Jewish Inspiration Podcast · Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe

You're listening to Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe of TORCH in Houston, Texas. This is the Jewish Inspiration Podcast.

All right, welcome back everybody. Good evening to the Jewish Inspiration Podcast. Welcome back. We are on page 812 812 in the Treasure for Life edition of the Orcha Tzadikim in the in the Gate of Repentance because it's the season of Ratzon, of God wanting a closeness, God wanting a relationship with us, God wanting our closeness. We decided to focus on Teshuvah. Teshuvah is repentance and there are some qualifications for repentance.
We talked about it previously and this week we're going to continue on page 812. Day number 147. And now, Shema B'ni, listen my son. Most people are not concerned about idle chatter. Most people think it's okay. It's just a, it's innocent conversation. It's okay. And perhaps people aren't careful about looking at, gazing at women. Obviously, this is written for men, this book, particularly in this aspect of it. And to have idle chatter or idle conversations with women for no need, for no purpose.
And many people are certainly uncareful, unaware of how important and how and how careful we need to be with regard to having proper intent in our prayer, talking in synagogue, and laughter, mockery and light and levity and lightheadedness. So let me, let me explain for a second. I'm going to share with you an amazing story. There's a man, it's a true story, there's a man whose wife was diagnosed with a very severe illness, very severe illness. Doctor says there's slim chances that she will survive and
surgery and this and that, it's gonna be a mess. So, this man comes to the rabbi of a synagogue. It's a true story. It's happened two years ago. Rabbi, this man comes to his rabbi and he says to his rabbi, rabbi, what do I do? They say my wife is very unlikely that she's going to survive. She's gonna need all these surgeries and even if it does, it's gonna be terrible. It's gonna be really challenging.
He says, I want you to accept upon yourself to not talk in synagogue. And what they did was, the entire synagogue in his honor all accepted upon themselves the entire congregation that nobody's going to talk inside the four walls of the synagogue. They only talked to God, no talking to one another. You want to socialize, socialize in the kiddush room. Socialize in the social hall. Don't socialize inside synagogue. In synagogue, we're dedicated to talking to God only.
A few weeks later, she comes in for the surgery of the lady and before they do it, they do a few images and they're like, well, one second, one second, one second. They read the images. They're like, what are you here for? They're like, they said that there's this and this growth and this and this, that and this and this, this. They're like, doesn't show up in the images. Nothing here. And they send to another specialist to look at the images and they're like, there's nothing here.
Gone. Gone. Disappeared. And this husband attributed it all to being so careful and the congregation being so careful to not talk in synagogue. Not talking in synagogue has an unbelievable power. Why? Because what we're saying to God essentially is, I recognize that my conversation is to be with you and only with you and not with anyone else. And this is something that when we talk about teshuvah, it's one of the things perhaps that we need to look at.
We need to introspect and think maybe I didn't have the proper decorum, the proper respect that was necessary in synagogue. Gamlon is a rubit staka. People, unfortunately, aren't either careful with charity. Lasse osalamisha hagun. We talked about this recently, actually, in one of our classes about giving charity and that anybody who puts their hand out, we should give something to. And it doesn't say how much you have to give, but you have to give. Someone puts their hand out, you give.
But you also have to make sure to some degree that they're honest. Especially if you're giving a larger contribution, you have to make sure your charity money shouldn't go to waste. You don't want to give it to some fraudster. You have to ensure that it's indeed a genuine cause. U'mel ha-ameitz ha-lev, u'mel likpotz ha-yod, u'mel ha-daber ha-dvoram koshem la-aniyam. And to be very, very careful of holding back from giving or closing your fist or God forbid speaking harshly to a poor person. So just be very, very careful.
Gam im Gam im lo nizharu Mishvu o-zchinom, u'melikal al-chaveiro, o atzmo b'shem u'b'azkor as-shem shamayim levat tolo, o b'mokam she'inotor, o b'yadayim she'inonikias, u'mivit al-toro k'neged kulam. He says some more things that a person has to be cautious about when we talk about repentance. How about someone not being careful about promises, oaths that they make? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll send you that and then they don't send it, right? If a person doesn't say b'linad there, if a person doesn't say that it's without a promise,
then they're held liable for not fulfilling their promise. If a person curses someone else, that's a prohibition in the Torah. If someone uses God's name in vain, prohibition in the Torah. If someone is saying God's name in a place where they shouldn't because they have unclean hands or because they are in an unclean place, for example, we're not allowed to say God's name in the restroom. Which is why in a public bathroom where there are multiple people that you can see in the bathroom,
you're not supposed to talk and you're not supposed to greet someone and say shalom, right? In Hebrew we say hello with shalom. Why? Because shalom is God's name. So you're not even allowed to say shalom. You're not allowed to greet someone in the restroom. Why? Because inevitably you'll say shalom, you'll say hi, and you're going to say God's name in a place which is not clean. It's not appropriate for us to talk in such a place. Or to recite God's name with our hands being unclean.
So if a person has dirty hands, they can't pray. Which is why in many, many synagogues they have a sink inside the synagogue. Why? So you just wash your hands a little. You're coming from a jog, you're coming from a you know, from a repair, you're coming from a this, you're coming from that. Whatever it may be, make sure that when you come to talk to God you come with clean hands. And the worst of all is someone who disturbs the study of Torah.
If you see someone studying Torah, never interrupt them. Unless it's a life-threatening matter. Why? Because the worst thing in the world is interrupting Torah. Very, very, very important. Bittle Torah in yeshiva, that was one of the things that they they drilled into our brains. Never interrupt someone who's studying Torah. Interrupt someone who's studying Torah. It's really, it's really terrible. Why is it terrible? It's very terrible because this person is learning the instructions of God that God gave us.
And here you are, go walking in like it's, it's not important. Or a person who isn't careful in these traits needs repentance as well. For example, they're jealous, they haven't worked on their jealousy, they're hateful, they speak slander about others, they are arrogant, they are angry, or any of the traits that we have previously discussed in this book, or someone who lacks truthfulness, they're not honest,
that's also something that God says, be like me, right? That's the obligation that we have. Why is a person called Adam? Why is Adam called Adam? Mankind, why are we called Adam? Adam. We're called Adam because we came from the ground. Adama. But also because of Adameh, which is to emulate, to emulate God. L'hidamot is to be like, be like God. Man, our job is to be God-like in the greatest way. Are we going to be God? No. God is perfect, we are not.
As I saw today, a quote, God is perfect, we, human beings are not, but opposites attract. Okay, so, you know, we want to be as close to Hashem as possible, and by emulating God's traits, that is the greatest thing that one can do. If a person does not emulate God's traits, we have to, we have to give an answer to it. Why didn't we? See, he brings a few more examples of sins that one may have done, and needs repentance, need to do repentance. Like observance of mitzvahs,
actionable mitzvahs, or like washing our hands before we eat, washing our hands when we arise in the morning, or damaging someone else's possessions. You drive your lawn on someone's car, you break someone's pen, right, someone's pen. You borrow it, you break it. It's like, hey, you won't realize. No, you got to go over and tell them, I broke your pen, and I'm sorry, and how much do I owe you for it? Right? Someone lent me a pouch yesterday. Someone lent me a pouch, and when
my daughter saw the pouch, she was excited. She was like, what is this? So it was something that I needed, we needed transferred. So it was this little, little pouch. My daughter put it in the room. I was painting. I was painting my daughter's bedroom, and it got a little bit of paint on it. So when I returned the pouch to my friend, I said to him, I returned the pouch, but I need you to tell me
how much I owe you for it, because it got a little bit of paint on it. Right on the top, on the little, little mark, you can see there's some paint, a paint stain. I'm sorry, right? Now, could I have returned it? And he'll never know. Possible, he'll never know. And it could be that he'll say, forget about it. It's okay. But we have to be careful. That's our obligation. If we damage someone else's possessions, you open up the car door, and it just
gives a little scratch, but like nobody knows. Okay, nobody saw. Okay, close the door, and that's it. That causes somebody damage. Leave a note on the windshield. Say, hey, I opened my door. It hit your car. It's not a lot of damage, but please send me the bill, you know, or give me a call if you'd like to talk about it. Something like that. A person damaging someone else's possession, it's a very severe thing in the Torah. And observance of Shabbos. Many people are not cautious with these
commandments. The less you know, the less cautious you are. Right? The more you know, the easier it gets. By the way, the more, right now, I'm telling you, if you don't know about the laws of Shabbos, it seems like it's, oh my goodness, I don't even know where to start. Right? It's so complicated. It's not so complicated. It's, you know, we actually have a book over here in the library. It's called To Learn Shabbos in Three Minutes, or something like that.
There are very easy outlines to learning the laws of Shabbat. But if a person doesn't know anything, it seems like everything is forbidden. Oh, I can't do anything. Right? It's not true. Shabbos is the most beautiful day, and Shabbos is a day that we can reconnect. We're meant to reconnect. You know, it's funny. Till now, till last week, I would only quote one non-Jewish person in my classes, and that was Pastor No, Pastor Joel Osteen Weir. I would talk about the
I would talk about the laws of kosher, and in the laws of kosher, he has a six-minute piece that he spoke in his place, in his church, and he talked about why his family stopped eating pork. And they talk about the commandment in the Torah in Leviticus 9, where the Torah tells us exactly what we're allowed to eat and what we're not allowed to eat, what is considered clean and what is considered unclean.
And he said, I said, if I'm preaching all this, this is what he says to his congregation, I'm preaching all this to the congregation about the Bible and this and that, I have to keep it myself. He says, we no longer eat pork. We no longer eat shellfish. We no longer, and he gives a very interesting reasoning for it. We don't do it because of any reasons. We do it because God commanded. That's the only reason we need. But there are reasons for it. There are
health reasons for it. There are spiritual reasons for it, but we don't do it because of those reasons. That's just for us to feel good that we're doing the right thing. But today I'm going to start with another non-Jewish person. When we talk about Shabbos, you know, Mr. Kirk, I mentioned this previously, Charlie Kirk, who was murdered last week, would keep Shabbos. And I remember I listened to one episode of his, one, and
it wasn't even a whole episode. It was just part of an episode where he talked about how amazing the weekend was because he kept Shabbat. I was like, is he Jewish? Like, why is he keeping Shabbat? What is he talking about? Well, what he would do every week is he felt that he doesn't have any time for his family. He's running and running and running and running and doing and doing. He doesn't have time for anything. So
he had a rabbi that he was, he would talk to regularly and, or I think it was actually a pastor that told him this, why don't you do what God told the Jewish people to do? Which is take a Shabbos, take a Sabbath, and turn off your phone, turn off your technology, turn off everything, and just spend time with your family. And that is an amazing, an amazing lesson. If you look online,
there are so many things. When he would see Jewish students, Jewish students would come to him and say, what do we do as Jewish people? How should we act? How should, what should we do on campus? He says, observe the Shabbat. That was, immediately, observe the Shabbat, keep the Shabbos. God says, work six days, rest on the seventh, just like God did in creation. So you need to hear it from me, hear it from someone who's not Jewish, right? I'm a rabbi, okay, I'm prejudiced, right?
But to hear it from someone who's not Jewish, who understood that and felt that it was the most important part of his entire week, to recharge the batteries, that's really what Shabbos is. But we don't need to go there. We can go to the Torah itself, where God talks about the closeness that we feel, not only with our family, not only with our wife and children, not only with God, but with ourselves. Suddenly, we start, you know, it's an amazing thing. I recently had this epiphany,
you know, the Friday night meal is always a delicious, luxurious meal. Shabbos day meal, everyone dots their I's, crosses their T's, everyone makes sure the day meal is delicious. But the third meal, which is towards the end of Shabbat, somehow falls between the cracks. I don't know, like nobody figured out how to make it a luxury event, how to make it a fancy meal. And it's not like people
don't spend money on Shabbat. They do spend money on Shabbat, but somehow the third meal doesn't get the attention it needs. So I had an epiphany, and that is because it takes time. You ever go on vacation? Like the first 24 hours, you're just getting into the zone, you know what I mean? 24 hours in to Shabbat is when we usually start our third meal. You're just into the mode.
Like now I'm just in vacation mode. I don't need to eat. And our sages tell us that the highest point of the soul on Shabbat is the third meal. That's where it's all soul. It's not physical anymore. Yeah, the first meal, we're still leftovers from the weekday. So we need to have good food. By the time the third meal comes around, who cares about the food? It's all about the Neshamah. It's all about the Neshamah. It's all about the soul.
And that's why it's not important for people. And that's true. It shouldn't be important. It should only be important that we're able to connect on a higher level. Okay. See, he says now the Rabbim Nechshalom B'Zen, unfortunately many people are are faulty in these areas. It's a very simple thing. Someone who doesn't learn about the mitzvot. It's very easy for a person to live life and not even feel like they're doing any sins. What's the problem? Just I'm a good person. I do good things.
Like what's the problem? What do I need the Torah for? I once had a cab driver in Jerusalem. He told me, he says, why do I need the mitzvot? I just have to be nice to people. That's it. Just be nice. And that's it. Obviously, it's a big mistake. It's an underselling of the Torah. Being nice is just one of the commandments. It's just one. All right. Therefore, L'chein tzorach ha'shov leidah ha'aver shasad. Therefore, a person has to have an accounting of the sins
they may have done. V'heich yochol adas. How could he have known? Yilma ramitzos. How does a person know what sins he may have done? He has to first know what there is. If a person has to learn about the mitzvot. Y'yavin b'chol mitzvot. Mitzvot ma'achisar mi'menu v'lo kiem. A person has to internalize when they're studying the mitzvot, what did I not observe? Where may I have faulted in my observance? U'be'ma ovar. V'im lo yad yeida b'ma ovar? V'heich yischar. If a person doesn't know what he transgressed,
how is he going to know what to have regret for? Elo im keim yeidah ha'averi shi yizcharet olech, k'ma she'amar ha'kasov, ki posh'i ani eidah, v'chotos hi negdi samit. As it says in Psalms, for I know my offenses and my sin is always before me. Okay, so this is the first thing that's important for us to know when we approach repentance. The second thing, v'hasheni. A'filu kishu yodeh ha'averi shas, even if a person knows the sins that he may have done, lo yizcharet oleim, elo im lo yeida
v'vada eras ha'averi shavas. That means a person who knows they did something wrong, but he doesn't know how serious it is, how severe it is. For example, you insult somebody, you hurt somebody's feelings. Okay, so now you're going to go say I'm sorry. But what's if you don't even realize how much you embarrass them? What's if you don't realize how much you embarrass them? You say, hey, you pick up the phone. Hey,
I know that I called you out on that in public. I'm sorry. Okay, have a good night. What do you mean? You don't even realize how devastated they are. If you don't realize how devastated they are, then what are you apologizing for? You don't even know what you're apologizing for. You're just covering your bases and that's it. I just said I'm sorry. Goodbye. All right, or if you've ever seen this, this is a common thing. I remember when I was in grade school.
So like before Yom Kippur, everyone would ask forgiveness. They didn't even wait for an answer. Forgive me, forgive me, forgive me, forgive me. And that's it. They'd walk out the room. Like it's like I asked forgiveness. I don't know if they, like it is like they didn't even wait to hear if it was a yes or a no. It was just like I needed to get this guilt, so to speak, which I hate. I don't like guilt.
Guilt is a very terrible thing. I don't think that it does anybody any good. If you're right, you're right. If you're wrong, do something about it. Don't sit there with guilt. Guilt is not going to make you better. Right? Guilt, if it springs you into action, that's a good thing. Okay. כי אם יחשוב, מה בכך אם נהניסי מן העולם הזה בלא ברכה, או אם ביטלתי מן התורה, אין זה דברה כל כך. This is if a person doesn't realize that stealing from God, the Mishnah tells us,
the Talmud in Brachot tells us an incredible thing. It says that if you enjoy from this world and you don't recite a blessing first, it's like you've committed theft. Blessing first, what do you mean? What does it mean? What does it really mean? So there's many, many explanations to this. What do you mean you stole from God? God gave it to me. God gave me my livelihood. I bought an apple. I ate the apple.
Are you telling me now for not making a blessing, not reciting a blessing on that apple, it's as if I stole. What do I steal from? I paid my taxes. I paid the grocery for my apple. You're telling me I didn't steal. We know that someone who's ungrateful doesn't enjoy what it is that they have. Someone who doesn't say thank you doesn't appreciate how good they have it. What you're doing is you're stealing from yourself.
You're taking away from yourself the opportunity to enjoy that apple. If you realize what a gift it was, now you're enjoying the apple. If you stop and you say, wow, God, look at how beautiful this apple is. Look how delicious this apple is. Look how stunning. What a beautiful creation you made, God. And you know who you gave it to? You gave it to me. Thank you. Now it's a different apple. Now, ah, you take a bite into that apple. And it's like,
I feel the love of God in me. Because I acknowledged, I appreciated, I gave thanks. I didn't just, and this is by the way, the problem of our generation. The problem with our generation, why children are so unhappy. The youngsters of this generation who grew up with every digital technology in the world, grew up with every single luxury in the world, and they're miserable. Why are they miserable? What's the problem? I got you what you wanted. What's the big deal? They're not grateful.
They don't say thank you. They don't appreciate how good they have it. So, of course, they're miserable. If you just stop to say thank you and realize, acknowledge, you know, there's a known principle. How do you know the difference between a necessity and a luxury? How do you know the difference between a necessity and a luxury? Take it away. Take it away and see what happens. What's a necessity? Bread. Water. You can't live without bread and water. You can live without a Rolls Royce.
You can live without a luxury apartment. You can't live without bread and water. Yet, which one are people more excited about? Oh, the Rolls Royce. Oh, it's really exciting. Bread? Eh. But it's just the opposite. The bread we should be excited about. The bread we should be so grateful for. Because that's something that without it, I'm done. The necessity is what we need to be even more grateful for. The luxury? Yes, we need to acknowledge it duly.
So we conclude with day number 147 with the following idea. And that is, imagine the king gives a command. That person doesn't realize that he's disobeying that command. For example, you get a speeding ticket and the police officer says to you, do you know why I pulled you over? You're like, no. And he says, well, you were speeding. He says, speeding? What's that? I have no idea what that is. All I know is I need to rush to work. He says, you don't realize that there's speed limits?
Because I never paid attention to it. No idea. That's not an excuse. That doesn't help you in front of the judge and say, listen, I didn't know what the speed limit is. So you got to excuse me. That doesn't work. The lack of knowledge is not an innocence. Okay, the lack of knowledge, you'll be held liable for your mistakes because you didn't know. Is that going to be any different between us and the Almighty? We tell God, listen, you know, Shabbat,
I didn't really know what it meant. So sorry. Sorry, I didn't keep it. I didn't know. You know, there's this story that's told about this guy who was with his friends. His friends were all a bunch of hoodlums. He says to them, guys, just by the way, I know you're a little bit afraid of the world to come, but I'm not so afraid about the world to come. They're like, really? You're not afraid of God?
They're like, he's like, no, I shouldn't be afraid. You know what I'm going to tell God? I can't read. He's like, what? You can't read? Okay. That's going to be my answer. I don't know how to read and that's it. They're like, you know, God is a little smarter than that. It's okay. I'm going to tell God I don't know how to read. So he goes into, so after he passes away, he comes to the heavenly court and
they come, they say, no, so what did you do in your life? He says, well, I had a good time. I, you know, did a lot of things, but nothing that you, uh, commanded in your Torah. I didn't do any of that. He says, why not? He says, well, I didn't know how to read. They're like, what? You didn't know how to read? Wow. This is the first time we've ever heard of this.
Wow. We have to figure out to convene a jury and ask them what to do. And they're like, why doesn't that read this? What are we going to do? Did you know what? We're going to give him a visa. He can go wherever he wants. He can go to heaven. He can go to hell. He can go wherever he wants. Free entry, free exit. So he says, okay, where am I going to go? He sees over here is a beautiful gate, goes into heaven first.
He says, let me check it out. He said, I don't really know many people here. This wasn't my circles. I see he goes, you know, looks around here, the tent of Rashi. He sees the tent of the Rambam. He sees the tent of Moshe. He sees all of these different tents and he's looking around. It's like, I don't really know anybody here. I'll go check out where my friends are.
So he goes to the other gate, the big black gate to the purgatory and he goes there and he goes, he says, smells really bad here. It's hot. It's like the guard says, what are you doing here? He says, don't you see? I have a visa. I can go wherever I want. It's signed, sealed, God. And that's it. You know, he says, wow, I've never seen that before. Is that a new issue?
Is that a new thing that they're, they're issuing? He says, I don't know. I, you know, this is what God gave me. So this is what I can do. So he goes there and he's like, where's, where are my friends? They tell him, oh, it's the third row. You know, you'll be able to find them there. He goes to the third row. He goes to his friend. He says, Hey guys, what's going on? They're like, what are you doing here?
He says, I told you I was going to tell him that I don't know how to read. And they bought it. They bought it. They're like, wow, it's impossible. You can't trick God. He says, yep. I just told him. I don't know how to read. I don't know how to read. Sure enough, they tell him, listen, in a few minutes, our recess is over. Okay. We, we get back into our, into our, uh,
get out of here as quickly as you can. I'm telling you, you don't want to be here. So he runs for the door and there's a new guard there. So he goes to the guard. He says, Hey, let me out. He says, sorry, you come in here. You don't go out. There's no exit. He says, what do you mean? I got a visa. I got a visa. I can go wherever I want. He says, I'm sorry. I don't know how to read. So
there's only that much that we can that we can trick God, right? But we Yeah, we have to be, we have to be as conscientious as possible to realize that we all have opportunity. We all have talent. We all have skills. We all have abilities and We have to do the absolute best we can To fulfill the will of Hashem in the greatest way that we can. I want, I want to just qualify this Because you need to understand something, my dear friends, you need to understand something
You know, it's not fair It's really not fair. I'll tell you what my complaint is in front of heaven. It's not fair You see I'm going to come one day in front of the heavenly courts and they're going to say you're a miserable guy You know, you didn't do, you didn't do what you needed to do. What are you talking about? I never ate McDonald's. I never, do you know how many times I passed McDonald's and I didn't eat it?
Do you know how many times I passed McDonald's and didn't eat it? They're like, yeah, but that wasn't your challenge That was not your challenge. You didn't grow up eating McDonald's. You never, right? You never introduced to it. You were never, you grew up in a religious home, a Shomer Shabbos home It's not a big deal for you It's not a big deal, but for someone else who grew up eating that and they made that change in their life
And every time they pass the Burger King, they pass the McDonald's and they don't eat it They're going to high places So never ever look and say, oh, it's not a big, for you to say Shabbos, yeah Thank you very much. You grew up Shomer Shabbos Everybody's got a journey and we have to recognize this each one of us here in this room Each one of us online here each one of us watching this and listening to this podcast
We're all unique individuals and we each have our own unique journey The journey is not the same And we need to take a step in our own personal journey. Nobody, nobody should tell you what your next step needs to be You with your relationship with Hashem Talk to Hashem, ask Hashem, pray to Hashem Communicate And ask Hashem, Hashem give me guidance. Tell me what to do What's my next step? Is my next step not eating McDonald's ever again? Maybe, I don't know
But everybody's got their own next step And every person has to take, so if someone grew up That's why I hate, I hate, hate is a strong word. I hate, okay The terms of orthodox, conservative, reform, reconstructionist, I absolutely abhor it. Why? Because it puts people into boxes. It labels people and it's not honest. It's not truthful Why not? Because there are two, really, essentially there are two types of people There's growing people and stagnant people
And in the mission of Torch, for example, we are dedicated to anybody who's in growth mode And anybody who's not in growth mode, we'll try to inspire them. But anybody who says I want to grow Torch has got thousands of things for you to learn from Thousands of classes and videos and podcasts, you name it We need to be people of change, people who are growing And I'm saying this in every one of those categories that we mentioned, there are people who are growing
And in every one of those categories, there are people who are stagnant Yes, even if someone grew up in a Shomer Shabbos home, they can be stagnant, nothing changed That's the way they grew up. That's the habit they have Taken on since they're five years old, three years old, since they were born They've never seen anything, but in what qualitative way did it change? So you put on tefillin every day. Are you doing it robotically or are you doing it in a robot?
Are you doing it robotically or does it mean something? Is there a heart to it? Now for another person who didn't grow up with that, I'll tell you, I have a friend of mine He told me that he goes out with his wife for dinner every week on Saturday night to eat shellfish To eat shellfish. Now shellfish is not kosher, but he goes every Saturday night and he said to his wife
One time they were waiting to be tabled, to sit down, to be seated and he turns to his wife and he says I don't know why I feel this way, but I don't think I should be eating this stuff ever again And she's like, really? He says, you know what, till the day I die Shellfish will never cross these lips again. Now I ask you, is that not a growing Jew? He says, I don't know why, maybe it's the Torah that I learned, maybe, but you know what a change
that is for someone? Such a person, he comes to the heavenly courts, they roll out the red carpet They roll out the red carpet, look at the change he made. It's not about, it's not about, oh what category do they align with? Where do they pay their membership dues? That's nonsense. It's about the change that we make and that has the real impact. That is what's beloved in front of the Almighty. All right, so that concludes day number 147.

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