35:35In the beginning, it's my house, my husband. It's my wife. I love him. I love her. Do not touch. Now let's touch for a while. We're talking about, in many cases, more than a month, two months, even three, depending on when she stops bleeding. But both of them, today, if you go to a religious doctor, and... They know this, and they try to ease the pain and difficulty by removing most of the blood from the uterus during the pregnancy because it doesn't hurt during that time. And so, that shortens the recovery time as far as that's concerned. But either way, it's still a while. It's still a while. And it's at a time when you really want to be the most affectionate. You know, I love you. Thank you for bringing a child into the world. Thank you for replicating one of us. Thank you for, you know, thank you. I love you. The minimum that a husband should do is say thank you. But in this case, he can only say thank you in words.

36:35So the mitzvah of niddah is not just when she's not pregnant. It's also a mitzvah when she's about to give birth or after she gives birth and so on. And a person needs to know all of the rules. If you don't know all the rules, you're definitely failing. The Gemara says that a woman came to the Beit Midrash and cried. She cried. She cried to all the Talmidei Chachamim. She had books in her hand. She says, This is the Torah, and this is its reward? My husband was a talmid chacham, tzaddik, kadosh, learned Torah all day and all night. I let him learn. I let him do this. I let him do that. Everything was good. And Hashem killed him. How do you explain it? So all the talmidei chachamim didn't have an answer for this poor woman. What are you going to tell her? First of all, she's completely emotional. It doesn't matter what you tell her. You know, if a woman's emotional, there's no sense in talking to her. Well, if anyone's emotional, there's no sense in talking to them. You have to wait for them to be less emotional, more rational. If they're emotional, there's no point. That's why also the Chachamim say, if your friend, your friend, not your enemy, if your friend is angry, don't give him any mussar, don't give him any advice, nothing. Don't talk to him. If he's angry, don't talk to him. Wait for him to not be angry. Why? He's not listening to you anyway. If anything, he's going to do dafka, the opposite of what you tell him.

38:01Listen, man, you know, chill out. It's not worth it. If you hit him, is this, huh? You know what? I'll hit him dafka. He wasn't gonna hit him before you said it. Before you said it, he was calming down. Now you mentioned, "Oh, if you hit him, something's gonna happen." Cause, ah, when we're sure, I want to prove it to you. Nothing's gonna happen. He goes, he hits him. Don't say nothing. Quiet. Quiet, don't say nothing. Why? He's angry; dangerous. Malach HaMavet is right there. Shema Hashem. Some of the... Oh, Ohr HaChaim actually says in a different place, I believe it's Ohr HaChaim, maybe I'm misquoting, but it's definitely in the Torah, that when a person gets angry, starts acting out his anger, some of the Chachamim believe that they replace his soul. They replace his soul; it could be a soul of a Rasha enters him. Rasha enters him. He was a tzaddik yesterday. Today he's a rasha. Why? He got angry, expressed himself. Very dangerous to be angry. Of course, we all get angry, but expressing it is a different story. So now, this poor woman, she comes to the Beit Midrash, she tells all of the rabbis over there, what happens, what's happening in the world here? How is this reward and punishment fair?

39:20Tell me that I mean, you know, she's emotional and they really don't know the answer. She goes to another Beit Midrash. She was in another Beit Midrash. "Ah, my husband was a tzaddik. He did this, he did that. No, how come Hashem killed him?" Everybody's dumbfounded. What are you gonna tell this poor woman? They saw in Shamayim that there has to be an answer given to this woman. Why? It's causing a chillul Hashem. Her question is not just her question. Her question is causing a safek, a doubt in some people. They're hearing the question like, yeah, you know what? She's right. Like somebody said, like, you know, in his mind, he didn't say it out loud. Yes, she's right. I'm going to give a lecture about it. No. He said, you know what? She's right. You know, I remember him. He used to study good. He finished the Shas, the Yerushalmi, the Bavli, the Sifra. He wrote a few books. Tzaddik. Why did Hashem kill him? In his mind, he was thinking it.

40:20And Shamayim, they saw this, they sent Eliyahu HaNavi. They sent Eliyahu HaNavi, the Gemara says. And she came to the next Beit Midrash. She said the same thing. Oh, my husband, my husband. Eliyahu HaNavi said, yes, yes. Your husband died? Yes. Can you tell me, when you were Niddah, did he touch you? No, Chas V'Shalom, he was Tzaddik. He never touched me. She says, "Oh, when you slept, you slept. How did you sleep when you were Niddah?" She goes, "Oh, no. We had a big bed. We had a big bed. And I slept on my side and he slept on his side. He never touched me." Eliyahu HaNavi says, he says in a loud voice, "Baruch Hashem that Hashem killed him." Because he went against Chachamim. He went against the Torah. What did he do? Chachamim, the Torah Hashem, the Torah HaKadosha said, don't just not touch her. Don't even come close to her.

41:29Not just don't touch her, which is needless to say. Don't even come close to her. Meaning, you're not allowed to even sleep in the same bed. You're not allowed to hand each other anything—a pillow, a blanket, a spoon, a cup. You're not allowed. He, with all the Torah that he learned, still had the audacity to sleep in the same bed because he's so righteous. He's not going to touch you. Baruch Hashem for Hashem killing him because he was desecrating Hashem's name. So you see, Rabotai, the Isur Niddah is not a joke. Every woman and every man needs to know all the details because if you're violating it, it's Isur Karet. It's one of the 36 restrictions in the Torah that a person can lose their olam haba. Now, most people think I'm just talking to married folks. Wrong. It's not just married folks. It's single people. Why? If you're touching any woman, other than obviously holding your mom's hand or kissing your mom because you love your mom and so on, which is allowed, but you're touching a woman that's not your wife, you're not married to her,

42:46Even more so, you're intimate. You're intimate with a woman that's not your wife. She's niddah. Not only are you wasting seed, but you're going over issur niddah. Every guy that is intimate before marriage is going over issur karet. He's committing one of the worst crimes in the entire Torah. He thinks, "Oh, no, no, but I didn't get her pregnant. Isn't that okay?" No, it's actually better off if you did. At least it wouldn't be wasting seed. It's still niddah, though. You still have a problem on that end. Now, unfortunately, today, most people think that they simply don't teach this stuff. So that's why people don't know. It's not 100% true. They do teach it. They just teach it the wrong way. There are some people that actually teach about issur niddah. But they teach it; obviously, some teach it right. Of course, there's always a need to say that there are some tzaddikim in the world that teach it the right way.

43:47But there are some that look more religious than anybody here that teach the opposite. I actually heard with my own ears a person tell his so-called students that, listen, if you're single, you're not married, you're not allowed to go with a Jewish girl because she's niddah. But I know you have ta'avot, I know you have desires. So just go with a Goya. Go with a Goya, it's practice. So you become a good husband. His yetzer hara was bigger than mine. The gilui arayot that's being told to Am Yisrael today, the disgusting filth that's being told to young kids, old, young, middle, doesn't make a difference, is mamash you would think that, how can we survive? ...stuff that I heard today from this clown. How can we survive with people like this? He's a rabbi, he's not someone who doesn't know anything. He's a rabbi. He says, "Rabbi such and such" and so on and so forth. The stuff that's being taught to people is not just the opposite of Torah, it's...

45:11The opposite of Torah would be like a compliment to it. They teach people mamash to sin. But they give them the idea that they're not sinning, which is worse. No, no, don't go with a Jewish woman. Go with a non-Jew. Go with a non-Jew. Then that's okay. That's okay then. Or do it in another way. Don't go there. Go in a different way. Go in that place. Go in a different place. You don't want to get her pregnant, so don't go over there. Do something else. It's not as bad. There's actually, Rabotai, I'm sorry to tell you, I have to say this stuff. I have to. People need to know. You may know, you may not know. There are people, Baruch Hashem, thousands of people watching these shiurim. We need to know why I tell you, you have to cry for Am Yisrael. You have to cry for Am Yisrael. If you don't cry for Am Yisrael, you have no heart. You have to understand what's happening in the world today. There's a whole kehila in Israel. There's a kehila in Israel. They call themselves Orthodox Haredim. Orthodox, Orthodox, Orthodox. But the rabbi and the whole kehila are homosexuals. The rabbi and the entire kehila, it's a kehila for homosexual men.

46:32The rabbi has a boyfriend. Every boy, every guy that's a member has a boyfriend. Everybody has a boyfriend. But the Haredim, black and white, little penguin, kippah, tzitzit, everything. But homosexuals. They ask him, hey, listen, buddy, you realize it's in the Torah, it's in a few places, to'evat Hashem, gilui arayot, disgusting what you do. He goes, no, no, no. Listen, you have to understand, we don't go all the way. What? What do you mean you don't go all the way? No, and he starts destroying the Torah and saying over here and over here, just like that Dweck, rasha, from England, that menuval, that said that Yonatan and David gave us a symbolism that homosexuality is not so bad, Hashem yirachem aleinu. And this stupid kehillah in England is paying him 1.1 million dollars a year to tell them things that are against the Torah. He says that the greatest thing that's happened in recent generations is that homosexuality has become acceptable. A crime against Hashem is acceptable now. Hashem yerachem aleinu. Orthodox Rabbi Aldik. There's a kehillah. This rasha gives power to other resha'im. An Orthodox Rabbi of homosexuals.

47:50Anytime I talked about homosexuals in the past at all, listen: the leading rabbi of the Conservative movement in Israel, in Jerusalem, he's homosexual. He's openly homosexual. Leading rabbi of Conservative. He himself is openly homosexual, proud of it, marches. But he's Conservative. It's a different religion. The Reform, but I don't know what you call them. I don't even know if you call them humans. They give the dog aliyah; they give people aliyah; the rabbi is a woman who is not a Jew at all. It's not even a different religion. I don't know what it is. Conservative was, until 67 years ago, actually similar to Modern Orthodox today. So there was still something in there. Now they are becoming Reform. But now, the Orthodox world, the Orthodox world is not so Orthodox. Why? Kedusha. Our Kedusha is unfortunately failing miserably. People that cannot overcome their desires, just like Rabbi Nachman miBreslov, alav haShalom, used to say, and said in Likutei Moharan, a person that's a ge'eh, that's a prideful person, will waste seed.

49:05Waste seed. That wasting seed, that desire, that addiction to wasting seed, will lead him to become promiscuous if he has the ability. That promiscuity, if he has the ability, someone who tries to become impure, Hashem opens the door for him, helps him to become impure. You want to sin? I'll help you sin. You want to do mitzvot? I'll help you do mitzvot. Whatever you want, I'll help you. someone tries to make sense. You waste seed, oh, that's not enough? You want to go with girls too? Married women, non-married women, whatever, no problem, I'll help you with that too. I'll open, I'll make the Gehenom deeper for you. We say it on Shabbat. We say it in, we say it in, uh Shalom Aleichem, we talk about the depths of Gehenom. People say, no, no, there's no Gehenom in the Torah. What do you mean? Every single page in your siddur mentions Gehenom. I'm exaggerating. Every other page. Every other page in the siddur, anyone who knows how to read Hebrew, every other page in the siddur mentions Gehenom. Shalom Aleichem, the favorite song for every single person, it's not even Jewish, mentions Gehenom.

50:23No, no, there's no Gehenom. What do you mean there's no Gehenom? So what is there? There's a mistake here, lost in translation. Now, but I see that Hashem says it's not enough. Okay, I'll let you be promiscuous with women. Oh, eventually, it's not enough. Eventually, it's not enough. He goes with men, too. That's what Rabbi Nachman himself says. Rabbi Nachman himself says he starts with ga'avah. Ga'avah leads to wasting seed. Wasting seed leads to promiscuity. Promiscuity leads to homosexuality. If that's not enough, he starts going with animals, bestiality. And you think, yeah, Rabbi Nachman, Rabbi Nachman, he's a tzaddik, but I think over here he went too far. I think he went too far, Rabbi Nachman. Well, sadly, I saw a report with my own eyes. Right now, in America, we're not talking about the whole world, America alone, 400 million people approximately, give or take a few resha'im. 400 million people.

51:24Three million of them registered themselves, admitted themselves, that they on a regular basis are with animals. Three million! You're talking about nearly 1% of the population admitting to being with animals. There's actually a hotel in Las Vegas that, just some years ago, maybe five or six years ago, was raided, but I'm sure it was reopened. that specialized in catering to people who like animals. You want a sheep, you want a donkey, you want whatever you want. We got it. People? No, no. People, it's a different place. That's easy. We provide animals. Rabotai HaYekarim, the situation is horrible. Why? There's no Yesod, there's no Kedusha. People think, no, what's the big deal? Okay, so he makes this one little sin. No, it's not one little sin. It's not one little sin. It's not one little sin. It's a big thing. It leads to a lot of horrible things. I'm sure all the haters are going to try to tear me apart saying, oh, this guy is crazy. Go check all the facts. Check all the facts. We'll check also what the Ohr HaChaim HaKadosh said as well.

52:44The Ohr HaChaim HaKadosh says in Parashat Tazria, it says when a woman conceives and gives birth. So the Ohr HaChaim HaKadosh asks, why does it use the verb that describes giving birth in the past? veYoledet, she's going to give birth or she's giving birth. It should be the same word but used in a different way. Yoledet, not Yalda. Yalda means past tense. Why does it say "yalda"? "Yalda" means she already did it. No, but it's not, she didn't already do it. You're saying she's about to do it, or she's doing it now. Why are you using a word that says she did it already? So the Chaim HaKadosh Mechades gives a phenomenal, phenomenal chidush here to explain what it means to be an Ish Kadosh. What does it mean to be an Ish HaKadosh Ha? It says he's trying to say here it's because...

53:51The word is used instead of as an active verb because the actual conception of the child is not done at the time she gives birth. The birth is not being, it's not, that's not the actual when the child's coming to the world. When's the child coming to the world? It's at the moment the father and the mother are actually intimate. That moment that the zera, the seed, leaves the man's body and enters the woman, that's when Hashem decides what kind of neshama to give this person. The Gemara Masechet Niddah says there's a malach named Layla. I've told you this before, but it always needs to be repeated. This Layla has a job. What's his job, this malach Layla? He takes the seed and brings it to Hashem. He says, "I have in my hand a seed, a neshama. Which one should I give these two? Which neshama should I put into this seed? Is it going to live or is it going to die?"

55:13Is it going to be a zakhar or nekeva, man or woman? Is this man or woman going to be rich or poor? Is this man or woman going to be wise or a fool? Tzadik or Rasha. What can I do with this, Hashem? And Hashem Yitbarach decides on every single one of them. This is what you put into the zera. Now, how can we influence this? What can we do about it? Oh, you keep Shabbat? A lot of people keep Shabbat, but they have kids that are wicked kids, convert to Christianity, go with married women, steal, rob, not even good by anybody's definition. How could it be? They keep Shabbat, no? Oh, Chaim HaKadosh says this. He says, Rabotai, Hashem decides what kind of neshama is in the child based on two things. One, what is in the father and the mother's mind at that moment? What are they thinking about? Is he thinking about his secretary, or is he thinking about his wife? Is he thinking about some woman he saw on a screen somewhere, or is he thinking about his wife? Is he thinking about the maid? Who is he thinking about?

56:41To say, who is she thinking about? Is she thinking about the clerk at the coffee shop? At the supermarket? Her boss? Who is she thinking about? Her high school sweetheart? Who is she thinking about? Oh no, they've already done teshuva. They love each other. They only think about each other. Oh, they only think about each other? Baruch Hashem. Passed test number one. This one we already told you. No chidush here. The Torah of Chaim HaKadosh didn't finish. He said there's a second issue. The second issue is how does Hashem decide? What kind of neshama am I going to put in this seed? It's based on what is in the mind of other people about the father and the mother at that moment. Not the father and the mother, other people. What do they think about you? They think, oh, the father, he stole money from everybody. He borrows money and doesn't return it. He does this, he does that. What do you think he's going to bring, Moshe Rabbeinu?

57:49But he's a tzaddik. He doesn't do nothing. He works. He cleans bathrooms. He's a blue-collar guy. Everything is good. His wife, she has a nice kisui rosh. Everything is good. But the wig, the wig, only for birthday parties. And, you know, she doesn't wear the wig all the time. She only wears it for birthday parties, bar mitzvahs, weddings, when everybody can see her. When just Mustafa and Steve and everybody else sees her, she's wearing a kisui rosh. The whole year she's wearing a kisui rosh, nice scarf, everything. Only three pounds of makeup. But the wig that's two feet long, she only wears for the parties. Tzadeket, no? What tzadeket? It's actually worse that way. Chilul Hashem. Aside from the issues of immodesty and Avodah Zarah and so on, which we'll get into momentarily. So you're religious the whole year round except when everybody can see you? Except when the neighbors are all coming, and the friends and the family, everybody's coming, you wear that nice long wig. That's okay? Then how come you don't wear it the whole year? Because you know there's something wrong. Oh, but you're allowed to shut off Hashem for a day, for a night? So what's going to happen to this dear woman? Well, dear woman, I know you're trying, and I know the mitzvah of kisui rosh in this generation is no different than Akedat Yitzchak.

59:17It's very difficult for women because women live for attention. Most of the time, it's because their husbands don't give them enough. It's actually partly their husbands' fault. Any woman that gets enough attention and love from her husband has no desire whatsoever to be immodest. Why? She already gets more than enough attention from her husband. The women that look for attention from other people, simply it's because their husbands don't give them enough. Usually. Sometimes it's because there's something wrong with them. But most of the time it's because of their husbands. Now this dear woman that has a very, very difficult time putting on the kisui rosh, the simple mitpachat, the black, the white, the navy blue, the green mitpachat, even if she could put a few diamonds on it, the nice things on it, she feels bad showing up to a wedding with this mitpachat. Why? She feels like she's going to stand out. She feels like she's going to stand out because all of the other frum rebbetzins in the shul, and the...

1:00:23Sheva Brachot wedding over here. All of them have what? They have the tight clothes to make sure that everybody can tell exactly what their figure looks like, even without them taking them off. And on top of that, they want to make sure you have a nice wig so that she looks like she just left the salon. She left the runway after, you know, the salon was for the runway. And you see not even a single gray hair. Not even a single, nothing wrong with it. It's like mamash Gan Eden hair. Never frizzy. Never messed up. Nothing ever wrong with it. We're not even mentioning the Avodah Zarah yet. We're just mentioning the issues of this. And this wig, it can't be up to here, because she looks like a boy. If I'm already going to wear a wig, it can't look like a boy. I’ve got to look like a nice woman from the television. So, you’ve got to make it extra long. Even the Ashkenazi poskim that allowed wigs didn't allow long wigs. Nobody ever allowed long wigs. Nobody ever allowed these wigs that look like real hair. No one in the history of poskim, of Am Yisrael, ever allowed it. You can say any name you want. The Lubavitcher Rebbe never allowed long wigs. But no, she's saying, if he allowed wigs, then it's modernizing with the times, it's allowed. Bedil v'yavo.

1:01:44And she's wearing this nice long wig to the wedding, to the Bar Mitzvah. It's her son. It's her brother getting married. She's part of the simcha. She's part of the simcha. Everything is nice, right? The wig is such good quality. No one knows it's a wig. Unless she's wearing a wig. Unless it's another woman. But all the guys, like, wow. She looks good with no wig. She looks good with no kisui rosh. No one thinks it's a wig. It's such a... The look looks so good. She looks like she came out of Gan Eden with this wig. Now, what's the problem with this? Because there was a certain guy who calls himself a rabbi, who says that you're supposed to express your beauty. If the world doesn't see your beauty, it's not worth it. What's the problem with this? The problem is, Rabotai, that this woman is going to look very, very good. She's going to look very, very pretty. But very, very good and very, very pretty to the wrong set of eyes. The eyes that do not belong to her husband. The eyes that belong to the waiter. The eyes that belong to the busboy. The eyes that belong to the groom. The eyes that belong to everybody else aside from her husband. Most likely not even her husband. Why? Because her husband is busy looking at all the other women.

1:03:14No, no, I'm not looking at other women, honey. I'm just comparing how much your wig looks better than hers. I'm complimenting your wig by looking at other women. I'm not looking at other women. Come on, honey. I love you. I'm just looking at her wig. You see her wig? It's a little reddish on the right side. You see that? Yeah, it doesn't look like yours. It doesn't look like yours. Yours is much better, honey. Much better. So why are you looking at the other? No, I'm not looking. I'm looking at the one behind her. No, no. I was thinking about your wig when I was looking at the other. I wasn't thinking. Honey, I love you. Give me another piece of cake. Give me a piece of cake. He wants to put more cake in his mouth. She doesn't have to talk. Now this woman is going to have every party she goes to—wedding, bar mitzvah, simcha—she thinks she's doing a mitzvah. It's a mitzvah to make the bride and groom happy, right? The problem is she just brought a tragedy to our home. What tragedy? The tragedy is that someone is going to set his filthy eyes on her.

1:04:24And he's going to think about her. When? Whenever he wants. Once you see a woman, that image gets imprinted. That visual gets imprinted, engraved into that person's brain. And you only think of it at the most inappropriate moments. But now one of those moments could be when she is trying to do something holy by bringing a child to the world, bringing a holy little tzaddik, little tzaddika to the world, bringing Sarah Imeinu to the world, bringing Mashiach Tzidkeinu to the world. So the Malach Laila goes up to Shamayim and says, Hashem Yitbarach, you know! everything of what they're thinking, but also what everybody else is thinking about them. What will be with this seed, Hashem? And Hashem Yitbarach has to cry tears that cause tsunamis to say, really, I wanted to give them the next Gadol HaDor.

1:05:36Really, I wanted to give her such a tzaddekes, she was gonna give birth to the Mashiach himself. But because she wants to wear a nice wig only once a year to the wedding and to the bar mitzvah and to all the other things, but the once a year also has people that have eyes and don't know how to watch their brit. And they saw her hair that's fake but real in their eyes and they visualize her hair and the rest of it. they were doing other things and they're thinking about her right now. Right now, they're thinking about her with their filthy, disgusting thoughts. So I cannot bring the Mashiach through her. I cannot bring a tzaddik through her. I have to bring a rasha for her. Is it worth it? Is it so worth it to wear it? Is it so worth it to wear it to look like the sotah? Doesn't anybody actually think about this? You think about Sara Imeinu. What does Hashem say? Oh, she's so modest. You think about Leah. She covered herself. She saw her husband. She covered herself. Rachel, Rivka, tzadkaniyot, kedoshot, Chana, kedoshah. All of them. One woman in the entire Torah

1:07:03Our hair is mentioned. Who? The wayward woman, the Sotah. The Sotah, her hair is mentioned. Why? They're suspecting she cheated on her husband. Only one woman in the entire Torah, they talk about her hair. Who? The one that they suspect she cheated on her husband with a guy. Ravish Badron, alav hashalom, screamed out with tears. Mamash, I heard it myself. Screamed out with tears. I was surprised it didn't cause an earthquake. Maybe it did. I don't know. Something happened in the world when he cried. He said, why does a Bat Yisrael want to look like the Sotah? Why? Why do you want to look like the Sotah? Why? Why can't you look like Sarah Imeinu? Why can't you look like Chana? Why can't you look like somebody in the Torah that's righteous? Why the Sotah? But this is not enough. Why? Because everyone's going to say, "No, but my rabbi allows it. My rabbi allows it. The Erev Rav allows it." No, no, no. The rabbi that allowed it didn't allow the long wig. He allowed something that was a wig, but was obviously a wig. The real righteous poskim, the Ashkenazi poskim that allowed it, didn't allow the long wig that you can't tell if it's real or it's not, and it's really real. He never allowed that.

1:08:24No one ever allowed these wigs of today. But needless to say, no one ever in the history of Am Yisrael ever allowed Avodah Zarah to enter our homes. No one. And this, Rabotai, is the point we've discovered, is the point we've discussed, is the point we've mamash bled over the last few years to bring light to, across the globe. To the extent that there was a book published about it, Baruch Hashem, with a couple of hundred pages providing proof that the vast majority of the wigs in the world are coming from avodah zarah. For the simple economic, the simple financial reason that free is always going to be a better price than any other price. Free and abundant, that's the market. even if you say that your wig maker is bringing it from Brazil or from Zimbabwe or from Morocco or from England or Italy or wherever you want to say they're bringing it from, they're not. Why? They're not, because they're not gonna go pay for something they can get for free. So

1:09:42they're not, I said. No, no, but she's paying for it whether she's getting it from India or she's getting it from anywhere else. Yes, she's paying for it. But the supplier, the supplier is not gonna go to Cambodia and pay some poor people a few shekels to get their hair if he could simply get it for free, meaning close to free, because somebody has to sell it. The original temple gets it for free, and he has millions of people willing to give him more for free, and And not only that, even if you got, let's say some people say, no, no, they came from Cambodia, they came from other places, Brazil. Even if every single person in Cambodia shaved their head tomorrow, everybody shaved their head, that's 17 million people. Even if every Brazilian shaved their head tomorrow, everyone, men, women, child. ...include dogs. If you want everyone to shave their head, the combined population of both countries would supply the market for maybe a two-and-a-half-year period. Both countries, if you shaved everyone's head—not against their will, because you're never going to see a Brazilian ever shaving their head for money. They would rather kill themselves; that's what they told me themselves.

1:11:01You're never going to see that. But let's say you did it against their will, like they do it in the Russian jails. In the Russian women’s jails, they shave their heads against their will. But let's say you got all of them. You got Cambodia and Brazil. He's got to shave all their heads; you supplied the market for two and a half years. But you killed the market for the next 10 to 15 years. Why? Because that's how long it takes to grow the hair to the same length as it is right now. So that means you still have to go back to India. Why? Because India has between 25 and 50 million people a year donating their hair for free. You're never going to be able to compete with that. Aside from that, it's not that she shaves her head and her hair goes to another woman's head. It doesn't work that way. She shaves her head and her hair goes to a plant. The average wig is comprised of hair from three women's heads. Because they have to measure the size. It can't be just, it doesn't go from our hair where she has split ends, she has long hair, short hair. And no, it all has to be a certain length. It goes to a factory. Meaning in order for the kosher certificate that they fraudulently have, to be really kosher, the rabbis have to watch the entire process, which is assur, by the way. You're not allowed to look at these women. So I don't know how you could even kosher it even if you wanted to.

1:12:24Can't look at these women being shaven. You have to, though. Why? You have to see them being shaven. From the second they're being shaven, all three women, because you have to see, and they're doing it all for just—they don't like their hair. Not because it's avodah zarah. From the minute all three of them shave their heads until the minute it goes through the process, cleans from the lice, cleans from all the disgusting stuff. Painted whatever you want to do, all the process that goes to different factories in India, China, different processing plants all over the world. You have to follow the hair everywhere. Just this little bunch, all the way until it's made into a wig and then it's remarketed, rebranded, relabeled. Fast forward six and a half months, all the way until it arrives at Mrs. Goldstein's head. Good luck with that. Why? It's not possible. Because it's not economically viable for anyone to take three heads and just allow you to follow the process with three heads. If you look at any of the pictures in the book, or the ones that we've published, you see that when they take hair from people, they take entire fields, the size of football fields, full of hair. You don't know who came from her or her.

1:13:39...you don't know where it is. It's a bunch of hair, like a field of grass, a field of corn, or a field of other stuff. You have a field of hair, and all of the hair goes in huge bunches into plants to clean it, to do this, to do that. It's impossible to follow a single strand of hair... Impossible. Therefore, it's impossible to know if and what the intentions of the person were. And the reality is, when you have 1.3 billion people in the world who call themselves Indians, the vast majority of them serve their idols by giving their hair. You cannot compete with such a market. Not from Brazil, not from Cambodia, not even from China, which takes from dead people, which is also not allowed. Not from Russia, which takes it from people in jails, which, by the way, is also not allowed. Not from any of these places. A woman that has real hair on her head that's a wig has a very serious problem. Why? She has Avodah Zara on her head. You want to take the chance with your Olam Habah? Be my guest. I just provide information. I have nothing against women that have wigs. I have nothing against the wigs themselves. I have nothing against the Indian people. I have nothing against anybody. I have something against what people have against Hashem. That's all I care about.

1:15:09Hashem, that's all I care about. I'm providing information. You want to put your Olam HaBa on the line for it because you like your wig more than Olam HaBa? Fine, be my guest. It doesn't change my life. I provided you the information. And that's what people can't get their head around. They can't get their head around. No, no, but it's really hard. What do you mean it's really hard? What do you mean it's really hard? You really like that people look at you that much more than Olam HaBa? Like, do you realize the whole thing is on the line? Like, the whole thing. It's not like a small mitzvah, like you forgot to do something that's a rabbinical mitzvah. Not to make any mitzvah small, but to give you some type of illustration that you have. You forgot to wash your hands in the morning. It's a big mitzvah. We can't really measure mitzvot. But you can't compare the issur, the sin, and the problems that will happen to somebody that doesn't wash their hands in the morning versus somebody that has avodah zarah on their head. Or even in their house. You can't compare the two. Needless to say, that Chazal explained to us, anything that should make an adon on you, that makes you make it like a master on you, like it's significant to you. Not just people.

1:16:27is taken from Adon HaOlam. If the wig is really, really important to you, that means Hashem is a little less important to you. Yeah, but she's a Rebbetzin. Okay, she's a Rebbetzin. We're a little bit less connected to Hashem. A little bit of Rebbetzin. Yeah, but he's a Rabbi. He's only using it to make his beard a little longer. Fake beard. No, but there are really fake beards. I don't know why people buy them, but there are fake beards. You guys are laughing. People actually buy fake beards. There's a whole market, a whole industry. They buy fake beards. I don't know, maybe they had some disease. I don't know why people buy this stuff. But there's a fake beard industry. Oh, no, he just really wants to look more righteous to his kehillah because, you know, a long beard makes you look righteous. Okay, so his beard is more important to him than God. Just a little bit more important. Rabotai, we provide information because we care. We provide information because Chachmenu told us that if we skip it, if we care less about it, bad things can happen. But not just bad things to us, but bad for our kids. Because we decided to go to our Bar Mitzvah with a really long and immodest wig.

1:17:53People looked at us and they liked the way the shape of our face matched the wig, and it was this color and that color and this shape and that shape. They had that in mind at the moment you were trying to bring the Mashiach to the world, and Hashem has to decide, "I'm sorry, I cannot. Not only can't I bring the Mashiach to the world, I can't even bring a rabbi to the world. I can't even bring a Yireh Shamayim to the world." Where do we see proofs of this? Chizkiyahu HaMelech was so holy that the Gemara says that if the Mashiach was going to be brought into the world at that moment, Hashem had already decided it would be Chizkiyahu. In fact, Hashem decided, "I want to bring Mashiach, and let's make it Chizkiyahu." Malach HaMavet came to him, Hashem, Hashem. If you didn't bring Mashiach at the time of David, who used to sing to You, how can You bring Mashiach and make Chizkiyahu the Mashiach? He doesn't sing to You. Hashem says, "You're right. I can't bring Mashiach through Chizkiyahu." But Chizkiyahu had a problem. What was the problem? He saw through prophecy that if he has children

1:19:20Those kids are going to be resha'im. So he didn't want to bring kids. So the prophet came to him and said, "Tomorrow you're going to die." "Why am I going to die? I'm a tzaddik. Everybody learned Torah because of me. Six-year-old kids know the entire Mishnah in this generation. Six-year-old kids know the entire Oral Torah by heart." He put a sword on the ground. He says, whoever doesn't learn Torah is going to get the sword instead. He didn't say you should come to the shiur, try to be on time. No. He said, either you come and you learn Torah day and night, or you get the sword instead. I think I'm going to try it next week. I just have to find a sword. But now, rabotai, maybe I'll bring like a plastic knife. I'll show you guys some intimidation. Now, rabotai yekarim, Chizkiyahu HaMelech made the entire generation do teshuva. Everybody learned Torah. But he was scared. Why? He saw through prophecy: I'm going to have reshaim kids. I don't want to bring reshaim kids to go against Hashem. So he said to the prophet Isaiah, "Listen, I don't want to die. I'll do what Hashem says. I'll bring kids to the world, but I have to have protection. What? Let me marry your daughter. Your daughter is a tzaddeket, you're a prophet. I'm trying to be holy. Baruch Hashem. Hashem likes me. Okay, so if your daughter is holy and I'm holy, we're going to do good. We're increasing our chances of success, right? Imagine, your daughter wants to marry Rav Ovadia."

1:20:46Your daughter wants to marry the next Mashiach. I mean, that's as great as it gets. Your son wants to marry Sarah Imeinu. Where do I write the check to? I'll borrow money. I'll do whatever I can. Let's get married immediately. Now. Don't even wait for anything. Right now. So they get married. And they have two kids. And the two kids are named Menashe And it says in the Torah that Chizkiyahu was in the Beit Midrash and he heard his two sons saying, "Look at our father's bald head. It's a perfect place to worship an idol." The other one says, "To bring a korban, to bring a korban and lay it on our father's bald head." The other one says to him, no, not just a korban, we can kill, we can murder, we can do a lot of avodah zarah, all types of things on his head too. Chizkiyahu HaMelech has two sons, resha'im gemurim, they're little kids. So Torah asks, how could it be, Chizkiyahu, the son of Isaiah, holy of holies, how could such holy people bring resha'im gemurim when they're little kids, they're not even adults yet?

1:22:15Or HaChaim HaKadosh says something scary. He says that at the moment that they conceived, that Chizkiyahu and his wife conceived, his wife, tzadeket wife, kodesh kodashim wife, mistakenly thought of what she saw on the way to the room. What did she see on the way to the room? She saw one of the servants, one of the servants of one of the famous idolaters. She saw one of the servants that was there, and she thought of him. The thought of him stuck in her mind, and The thought of this disgusting, filthy human being stuck in her mind at that moment. She thought of an idolater at that moment. Two idolaters came into the world. But she was holy, perfect. She passed, you know. A, check mark. B, X. She thought about it. Everything's good. A is good. B is no good. B is no good.

1:23:34Rabbotai, we see this across our Torah that Gedolim fell when the daughter of Yishayahu thought about one of the servants of Merodach Baladan. Further, there's a book called Olamot Shel Tohar. Olamot Shel Tohar It's a book that's full of real stories, real-life stories, and chizuk for the issues of modesty. And it's a story, a real-life story from an older woman that brought this to light to her own family when she realized it herself. She was, as frum as can be, married to a talmid chacham. She had, baruch Hashem,

1:24:35children, life, a lot of Torah in her life. Ten kids. All ten kids came from a holy marriage. No niddah, no nothing. Everything is good. Nine out of the ten kids all became good people. Rabbis, talmidei chachamim, Yehudiot kedoshot, One's better than the next. But one kid, rasha. One kid, wicked as wicked can be. Heretic, hates the Torah. And no matter how many prayers they would do for him, no matter how many things they would try to say to him, excuse me, no matter what they did, Nothing worked. It was as if there was a wall between him and Hashem. They talked to him, showed him proofs, showed him this, showed him that, talked to him this way, talked to him that way, tried to help. Nothing would help this guy. He kept getting worse and worse. Until later in our day, she finally realized the token came. Hashem gave her this. Why? To publicize the story.

1:26:05She says that before they conceived this child, they went to a tzaddik. What's a tzaddik? How do you say tzaddik? Like one of those, you know, they have people walking on the streets. A lot of people, what is it called? I mean, tzaddik, you know, where they have a, you know, they have it for the, Yom Ha'atzmaut is a large parade. There you go. So, they had a march for Yom Ha'atzmaut, a parade for Yom Ha'atzmaut, Israeli Independence Day, where the Israeli government likes to highlight their army, their power, their weapons, and all that stuff. Which, by the way, is a bad idea, but that's a different story. And she says herself that during this march, she saw a very handsome general. Young man, muscular, beautiful face. And she said to herself, B’ezrat Hashem, I'll have a child just like him.

1:27:24I'll have a child just like him, and she did, with all of his heretical teachings, heretical upbringing, and mentality. My power, my strength, I did everything. And she says, this is what I have. I wanted this person. My son is good-looking, he's mushy, everything. But he also has the Zionist criminal mentality, communist mentality that we don't want. When did she have this in mind? She had it in mind when she was conceiving a child with her husband. There's something called Pegam HaBrit, which we all know is wasting seed. But there's also something called Pegam HaMachshava, damaged thought. And a damaged thought, as we've already discovered here, can lead to a damaged son, a damaged daughter. Pegam HaMachshava leads to Pegam HaNeshama, leads to a defective thought.

1:28:39Neshama of a kid. You're bringing into the world another kid? This kid, mesken, a poor kid. has no interest in Torah, has difficulty learning it, has difficulty putting on modest clothes, has difficulty not overcoming his desires. You see, certain people have these major, major difficulties, and then the parents come to you and say, "What should I do with this kid? He's causing trouble, he's causing this." What should you do? You should do teshuva. That's what you should do. You did it; you're at fault, not the kid's fault, your fault. Don't cry to Hashem that He gave you this kid. You did it because you have a filthy mind. People don't like to hear this stuff, but it's true. The fact that we don't like to hear it doesn't change the truth.

1:29:42Thoughts are what's going to lead to action, and unfortunately, when we don't watch our thoughts and we educate our kids with things that are against the Torah, we educate ourselves with things that are against the Torah. Only damage can happen from that. Nothing good will ever come out of your kid going to public school. Nothing good will ever come out of a kid going to learn heretical teachings. Nothing good will ever happen about your kid fitting in with the public. nothing good will ever happen, but unfortunately, many people don't like to hear this, and they don't like to follow it either. They send their kids to so-called religious schools that are not religious at all. They have boys and girls, 10-15 years old, in the same school, which all of the chachamim said is forbidden. You're not allowed to have teenagers in the same school. There's no reason whatsoever why anyone should think that it's allowed to have teenage kids of opposite gender in the same school. The kid already has a problem with guarding his eyes as it is. Now you're going to have his girlfriend attend the school, too? It's surprising there aren't more pregnancy cases in these yeshivot, and

1:31:02You see, many of these so-called yeshivot of the Western world are not very different from the public schools that I went to as a kid. But I went there because we didn't know any better. What's their excuse if they call themselves religious? You can't find a normal school in many places, in many towns. You can't find a normal school that has, you know, kids separated and... went to different places around the world, different places. I go to schools sometimes to give lectures. You see, mamash, the kids are wearing kippot. The girls are wearing skirts. As soon as the shiur is finished, right after the shiur is finished, the guy is hugging the girl. Hey, yeah, honey, yeah, yeah. And the teachers are all okay with it. Why? Because they see it all the time. Right outside of my shiur, there were kids, a group of boys and girls, hugging and kissing each other. In the school. They're not hiding it because they don't think there's anything wrong with it. Why? Because their parents sent them there. Many people knew he was a giant chacham, one of the giants of giants, but very few know how much of an ish emet he was until they read his work. About 40 years ago, there was a big ason, a big tragedy where a school bus of children

1:32:30Right before the age of bar mitzvah, about 12 years old, 12 and a half years old, and some close to 13, I must you know, katin, in the Beit Rabban. Babies before bar mitzvah, a school bus full of them got into an accident, hit a train, killing 20 kids. This was a tragedy that the State of Israel had never seen. Many people cried, many people mourned, many people thought that this was too much. But Rabbi Ovadia, זצ"ל, wrote a letter about this. And I'm not going to read the whole letter because it would take too much time, but I'll give you a taste of what he says. Anyone who wants a copy of the letter, I can text it to you. He says, "This school, this school where this tragedy happened. Our entire existence as a nation is standing on, is depending on education of Torah and Yirat Shamayim."

1:33:58The school Beit Bar-Nar, whose foundation is education of Torah and Yirat Shamayim, shook up the country with this tragedy. But as we all know, there's no such thing as coincidence, chas v'shalom. To say something is a coincidence is heretical. He mentions a Rambam that says that anyone who sees that there's a tragedy, the tragedy is coming from Heaven. Why? At the time that there's a tragedy, it's going to be a big scream, a big uproar, that we are supposed to know this is because of our evil actions. It's not because Hashem is making a mistake. The point of tragedies happening in the world—little kids dying, adults dying, fires, cancer, all of these things—the Rambam says,

1:35:19Everybody repeats. This is to shake us up so we cry about our evil actions that caused it. Not to cry, "Oh Hashem, why did you do this?" What do you mean, "Why did you do this?" Because of you. You did it. Action, reaction. Don't cry to me if you did it. It's like somebody killed his wife and says, "Oh, I can't believe Hashem took her life." What do you mean? You shot her. You pulled the trigger. What do you mean you can't believe? Don't pull the trigger then. And he continues, I'm skipping around a little bit. He mentions a verse in the Torah in Exodus. It's actually coming in this week's parasha, Chapter 22. I'm sorry, two weeks ago. Two weeks from now. Chapter 22, verse 5. Parashat Mishpatim.

1:36:23It says, it's a verse that says if a fire shall go forth and find thorns, and a stack of grains or a standing crop or a field is consumed. It says in this verse that someone who kindled the fire shall make restitution. He says, but this eish, this fire that consumed thorns and crops... Giving us an insight of what's going on. He says these kotzim, these thorns, are the teachers, the morim u'morot, the male and female teachers of the school, or a mechalei Shabbat and kofrim, those who violate Shabbat and heretics. But what ended up happening? is that the Gaon says, but what ended up happening because of these kotzim, the crop was consumed. The crop is the children that were consumed because of these kotzim, because of these thorns. These children that haven't gotten to an age of mitzvot, they haven't even reached the age of 13.

1:37:45for males and 12 for females. Why did Hashem do such a thing? On us not educating our children, we're obligated to teach our children, and when we teach them heretical teachings, we're violating this mitzvah. Everybody is trying to escape and dodge the reason behind this tragedy. All these people that are speaking, there's no truth in what they're saying. There's nothing real in what's coming out of them. He says, why does all this happen? Why are we escaping? Let's look at the reality. The head of the, I guess the mayor of Petach Tikva, of this place that this happened to, he opened places that are open on Shabbat, violate Shabbat, went against the rabbis, went against the rabbis of the city, arrested people that made all types of protests against the Chilul Shabbat, hired evil cops to beat them up.

1:39:03the head of the, I guess the mayor of Petach Tikva, of this place that this happened to, he opened places that are open on Shabbat, violate Shabbat, went against the rabbis, went against the rabbis of the city, arrested people that made all types of protests against the Chilul Shabbat, hired evil cops to beat them up, This head of the city, Eli Dayan, of Ashkelon, who pretends to be religious. This guy who pretends to be religious. opened a public pool for men and women to swim in and even do it on Shabbat. I tried to send him a letter to give him some mussar haskel in a nice way, but he did not even have the nerve to return any reply to me at all. And this is a guy that calls himself religious.

1:40:33And what can you expect from wayward teachers? This is Petach Tikva. This is what happened. He says, this is Petach Tikva that publicized things about violating Shabbat under the name of the mayor, Dov Gvori, Shem Reshaim Yirkav. He's cursing him in a letter. And so on and so forth. He says, why is all of this happening? He says, this is Petach Tikva that publicized things about violating Shabbat under the name of the mayor, Dov Gavri, Shem Reshaim Yirkav. He's cursing him in a letter. And so on and so forth. He says, why is all of this happening? Why are all these tragedies happening to Am Yisrael? He says we have a million kids that study in these secular schools who do not even know

1:41:43and do not even know the existence and don't even know how to say a single verse of the Torah, including "Shema Yisrael, Hashem Elokeinu, Hashem Echad." Woe to us that this is happening in our days, in our generation. This was the Gadol HaDor, this is the Gadol HaDor, this is one of the giants. A person who does not rebuke does not believe in the Torah. Why? Because you have to fulfill the Torah; you have to rebuke. There are places where you have to rebuke; you have to tell people the truth. The truth can sometimes hurt; the truth can sometimes even test you yourself. Which leads me to the next story that shook me up when I heard it, but also shows us the authenticity of our Torah and Our sages, may their memory be blessed, the Ramban, alav hashalom, wrote explicitly that it's impossible that if a husband and a wife act in kedusha, act with kedusha, when they're bringing a child into the world in their intimacy, it is impossible that the child will be wicked and

1:43:04they're holy during their time of intimacy. It is impossible that that kid will actually be wicked. That's what he wrote. And as you would know, in his time, the Ramban fought against Christianity. He won a debate of all debates, such that no one ever needs to debate Christianity ever again. All you need to do is read the book and see all the questions that the Christians can never answer and One of his kids, the Ramban, one of his own kids converted to Christianity. So the king of that time, the great king of the time, liked the Ramban. He called him to his kingdom. He said, "Hey, I saw you wrote that it's impossible for a wicked child to come to Kedusha. And hey, your kid, last I checked, he just converted to Christianity. Why? Were you and the Rabbanit thinking some stuff?" And the Ramban didn't have an answer, because he knew he didn't think about it, and he couldn't say that his wife thought about such a thing.

1:44:20But he didn't have an answer. And he left the kingdom sad and upset, thinking, "What could it be? How could it be? Hashem Yerachem, did I make, did I write something that's not Torah? What happened? Who? What? When?" He arrives at home, and the Rabbanit sees her husband, the living Sefer Torah, upset. Unlike an Ish Kadosh, who doesn't get upset. The Torah brings joy to the world. Yes, there are ups and downs in the world, but for Ish Emet, for a person that has Torah, does it affect them the same way? They know everything is from Hashem. But she sees her husband, the Ramban, and she's sad. She says, "My dear husband, what happened?" And he tells her what happened. He says, "I wrote in the book that it's impossible for a wicked child to come from Maaseh Kadosh, when there's Kedusha in the home, during that time." And unfortunately, our son is off the derech, to say the least. And the Rabbanit tells him a story of a lifetime, and she says, "My dear husband, it's time that I tell you a story that I didn't want to tell you, but I have to for the sake of Torah." She says that when I went to the mikveh after all the days of being impure...

1:45:50The big day in Judaism every month is a wedding between a husband and a wife. A husband and a wife who keep Taharat HaMishpacha like they're supposed to, every month is supposed to be as exciting as their wedding day. And if your wedding day wasn't exciting, that means you did something wrong before it. Wedding day. Unbelievable. The first and last time in the world you ever think of anything else. She says, "I went to the mikveh, but as soon as I left the mikveh, this goy rasha, general of the king, raped me. I didn't want to tell you, and the son came from him." Waiting the bam bam did. He ran happily back to the king, as happy as can be. He's allowed to be with his wife. She didn't do it on purpose, obviously. From rape, you're allowed to be with your wife, and she's not even obligated to tell you. So she didn't sin by not telling him. He ran to the king, loves his wife, nothing changed between them, but he ran to the king. He thanked his wife for telling him, ran to the king. "Your highness, I have an answer!" "What?"

1:47:08Your general raped my wife. He goes, well, you have proof? She says, yes. My wife gave me the proof. What's the proof? She says that because he did what he did, she bit his entire thumb off. She bit his thumb, his thumb finger. She bit it off. And ever since that day, years and years ago, he wears a glove. So the king says, okay, interesting. I'll check it out. The next day, the general comes to the king, and he sees he has a glove. He never noticed it's a glove. Why? He never really cared to ask, why are you wearing a glove? He says, take it off. He goes, what? The glove, glove. I want to see the glove. Take off the glove. He says, oh, why? I want to see. Take it off now. I command you. So the general takes off the glove, and he sees he's missing a thumb. He goes, what happened to your thumb? He says, ah, it's nothing. It's nothing, your highness. It's nothing. No, no. I want to know what happened to your thumb. says, "Oh, it's nothing. Years ago, I had a little fun with some Jewish girl. I raped her, so I had a little fun." The king liked the Rambam so much and admired him so much, he killed him. He killed the general. "Kill the general."

1:48:23But the Rambam was excited to find out such news that all of us would cry forever for. Why? He says, Baruch Hashem, that we have verification for our Torah. Such as this. Even if it's such a kaparat avonot, such a horrible, horrible thing to happen. Baruch Hashem that I didn't make a mistake in any of the Torah that I wrote. The Midrash Sefer Agudat Ezov. Writes a story that shakes up anybody. It says that the mother of Rabbi Yishmael ben Elisha went to the mikveh one time and experienced difficulty, to say the least. What difficulty? For many months or years even, she was not able to bring a child into the world and

1:49:24And Rabbi Yishmael ben Elisha was a holy person. He told her, "Listen, we have to do something more for Hashem. We have to do something more. What should we do? Take it upon yourself to not look at anything impure after the mikveh. All of the basics and above you're already doing. Do something more. Protect your eyes, the wife, protect your eyes from looking at anything impure." After the mikveh. So b'ezrat Hashem, Hashem sees how much we're trying to bring a holy neshama to the world. He blesses us with a child. So Rabbi Yishmael ben Elisha's mom went to the mikveh. She dipped in the mikveh. It's not like today you go to a mikveh; it's mamash Taj Mahal, quarter million dollars, the pools, there's a salon in there, there's everything. No, there was mamash a hole in the ground in many cases. Surrounded by a few walls for modesty reasons, she goes to the mikveh, dips, and comes out of the mikveh. The first thing she sees is a frog—tameh. She goes back into the mikveh again, the whole process. Goes in the mikveh, comes out—a donkey. Again, goes back into the mikveh, comes out—a horse.

1:50:51Goes back into the mikveh, comes out, another animal. A goy, a this, a that, all types of things. How many times? Eighty times. Eighty times the Midrash says she went to the mikveh that night. Up to the point that the Malachei HaSharet, the Malachim in Shamayim, went and cried to Hashem, Hashem Yitbarach, "Hashem, please, please have mercy on this poor woman." Have mercy on this poor woman. Look at the mesirut nefesh she has to try to not look at anything impure. Eighty times she goes to the mikveh. Hashem had mercy, and what did He do? He sent Malach Gavriel himself to the mikveh. As soon as she left the mikveh, the first thing she saw was Malach Gavriel. That's why the Chazal says the face of Rabbi Yishmael Ben Elisha was identical to the face of Malach Gavriel. Identical. Same face.

1:51:57Gemara Masechet Berachot, page 7, says Rabbi Yishmael Ben Elisha, what did he achieve in holiness? He reached a level I can't even explain to you. Why? Because the Gemara says Rabbi Yishmael reached, what did he reach? He reached a point where Hashem came to him. Hashem Yitbarach came to him. He says, my son, bless me. He says, my son, give me a blessing. Hashem asked Rabbi Yishmael ben Elisha, give me a blessing. What is he going to say? Who is he going to say? He said, may your midah of mercy overcome the rebuke. Overcome the tough issues that you have to bring to the world. May you have mercy on the world. That's the blessing. Hashem asked Rabbi Yishmael for a blessing. Hashem asked Rabbi Yishmael for a blessing. Imagine that. This tells us, Rabotai, that a person can get to such a high level of holiness that Hashem Yitbarach says, "I want a blessing from you." Don't start looking for Hashem to ask you for blessings. First, let's get blessings from a local rabbi, hopefully. That's kosher in Yirat Shamayim. But Rabotai, this is telling us to give us some type of idea of how holy you can be.

1:53:24People always say, "Why? Does Hashem really expect us to do all this stuff? Protect our brit, protect our eyes, protect this, protect that." Not only does He expect you to do all of it, but even more. You can be just like them. Why? Because you were created in the image of God. You have enormous potential. But that's also why the punishment is so severe. Because when a person violates the brit, when a person violates their eyes, they're not just causing damage to themselves; they're causing damage to the souls that are around them, to other people. And the Rambam says in Hilchot Teshuvah, chapter 10, the sixth halacha, last halacha, it's well known and clear that the love of God will not become attached within a person's heart until he becomes obsessed with it all the time.

1:54:38It's willing to leave all things in this world except for this. Meaning, all he cares about is loving Hashem. All he cares about is fulfilling His will. All she cares about is making Hashem happy with her. All she cares about is what is Hashem's opinion of how she looks. Not what's her cousin's opinion of how she looks. Not what's this guy's opinion of how she looks. What does Hashem think? This was implied by the commandment in Deuteronomy: "Love Hashem, your God, with all of your heart and all of your soul." And a person can only love God as a result of the knowledge with which he knows Him. Because the nature of one's love depends on the nature of one's knowledge, a small amount of knowledge arouses less love, and a greater amount of knowledge arouses greater love. we need to know not only the nice things in the Torah; we need to know the things that are not so nice to hear. The reason why, Rabotai, is because if we know the significance of each one of the mitzvot—not just the reward they'll give to us, which is impossible for us to understand anyway—but the consequence of violating these mitzvot, then we say, you know what? It's not worth it.

1:56:02It's not worth it to be immodest. It's not worth it to even be in a gray area. Modest, immodest, immodest by some opinions. It's not worth it. So the Chachamim say, okay, the skirt has to be six inches below the bottom of the knee. So she wears a skirt exactly six inches below the knee. Why? They didn't say it's supposed to be six inches below the knee because that's where you should wear it. So that's the minimum. Why are you playing with this red line? Any woman that has love for Hashem, has Yirat Shamayim, has fear of Hashem, has anything for Hashem, she wears a skirt all the way to the ankles. Why? Why am I gonna play with this line? I mean, the Chachamim tell us the clothes have to be loose-fitting. Why? So no one sees what's under. Leave everything to the imagination; only a husband needs to know. She wears something that's like halfway loose. Why? Halfway loose, but in her imagination and the reality, it's not loose at all. No, it's a pencil skirt. Fine, for who? For the dog. Yeah, it's fine for the dog to wear a pencil skirt. Dog? No problem. She wears a pencil skirt. I mean, the Chachamim tell us the clothes have to be loose-fitting. Why? So no one sees what's under. Leave everything to the imagination; only a husband needs to know. She wears something that's like halfway loose. Why? Halfway loose, but in her imagination and the reality, it's not loose at all. No, it's a pencil skirt. Fine, for who? For the dog. Yeah, it's fine for the dog to wear a pencil skirt. Dog? No problem. She wears a pencil skirt.

1:57:20Or she wears a pencil skirt? The dog, no problem. For a woman, a bat Yisrael, to wear a pencil skirt? Who told you this is allowed? What book says this is permissible? Who? Who said this? Oh, but I'm only wearing a wig once a year. Why? I'm not even talking about the women that wear it every day, Hashem Yirachem. May Hashem have mercy on them for wanting to look like a sotah. Why? I don't know why they want to do it. But I know it's a big desire, and they have rabbis that they depend on who, unfortunately, are undependable. Why? Why take the risk? Why? You said you love God. Express your love. Rabotai, we're going to finish off with the last section that will give you a little bit of stuff that's going to help you lose a little bit of sleep. the reason why is because we need to know this stuff. We need to know the stuff that is going to scare us a little bit, because if we don't get scared, we're not going to do the prophet's job. Iyov said, chapter 31, "I made a covenant with my eyes not to gaze on the maiden," and the prophet Yeshayahu says, "He shuts his eyes against looking at evil," chapter 33, verse 15.

1:58:41Both referring to a person who doesn't look at a woman even when they're doing simple mundane things. Yeshayahu was specifically talking about women who were doing the laundry in the river. When they were doing laundry in the river, they didn't want to get their skirts wet, so they would roll them a little bit—not roll them, chas v'shalom, like people wear many skirts today or to the knee—just rolled a little bit, where they saw a little bit of their ankle. The Prophet says don't even look at the ankle, and... The ankle, don't look. The Sefer Chassidim says there's no greater barrier to sexual arousal than closing your own eyes. You see, modesty is down the road. Make a left. Yeah, but it's really far. I can't tell you how many times I almost got into a car accident on the highway just because of a billboard that was on the right side, and I was doing everything I could to look left or look right, whichever way it wasn't there. Why? That's what you have to do, rabotai. I'm not telling you to get into a car accident; Hashem will protect you. But you have to run away from this stuff. It's cancer. It's spiritual cancer. You can't look at anything.

2:00:06Sexual temptation is the main test in life. It's sent as a challenge to refine us. For all those people that ask, "Why does Hashem give us such a big desire if we're not supposed to act on it?" It's a challenge to refine us. When you're subjected to this test, it puts you in a type of exile. Likutei Etzot, chapter 36. The Rambam in Hilchot Deot, chapter 6, says that if you have bad neighbors, move to a different neighborhood. If the other neighborhood has bad neighbors, move to a different one. If everywhere has bad neighbors, move to the desert, move to the exile. Now we finally understand what the Rambam actually means. What is he saying? He’s not expecting us all to move to the desert, per se. What is he saying? If everyone in your neighborhood is immodest... If your school is immodest, and your neighborhood is immodest, and your work is immodest, and everyone is immodest, close your eyes. Look away. Why? That way, you are in exile. You are in the Midbar. They could be acting inappropriately, but it doesn't make a difference to you. You don't see them. Close your eyes. Close your eyes. Look away. Train yourself. Train yourself to protect yourself. Why? Because if you protect your eyes, you can actually be able to learn Torah like a normal person.

2:01:38The Rambam talks about, I'm sorry, the Kitvei Arizal, Kaveh Yashar, chapter 68, says that reciting Kriyat Shema is a great correction for the sin of wasting seed, even while sleeping. A lot of people have this issue when they, Baruch Hashem, start doing Teshuva, but they don't do it on purpose. They go to sleep and... They have dreams, or sometimes even without a dream, they waste seed during their sleep. One of the ways that you can protect yourself, or at least help the scenario, until your body heals along with your neshama from all of the years that you've made a sin, is saying Kriyat Shema. Now, a man should not say, after he reads about all of these warnings, that I transgressed all of them, or some of them. i still don't spill seed in vain because it's possible that some drops of semen come out of this person in his urine. The words of our Sages, may their memory be blessed, are holy and faithful. The person says, "Listen, I make some of these sins. I look here. I look there. I look everywhere I want, but it doesn't affect me. I don't waste seed."

2:03:03It says, if you're looking, seed will come out of you. How? It'll come out in your urine. And I think recent studies, scientific studies, confirm that there are actually some people whose seed comes out even during their urinating. It's not every time, obviously. It all depends on the person. But if you don't watch your eyes, it's definitely coming out one way or the other. It's a sin. It's not as grave of a sin as somebody doing it on purpose, but it's definitely not a big deal. The Zohar HaKadosh, as Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai says, that there's no sin in the world which creates and provokes more anger of the Almighty than the sin of neglecting the Brit, as it says in Leviticus chapter 26, verse 25: "a sword that shall execute the vengeance of the Covenant." person wastes seed. He's bringing anger to the world, to his own personal life, and to the nation. But, in general, a person that wastes seed, the Shechinah (Divine Presence) leaves him. The image of God that was put on him when he was created immediately runs away from him, and the only thing that remains is the beast that's in him. He's considered, at that moment, the beast, and

2:04:30and as long as he doesn't do teshuvah, he is like one who has no portion of the God of Israel and it's forbidden to even talk to him. Says Zohar Chadash, Parashat Vayechi, page 377b. Further, he becomes an evil beast and on each and every hair of his beard, there are 80,000 demons. Reposing themselves and calling him tamei, tamei, tamei. No, but I keep Shabbos, tamei. Yeah, but I learn Gemara once or twice a day, tamei. But I teach in a yeshiva, tamei. You may see that it's all going to the Sitra Achra.

2:05:31said that in Eruvin 37b, it says it would have been better for him if he would have died in the womb and never emerged into the air of the world. It would have been better for him if his hands were cut off so that he would never commit this evil act. When a person understands the magnitude of the sin, he understands why the sages say it's better for this person to die and It's better for this person to never come into the world. It's better for this person to understand the horrible things he brings to the world. All sins have repentance, except for this. Which means that charei teshuva are always open, but all of the other things that you're going to do teshuva for, Hashem will help you. That Hashem will help you do teshuva for everything except this. You waste seed, teshuva is on your own. Which is the reason why the Rambam says to do teshuva for wasting seed is the most difficult part of teshuva.

2:06:41to almost, it's almost impossible. Not impossible, almost. Meaning, you have to mamash be afraid, terrified, terrified of your own brit. Which, by the way, explains why many of the sages, practically all of them, were scared to go to sleep. They did not sleep because they had to learn all the time. They learned a lot, baruch Hashem. But my Rav explained to me that the Arizal, the Gaon of Vilna, David HaMelech himself, they didn't want to go to sleep. They were tired just like you and me. They were scared to go to sleep. Scared to go to sleep. Why? Scared because, in sleep, you don't have full control of your body. Yeah, but it's not on purpose. Who cares? It's not on purpose. It still creates damage. I didn't kill him on purpose. He still died. I didn't kill her on purpose. She still died. The outcome is the same. It's not that they didn't want to go to sleep. They were scared to go to sleep. David HaMelech, his Yirat Shamayim never allowed him to sleep more than 15 minutes.

2:07:55Fifteen minutes, David HaMelech never slept more than two hours a day total, but he wouldn't sleep more than a half hour straight. Why? He would never get into deep sleep. He was scared. I'm not recommending this, but this is to show you how much Yirat Shamayim they had from this sin. Accidental or not, it was not on purpose. We see in the Torah HaKedoshah that a minor is exempt from all punishment except this one. We see that Er and Onan, the sons of Yehuda, were each seven years old. They were seven years old. They sinned, and Hashem killed them. This is a pasuk in the Torah. Before the written Torah came to the world, they were seven! Hashem killed them. Shaliek Lucia, part 2, section 6. A drop of seed is the secret of the 27 letters of the Torah—22 regular Hebrew letters and five final letters. What are the odds of that? As it's written in the kavannot of Tikkun Chatzot, when a person sins...

2:09:25when a person spills his seed in vain, he's not called a Rasha, he's called Ra. Rasha is wicked, Ra is evil. Ra has a numerical value of 270. Meaning that when a person spills his seed, the damage is tenfold of the 27 letters of the Hebrew alphabet—22 regular and five final letters. Now, some of the things that The damage is tenfold of the 27 letters of the Hebrew alphabet—22 regular and five final letters. Now, some of the things that Because a person to waste seed I already went over in the previous shiur, but there's one particular thing that, unfortunately, is very common in today's drugged-up generation with the Xanax and other substances that people take just to stay afloat. They should know that when a person has Torah, the Torah is supposed to bring him joy. Having joy is not a recommendation; it's a must. Why?

2:10:29Because a person should be careful not to be sad or even sigh, not even have the, ah. Don't even say, ah, man. Don't even do that. Why? Sadness and sighing cause impurity, cause tumah, and an opening for who? The Satan's wife, who's in charge of wasting seed. Every single woman you see in your dream is her. We can't say her name; she's so dangerous that we're not even allowed to say her name. I could show you on paper what her name is. I think I've told you guys this before, but you don't have to say the name. Sometimes, I have people in the crowd who, when I mention it, say, "Oh, you mean..." and they say the name. Are you retarded? By the way, nine out of ten times, those people end up wasting seed that same night. I don't even have to ask them; I know that's what happens. When a person is sad, he's adopting her ways. He gives her power to do as she desires with him because he becomes hers, in so many words. She defiles him because he belongs to her and...

2:11:45It says in Genesis chapter 1 verse 11, "etz oseh peri" as I said. The grass that brings on seed. Don't read it as "oseh" rather "atzuv," meaning sadness. Sadness brings seed. The Zohar on page 37b says this is even more interesting. he thirsts; if his thirst is not satisfied, this issue of wasting seed gets worse over time. Why? Because once his thirst is not satisfied by wasting seed, he goes on to have homosexual or incestuous relations, and little by little the abomination before God continues to grow and It's the same thing that Rabbi Nachman of Breslov said. When a person damages their brit, the level of yesod, the foundation, is damaged, and the sitra achra takes from this person all of his Torah and all of his mitzvot. You just worked your whole life—20 years, 30 years, 40 years, 50 years, 60 years—mitzvot, and you had a weak moment. You had a weak moment. You just went to a woman you were not allowed to be with or you did it by yourself. All of the mitzvot, all of the Torah, everything you ever did for 60 years, gone. Where does it go? Sitra achra.

2:12:58damaged, and the sitra achra takes from this person all of his Torah and all of his mitzvot. You just worked your whole life—20 years, 30 years, 40 years, 50 years, 60 years—mitzvot, and you had a weak moment. You had a weak moment. You just went to a woman you were not allowed to be with, or you did it by yourself. All of the mitzvot, all of the Torah, everything you ever did for 60 years—gone. Where does it go? Sitra achra. You just gave everything you've worked for your whole life to Satan himself, Hashem Yerachem. Is it worth it for five seconds of pleasure? Forget the punishment. You just lost your entire reward. You're gonna go up to Shamayim and say, no, so what kind of mitzvot do you have? What do you mean? I learned yeshiva, I went to kollel, I went to this. Sorry. there's nothing here. What do you mean nothing here? I went. I had a yeshiva. No. Nothing here. If you want, we can check the Satan's cheshbon. We check his cheshbon. Maybe you're there. Maybe you're over there on that list.

2:14:11Nisho, look at you. Yeah, you did go to that kollel. Yeah, you did finish the Shas and you finished. Wow, nice. Oh, sorry. It doesn't belong to you anymore. It doesn't belong. Remember when you were 52 years old and you didn't want to listen and you did this, this and that and that five seconds of pleasure. Remember that? Okay, that's it. That's what happened. That's it. So there's no... It's not that Hashem is looking for a way to punish you. You have no reward. You lost it. It's gone. Bye. Is it worth it? Needless to say, the punishment of what comes to the person. Rabbi Yossi says in the Gemara Masechet Niddah, page 13a, a person that wastes seed is considered an idol worshiper. Lopa hot below you tell why because when you waste seed, it's the same exact action as the people that worship idols do or satanic people. They either bring seed from their seed or they bring blood. It's the same thing. Blood is actually even less of an essence of the person than the seed is. That's where you see all these satanic, sick people; they bring seed or blood for their idolatry and...

2:15:25A person who falsifies the covenant of circumcision, meaning the Gemara Brit, causes the Shechina, which is the unity of the Holy One, blessed be He, to abandon him. And this is replaced by a demon who rules over the person. Tikunei HaZohar, Tikkun 21. The Zohar HaKadosh, Parashat Pekudei, page 263b, says it's written that there exists a celestial being called Patot. Patot. And he induces people to look at forbidden places. There's a specific Yetzer Hara that tries to encourage you to look at all the places you're not allowed to look at, as men or as women. Where there is no need to look. Why did you look at that dress? For what? Were you going to buy a dress for yourself? What are you looking at the dress for? Why are you looking at the woman? Is she your wife? No, she's not your wife. Why are you looking at his daughter? Are you going to marry her? No. Why are you looking at all these things? There's an angel. His job is to try to get... No, no, look here. Look here. Look here. Look here. Look here. Look here. Constantly. After the person dies, Hashem, what He's about to say here.

2:16:36When a person is already buried, this same angel Patot comes to the grave, and he puts the neshamah back into the body. After they dig the grave even deeper, they put the neshamah back into the body to raise him up. And the first thing they do is they break the bones surrounding this person's eyes, and they take them out. afterwards they judged the person with heavy and severe lashes and judgment. God save us. Kav HaYashar, chapter 2. Why the eyes? Because the eyes were the beginning of all the sins. "If you do well, shall you not be accepted? And if you do not, sin lies at the entrance," Hashem says to Cain. It says this verse is referring to an opening. If you leave an opening for the Yetzer Hara, he'll take over you. Meaning, don't just think that once you overcame this sin, it's finished. No, don't even leave an opening. Don't even go to that place ever again. But the Zohar HaKadosh says no, it's not just this opening of not going back; there's an opening in your body, and...

2:18:02an opening in your body that if you don't watch it, if you don't guard it, all the sins in the world will come from it. Like Rebbe Nachman of Breslov says, for a little pleasure lasting a mere quarter of an hour, a person can lose this world and the next, and And he says depression, anxiety. People always take all these pills, Xanax, Percocets, whatever things are on the counter, off the counter, in the counter, whatever they can get themselves. Legal or illegal is irrelevant anymore because the legal is poison, the illegal apparently is not. Who knows what's going on in the world today? People take all this stuff. Why? They're all depressed, they're all anxious, they all have no idea what's going on. There's a very, very simple reason why. So it says that depression and anxiety are the main cause of sexual immorality. You're depressed. You have anxiety. There's a source for it. There's a source for it. The foundation of the covenant lies in joy. Now, you always ask, how come all these people have the audacity to go against the emet, go against rabbis that say the truth? There are so few of them. How could you go against it?

2:19:26Someone who knows that he's guilty of having wasted the drops of his very mind and soul should be careful not to get involved in any of the conflicts and disputes between the tzaddikim. He should believe in all of them. The various doubts and questions which arise in his mind when he sees tzaddikim in conflict with one another stem from the mental weakness he himself brought upon himself when he wasted seed. If his mind had not been flawed, nothing would trouble him at all. He should understand that all of their conflicts are really for his own benefit, to prompt him to examine and purify himself. A person sees certain big rabbis have a big machloket for Shamayim, not because one's a heretic and one is actually Adirat Shamayim. A real machloket between some of Beit Shammai and Beit Hillel. He says, ah, see, he doesn't know and he doesn't know, so I'm just going to do whatever I want. The only reason why you think such a horrible thought is

2:20:29because of the damage you caused your neshama, your mind. The underlying reason why we recite the Haggadah of Pesach in a loud voice is because the Haggadah is also a tikkun for the Brit. Because the original exile of Mitzrayim, of Egypt, was a result of the abuse of this covenant. The reason why we were actually in Egypt in the first place is because of immorality, and drinking the wine is a tikkun for the distortion in our consciousness which stems from sexual impurity. A person that has wasted seed in his life should cry out to God, scream, and cry out to Him over and over again. Just like a woman in labor cries out from pain from her contractions, seventy times she cries out. The Zohar HaKadosh says you must do likewise and cry out to God again and again until He takes pity and helps you strengthen yourself and break your desires. You don't have to go back to this garbage.

2:21:59Different tikkunim for this are given. As I told you before, there are many in the previous shiur. Some other things we didn't mention are: when you give charity, give charity for this specific thing—a lot of tzedakah for this. If a person only knew how much tzedakah he needs to give for this, he would realize that he literally has to even take his job seriously and not waste time. If you're already being hired to do a job, do your job right so you don't lose the opportunity. Why? Because that job, aside from paying your day-to-day expenses, should be used to fix your brit. Charity should be given specifically for this. One of the things that they say in the books that causes people to waste seed is actually dishonest rabbis. Judges, we saw this in the Gemara also, because they pervert the law and make people think that it's okay, or it's not bad. Now, for all of those people that keep talking about Mashiach, Mashiach, Mashiach, they should know that every Jew has a spark of the Mashiach in him.

2:23:23But this Mashiach has the Midat Ha'emet, the character trait of Ha'emet; he only cares about Hashem. This means that the spirit of Mashiach is jealous, just like Hashem. With the spirit of his mouth, he kills the Rasha. Who? Somebody who wastes seed; you have no chance. No chance if Mashiach comes. All these guys that stay single because they don't feel like getting married, of course, they have to be wasting seed, either by themselves or with an occasional date, and so on and so forth. You should know, you should pray for Mashiach not to come. Why? Because you're the first one in line, even before Saddam Hussein. A person that has constant anxiety is worried. They are scared of irrational things. They're scared that ISIS is going to come to their house in the middle of New York, in the middle of Florida, in the middle of Montana. ISIS is not coming to your house. The only reason why you think these irrational things is because of gam brit. Because of wasting seed, those demons are causing you to think of irrational things, which means that when a person protects their brit and

2:24:44They become totally free. They reach the ultimate enlightenment. They strip themselves of a leprous body they created for themselves and a skin of the serpent and are now clothed with a neshama. That's the equivalent of Shabbat clothes. We're almost finished. Finalize it all a person needs to know the following: Why should you protect your brit and why should you be modest? One, if you waste seed yourself or you cause other people to waste seed intentionally, on purpose, is irrelevant and... Your miniskirt caused people to get aroused. Your long wig caused people to get aroused. Your tight clothes caused people to get aroused. You decided to watch TV, watch a movie with immodesty in it, and so on. You should know this applies to you. One, the exile that we're in for 2,000 years of murdering Jews in public and massacres, Holocaust, pogroms, and so on, is going to be elongated because of you.

2:26:03Anyone who spills seed in vain on purpose doesn't merit to see the face of the Shechinah. When a person dies, he is supposed to see Hashem. However, after wasting seed, if he doesn't do teshuva, he will not see Hashem. He will only see bad things if he doesn't do teshuva. He will not rise in the resurrection of the dead. He brings death and plagues to the world. People that learn Torah but still waste seed because their teachers never told them otherwise, this prevents them from understanding the secrets of the Torah. You can learn Gemara from here until you're blue in the face; you're still never going to get to your full potential. It also brings a person to poverty. Now you're going to say, wait a minute, but there are a lot of Wall Street executives and Hollywood... Hollywood stars, so-called stars, stars of Sodom, they're promiscuous. They go with anything. Yes, you're right. They go with anything and they're not poor as far as money. Yes, but they're poor in everything else, and most of the time they either commit suicide or go bankrupt, or both. Just so you know, we have actually an old personal friend. We haven't talked to her in many years, but she was an assistant to many, many celebrities and...

2:27:19Powerful people, and she told us much. This was before we even knew anything about this stuff. She said, "Listen, all of these superstars, they have no wall. They have no line. They go with anything—men, women, each other's wives, each other's husbands. But the more powerful ones," she says, "they go with little kids too and other things." anything that moves. Why? How could such a thing be? How could such a thing be? Because when a person defiles their brit, defiles themselves, that means they broke all barriers. They've officially become a beast. And now there's no threshold. There's nothing holding them back, and it's just going to get worse and worse. We also saw this in the Torah. Where do we see this in the Torah? The Gemara in Masechet Rosh Hashanah, and actually many other places, talks about the kings. The kings of the Gentile nations, the wicked kings. Nebuchadnezzar used to have intimacy with animals. Belshazzar used to have intimacy with animals. Daryavesh, his wife was a dog.

2:28:30kings, kings, kings, people that have all the money in the world, power in the world, anything they want. He had, uh, Daryavesh had a throne for himself and a throne for his dog. Why a dog? He could get any woman he wanted, all of them if he wanted. No, no, no, not good enough. I know what the dog... We see this in today's world, rabotai. There's an entire ring, an entire ring created specifically to cater to these sick people that have a lot of money, a lot of desires, and are much like beasts, just for them to take advantage of little kids. That guy that did the movie Borat. I forgot what his name is, some comedian, a Jewish guy actually. He has this show that started, I don't know, some time ago, making fun of all types of people. He said that while making the show, they were going undercover. He pretended to be some powerful politician or something, and he went to Vegas just to see how far he could get. He was like, "Oh, can I get this? Can I get that?" Just pushing the lines because in Vegas, you know, they say anything you want, you can get there. And...

2:29:40anything you want, you can get there. So he said, "Oh, I want this." They got him this. "I want this." They got him this. And then he said, "Let me see how far I can go with this so-called service." He says, "I want a nice little eight-year-old to have some fun with," which is illegal everywhere. They said, "Yeah, we can take care of that." He didn't show this on his show. He says that as soon as they saw this, they had a camera recording this guy saying there's no problem with giving him kids to do whatever he wants with. We know that there is mamash, the ring of pedophilia, has a station here in Las Vegas. In a regular hotel, you get whatever you want. All they want is money to fulfill their filthy, disgusting desires. Also, a person needs to know that if he doesn't watch his eyes, he's not going to watch his brit. If he doesn't watch his brit, he's going to have evil sons. Resha'im.

2:30:40Because they're just like him, they'll end up becoming heretics, reformers, and atheists, God forbid. The Zohar continues. The Zohar says all of this, and now we're going to go into the Gemara and also other parts of the Zohar. The Gemara, Masechet Niddah, page 13, says a person that even holds Dei Brit is bringing Mabul l'Olam. He's bringing the flood to the world. He's considered as if he spilled blood. It's as if he's serving an idol. He's liable to the death penalty. He's considered to have a major mum. He's considered like a ba'al mum, like he has a deformity in him. He's considered as if he's on Karem. In Masechet Kallah, it says he has no share in the World to Come. He has no portion in the God of Israel. The Holy One, blessed be He, is more jealous for this sin than any other sin. The Zohar HaKadosh in Parashat Noach says all the trouble that befalls a person is caused by this sin. Tikunei HaZohar, page 57, states his soul goes to complete waste because he could never leave Gehenom. The Gemara in Masechet Rosh Hashanah, page 17...

2:32:07says that a person that's a rasha goes to Gehenom. But there are certain people that go to a special place. What happens to these people? They shine, going to the minute they're taken home. The completely wicked are written and sealed immediately for Gehenom, and It stated, "And many of those who sleep in the dusty earth will awaken, these for everlasting life and these for shame, for everlasting abhorrence." But what about the ones that are special? Says the heretics, the apikorsim, informers, the people that denied the Torah, that did... sins of the Torah before Hashem, meaning they drove on Shabbat, wasted seed on purpose, and things of that nature. Even if they just come forth but don't believe in the resurrection of the dead, like Yochanan ben Zakai and his friends, they descend to Gehinnom and are punished there for all eternity, and

2:33:34And they will go out and see the corpses of the men who rebelled against Me, for their decay will not cease and their fire, the fire that consumes them, will not be extinguished, the prophet Isaiah says. So for all of those people that think that Gehinnom doesn't last forever, it's in the Gemara. It's not just Zohar or Kabbalistic books. It's in the Gemara, page 17, and it's actually in other places as well. Teshuva for the sin is the hardest of all teshuva because the person is putting his soul in the hands of the Sitra Achra. He will not live in the seventh millennium, which is Yemei HaMashiach, Olam HaBa. And even when he says Kriyat Shema, the Tikunei HaZohar says, it will not be heard. Ad kan is the scary stuff. Now all of you need to know,

2:34:35All of this scary stuff is for your benefit. It's for your own good. It's for you to remember. It's not worth it to be immodest. It's not worth it to waste seed. It's not worth it to do it one time or half a time or two times or an imaginary time. It's simply not worth it. And the only way that we're going to be able to overcome this giant yetzer hara is if we treat the Torah like it's supposed to be treated. As Shlomo HaMelech says in Proverbs chapter 2, "My child, if you accept my words and treasure my commandments," with yourself to make your ears attentive to wisdom, incline your heart to understanding. For only if you call out to understanding and give forth your voice to discernment, if you seek it as if it were silver, if you search for it as if it were hidden treasures, then you will understand the fear of Hashem and discover the knowledge of God. For Hashem grants wisdom from His mouth to bring knowledge and understanding.

2:35:45The point is, if we take even the stuff that's hard for us to hear, like it's treasure. You know what? This is treasure. Why is it treasure? It's gonna save me from Gehinnom. It's gonna save me from Kaf HaKela. It's gonna save me from punishment in this world. It's gonna save me from having horrible kids, a horrible marriage, horrible everything. Once you start treating this like it's gonna save your eternity, then it becomes much easier to overcome all the obstacles—all the yetzer hara, your friends, your family, your colleagues, your eyes, your ears, your whatever, and... It becomes much easier. Why? Because you realize it's simply not worth it. It's not worth it. Hashem says Kedoshim Tihyu, not as advice. Be holy, not as advice. As an expectation. So, some of the suggestions I can give people, as far as some things that I've mentioned to people privately but not in the shiurim, to overcome this. If a person has, especially guys, has a desire to do it, the Gemara says, say Shema Yisrael first. If that doesn't work, go open a book, start learning Torah. If that doesn't work, start thinking about this shiur or the shiur about Gehenom that talks about what's going to happen to you once you die. Sometimes even all those three things don't work. So you can add some other things I'm going to mention to you now.

2:37:05One thing is that when a person gets hot, the first thing you need to do is get yourself cold. Go, run into the shower, cold shower, no hot at all, cold shower. Sometimes this is going to be just enough to cool you off and you're going to get back to normal. ...so, cold shower it is. If that doesn't work, then take your fingers and pinch yourself in a sensitive place on your body—the back of your thigh or the back of your arm. Don't cause yourself damage and bleeding; it's not necessary. Just enough pain to stop and get yourself to think about something else. Now, aside from that, you have to also reward yourself... Overcoming this, not by buying yourself a new car every day, but rather by writing a journal. Every day that you overcome it, one day passes. The next morning, when you wake up after you do your prayers and everything else, think about how good you feel that you overcame another day. Write down that good feeling in a journal—one sentence, five sentences, whatever you need to describe yourself and describe that feeling. Why do you do this? Because you're going to need this book.

2:38:15When? The next time the yetzer hara comes back and you're already going for 60 days, for 90 days, for six months, for a year and a half. The yetzer hara is not on vacation just because you're on vacation. He's going to wait for you, sometimes 20 years. But if you're writing this journal for a long time, he's going to come back and say, wait, hold on a second. You know what? You make a lot of sense, yetzer hara, but let me see. Hold on a second. Hold on. I like what you're saying. Hold on a second. It sounds good. One second. Wait, but this makes more sense. You make sense, yetzer hara, but your cents are really pennies. This is dollars. This is millions. Why? I remember how I felt on day number 18, day number 19, day number 61, day number 187. Look, I wrote it. I wrote how I feel after all these times. I want that feeling because I know how I feel after I listen to you. Hashem, all of this is the opposite. It's not worth it. It's simply not worth it. So you take yourself, you write yourself a little journal. That's another way that you can overcome this.

2:39:19Remind yourself constantly of everything we learned in these shiurim. I have a whole playlist on our YouTube channel, on the website. There's actually a tab that Saniyat Tzaddik made for us called Wasting Seed. Why? All of the shiurim about wasting seed are over there. You should be watching those shiurim on a monthly basis. Men, women, children, adults, rabbis, talmidim—everybody should be watching these shiurim. It has nothing to do with me. It's just easier to watch the shiur that's going to give you 150 to 300 sources than to go look at each individual source yourself and look for that one line that's going to give you l'Shamayim. Watch these shiurim. Some of them are long, some of them are short, but you should be watching these shiurim on a regular basis. constantly remind yourself it's not worth it. It's not enough to do it one time or two times or five times. It's not enough that you did it while you were single and now you stop when you are married. By the way, everybody who thinks that this sin goes away once you get married is wrong. In fact, I have more people that are addicted to it that I'm trying to help who are married than the ones that are single.

2:40:30Marriage doesn't solve this problem like some people think. Oh, no, no, just get married as soon as possible. It'll solve the problem. It's not true. It doesn't solve the problem. Number one, you still have to deal with the fact that she's niddah for half the month. What are you going to do? I have many guys, grown men, tell me, "Listen, I do everything good, but when she's niddah, I can't take it." That's the test, you moron. What do you mean you do everything good? It's like saying I eat kasher as long as I'm in the house, but as soon as I go outside, I don't eat kasher. What do you mean? But that's the test. That's the test when you're out there, when it's tough. That's the test. So you have to have it in your mind. You have to be scared to death. You have to remind yourself of this stuff. Marriage is not going to fix that problem. What's going to fix that problem is being afraid to lose everything: your relationship with Hashem, your marriage, your kids. Your kids are going to ask Hashem what's going to happen to them, what they're going to be. Why? Because this is what you're doing to yourself. You can't blame Hashem for this. You have a kid that's coming out with something missing. It's not Hashem's fault. It's not Hashem's fault.

2:41:39So, you have to understand these things that are hard to hear are the only things that are going to protect us. It's the only thing. If you're not scared for your brit, you're not going to treat it with respect. You're going to look at it whenever you want. Which brings me to the next point that I've actually seen help many, many people far beyond what you would think. As I advised you to do what Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi said and what he did in his life. Rabbi HaKadosh was called HaKadosh because he never looked at his own brit. Not only did he not touch it, he never looked at it. Why not look at it? If you look at it, you become comfortable with it. So what do you do to clean yourself? You don't need to touch yourself to clean yourself. First and foremost, use a sponge. That's not exactly an expensive endeavor. You go to the dollar store, you get one for a dollar. If you need, we'll start a fundraiser for you to get the dollar. Okay, get a sponge. That's number one. Number two, you don't need to actually touch the corona when you clean yourself. The reality is, most people say, "No, it's for hygienic reasons." You know, yeah, okay, buddy. I'm a guy also. You don't need to. It's not a problem. Same thing with women. Don't get comfortable with yourself.

2:42:58Don't get comfortable with yourself. There's no reason to get comfortable. You have to do your business, clean whatever you need to clean. Of course, their body is completely the opposite of ours, but don't get comfortable with yourself. Also, make sure your kids are not comfortable with themselves. I have little kids, little kids that don't realize it's bad. Their parents let them do whatever they want, and they have an addiction already before they're 12. And then people ask, why is there so much tragedy in the world? There's so much tragedy because we're killing already without knowing. You want to be holy, you have to do things like this that are difficult, and no one is ever going to give you credit for it except Hashem. Why? Because no one knows you're doing it. If you're looking for mitzvot that everyone sees, that's not going to make you a tzaddik. That's not going to make you righteous. In fact, it may be the opposite sometimes. To be a real tzaddik, to be kadosh, to be a holy person, requires you to do things that you're not going to get any credit for from anyone except Hashem. The things that you do in closed rooms, the things you do in the bathroom. This, rabotai, is extremely important for Am Yisrael to know. Unfortunately, we're left with only me to tell you.

2:44:14But listen, if there were a thousand people saying the same thing, you wouldn't need to hear this shiur. And I'll give you a shiur that scares you in a different way. But if that's what we have in this generation, that's what we have. Baruch Hashem that we have the merit to do something. But the reality is there should be a thousand rabbis screaming and crying their hearts out, telling Am Yisrael to stop destroying themselves. These divorces, all of the heresy, all of the atheism, all of the conversions to different religions, all of this Zionist communist mentality— all of it starts with this. We destroy our own beit. We're destroying our own nation. That's exactly what we thought we left behind in Egypt in last week's parasha. We thought we left Egypt. Because Egypt was symbolic of wasting seed and all of the sex crimes. The reality is we're just as bad today as we were back then. But today we have information. We have a solution. You simply have to watch yourself. There are different websites and apps

2:45:25They're going to help guys watch their eyes. If you know yourself, that as soon as you look at something, as soon as you look at somebody, you're going to have all types of thoughts. They're going to even lead you to a dream or something like that. Go onto websites like Guard Your Eyes and some other similar websites. We're going to get a list of them. They're going to publish soon. One of the tzaddikim from Canada is putting a list together for us to publicize for people. So you have different resources for how to watch your eyes. The reality is some of these tools are useful for some people and not useful for others. You can't have this software on some computers because you need it for work or other reasons. The reality is that you have to do everything you can to protect yourself. But at the end of it all, if you're not afraid to death, nothing will help you. I have one guy, Baruch Hashem, that we helped. Both Hashem and now I think he's going maybe two years already with it, but he used to tell me, "Listen, I went to yeshiva. I went to kollel. I learned all day. I learned this, I did everything possible. I didn't even have a phone." He said the phone that I had is a phone from the years of Antiochus.

2:46:39So what happened? He says, but once a month I would go to my mom's house or some relative's house to visit, and they had a computer there or a phone there or something, and I couldn't wait to go visit this relative that I couldn't stand just to go use their computer, like Hashem do what I wanted. Meaning that all of these tools, the software and the phone, all that stuff, it's all good. But if you don't have yirat Shamayim, if you're not scared to death to destroy your relationship with Hashem, to destroy your olam hazeh, to destroy your olam haba, at some point you're going to fail. You have to be scared. How? By going over this information over and over and over again, and realizing that Hashem gave you the ability to enjoy life physically, emotionally, spiritually, and so on. But there are permissible ways and there are forbidden ways. Once you understand the consequences of every action, you start realizing it's simply not worth it.

2:47:51So this, B'ezrat Hashem, hopefully will give you some more ideas of what to do when the Yetzer Hara arrives. There are many other ideas that I remember having, B'ezrat Hashem, on this. So anyone that needs even more ideas of how to stop it or what to do, B'ezrat Hashem, I'm more than happy to help if you're a very serious person. But again, remember, the key is Yirat Shamayim. If you don't have Yirat Shamayim, nothing can help you. Nothing can help you. Even Hashem Himself is limited and He can't help you. Why? If you're not afraid of Him, He can't help you. Any questions? We have our next shiur on Tuesday at the Breslov Center in Aventura. B'ezrat Hashem, we will have the shiur, a regular shiur about Pirkei Avot series. This concludes our next installment of Wasting Seed. B'ezrat Hashem, we have some other information to... We'll do it again, maybe next week, maybe the following week, whenever Hashem gives us the information. Baruch Adonai le'olam, amen ve'amen.