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- 0:00Clearly say this idea that the beer has tea.
- 0:04To be a dedicated person, you have to weigh very well and to
- 0:09actually analyze the two sides as follows.
- 0:14Now the classic exam, like we said, not always is all good.
- 0:18So good. I was so bad, so bad.
- 0:21The example he brings is Abaya Tashani during the second
- 0:25Bethlehem Dosh. We know it was a short because
- 0:28of that story of this individual comes at bar comes on.
- 0:32What was the exact story? It was a person who had an enemy
- 0:39who was invited to he had an enemy and he was making a party
- 0:43and he sent an invitation to the wrong individual who always
- 0:46comes at one with bar comes at very similar name.
- 0:49Some say they were even father and son and he invited one the
- 0:53wrong one and that one showed up to his enemies party.
- 0:57And as the general says, the host of the party says leave.
- 1:01The guy says once I came, I mean to stay, I'll pay for my food.
- 1:06There's no go and get embarrassed.
- 1:08And then then the host of the person to the guest says I'll
- 1:12pay for half the party, I'll pay for the whole party.
- 1:15And the host is absolutely not. You have to leave.
- 1:17And he's getting embarrassed and embarrassed and he leaves.
- 1:19This guest leaves furious and he's especially furious at the
- 1:23rabbis for being by the party and not saying anything.
- 1:27He doesn't get everyone back. So he goes over to the king, the
- 1:30Caesar or whatever was and he doesn't.
- 1:32The Jewish people, they don't like you and they wouldn't even
- 1:36serve your Qurban if you would bring it in the bed and make
- 1:39dash, which is not true. Jews at the time we have a
- 1:43pasuka, tells us we would serve and deliver Quran, not on Goem
- 1:47we would. So the king said no, they would
- 1:50send it. This Jew says it's very angry.
- 1:52He says they would not send it and the candy says they were
- 1:56tested and the king sends a qurban on the way to the bed to
- 2:01Macdash is the whole story. And this furious Jew goes ahead
- 2:08and makes a blemish in the animal, but not a simple moon.
- 2:12He makes a moon in the area which according to Halaha is the
- 2:16kind of moon that we consider a blemish.
- 2:18We would not serve in our bed to Macdash, but the Gahim who also
- 2:23have rules of blemishes, they wouldn't notice this blemish.
- 2:27It was a spot in the eye, but Duke and Shibai and it's an area
- 2:30in the eye was to go in, did not consider it a flaw in the
- 2:33animal. And we do so here now is a
- 2:36perfect storm. Here's an animal on the way to
- 2:38the bed to Mcgash with the King's things that's supposed to
- 2:41be served, going to be served. And the Jews are not serving it
- 2:44and not serving it, not because it was sent by the going, but
- 2:48rather because as a blemish. Oh, very perfect.
- 2:51It's on its way and now it gets to the rabbis to the bathroom.
- 2:55We dodge and other debating should they serve it even though
- 2:58it has a blemish which is against the rule or should they
- 3:01not? And one of the options was maybe
- 3:04kill the messenger who was involved in delivering this
- 3:08animal at the moon so doesn't go back to the king and the king
- 3:10would never know if this korma wasn't accepted.
- 3:13They have a bunch of options on the table.
- 3:14Either serve it with the moon to the messenger and one of the
- 3:18rabbis said, no, no, we can't serve it because you can't allow
- 3:22people to think that an animal with a blemish going to the bed
- 3:26to mitash. So what you do instead?
- 3:30No, they didn't have that option.
- 3:31What you do instead? Kill the messenger.
- 3:33We can't kill the messenger because we can't let people
- 3:35believe that you kill individuals for making blemishes
- 3:39and let it lead to a wrong precedent.
- 3:41So what they do instead, basically the rabbi there was
- 3:44being very Tammy and very sweet and very careful, didn't kill
- 3:50the messenger, didn't serve the Qurban, too scared both ways.
- 3:55Instead what they do, they just didn't accept the Qurban.
- 3:59That made the king furious and that got him started being
- 4:03attacking us and destroyed out by Tommy, Josh and the Gavin
- 4:06says where did that with destruction come from?
- 4:09It came from the righteousness. These are the words, the
- 4:13righteousness of one of the rabbis involved who said don't
- 4:16do this and don't do that. Don't serve the Qurban, don't
- 4:20kill the messenger. So righteousness, serve the
- 4:24Quran anyway. Maybe kill the messenger anyway,
- 4:27doing things that are a little bit rough.
- 4:29Let's see if they go outside. Amru second line Savuda Brownlee
- 4:34Crovet. The robbers wanted to serve the
- 4:36Quran. The rabbi said.
- 4:40Yo Muru, people are going to believe.
- 4:45People are going to believe in a ballroom person with a blemish.
- 4:50Thank you is an animal with a blemish is allowed to be served
- 4:54in the back. We can't accept this Qurban,
- 4:57Savuddin Miktele. They decide they want to instead
- 5:00kill the person who delivered the qurban rather D'oro made the
- 5:05blemish. He really was a very tricky
- 5:07person. If you think about, he is the
- 5:09guy creating problems. Amarlou ABI Zakhadi Abdakulus,
- 5:13Rabbi ABI Zakari Abdakulus said again.
- 5:16He pipes up because he can't kill the person.
- 5:19People. I mean, I think you kill
- 5:20individuals making blemishes. Yemru.
- 5:23Meh. Teal muma Kashimi ore Any 2
- 5:27inside. All right.
- 5:38You too. Oh, they got to Bankaf, Bankaf
- 5:45Palafo Torres Shaw virginities, You know, through this process
- 5:50of these rabbi, this one rabbi actually twice saying don't act,
- 5:55don't serve the Qurban with a blemish.
- 5:58You can't do that. People can have the wrong press.
- 6:00Don't kill the messenger or maybe the bloom.
- 6:03The movement can't do that. Like the wrong person, don't
- 6:07act. What's the better option in
- 6:09action? You know what that resulted in?
- 6:12That resulted in someone going back to the king and telling him
- 6:15king the Jews don't accept your animal.
- 6:19The king thought it's not true and he's proved me looked.
- 6:22It only said the animal king didn't realize there was a
- 6:24blemish and the king therefore was led to believe.
- 6:29I mean what happens is the king was led to believe that a kurban
- 6:32sent by a king by a non Jew. It's like that example of the of
- 6:37the flying the soup. The deeper Jew will not accept
- 6:40your stuff. And this made the king furious.
- 6:43Bottom line, who bangka who bangka halacha to Allah Shah
- 6:47because of this this non this Jew who was very upset went over
- 6:50to the king and said the shened himself and he this shot us and
- 6:55said the Jews people won't accept your Qurban.
- 6:58What happened? Bah Khazar came, the king came
- 7:01to Caesar, the Caribbean and the shortish lamb.
- 7:04This is the most perfect example because it's a story of a rabbit
- 7:09who is being pious, who's being soft, who's saying don't act.
- 7:14I'm afraid what it's going to lead to not recognizing the fact
- 7:17that by not acting, by not making a move either to serve
- 7:21the Quran with the blemish in this scenario or to kill the
- 7:25messenger who made the blemish. By not doing one of those two
- 7:27actions, you're allowing for a king to get triggered and
- 7:32destroy the Bethemaidas, the Kurban bethemaidas.
- 7:35The real trigger of the destruction of Bethemaidas came
- 7:38from a Jew being sweet, a Jew being soft.
- 7:44It's a wild concept, but it's a very important concept that's
- 7:47weighing the implementation and the concepts of weighing the
- 7:52ideas of Hasidut. What does it mean to be a Hasid?
- 7:56Hasid means to be righteous. But how do you know what's
- 7:59righteous? You realize in this case the
- 8:03righteous. Now let me give you an example.
- 8:05Modern day is war righteous? Is war righteous?
- 8:12Great things always war. War righteous thing.
- 8:16What's more destructive, war or lack of war on a certain sense,
- 8:24your certain sense and natural reaction, is war.
- 8:27War kills. And many times it's true, war
- 8:30does kill war. But sometimes war is, you know,
- 8:34survival. Sometimes war is protection.
- 8:38In fact, it is America. We built on the fact that a few
- 8:41men or crew, whatever it was, decided to go to war and to have
- 8:46action, to do action. So you might have thought of
- 8:49them as aggressive men. They might also be considered
- 8:52freedom fighters. And this is always a question.
- 8:55And we know it can go both ways. We know terrorists consider
- 8:57themselves freedom fighters, and we know grave people treat
- 9:01themselves as freedom fighters, as war.
- 9:03We know the Israeli soldiers will go out to war.
- 9:07Some of those people are nice people in the world, right?
- 9:10And what are they doing? They're they're mine, clearly
- 9:13what they're doing is they're protecting.
- 9:21It's the concept, right? His idea, the humility, the
- 9:29pious pity our great rabbi destroyed the and burnt our hell
- 9:35and sent us into exile. Because sometimes war action,
- 9:41tough moves are par sweet and pious and beautiful and
- 9:48protective move, right? So all I meant of allowing Alma
- 9:53like the one king of Alma like to survive for one night and
- 9:57allowing Alma like to reproduce was trying to be in a certain
- 10:01sense, sensitive Alma like he was human Masada to kill Amalek,
- 10:05right? And Masada was to wipe away the
- 10:08entire thing and only, well, the only person he left alive was my
- 10:11God, the menace on my life, the king himself, that's it.
- 10:15He had been solidly killed and he fell bad for killing this one
- 10:19king left the king alive that night, the king reproduced, and
- 10:23the rest is history. We still have my leg.
- 10:24We can say how much destruction is on my leg performed over the
- 10:27last couple of 1000 years because they survived all of the
- 10:31European destruction in the last 1000 years, right?
- 10:36Besides the fact that we deal with Arabs today, our biggest
- 10:39enemy overtime was all the European things, the programs,
- 10:44the million things, the Grams and Nazis.
- 10:47Think my creed, where did it all come from?
- 10:50One person who is nice, a Green Man by the way, who is nice to
- 10:56one individual, thinking to himself, what harm is he going
- 10:59to come? If I leave the King of Almighty
- 11:01Life for a night, the harm's going to come.
- 11:04You know what harm came? Yeah, exactly.
- 11:07It sounds crazy, the entire destruction in Europe.
- 11:10Now, I shame all the hell the tools it could have used for the
- 11:13entire destruction of the Europe of Europe came at the hands of
- 11:17Amalek. At the hands of whom?
- 11:19At the hands of one man being nice.
- 11:24And that's the beauty of this concept sometimes.
- 11:27And there's something we all have to learn.
- 11:28Sometimes being nice is being destructive and sometimes being
- 11:31destructive as being nice. YouTube with their army that you
- 11:35can do. You can do like you can do
- 11:37Korami dude, I think just to make sure you get the Gadisi's
- 11:43after you know, it's up to you guys, but I'm actually get the
- 11:46Gadisi after you might as well he was stick around regardless.
- 11:50You don't have to. You don't have to.
- 11:52Guy. Oh, it's up.
- 11:57To you guys? Yeah.
- 11:59One more person, No team. All right, we'll go back all
- 12:11corner. This is a team.
- 12:12And the idea is across the board.
- 12:15You have a million times, so many times where someone says
- 12:19no, no, don't make a comment. Yesterday we discussed how
- 12:23people make decisions to get involved in fights.
- 12:25And very often it's it's the hero mentality which is
- 12:27dangerous. The inverse is this, People make
- 12:32a decision not to say anything because they want to be quiet
- 12:36and they don't want to be aggressive, and they feel like
- 12:39it's an aggressive mood is a bad mood.
- 12:41That's a nice thing in general, and maybe you'll be a sweeter
- 12:44person, but you can be allowing so much instruction to have by
- 12:48being sweet and not being aggressive.
- 12:51Every person has an understanding and the balance
- 12:55has to be guarded by the truth, not by their emotions.
- 12:58The most classic example we have maybe in our history of a person
- 13:02going the other way of being aggressive when they're
- 13:05inclination would not to be aggressive is would be the
- 13:09example. You know of all the back to the
- 13:12beginning. I get eyes truck around.
- 13:15We know as a man of sweet has hit kindness, sensitivity care
- 13:20and he went ahead and was given a mitzvah about that it's cock
- 13:25and he wasn't just giving them a try.
- 13:26He's also given a lot of murky, not clear vision as to what's
- 13:32right, what's wrong, and a reason to believe that it's
- 13:34probably the more right thing to do to not act and leave this out
- 13:39alone. But he went ahead and followed
- 13:42God's vision and God's Word. And even though he wasn't
- 13:45really, you know, had a lot of mixed messages and Satan was
- 13:49very powerful at the time, he went ahead.
- 13:50He listened to God's Word. You know the God.
- 13:53Right, Start access. It's not even Satan, it's God's
- 13:56word. Listen to God's Word came over.
- 13:58So that's the scenario where a person is topping into his
- 14:01aggressive side because it's got work.
- 14:03Even though his whole makeup was one of being nice, of being
- 14:08sweet, of being caring, being sensitive.
- 14:11His entire life was that. I mean, he had a House of hesit
- 14:15door open to hesit. He would carry, you know, we
- 14:18know the most classic example of sitting there in the baking hot
- 14:23heat, right right up to the ME law and wanting us to come at
- 14:27the scenario of someone being so sensitive and so caring.
- 14:30And yet, yeah, this position is life by Akhenat cock.
- 14:33He's forced to be the opposite. And that seems like a big deal.
- 14:36It's a big deal if you're guided by your emotions.
- 14:39It's not a big deal that you're guided by being a real hussy,
- 14:42which is a person that makes a decision to write, overrun and
- 14:46do what Hashem wants, not what feels good.
- 14:48And this is the theme over over and over again.
- 14:52To be a pious person is not me to be assault first, nor does it
- 14:58mean to be actually aggressive 1st and rather than means do
- 15:01what God wants. What's the idea?
- 15:04All real together inside. Don't decide whether your act is
- 15:24good or not good based on the simple situation in front of you
- 15:28where the rabbi was thinking, how can I serve a Qurban with a
- 15:30moon? How can I kill the person who
- 15:34made a moon? I'm going to lead people to
- 15:35think the wrong thing. Think deeper, Rabbi.
- 15:38The king sent it. The Caesar sent it.
- 15:41He's the rule of the whole world, or at least a major part
- 15:44of the world, and he has the temper.
- 15:47Beware, Rabbi. What do you?
- 15:49We'll dig deeper. Does it make sense to allow this
- 15:52person to be upset based on your law?
- 15:57I'm sure there's a a a loophole to allow one time could bound
- 16:01with a blemish to protect the amicel Right after the lefroat
- 16:05call baho eat to turn to both sides.
- 16:08Which a way of saying you need to look at both parts of the
- 16:12situation. Look call us dadim at both
- 16:16sides. She how Sehlhadam little what
- 16:20where the mind of a person can see.
- 16:23I'd see a dune bam it is it here Shard you attend until you can
- 16:28decide which one is better. How many times we have this in
- 16:33our life and things look like the right decision, but if you
- 16:36think a little further, it turns out to be the wrong decision.
- 16:39How many many times we have this and all those times it's all
- 16:43dependent on thinking beyond the basic ha CR whether to act or
- 16:51pretty sharp, whether or not to act had to have to decide OK,
- 16:56hand sides over and over again, whether it be like I said,
- 17:00there's cases of making peace or it'll be the cases of making a
- 17:05comment. For example, over the course of
- 17:08history, there have been many protests.
- 17:11Protests Are protests A productive thing in the world or
- 17:15are they destructive thing in the world?
- 17:17We're living through all right now.
- 17:18And nurses stride, right? Productive or destructive.
- 17:22I don't know if their their motive is good or not good.
- 17:26I'm not a nurse. I don't know if the arguments
- 17:28are fair. I don't know.
- 17:30It's really rough to leave people hanging in the hospital.
- 17:32OK, fine. But throughout history, strikes
- 17:36have played a major role, right? Protists have made a major
- 17:39difference. And if you do away with protists
- 17:43according to the Constitution, you'd be doing away with part of
- 17:45the structure of the United States of America.
- 17:47And the reason it was instituted is possibly because it has a
- 17:51very productive upside does if you cut that out of the world
- 17:56and those who are in control, those who are monopolizing the
- 17:58system, right, they would have a full control.
- 18:03What these protests are proving to you is and if they don't
- 18:06really have any other means besides they're doing it's
- 18:08stopping for holding out as to prove it.
- 18:12Whether it be a strike in sports was changed sports over and over
- 18:15again, or protests in these different unions and business or
- 18:21whatever it may be. It's a lot beyond that though,
- 18:22that these nurses, they're even that they're demonstrating it's
- 18:27saving lives because they're understaffed, most of them, and
- 18:32it's could save a life with all of them.
- 18:34That's the. Argument.
- 18:36There's a big argument there. There's definitely an argument
- 18:38to be high, but overall the theme across the board, how many
- 18:42times history or process made a difference?
- 18:43I mean he made worldly difference.
- 18:46See, even though it thinks like every time I said witness
- 18:48protest and over the last number of years that we've seen many
- 18:52ridiculous protests, whether it be the BLMS or the anti Israel
- 18:58ones of these things, it made impossible and they've been
- 19:02ridiculous and they've stopped the traffic and disrupted the
- 19:06way of life and they've been very weird and crazy, hysterical
- 19:10and all these different things. However, those applications are
- 19:14definitely wrong. We can say that unequivocally,
- 19:17but the concept has a sense of crude to it, which is it creates
- 19:22change. Change that they want is wrong,
- 19:25fine, but it the hazard ballot to create change, to make a
- 19:28major effect. Boycotts, protests, all these
- 19:33different things. And they kept the world at Bay.
- 19:36They kept it at two sides. That's really in the purpose of
- 19:38it. And that is every time you
- 19:40witness one of these protests, you looked at them and he said
- 19:42that's disgusting, that's terrible.
- 19:44They're blocking traffic, they're making hysteria.
- 19:47They're very upsetting, but you're right, if not for that,
- 19:51they'll have no voice and they'll not be able to get their
- 19:55outcome developed, which in many times is bad outcome.
- 20:00But at third times history, I'm not you know, well versed type
- 20:04of history to know those times, but there definitely have been
- 20:07times that these protests have made a major productive
- 20:10difference and even though it comes from aggression.
- 20:13And even though because of people who are not working and
- 20:15people who are doing things that seem like they're crazy, you
- 20:18know, holding signs, and you say yourself, who's going to pick
- 20:20it? Who's going to hold signs?
- 20:21Who's going to get upset like that?
- 20:23You know what? These people are making a
- 20:25difference. And that is two sides of pity.
- 20:29Two sides are being pious all you pious, because you're so of
- 20:34all you pious who are being aggressive.
- 20:36And go to state of Israel, they are going on the lefty yeah,
- 20:39that did terrorism on on the British to get the country.
- 20:43They had no choice. Right, there's all the things
- 20:45that are exactly and and you know, even today, when the other
- 20:50side, whatever within the side that does these protests against
- 20:53whatever it may be over there, when they protesting against the
- 20:56government regarding the hostages, you don't think it
- 20:59helped. It might have put some pressure.
- 21:01And now when they protest regarding the the the army in
- 21:06that world, it also helps. Good thing, bad thing
- 21:08discussion, but it's effective. It's crazy when they had these
- 21:12discussions about autopsies in Israel and they had these
- 21:16brothers. If you know, recently when I was
- 21:17there, it was these protests. Against.
- 21:20Against autos, again, these are they're very controversial
- 21:23topics, but again they having an effect.
- 21:27There's no way around. I was there and people have, I
- 21:29was over here in the discussion, people were asking do you think
- 21:32it has an effect? And they were saying, what do
- 21:34you think? If not for those, for this, they
- 21:37would have with us, no question and everybody.
- 21:41But they protest it all the time and they stop through these
- 21:43protests. Again, you have to debate the
- 21:47right or wrong. But overall the theme is a
- 21:50theme. The aggressive is sometimes
- 21:54productive and sweet is sometimes destructive.
- 21:58It's not the way we think. The first doesn't always
- 22:01destroy, right? And the hand helping out doesn't
- 22:05always help her. Very, very often it's the
- 22:08opposite. That's what he's telling me to
- 22:09be here. I can Sadiq, he's riding up the
- 22:12gap. I come with a that's if tough.
- 22:16Another example is give her a review.
- 22:19But we're just giving an example, gentlemen, example was
- 22:21example of protests. All right, when we said is
- 22:24protests a good thing or a bad thing?
- 22:26And the reality is it's created a lot of production in the world
- 22:29or it is example of a year. Give her a rebuke.
- 22:32I've seen people give rebuke. And in the old days you went to
- 22:36a shul. I knew you were a Gazan and your
- 22:39husband not properly. The old man would tell you off
- 22:44afterwards, right? And I used to remember after
- 22:48I've had that many times, if I said very few times in my heart,
- 22:50but I remember the old man saying things and whatever and,
- 22:54and, and at first eating his self.
- 22:55Come on, he's a kid. He's eating up to he's doing a
- 22:59good thing. Let him go.
- 23:01You're breaking his confidence. You're destroying his self
- 23:03esteem. All those comments true, but you
- 23:06know what he would never learn ever if not for those people
- 23:09saying those comments. Now you have to be a good night.
- 23:12A sweet old man when no one's going to get insulted.
- 23:15You can't be a guy who makes the same mistakes yourself, that's
- 23:17clear. But there is a place for those
- 23:20comments. There is a place.
- 23:21But I I I'm an anti you. Don't make.
- 23:24Those you you. Don't you?
- 23:25Now go. I'll let it go.
- 23:26I'll give another example. A grandparent.
- 23:29OK, one of my favorite things, the grandparents.
- 23:31Grandparents right, go go for it all right, like we said give me
- 23:46a rebuke grandparents I my humble opinion has always been
- 23:50my grandparents. They should have rebuked that
- 23:53offered why because the children are not going to like to be
- 23:56around them. And the reason you say what
- 23:58petite chose not to learn. The reason I felt this way is
- 24:02and because you're not around all the time and you're not
- 24:04making a major difference. So you make a comment and then
- 24:06they go, oh, and all the things themselves is they don't want to
- 24:08be around those grandparents as much.
- 24:11But at the same time, there are certain things and any grandson
- 24:14remembers from his grandfather who told him something and stuck
- 24:17with him his whole life. Right.
- 24:19And so we all have Sunday grandfather told you and I was
- 24:22like, OK, he's an old man. He can say what he wants.
- 24:25And because of that, you learn something that you otherwise
- 24:28would not have learned. That is the power of a
- 24:30grandparent. That's again talk to a car which
- 24:32comes from strength. Rebuke was coming from a strong
- 24:35place, but at the same time it's actually productive.
- 24:38This is a repeat concept over and over and over again.
- 24:42What it gets to is a deeper point.
- 24:45Deeper point is it's not about your emotions.
- 24:48It's not about what you consider sweet and soft and cuddly and so
- 24:51you can do you consider right. That's the only equation of a
- 24:55time, by Hashem. Sweet is nicer than destructive.
- 25:00Sweet is nice and in force, but many times force is nicer than
- 25:04sweet, you know? So even though yesterday we were
- 25:06telling you, be very careful when you open something up by
- 25:09hurting another person. On the flip side, don't be so
- 25:12careful when it comes to doing something that seems forceful.
- 25:17If it's a good thing, may not be open something up.
- 25:19It might be a comet, it might be a protest, it might be even a
- 25:21war. But don't be careful when you're
- 25:23doing something forceful. It will lead to peace.
- 25:26That's the idea, all right. Our regions come along the line.
- 25:29The cop. I mean, how many times the
- 25:32carriers are Domino here, Hatayi, the Macon or Bizman
- 25:36chain during the train? At the same time, how many other
- 25:39people made comments, rebuked that were ineffective and they
- 25:43caused more issues? That's true, too.
- 25:45This is part of the the the balance.
- 25:47They want us to figure out good, sweet is not always good and
- 25:51strong is not always bad. You have to know in between.
- 25:54OK, what's up with this?