After Hours with Rabbi Yaron Reuven (13)

[Music] any questions 100% someone that uh someone that is keeping certain but is violating others to help him do chuva it's like you made somebody else help do Chua so the guy that's not religious at all you helping him do chuva with the basics Shabbat kosher uh and so on the guy that's religious already but perhaps maybe he's wasting seed so you help him to do Chua with wasting seed so that's also chuva no difference everyone needs to do chuva whether they're religious from birth they're Bal Chua they're rabbis they're students what everyone every Jew has to do chuva every Jew in some regard some more than some less the point is if you encourage somebody to do chuva in anything even if it's uh the guy is late to prayers every single day every day he's late to prayers you encourage the guy to come to prayers every day on time from now on you pick him up you helping him actually pray every day on time that's going to help you he doesn't do every day till 4:00 in the afternoon you help them do it in the morning that's going to help you it's not just Shabbat It's Not Just Kosher it's not just intim marriage it's not just a big things it's also small things and believe it or not the guys that are making small sins or what looks like small sins usually have some big ones in the closet usually have some big ones in the closet it's not it's not a uh happen stance that they're making small sins and that's it usually if they're comfortably conveniently and regularly making small sins that's because they have some big ones in the closet that they've gotone accustomed to as well so you helping people do chuva in any regard is good any regard this that whatever it is but chv not just he just did a Mitzvah once in his life like as much as I applaud kabad for example uh for uh helping people uh doin you know they go from place to place to get people to doin and everything else yes that's great but that's not chv the key is to get those people to doing every day so the real work is for those kabad Nikes or anyone else that follows up with those same people and every day goes to them and tells them why you do feel today okay I know you did it yesterday but today is also another day do it every day not just constantly go to new people every day and you never know if this guy's ever going to doing again it's better to work on one guy and get him to do then 20 people just to do 10 20 and they never do anything again you know at least that's again that's that's my opinion as far as real chuva is going to get you a lot more than just uh you know 20 meot what else two chose three opinions more why is there two opinions what do you mean why is there two opinions one guy says one always not always there not always two opinions there's a uh there's different levels of understanding there's 70 faces to the Torah meaning there are 70 different things that you could understand from any single point in the Torah the Torah technically is endless the Torah is infinite it was not written by a person it was written by God so when something is written by a person or said by a person then that per that thing could be limited it's limited because a person created something that's limited created creates something Limited so for example if I say picture that could have a limited amount of meanings it could mean a picture on the mall it can mean a picture like a movie it can mean a picture like I'm trying to visualize something but if AEM said any word that word can have an infinite amount of meanings why because he's infinite so he wrote the Torah that's infinite and therefore he gave us the ability to see at least 70 different different meanings in any single thing so as a matter of fact when you only see two or three opinions to one thing that means we don't have the full picture yet that means we only have a part of the picture we only have two sides of the picture there's still 68 to go but that's because an infinite being created it not a human the New Testament or the Quran all of these uh nonsensical Idol worshiping type of books they have single meanings flat meanings and uh very very literal type of stuff simply because it's people that wrote it that's why their uh readers the Christians or the Muslims and so on are taught to specifically look at things literally like when they don't generally teach the Torah they call it the Old Testament as if it's old and not good anymore in order to make sure people don't read it as if the new is better that's how the psychological battle works with them they make sure that people stay away from Torah because the Torah kills them but anytime someone is brave enough to look at the Torah they tell them yeah but look at the Torah literally look at the Torah literally problem is that if you look at the Torah literally you're not going to understand anything not GNA understand anything in the Torah that's the and that's what they try to do and not only they tell them to look at it literally look at the Torah literally at the most difficult part to understand literally which is is the prophets the prophets whether it be Isaiah Zacharia they talk in a uh more difficult language than the five books of Moses are and the reason why is because their level of Prophecy was lower than Moses so the first four books of Moses were written by Hashem himself Hashem literally told Moses what to write and he wrote it the fifth book of Moses was in essence like uh seph was like Moses's Journal he wrote it throughout all of the 40 years that we were there and hasm decided to make it the fifth book of of the Torah because he wrote it with complete prophecy he was the highest level of all prophets that ever existed and never will exist so that's why the book of Deuteronomy is very understandable even if you read it literally you still get a large part of the meaning you can understand what's being said because his prophecy was clear similar to the ramb inim says the uh prophecy of Moses in comparison to the other prophets is similar to if you had let's say a shade of GL a glass separating people from Hashem and uh or something separating them from Hashem in Moses scenario it was like a clear glass so it's understandable even though there's more meaning to what's being said but in the days of Ezekiel or Isaiah or Zacharia it's like a wall you could see some part there's holes here there holes there you can understand to some extent with the help of the sages what's being said but it's nowhere near the same level of Prophecy or clarity as the five books of Moses so to tell people to read the Torah literally is already a mistake to begin with to tell him to read the lowest level of Prophecy if you will with all honor to them it's just it is the lowest level of Prophecy comparison to mes to read the lowest level of Prophecy meaning the most unclear uniter part of the Torah literally is M leading to people to sin leading to people to make a mistake leading people to fail on purpose and the reason why is because if they actually read stuff like it's supposed to if they read the Torah like it's supposed to they would immediately abandon their religions whether it be the Islam or it be uh Christianity catholism or anything in between yeah couldn't make as you're asking why didn't abah make elaz convert okay so no so rebi was able to get it get people to uh do chuva and to convert because at the time of rebi we already got the Torah we got the yeah convert yes so uh made elazar convert if you will in that term in the terms that he had in his day we didn't have the full written to and a full oral Tor like we have like we got in Mount Si at the time of this is before mat T this is before Mount Si so at the highest level that he's able to do he did that's why elza got to a point where he was able to get to ganeden alive he became a very very holy person anytime a wasn't teaching he took over so he became is replacement Rabbi so to the highest level that he can he was able to but to uh the level of let's say after Mount Si anyone after Mount Si whether be Jethro orro or Ruth or anyone else the game changed after Mata everything changed the uh what we got in Mount Si was three different things it says the uh we got three different things one we got the Ten Commandments the the two tablets the second thing we got was the written Tor up to we didn't get the entire uh Five Books of Moses at Mount Si we only got up toat and the reason why is because at Mount Si we were at so if hasem would have given them the entire Five Books of Moses they would have known the future they would have known that they're going to sin with the golden calf they would have known that K was going to go crazy they would have known that balak and Bam were to go against am they would have known the future so Hashem didn't want to give them the future so he gave them up to where they all were which was and then over the next 40 years Hashem told Moses from time to time to write another Paras of different things that happened so that's what we got as far as the written Torah and the third thing we got is the oral Torah now the oral Torah that we got originally is much much more extensive than what we have today much more extensive uh and uh they were able to handle all of it and memorize all of it we can read all of it we could read a lot of it we still can't memorize all of it so we're on a much lower level than what they were but nonetheless the oral toah was much more extensive than what we have today for example uh one one example that they give in they say that abah a had 400 chapters I believe 400 or 600 chapters to his in the that we have today there's a half a dozen meaning it's not even 10% of what abah ainu had you understand so uh we we have much more extensive to in those days but everything that applies to us right now we have everything that we have today applies to us now certain things we don't have don't apply to us now next different meanings so for example in uh there is a small Al a small Al uh they uh this is to accentuate that uh mosenu humility he has a small Al and the reason why is because mosu did not want to uh I'm sorry uh did not want uh AEM to refer to him in a higher level than another Prophet even though the other Prophet is Bam so for example when a uh when hasem called bam uh he used the same word but without the ALF so mosenu in his humility said to Hashem listen you're you you're you're also calling me so why should I have you know that extra Olive and Hashem says put it there so M didn't really want to put it but he had to comply with hem so in his humility made the AL if extra small so there's different reasons for different letters that's just one explanation of one letter but each one of those small letters has a reason for it uh each one of the crowns that's on different letters has a reason for it each one of the dots has a reason everything in the Torah has a reason for it everything there's nothing that's there just for show everything has a reason for it everything has a meaning uh everything has a purpose because again this is not a man-made document this is a Divine document therefore there could not be anything just there for no purpose which means that any time we don't know why it's there we don't know or we don't understand what it says or we don't understand why what it means or anything like that the deficit is on us not on the Torah the Torah is complete the Torah is divine the Torah is eternal meaning there has to be something there the fact that we don't know it is because we don't know it not because there isn't a reason not because there isn't an explanation crowns of the letters yes anything yeah we have we have there there's definitely some things that certain Al that were taught on the crowns of of the letters he taught a lot of a lot of Secrets uh as a matter of fact the um Aral Shalom uh says that many of the parts of the Torah that people don't care to read are where he found most of his secrets so for example uh at the end of uh of um it talks about the lineage lineage of of Cain and Abel and it says this one had kids this one got married this one had kids this one got married it's a bunch of names it seems like it's like you ask yourself why do even write this who cares what his kids are all of them died anyway we're not none of us are from from from them like why why do even mention who are these people who cares about them says that's where he found most of his secrets in those places that no one wants to read that no one cares about that thinks for no reason that's where we found most the secrets most of the secrets so everything has a purpose everything has a reason uh it's in the Torah if it's in the Torah yeah yeah yeah yeah so he yeah that was in essence that was his uh part of his punishment actually had a to explain to you guys a little bit we're going to learn more about this next week but to explain to you a little bit more about the Apple doesn't fall far from the tree so the this week's Paras gives uh uh some uh names that most people including myself skipped probably as many times you as you read this you skipped on it every single time but it gives you actually a now we always hear that Sodom and gamorra the expression obviously uh is is horrible because Sodom and gorah was where all the Sinners were horrible people terrible people made all these different sins you weren't allowed to bring guests if you brought a guest they would kill him or if you let him in already they would uh you know if he was tall they would put him in a small bed and it would cut off the part that's hung off the bed or if he was uh short they would put him in a big bed and then stretch him until he pretty much died and so on and so forth so these were but what's the uh what's what's another source of where it all comes from where it all comes from oh look at this m kind of finished this year so his fly showed up fly showed up left M you all the way here so this is two weeks in a row already this fly is here maybe I think I think I think I think yeah I think he moved I think he moved to Florida you heard we're causing some chaos over here so anyway so actually in this it's a uh in in this book in this week's chapter 14 it talks about the war of the Kings the Four Kings against the five Kings and it names the different Kings now the king of it says says the names of the king of is and the king of gamorra is B okay B and B but if you look at the way that they're spelled the king of is which if you separate the word it's to be ra to be evil and if you look at the king of am it's spelled b is if you separated the b r b rash meaning the Torah is trying to explain to us here that evil wickedness sins and everything else in between starts at the top it starts at the top the people are not just evil by themselves it has to do with who taught them what they taught them the people are not fools by themselves it had has to do with who didn't teach them who chose not to and so on and so forth so that's why theab page 54 it talks about why did hasem punish the rabim the ranim in the days of the bet mikdash he punish the rabbis first why do he punish the rabbis I mean they're keeping Shabbat Yip they did everything why did he punish them first and he says say says because they didn't rebuke the people they saw people sin and they didn't say anything they didn't say anything he says so that's in essence they took on the sin themselves they were just bad just as bad as them they were judged just as bad as them even though they themselves kept Shabbat the fact that they sat there without anything to say while everybody else was Shabbat they didn't do K as K is supposed to be done meaning rebuking the people telling the people the truth getting people to do CH they just sat there and they worried about themselves hem says not only I punish them I punish them first why because the people are wicked partly because of them partly because of these leaders so that's why in this dream was so for me I don't know the dream that radya had that was just publicized uh to me hit a note to me I mean even even though I'm already in this I'm already doing kiru to me hit a note when I got this message because I've been trying to teach for a few years years already but part of what I've been trying to teach I've been trying to teach it's a few people that I've been trying to connect to whether it's in or here connected people that actually already know Torah sometimes they sometimes whatever it is but I've been trying for the last few years already more so than even teaching people I've been trying to encourage other people to teach I say you already know to I don't know anything and I'm teaching I'm getting people to do chuva look you could do a lot more than me you could do a lot more look how much T you already learned for five years you already learned for 10 years you already learned for 30 years whatever you you you know something you know it teach it you know no is teach who no is you know mosu teach m whatever you know teach you don't need to have anything just teach read the book do something trying to get people out of their own like comfort zone of learning you know comfortably and what happens is that people think that they're doing better by learning themselves and the reality is that could not be further from the truth further from the truth the reason why is because it says what are the two things that are going to save us at the end of time there two things that are going to save us at the End of Time says only two things t means learning and observing Tor means overwhelming kindness okay so Tor observing and learning Tor of course we all know it we come to sh T we learn t every day okay we know it but what's the kindness what giving people rides to uh to uh to work every day that's kindness no Uber can do it for 30 bucks what's what's kindness kindness means bringing him back to hem the highest level of means getting to do chuva so learning of course it's important but if you're learning without doing the ultimate kindness you're selfish you're selfish everybody has to do K everybody and that's why this dream that had that R MSI uh publicized just now is extraordinary because he's saying that in his own dream and obviously is's not gonna see he's not gonna make up a story so if he's saying that mashiah is not coming because there's not enough people doing kiru there's not enough people getting involved in kiru whether it be in donations or in teachings or in whatever in something in involving yourself in this then what we've been saying for the last few years so the way we started this year is the way we finish this year is given us with no end over these last few years will continue giving us the but the ultimate point is for you guys to take it home and actually follow it if I'm teaching you and it's just for entertainment purposes then please bring me new students okay so it's for you to take it home that means the Shabbat take it home and do it kosher take it home and do it take it home and do it take it home and do it but also K take it home and do it don't be selfish with your Torah do something you don't have any time at all contribute money you have to do something you have to do something because without kiru without each person here each person watching getting at least 10 people to do CH this year this year now this year now there's no hope there's no hope can't show up mashiah says yeah yeah I'm here but 80% of am say is not going to survive what kind of mashiah is that better off he doesn't come you understand so we got to do we got to wake up we got to learn we got to do do will come will be pleasantly surprised pleasantly you know welcoming us and the vast majority of if not all of us but we already do CH that's complete at that point and B all the good prophecies will be fulfilled in our days and very soon amen amen that's [Music] [Applause] [Music]