The Trust Factor
A daily lesson that focuses on achieving unparalleled success in life using ancient wisdom in modern times.
We will be discussing critical concepts as they are laid out in the book Sha'ar Habitachon - The Gate of Trust. Written 1000 years ago, the author reminds us of the values and wisdom that have allowed humanity to thrive throughout history.
The concept of trusting in a higher power that exists purely for our benefit, puts us in the drivers seat with absolute confidence to achieve greatness.
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* Note that some terminology will be in the original Hebrew or Aramaic which I will always follow with the English translation.
The Trust Factor
Episode 145 - BDE Charlie Kirk. The Moral Decay of Modern Society.
The spiritual decline of our society has never been more evident than it is today. As we witness unprecedented levels of corruption, hatred, and moral confusion, this episode dives deep into how our collective departure from divine principles has created a vacuum now filled with destructive ideologies and silenced discourse.
Through powerful examples like the tragic death of Charlie Kirk—a young man committed to debating ideas and rooting out corruption—and the heartbreaking story of Irina, a Ukrainian refugee murdered while bystanders remained passive, we explore how our abandonment of religious frameworks has eroded our ability to distinguish right from wrong, truth from falsehood.
This episode draws wisdom from Judaism's approach to truth-seeking through the Talmud, which embodies rigorous debate and passionate discourse. Unlike today's culture that seeks to silence opposing viewpoints, the sages understood that truth emerges through challenging conversation. We've lost this crucial understanding, replacing it with worship of celebrities, politicians, and material success while abandoning the moral compass that guided generations before us.
What's our path forward? The answer lies in returning to timeless principles, dedicating ourselves to daily learning, and actively sharing goodness with others. Each of us bears the responsibility to fight corruption, spread truth, and create the world we want our children to inherit. Despite living in treacherous times, there remains hope if we reconnect with our Creator and embrace our divine purpose of bringing light to darkness, truth to deception, and goodness to a world desperately in need of moral clarity.
Ready to reclaim your moral compass and find purpose in these challenging times? Share this message with someone who needs direction—it's not just a suggestion, it's our obligation as human beings created with purpose.
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the Trust Factor. The tagline that I'm about to say has never been more relevant in our lifetimes. This is the podcast that guarantees success when you implement its divine, age-old teachings. Bit of a rant today, my friends, it's time to discuss the elephant in the room, and I've mentioned this in different ways in passing since I've started this podcast.
Speaker 0:We are living in unprecedented times, and what I mean by unprecedented is I mean unprecedented corruption, unprecedented evil, unprecedented hatred and anger. And the reason, my friends, that we are living through these times right now is because we have never been more distant from our Creator. If you've seen what's going on in the world, if you haven't, you've been living under a rock. Yesterday, an individual of 31 years old, married with two very young children at home, with two very young children at home, who committed to a life of godliness, who committed his life to rooting out all of the evil in the world, committed his life to helping other people. Charlie Kirk was an individual who spent most of his days from place to place, mostly university campuses, the same places where governments for the past decades liberal governments have used as a training ground, as an indoctrination center to indoctrinate our next generation of leaders, and it's not just post-secondary, it's even the secondary institutions, high schools. Now, I'm not in the business, so I wouldn't be surprised if it was even in the elementary schools. But I can tell you this I've known many people who are in the industry as teachers, who have been shut down, who have been made to feel with absolute clarity that if they express their opinion and that opinion runs counter to their narrative and their narrative is always left-leaning, it is always woke and progressive and if they step up and say anything that is out of line or pro-conservative, they will risk losing their jobs and certainly their friendships. Good people who, I know, are scared to speak their mind in the workplace when their workplace is the education institutions of America and Canada and the West. That's because the powers have put in place mechanisms to be able to convince our next generation of their warped ideologies, including the one that was just passed in the Toronto District School Board, where we fought very hard to try and shut it down, but it passed anyways because they didn't even look at us, and they are now teaching our children and the next generation that Israel is stolen land and it really belongs to the Palestinians and that the Jews have no ancestral right to the land.
Speaker 0:This is just one small example of some of the things that Charlie Kirk committed his life to fighting, and think about all the success that he had by the age of 31. He has the President of the United States lowering the flags around the United States to half-mast in his memory, everybody coming out talking about this young individual is singing his praises. He went out and did the hard work, the heavy lifting, and because of that, the left, the Democrats, the people who called themselves politicians and political leaders, could not wait to destroy him, could not wait to kill him, and they did it in the most gruesome way in public. If you haven't seen the video, I almost insist that you watch it. It is very, very hard to watch and it is very different from knowing that this individual was killed and watching how he was killed. It is night and day. Generally speaking, we should not be watching things like this, but if you've got your head in the sand every time something like this happens because you want to protect yourself, then you don't end up understanding the gravity of what just happened and how he was snuffed out for no other reason than the fact that he wanted to debate ideas to make sure that we are living a correct life.
Speaker 0:Do you know what the Gemara is? Do you know what the Talmud is, which is the cornerstone, foundational principles of Judaism? It is entirely a discourse, a debate, from beginning to end, debate after debate after debate. That's what Judaism is. It is taking the scriptures and tearing them to shreds to try and come to an understanding of how it is that we should live a correct life. How do we take God's word and make sure that we don't miscommunicate it, that we hold to it to a T, that we utilize the aspects of this world in the right way and not God forbid in the wrong way.
Speaker 0:And for that truth, for that valiant effort to uncover truth, they fought tooth and nail, they screamed and they yelled, and they still do today. If you go into any bait me drush, if you go into any learning center where they're learning torah and gemara, it is a back and forth banter of ideas and sometimes it gets really, really hot and it gets loud and aggressive. Why? Not because they hate each other, but because they are fighting for truth. They understand that truth is the number one important thing on planet earth. If you don't have truth, you have lies. If you don't have truth, you have corruptions and you have evil. We don't want that.
Speaker 0:My friends, and therefore our sages of blessed memory spent generations creating the Talmud to be able to steer us in the right direction through discourse, through debate and discussion. That's what Charlie Kirk tried to bring to the world. But there is a side of humanity that is so wretched, that has fallen so far from where we've come that they no longer allow discourse, they no longer allow people to disagree with them. And the reason this is all happening, my friends, is very simple. It's very simple. We have strayed so far away from religion. We have strayed so far away from God and his Torah and his instructions.
Speaker 0:Yesterday I posted that, and it was actually in different contexts. It had to do with Irina, the girl who was slaughtered. Another one this past week, 10 days, in North Carolina. Another shocking, shocking display of why the world needs this podcast, why the world needs Torah values. A beautiful young woman in the prime of her life, who escaped the war in Ukraine to come to America to find safety and prosperity, is slaughtered in cold blood for doing absolutely nothing, just existing. Just existing, my friends and nobody came to her aid. Again, if you haven't seen that video, I very carefully recommend that you do, because it will change who you are when you see that people refuse to help her. They sat around her for minutes and while she was bleeding out and while she was on the floor dying slowly, nobody came to her aid. It is a shocking display of the level of corruption in humanity these days.
Speaker 0:My friends, I bring all this to your attention because this is the very reason why I did this podcast, because the reason that people behave the way that they behave, the reason that they do not have patience or desire to hear anybody else's argument, the reason that they are not willing to make room for anybody else in their life or even in this world, is because they do not know the principles that are taught to us by our creator. They do not know what their purpose is in this life. They do not know that it's our job to emulate our creator and that our creator deals with that all day long, generation after generation. People that he brings into this world who not only do the wrong thing, but they go against him exactly 180 degrees, opposite of his laws, of what he gives us as instructions. People spend their entire lives doing the exact opposite, doing everything that he hates, and yet he has patience to allow them to live out their days in the hopes that they will come around, that one day they will get the message and that things will change. He has patience and he cares, and he wants to see you grow and he wants to see you thrive, and he wants to see you question reality and he wants you to uncover truths.
Speaker 0:We've said all these things in the past. There is such a huge group of of humanity who have gone so far off the beaten path that they're not interested in anything. You have to say, if it doesn't align perfectly with them, they will get so mad. They will get so mad, they will get so frustrated and so upset that the evil in them will come out and they will do evil things. My friends, evil is the absence of good. That's all it is. It's not a difficult equation. The way to bring evil into this world is to remove this world of good.
Speaker 0:The Torah, god, represents everything that is good. And for all the technology that we've brought into this world, all the advancements that we've brought, all the wisdom that we've taught, the intellectualism, the post-secondary educations. They're telling you to get your PhDs and your masters. Go and educate yourself to the nines, because that's how you become a good person. Invent, create, make millions, make billions, because that will elevate you as a human being. In fact, my friends, the exact opposite is true.
Speaker 0:We have seen clearly and I just saw Elon Musk yesterday reiterate that a society without religion is going to replace God with a self-serving, self-destructing ideology. And that's what's happened. People have run away from godliness and have found God. We are programmed as a civilization to plug into a system, to find out what our purpose is, to search for a higher power to connect to and a higher purpose. If we don't know what it is, if it's not in front of us, then we are willing and able to accept whatever is given to us. We will make governments our gods, our systems, our politicians. We will make our leaders and we will listen to everything that they say.
Speaker 0:When the media or Hollywood says something, those who don't have God they listen very closely because they admire these people. They put politicians, they put celebrities, they put successful business people on pedestals and they try to emulate them. That, my friends, is a recipe for disaster, and that's what we're seeing right now. So forget what they've taught you, forget what they're teaching you and take what I'm giving you. Take the Torah that is out there. Find an Orthodox rabbi that you connect with and start learning full time as often as you can, every day, an hour a day, two hours, whatever it is. Find that time and learn it. Learn it fast, because the clock is ticking, my friends, teach it to your children. We don't know how much time we've got left. Not the way this world is going now, my friends. It is going in a way that is very, very scary.
Speaker 0:Thank God we have people like Donald Trump. Thank God we have people like Elon Musk. Thank God we have good people in the world, but their voice is being stifled. And even Elon Musk yesterday I heard him say that the reason he bought Twitter and turned it into X was to fight corruption, to allow for transparency. And you see that if you're on X, you see that things are not censored. If it is real and true, it is out there. And even if it isn't, it comes with warnings because he doesn't shut down free speech.
Speaker 0:But he said yesterday that, even in his effort to shut down corruption, if he shuts it down completely, they will kill him. That's what he said. If he shuts it down completely, they will kill him. That's what he said. If he shuts down corruption completely, he will end up dead. The wealthiest man in the world.
Speaker 0:My friends, I don't tell you all this to scare you, but we are living in treacherous times. We are living in a difficult era of humanity, difficult era of humanity. I think that, just by virtue of us having existed in this time period, there awaits us great, great reward in the next world. But, my friends, we are here. We are in the here and now. It is our job to make this world a better place. Don't wait for people to break, don't wait for people to fall apart at the seams. People are holding it together, they're trying to hold it together, but they need need answers, they need direction and guidance.
Speaker 0:My friends, this podcast is but one of many that you can share that you can help people to grow with. Share goodness, share positivity, share the things that you want your children to be surrounded with. If you don't share the good, my friends, then evil will come in its place. You have an obligation to share good messaging, to share truth and to shut down the lies. That's your obligation If you were put on this planet, if you were brought into creation. My friends, that is your job, amongst other things.
Speaker 0:That idea of weeding out corruption and bringing in goodness to the world, it is part of your job description. Embrace it. My friends, it's not difficult. All you need to do is click and share. All you need to do is talk to your friends and your family about the good things in the world, about God and his Torah, about how we can live a positive life free of all of the anger and the fear and the evil that comes with all of those negative character traits. My friends, sorry for the rant, but it's absolutely necessary. There's no way around it. There may even be more of these Tomorrow. We will get right back into the book where we left off. Have an amazing day.
