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"עולם הבא" מן התורה, מניין?

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Why isn't Olam Habah', which is the purpose of our existence, spoken about more openly and in more detail in the Torah?

I'll tell you [soon] what the Kuzari says about that, why the Torah doesn't speak about Olam Habah at length. It speaks plenty; the trouble is you're not listening.

I'll say what the Torah says: it says Avrohom passed away and he lay down with his forefathers. Now where was Avrohom buried? In the Meoras Hamachpelah. Were his forefathers there? No. What does it mean that he lay down with his forefathers? What does it mean when it says Yaakov Aveinu passed away and he lay down with his forefathers, then it says months later, he was taken to Eretz Canaan? What does it mean, Moshe Rabbeinu lay down with his forefathers? He's buried in Har Nevo, not with the forefathers. Aaron Hakohen he passed away and was buried with his forefathers, he laid down with his forefathers. Where are the forefathers at? He's not buried with anybody else!

The answer is, the Torah is reiterating, again and again, the Torah is telling us there are forefathers, when a man dies immediately he goes to his forefathers, the great pleasure of joining your family; that's what everyone is waiting for. V'neman ata l'hachayos meisim, we'd like to rejoin our father and mother again, once more you'll be reunited, that's the great happiness! That's what happens when a man passes away from this world, if he's deserving.

Therefore, the Torah speaks constantly about that, many times in the Chumash. Besides the fact that Bilaam who was saying the word of Hashem, says openly - Bilaam says, tomus nafshi mos yeshorim us'he acharisi kamohu, let my soul die the death of these righteous people - which means the Jewish people, he's pointing to Yisroel - and let my end be like his...What did Bilaam want, to be buried in Old Montefiore cemetery? Let my end be like his? He was talking about what happens after death, open pesukim.

The question is, why doesn't the Torah describe the mansions, like the new testament, l'havdil? The new testament speaks about the mansions that you are going to get.

The Kuzari says, once the Torah is going to go into detail, then it's open to competition. Along will come some faker and say, I'm going to offer you better things than are written in the Torah. Once it's specified what you are going to get, then some competitor will come along; Mohammad.

Mohammad offers his people a lot of beautiful women in a garden. He says there will be a garden with fruit trees and streams flowing, and women all you want: that's what it says in the Koran. So let's say the Torah will promise him a thousand women, Mohammad will raise the price to two thousand women.

So the Torah doesn't want to say anything, so nobody should be able to compete.


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Why Bother Thinking?

When you start thinking into everything in the world, it's amazing how you'll see the greatness and chesed (kindness of) Hashem, all testifying to the Creator. Thinking this way leads you to emuna. Not only in Hashem, but also in Olam Haba (the World to Come). If you use your mind, you'll be amazed what a little thought will lead to.

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שמועסן אין ביהמ"ד, די מחלה פון אונזער דור

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In the shul that I daven, people are always talking and making noise. Should I try to make some sort of quiet by making a scene about it, or should I just leave and find a quieter shul?

The best thing to do is to leave that place altogether. Unless you’re a very important personality there. Otherwise, you’re not going to change them.

It’s a great tragedy, this tragedy of talking in the synagogues. It’s a bizayon, a disgrace for Hakodosh Boruch Hu. If a gentile, lehavdil, would come into a shul and see what type of place it is, he’d lose all interest, all respect. You have to realize that it’s a great cancer of our nation, chas veshalom. It’s a terrible cancer. And if you can not heal it, you can’t go get into a fight with them, then find a better place, and at least rescue yourself.

-- TAPE # 774 (March 1990)

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די ניו יארק טיימס איז די ארגסטע

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Is it better for me to read the New York Times or the Daily News?

Look, if you’re asking me for a heter to read newspapers, I’m not going to give that to you. They’re both full of garbage. But the New York Times is the worst newspaper in the country, so the Daily News is certainly superior, no question about it.

The reason for that is because the Daily News caters to construction workers, while the Times caters to the liberals. Now, the people who edit the Daily News are also brilliant people; they don’t choose dumbbells to write the editorials. But because they are brilliant, they are adept at slanting all the editorials towards these rough fellows in Bensonhurst.

And you can be sure that these tough guys in Bensonhurst have more sense than the college professors have, no question about that! All the fundamental values of humanity have been corrupted by the liberals, and yet these values still have some validity among the construction workers. They still know that there is such a thing as loyalty to a government. Loyalty to the government is a very important principle of character, whereas the college students have been trained by their teachers to be disloyal. Every college professor feels it’s a virtue to give another dig to undermine the government. And that’s a very big mistake. It’s a wickedness of character to want to undermine the government. Now, that might not be understandable to those who were brought up the other way, but that’s the derech hatorah.

And therefore, a paper that caters to those who still cling to at least some vestiges of the principles of humanity is certainly better than the newspaper that had made it a crusade of theirs to undermine everything that upholds the stability of mankind; and that’s the New York Times.

-- TAPE # 74 (May 1975)

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להעלות נר תמיד

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What is the purpose of the light hanging over the Ark?

It's to symbolize the light that burned always in the sanctuary, in front of the Holy of Holies (Kodesh HaKodashim). When they kindled the lamps every evening - there were seven lamps - in the morning naturally they burned out. But always in the days of Shimon Hatzaddik it always happened, that one of the seven lamps continued to burn.

Every morning when the Kohanim entered the sanctuary, they found that one lamp continued to burn. And that's a symbol that the lamp of the Torah, the presence of Hashem on our nation will burn forever. This means that the Jewish nation is going to be a light forever.

After Shimon Hatzaddik passed away, this miracle did not continue; it happened sometimes. But that's the symbolism of that lamp, that there is a lamp that burns forever; it's called the eternal lamp.

The Jewish people symbolize that lamp, and forever they are going to be a light to this world, even though people are puffing with might and main trying to put out the lamp, it won't go out.

It'll keep on burning forever.


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ועשו ארון עצי שטים וגו' וצפית אתו זהב טהור מבית ומחוץ תצפנו

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Why was the Ark of the Covenant, the Aron Habris, made of wood covered with gold, whereas other things were solid gold?

One of the symbols our sages tell us is, that the Mishkan symbolized organs of the body; the whole Mishkan was like a body. Outside on the roof, you had oros Techashim (animal hide), it's like the skin of the body; and the pillars of wood, the Keroshim were like ribs. And there was a separation between the Heichel and the Kodesh Hakodoshim, like there's a diaphragm in human beings between one part of the body and the other part of the body. The heart was symbolized by the Aron Habris; that's the heart.

Now, we are commanded to make a wooden ark, but we must cover it with gold inside and out. Which means that the heart is a human heart, but it's our job to put gold on the inside of the heart - that's not what I say, it's what meforshim say - and gold on the outside. Gold on the inside means, he must be genuine, he must have true ideas in his heart, he has to cover the inside of his mind with the truths of the Torah, that's gold. The outside he has to cover with perfect behavior, that's outside, it should be tocho k'baro and also baro k'tocho. And the wood is something that should be perishable but because it's protected by gold it'll last forever.

Therefore the human soul, when it's coated mibayis umeichutz with zahav, it becomes eternal and will last forever.


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If the principle of trust in Hakadosh Baruch Hu, called Bitachon, requires us to believe that whatever is sent upon us is for our good, then why should we try to rid ourselves of it?

What is meant by good? Good means that we should react according to the wishes of Hakadosh Baruch Hu; that's what good means. So when a man was cutting a loaf of bread and he cut his finger, so it's not the will of Hakadosh Baruch Hu that he should allow the blood to flow unchecked. He is sending it for the good. What good? That we should stop it; that's part of the good.

Another part of the good is to say, why did I cut my finger? I was careless! Is that how you take care of a fellow Jew named YOU?

A third thing we have to learn is that Hakadosh Baruch Hu is reminding us, maybe we pointed with our finger in derision on somebody? Therefore, we have a number of ways we have to react. Suppose a finger is hurting, and you tried everything, and the physicians don't know what to do about it, so then you accept it in resignation while you're looking for remedies, but if there are things to be done they're the good things you're expected to do.

So Bitachon means, Hakadosh Baruch Hu sends opportunities to you to react in the proper way. What's the proper way? Not so simple, it depends on the circumstances.


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Why were such great personalities like Unkolus born gentiles, wouldn't they have been greater if they would have been born Jews?

You could ask, why wasn't Avrohom Avinu born a Jew? Avrohom was born a Ben Noach and not a Jew? The answer is, it was his test and he passed the test and that's what made Avrohom great. It was the asoro nisyonos, the ten tests that Avrohom passed that made him great. The great people who came to us from the outside, who came under the wings of the Shechina, are especially beloved because of that.

There's a mitzva in the Torah to love a ger; there's a special mitzva of loving the ger. The Rambam says, ahavas ha'ger she'buh vi'nichnas tachas kanfei Hashechina, he came and entered under the wings of the Shechina. What's the Rambam telling us, what a ger is? We know what a ger is! The Rambam is telling us why it's a special mitzva to love a ger; he came on his own, and that's what made Unkolus so great.

Unkolus had so many obstacles. He was born in a royal house; he was a nephew of Domitian. Domitian, the wicked man who was even a rosho in the eyes of his fellow Romans, and surely he was the enemy of the Jews.

Nevertheless, Unkolus persisted in his ways. Therefore it was for him a benefit that he was given the opportunity of breaking through the barriers and coming under the kanfei Ha'shechina.


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כבוד, די היפך פון חנופה

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When does giving Kavod turn into chanufah, flattey?

When you are giving kavod to a person who doesn't deserve it because he's a choteh, and by giving him kavod you're giving him prestige in the eyes of other people, or you're encouraging him to continue in his wicked ways, that's chanufa. Or, if you're doing it just because you want from him some benefit.

But suppose you're giving kavod because you love your people, like Hashem loves the people, you want to make people happy; that's not chanufa.

Keitzad merakdim lifnei ha'kallah, how do you dance in front of the kallah? So Rashi says ma omrim, what do you say when you dance? So the gemara says, kallah noeh v'chasuda, on every kallah you say she is a beautiful kallah. That's how you have to dance and sing.

Asks the gemara, Bais Shamai asks, maybe it's not true? So Bais Hillel says, it's always true, because to say kindly things that's the truth. To say the kallah is cross eyed is not true, even if she is cross eyed, it's not true, because to say things that hurt people's feelings, that's sheker. Emes is to say things that make people feel good, that's emes. The truth, is to make somebody happy, that's the truth that Hashem wants of you.

Therefore, all our lives our job should be to make people happy with our words, and that is the kavod that Hakadosh Baruch Hu says, you're giving kavod to your fellow man, I'm going to give you kavod too.


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How should we relate to Medinas Yisroel?

Judaism and Zionism are not the same thing! These shakronim, these liars, are trying to get us involved. So they're trying to say that all the Arab states and all the other states are enemies of the Jews. That's a lie! So you'll say, "But isn't it true that the Arabs are enemies of the Jews?" It could be, but they're not different than other gentiles. The fact that they are against the State of Israel is a political expediency that has nothing to do with us, the Am Yisroel. And therefore, we shouldn't allow ourselves to be drawn into this maelstrom of political hatred that the Zionists would like to have us committed to. They want us all to be committed to their fight, so that we should all be in the same boat, chas vesholom. We'll all sink together. Nothing doing! Nothing doing! We're a separate entity!

And the truth is, we're more than separate. They're against the Torah! They're atheists! Golda Meir is an atheist. A man gave me a clipping this week. Golda Meir wrote a memoir. She wrote there that in 1917 she got married. So she said she doesn't want to be married by a rabbi. She said that she's a Socialist - she doesn't want to have anything to do with Torah - and she refused. She had a long, drawn out fight with her mother in Milwaukee. Her mother said, "You'll ruin me if you'll just get married in City Hall." But Golda Meir insisted. She didn't want.

Finally, her mother said, "Look, just because of fifteen minutes under the chuppah that you don't want to do, you are willing to ruin my name in Milwaukee?" So she consented. She was married by a rabbi.

These people are our enemies. They hate Judaism! Not that they are merely indifferent; they hate it. You know that when Sadat came to America, so they served him a kosher meal for Mohammedans. Mohammedans can't eat everything, and so they served only a meal that a Mohammedan can eat. But when these people came, from the Knesses, they served shrimp! They served shrimp! So you see that these people don't represent us.

So our connection with the irreligious Zionists is the same connection as our connection with the Christians. You must be polite to irreligious Jews, and try to win them over with kindliness. But you must know that they're not ours. When the Torah says that a Jew is achicho - "Your brother," it means "your brother in mitzvos." He's only a brother if he's achicho b'mitzvas - only the one who has the same commitment to mitzvas as you have is your brother.

-- TAPE # 99 (November 1975)

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Isn't it lashon horah, slander, to talk negatively about a personality; for instance the way you spoke about Golda Meir?

It says lo selech rochil b'amecho - "You should not speak gossip or slander among your people." And the Gemara says b'oseh maasei amcho - "Only when they do the deeds of your people." Now, if somebody breaks away from her people and she becomes a Marxist, and doesn't believe in Hakadosh Baruch Hu, then she's an atheist, and she doesn't deserve any consideration. And therefore it's a mitzvah to tell the truth about that person. And the truth is that she is a Socialist and a Marxist, and is an enemy of Hashem and the Jewish people. And therefore, there is no reason why should we spare her the truth.

-- TAPE # 200 (January 1977)

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גדולה הבטחה שהבטיחן הקב"ה לנשים יותר מן האנשים שנאמר (ישעי' ל"ב ט') נָשִׁים שַׁאֲנַנּוֹת קֹמְנָה שְׁמַעְנָה קוֹלִי בָּנוֹת בֹּטחוֹת הַאְזֵנָּה אִמְרָתִי (ברכות י"ז ע"א)

How Do Women Achieve Perfection?

"Greater is the assurance which the Holy One blessed be He gave to women, more than to men" (Brachos 17A)

Men have more tests to undergo, and more complicated responsibilities. In addition, men are more readily motivated by the desire for glory, whereas "the tranquil women are the trusting daughters" (ibid.) seek no fame and compete with no one. The Jewish wife and mother can more readily achieve her destiny through her home, and she can most successfully fine favor in G-d's sight by cherishing the womanly virtues of humility, patience, peace and trust in G-d's providence.

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What Is the Purpose of the Mishkan?

We pray not only with our thoughts, but also with our lips, and also with harp and drum and lyre and with trumpets, with offerings and even with the vestments of the Cohanim. The house (Mikdash) itself, by its mere existence, constituted a prayer.

-- A Nation Is Born
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משנכנס אדר מרבין בשמחה

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When Adar comes in we are told to increase our joy. Why is that?

Because it's a season that requires a certain frame of mind. Purim requires joy, Pesach requires joy. In order, however, to be prepared, you must start at the beginning of Adar. You can't be glum and sad, and suddenly when Purim comes, you jump up and down and you celebrate. No! You're doing it with a heavy heart.

When Adar comes in you begin looking for ways and means of generating happiness, and you look at the world. The world is full of happiness. The sunshine causes happiness. The fact that you're able to see. One of the greatest pleasures in the world is the ability to see. It's fun to see. You have two movie cameras taking pictures constantly wherever you look, color pictures. Isn't it fun to see? Oh, close your eyes, a dark sad world. Open your eyes. Oh!! Moving pictures! And they function in synchronization, together. And the pictures are recorded in your mind. You know the pictures that you are taking right now will never be forgotten? I could prove to you that the pictures are recorded forever in your mind. Forty years later somebody will say, “You remember sitting in Rabbi Miller's shul years ago? He was talking about the wonders of creation.”

“Oh yes I remember now,” and the pictures suddenly flashes out from the filing cabinets of your mind and you see everything once more.

Where was the picture for forty years? It was there, because the pictures you are taking are never erased from your mind. You might forget, because it goes back in the depths of the cabinets, but the pictures are there. Someday you might take them out and see them again, and reminisce about your youth. You remember even the voices; that's because you have a sound recording in your head.

So you start in the beginning of Adar, piling up Simcha. It's fun to see; (Rabbi Miller takes a big breath) it's fun to breathe. Rabosai, let's all practice the Simcha of filling our lungs with this wonderful air in this little place here. (And everyone takes a deep breath) AHH, that's joy. It's fun to be alive! Baruch Hashem, it's fun to live. It's fun as the heart causes the blood to course through your vessels; it's fun. Everything in life is fun. How silly people are! You know when they realize life is fun? When they are on the verge of dying. Oh, oh, oh, it's all over. Now is the time, enjoy life right now.

It's fun everywhere. When you sit down tomorrow morning at breakfast, it's fun to use those teeth to chew food, teeth are fun. False teeth are also fun. Life is fun, life is happiness, and we thank Hakdosh Baruch Hu for it.


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It says Mishenichnas Adar Marbim B'Simcha - "In the month of Adar we should increase our happiness." My question is how do I do it? How should I acquire more simcha in the month of Adar?

You have to know that Hakodosh Boruch Hu has made in each person a fountain of simcha, a fountain of happiness. Only that the fountain has to be primed. But once you open up the fountain and it starts gushing forth you'll be surprised how much simcha there is within your own mind.

We are born with the ability to be full of simcha. And once you start thinking about how good it is, this month of Adar - when Hakodosh Boruch Hu showed us a picture of le'asid lavo, of how Haman is hanging with all of his sons - the happiness will begin to gush forth from your mind. Only that you have to think!

That's what's going to happen le'asid lavo. Because really, all the resha'im should be hanging all the time. That's how it's supposed to be. And the tzadikim should be looking on and enjoying the sight! It's a simcha to see your enemies hanging! Hashem is showing you that He loves you - that's a simcha!

We have so many enemies today, and we always had enemies. And the time will come that our enemies will be hanging. We won't have to do it; Hakodosh Boruch Hu will do it for us! They'll be hanging!

And that's what happened on Purim. Hashem lifted up the curtain and we got a glimpse of what the future will be. They took a look: "Who is that hanging there?! It's Haman! Haman is hanging!" They were surprised; they were shocked. And they went out of their minds with simcha! So make sure to utilize that simcha to open up that fountain you have within you.

In addition to that, enjoy the fact that spring is around the corner. There will be nice balmy weather soon, and soon the trees will have green leaves. So think about how good it is to be alive. Oh, what a pleasure it is to be alive! It's a big simcha to be alive!

So keep on thinking the things of happiness, and Hakodosh Boruch Hu will open up that fountain of simcha that's in your mind. And it will start gushing forth in the month of Adar. And then you can keep the spigot of the fountain open even in Nissan and Iyar, and all year long.

-- TAPE # E-178 (February 1999)

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קהלת א:
יב אֲנִי קֹהֶלֶת הָיִיתִי מֶלֶךְ עַל יִשְׂרָאֵל בִּירוּשָׁלָ‍ִם.
יג וְנָתַתִּי אֶת לִבִּי לִדְרוֹשׁ וְלָתוּר בַּחָכְמָה עַל כָּל אֲשֶׁר נַעֲשָׂה תַּחַת הַשָּׁמָיִם הוּא עִנְיַן רָע נָתַן אֱלֹהִים לִבְנֵי הָאָדָם לַעֲנוֹת בּוֹ.
יד רָאִיתִי אֶת כָּל הַמַּעֲשִׂים שֶׁנַּעֲשׂוּ תַּחַת הַשָּׁמֶשׁ וְהִנֵּה הַכֹּל הֶבֶל וּרְעוּת רוּחַ.
טו מְעֻוָּת לֹא יוּכַל לִתְקֹן וְחֶסְרוֹן לֹא יוּכַל לְהִמָּנוֹת.

Why does Hashem provide us with so many luxuries that are not necessary for mankind's wellbeing, when all they really do is keep people busy with things that aren't important?

Hakodosh Boruch Hu is testing us and giving us opportunities to waste our lives. Mankind has been placed into this world in order to be tested. And there's no way around it.

Now, there are two ways of being tested. One is if you're going to commit something that's against the spirit or the letter of the Torah. That's one test.

But there is a second test, a test that many people are unaware of. And that is, are you going to let your life go by without achievement. And the second test is more crucial than the first. If a person does a sin, he can atone for the sin. Even in Gehenim, you'll have the opportunity for atonement. A sin can be fixed.

But if a person fails to accomplish, for that he can never atone. Me'uvas Lo Yuchal Liskon - "It's a twisted thing that can never be straightened" (Koheles 1:15). Not accomplishing, that's an opportunity that goes lost forever! You can never gain the opportunity to accomplish if you failed to do so in this world. You can't gain atonement for not accomplishing. Gehenim won't give you any mitzvos. It will just wash off the stains of aveiros that you picked up in this world. But it will not give you any reason to go to Gan Eden. To live in the World to Come you must have accomplishment; you must have positive achievement.

Now, Hashem makes this great test of achievement even more difficult by giving us things to do. That's part of the test. So when you see a place that sells sailboats, it's attractive, and you think of sailing the river on Sunday morning, going fishing. Nothing wrong; there's no sin in going fishing. But it's a way of ruining your life. It's a complete ruination. You have one day in the week besides Shabbos when you can accomplish something, and you're sitting in a sailboat, fishing your life away. You're wasting your life. You want exercise?! Take a walk for an hour, and then utilize the rest of your day. There's so much to do!

So Hakodosh Boruch Hu gives people places to go to, and boxing rings, and airplane travel. That's why all the travel stores are busy selling you garbage. That's what a travel ticket is, garbage. It's nothing at all; just a waste of your life. It's just a test. Even going to Eretz Yisroel, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. Who needs you there?! You're wasting the precious time that Hashem has allotted you.

Today everybody is busy. Running around from one place to another. And they're failing in this great test. Because wasting your time is the greatest sin that a man can accomplish, because you'll never get another chance. In all eternity, this is your one single opportunity to make something out of yourself. And so, when you kill time, you're killing yourself.

And so, Hakodosh Boruch Hu gives one opportunity after another. And they're all tests. He invents more and more things; TV, automobiles for traveling on Sundays, fishing rods, and baseball. And even on Shabbos, people loaf around. They read newspapers, and sit around and loaf and talk, and waste their lives.

The greatest sadness is when life passes by and nothing was accomplished. Although Hakodosh Boruch Hu does give us happiness in this world to a very big extent, we're not here in this world just to be happy. That's not the achievement of life. The achievement of this world is that you make accomplishments in the knowledge of Hashem, in Awareness of Him, in thinking like Him. And you have to study how to get it. By learning Torah you certainly approach closer to this goal, but don't think that that's enough. You must know how to learn Torah.

The achievement of yiras Shomayim, of emunah, of believing in Hashem and being aware of Him, of always being grateful to Him - is a very, very necessary function. And you cannot dodge it. The time will come, when our days will be over, and we're going to come before the great tribunal, and they'll ask us, "Did you engage in this study? Did you learn about Me? Did you use your gift of free-will when you had before you such a wonderful world of lessons, lessons in the sky, lessons on the earth, and lessons in the Torah? Did you utilize them?"

So you'll say, "I was busy driving my family around in the car. For my vacation I was in the country, and I did this and I did that. I was traveling, and I was on the phone, and I had no time." No time to utilize his life properly! He wasted his time in this world with all of the luxuries that were provided to him.

And so, a sinner is to be pitied even less than a man who wasted his life. Because the man who wastes the opportunity of life - he's too busy to accomplish - he's the real failure. And that's the answer for most of the inventions, and most of the luxuries, we have today. Even the telephone is a glorious way to waste your life. You're being tested. Will life pass you by and one day you'll realize that you accomplished nothing? It will be a terrible sadness. And it'll be too late. Therefore, if you want an explanation for the complexity of modern life, that's one of the answers.

-- TAPE # 789 (June 1990)

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When you say, "Break your middos," what do you mean by that?

To break your middos means to not allow your instincts or the characteristics of your mind to control you. You must learn to control your reactions, instead of your instincts and your middos controlling you.

I'll give you one example. There's a desire to talk; everyone has that desire. But yielding to that desire causes a great deal of harm. First of all, it makes you dishonored in the eyes of people. When people see you for the first time, they suspect that you are a wise man. They see your face and they think that you're full of wisdom. Until you give it away by talking. Like it says in Mishlei (18:7): pi kesil mechito lo - "A mouth of a fool is his ruination". As you walk into a new place, everybody looks at you, they respect you. And then you ruin it by opening your mouth. You say something dumb, and it's finished.

And therefore, you have to break your instinct, your characteristic, of opening your mouth all the time. We have to learn how to keep our mouths closed. Even if someone says something to us, it's not always necessary to reply. And even if you have to reply, the Rambam says (Hilchos De'os 2:4) lo yemaher leheishiv velo yarbeh ledaber - "Don't be hasty to reply and don't speak many words". Think before you answer. And if you start with that, then you're on your way to shviras hamiddos, you're on your way towards being in full control of your reactions to everything in this world.

-- TAPE # 924 (July 1993)

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What's the Purpose Of Life?

To exist without free will means a wasted life, because the entire existence of a man in this world is solely for the purpose of exercising his free will. We're here in this world to choose between right and wrong. We're not here just to exist, just to enjoy, just to propagate and then to die. We are in this world for one purpose, and that is in order to be tested by the ordeal of virtue.

-- Adam's Ordeal (#28)
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Is it important to save money for retirement or your children?

It's permissible to do; however, to save for your children, it depends. If you save without sacrificing the purpose of your life, that's alright. But people who give away the time that they should devote for their own betterment, they give that to their children, then it's a hundred percent waste. Because your child, when he comes into the world, he brings along an allowance that he takes with him from heaven, everybody is born with an allowance. My parents didn't set me up in business, didn't leave me any money: Baruch Hashem I never had to borrow any money all my life.

If you won't save up for your children, you'll take off your evenings to study Torah; you'll do tzedoka, you'll give money to charity; don't try to leave wealth for your children. Of course, if you want to leave them Torah wealth, and it costs money to send them to Yeshivas, it costs money to keep even your married children in Kollel, that's yours! Whatever you do for them is for you, that's an investment on your own. But even that, suppose you're capable of sitting in the Kollel but your son would like you to keep on slaving to keep him in the Kollel? So you tell him, if you wish you can do it for me, I'll let you slave and support me in the Kollel.

Why not? A father has the right to be in the Kollel; sometimes the father has a better head than the son has. The Gemara says, hu lilmod ubno lilmod, hu kodem, it's a question who should learn he or his son, he is first. So you don't give away your soul for your children. But – if you can do it without any big sacrifices of your time, to leave a little bit for them, nothing wrong.


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קנאת סופרים תרבה חכמה

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When there are differences between different groups among the Jewish People, how are we to know who is right?

Everyone is right. And everyone is wrong. Nobody is perfect in this world. We have to live with the principle of knowing that we ourselves are not altogether right. And we have to do our best to improve. Although we don't have to adopt what everybody else does, and everyone should follow the customs and manners of his kehilla in the very best manner, nevertheless, he should know that there are things to be learned everywhere.

Even though you're a chossid, when you walk into Telshe Yeshiva, you can learn good things there too. And if a Telshe bochur goes to Williamsburg, he can learn good things there, no question about it. Therefore, everyone should try to steal from others all the good things they can. Instead of going around and saying "Well, I saw in this shteibel that they talk during davening so it's not so bad." Or, "In the other place they daven fast, so I can also daven fast." So this person goes around collecting all the wrong things from all the places. No! Go around collecting all the good things from everybody - that's what they're there for.

And that's the person who will succeed. That's what jealousy is for. Kinah means to be koneh, to acquire, to be jealous of all the good things that you find. "Why is he saying a long shemonah esrei and not me?" "Why does he treat his wife so nicely and I'm so gruff?" "Why does he go out to learn at night and I'm still wasting away?" And everybody should try to steal from everyone else all the good things that they find.

And thus the first mother, Chava, gave the first child ever born in this world the name Kayin which means to be koneh, to acquire. That's our purpose - to acquire all the qualities that find favor in the eyes of Hashem. Because what Hakodosh Boruch Hu wants of us is shleimus - perfection. Shleimus in knowledge of the Torah, perfection in knowing His ways, perfection in recognizing Him in history and in nature. Perfection in character and self-control and perfection in kindliness to our fellow man. Every form of perfection that's possible for a person to emulate, to imitate, to steal from all sides, he should do that. Whenever he comes into contact with people, whenever he sees anything good in the world, he should emulate it and decide that he wants to take it for himself. And when you live with that ideal of being a "koneh",it means that you are emulating your Creator who is "koneh shamayim va'aretz".

-- TAPE # 781 (April 1990)

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How can we apply the Mizmor Shir to our own experiences in our own lives?

And you have to know that this question demonstrates the necessity of this lesson. Because the fact that you are able to come here is enough reason why you should say a Mizmor Shir.

Can’t you recall people of your own age who are not able to come here? Who will never able to come anywhere? On every level of our lives - boys, young men, middle age - some people have been left behind. Death always claims victims at every age level, and you survived. So you could say l’Dovid… Hashem heolisa misheol nafshi, You took my life out of the grave.

So what’s your job from now on? This is the job: you have to apply yourself to the great career of Hashem Elokei l’oilam odeka. If you want a concrete method, every time you walk into a synagogue, or you walk into a yeshiva - you think a yeshiva is a place where you learn gemara… sure it is! But first and foremost, the yeshiva is a place to thank Hakadosh Baruch Hu for what He did for you, that you are alive.

Gemara is nothing but a song, it’s a song of gratitude to Hashem. Mizmor shir, it’s a song. Zemiros huyou li chukecha, your laws are songs of gratitude, that’s how to understand a Yeshiva. Don’t get lost in the details! Rav Simcha Zisel said, learn to be mafshit es hatzura, learn to take off the externalities and see the heart of the thing.

You come into a shul. Well a shul is to daven, you have to put on a tallis and tefillin, you have to say things… And so remember first and foremost, you know what a shul is for! Hashem, I thank You. In case you don’t know the meaning of the words, or if you do know the meaning, it’s saying over and over again in many variations, I thank you Hashem. Modeh ani l’fanecha, that you gave me life today, and You gave me all the wherewithals of life.

Therefore it’s not difficult for us to find reasons why we should follow the same system as Dovid.


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בודק זיין די נעמען פון חתן-כלה ביי א חַכַם בעפאר א שידוך

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Why do some people go to a Chacham before making a shidduch to see if the names of the prospective couple are compatible?

If the names are compatible? I'll tell you why - it's an old custom. Suppose the chosson's name is the same as the kallah's father's name. It could be embarrassing. She says, "Chaim, come here. Come here quickly," and her father starts running. "No, no. I didn't mean you. I meant my husband". It's embarrassing.


No. I'm not talking about the father's name or any family correlation. I'm talking about just the names of the couple to see if they are compatible.

No. Nobody does that. No. It doesn't make any sense. Who cares what the name is?!


But they go. People go.

No. I never heard of this before. People come to me with all types of questions and nobody ever asked me that. If the names are compatible? Sarah, Chaya, Rochel, Yenta - they're all good names. What do you mean? They're all good names.

There are so many frum women today. Fine young women. I want to tell you - I once spoke to 2,000 girls, Bais Yaakov girls. By now they're all mothers. 2,000 girls! All nice girls! I was amazed! 2,000 girls, Kein Yirbu! And later I met the man in charge, and he told me, "That's nothing; in Satmar they have much more than 2,000 girls." And when we passed another place in Boro Park - another 1,000 girls! Boruch Hashem, today we have plenty of frum girls - excellent frum girls. The names? That doesn't matter. What matters is that they want to make large families. They want to make Jewish homes. It's a pleasure to see. We're happy about this wealth. The yeshivas and girls schools are producing great things for the Am Yisroel.

I remember a fellow in Chaim Berlin when I was mashgiach. He never learned. Never learned. Years later I was walking in the street and a man with a big beard greeted me. "Who are you?" I asked. He told me his name. It was him. I almost fainted. A good frum Jew. He had children talmidei chachomim. And grandchildren in Brisk.

All this came from nothing. The yeshivas are accomplishing tremendous things. Boruch Hashem. Do you know that the Jewish population is burgeoning today, Boruch Hashem?! Kein Yirbu. It's a happiness!

So who cares about the names? They're all good girls. All good girls. Kein Yirbu.

-- TAPE # E-244 (October 2000)

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Why Must People Work?

Hashem wants us to earn Olam Haba. That's clear as could be. But it's equally clear that the Creator wants us to earn Gan Eden, so "adam l'amal yulod - man is born to toil." We're created to toil for Gan Eden. You want to get there? You have to do something to get there.

-- The Drive to Perfection (#736)
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