Bet Nissim Erev Yom Kippur Teshuva Drasha 5782

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welcome everyone uh before we begin I want to give you three options what you could do with your phone this evening the first one is you could cancel service on your phone for this particular event you could remove the battery or you could send it back to the distributor those are the three options welcome everyone thank you so much ARA for organizing tonight's event as to find the forem should send her the Mish am so thank you so much for giving me this opportunity to share some words before the great H before the holiest day of the year and the happiest day of the year so let me Begin by telling you a little story you have to know a little bit about the characters of the story one of the greatest Jewish Educators today somebody who had a career of Education many different venues he was a RV he was a rashash he's a historian he's a writer he's a producer he was an attorney he covered all bases Rabbi barel wine and he was once in the airport and he's somebody who thousands of people have listened to his tapes and his shim someone's in the airport and he says is that you Rabbi I can't Rabbi that's you and Rabbi wine doesn't like to take in you know the Ador ing fans so he starts to sort of slip away walk away and I can't believe it's you you know I read all your books and I heard all your shim and I heard all your tapes and your lectures and in my sh alone there are a few dozen people that read your books just when the rabbi speaking it's unbelievable how much you're able to uh com how much you influenced me and rabbe Wines had enough the guy's harassing him the guy bothering him and says very nice have a safe FL hope to see you later catch you later and the guy doesn't let up and he says Rabbi I just want to tell you one last thing you know behind every great man is an even greater woman so Rabbi please send my best regards to rabbitson friend you got the wrong Rabbi so he Rabbi Wan you know he has a very witty sense of humor he says uh I don't usually travel with her but next time I see her I'll definitely let her know friends sometimes in life you could really miss the boat but it doesn't make such a big difference I remember uh the great mag of he was once giving a he was once giving a talk and he was talking about and he says is it's so enjoyable you know how enjoyable is let me give you a little flavor it's like drinking a cold Pepsi after a hot chant wow that's real so a few days later one of hisim come over to the mag and he says you know re you changed my life I have a different perspective on life so rebi said what you're learning more you're ding better no no I never tried Pepsi after chilling before it's t very G so sometimes you have to listen carefully to the message because you could blow it and you could think what the rabbi saying is you should try Pepsi after a hot chant I want to share with you a question this question cuts to the core of these days that we're experiencing right now let's focus for a moment on the high holidays on rip any thinking person should be really bothered by this question let's think about the order of the Y first we have Rashana and we come to sh and God judges us what does he judge us based on he judges US based on our actions so the gamar tells us hasem weighs our MIT and our a anyone who has has more mitv than a he's written and sealed for a year of Life health happiness success anyone who has more Shalom their year is written and sealed not for a good outcome that's what the gamar says and then 10 days later we come back to theet we come back to sh and now it's not about Judgment Day now it's about our souls and it's about sealing the final judgment and the gamar Tells us on yur God atones for our sins he cleanses our and if you think about it just a little bit the order of the seems to be exactly backward seemingly unfair and why did God do it this way we know that God is a merciful father he's our loving father whatever he does for us is for our benefit wouldn't it make a lot more sense to start off with yur we're going to come to ual God's going to cleanse our souls we're going to go through the car wash he's going to take you know the the soap and the the shiny thing and he's going to clean our souls he's going to cleanse our n and then we should come back 10 days later and he'll judge us and by that time you know we'll be uh sitting pretty we'll be in a perfect situation we'll have only mitzvot no aot and will be written and sealed for a long happy successful healthy year why would God first judge us oh first God's going to judge us when we have all our sins on our slate and then after he judges us he's going to forgive our sins what's the doing that first let's have y kipur forgive our sins and then if he judges us we'll be uh in great shape to have a wonderful judgment this is the question that the great Rabbi you ever hear of himberg bazer said was the question of rabis salant rabis salant was the founder of the mus movement and rabis salant was bothered why does God first judge us and then forgive our sin he should first forgive our sin and then judge us I have another important question to ask you you know on rash anyone who has more MIT a is written and sealed for a long happy successful year anyone who has more aot than mitzvot the opposite and then we have this category in between category who knows what it's called bon the in between guys the mediocre guys the guys who are 5050 and their judgment is suspended yeah it's delayed it's delayed from to the tells us if they tilt the scales on the side of mitv they're sealed for life if they tilt the scales for the side of a then shalom they're sealed for uh the other fate does anybody here really think that anybody is B what's the likelihood that anybody's a bon I mean aad is someone who has more than rash is someone who has more a you think there's anyone in this world who's actually 5050 I mean what's the chances of that I think we could Peg anybody and say okay that guy more mitv that guy what's the lik you think there's anyone alive today who's exactly 5050 and what's the chance of that is that even possible and you know by the way we get all worked up on yum kipur because we we figure we must be bonm you think we're really bonm you think we're really in between it seems pretty implausible very unlikely that anyone's actually a bon so that's why would like to discuss and then the gar tells us the B are suspended they're they're hanging where are these guys hanging what are they hanging on where are they suspended what's the meaning of Bim so I'm going to tell you a story I've said this story before but the story is so shocking that I decided to go back to the source today I went I called up my friend who's the nephew of the author of this saer tell me where this Rabbi got it from and I got an email that uh the rabbi got it from a number ofarim one of them is even quoted by the son of the um the rabba but this is a story that took place about 150 years ago in the city of and in the city of slitz there was a butcher you like meat people like me yeah okay good and this butcher was a religious Butcher and it's Thursday night Thursday night is the busiest night of the year of the week and uh the store is full of customers and outside of the butcher shop is a doctor this doctor was K he was a heretic he did not believe in nothing fine and he over here is in the butcher shop the butcher is telling all the customers get out of here leave my shop I got to I have to close the store immediately so either get your meat now or get out and if you really need meat either come back tomorrow or come back in an hour is in seven minutes and the Doctor Who overhears this conversation he's really upset I mean is this butcher out of his mind this is uh the most important hour of the week for a buter it's an hour it's late Thursday night this is how he makes the parasa for the entire week why would you kick out a customer everybody knows a customer sent away is a customer lost forever and the doctor goes over to the Butcher say you out of your mind why you sending your customers away so the butcher said look is in five and a half minutes now I have to pray I have to go to my sh comes from Shay and after all I need to be concerned about so the doctor says you're a fool there's no such sing as Haba so the butcher says you're right for you you're not going to have Haba I'm hoping that I'm going to have a big share in Haba so the doctor is not faced he says you believe in Haba here here let's make a deal you give me one Ruble and I will sell you all of Mya the butcher says deal deal of the century he hands him the ruble he says thanks for the he runs to and that's the end of the story 35 years later the butcher is in his mid 70s Thursday morning who's there A well-dressed woman walks into the butcher shop she looks very disturbed he says can I help you she says I want to remind you of an incident that took place a long time ago I just do me a favor just tell me it's not true said tell me the story she said I'm embarrassed to tell you but you know I had this crazy dream my husband the doctor he came to me in a dream and he's screaming and he's tormented and he's he's lost it he's telling me that he went up to the bz shamal he went up to the court in shamay and they weighed his aot and he had a lot of aot and he had some mitv he had a lot of good mitv because he was a doctor and he used to treat the poor for free and and it was like 5050 and in the last moment God told my husband that he can't geta why because he sold Thea to the butcher so the lady says look I'll tell you the truth I had the dream once and I pushed out of my mind but I'm having the dream night after night after night after night and I cannot sleep at night and it looks like my husband is tor Ed so just tell me this is not true tell me the whole thing is made up and then I could rest easy so the butcher says lady I remember the story like it was yesterday that's exactly what happened that that was your husband huh I gave him a Ruble and I took hisa she said okay so he asked me to give you the ruble back and you give him back Thea this way you know he could go up to sh and get his reward the butcher says not a chance I would never take back that Ruble for the after what do I do for a living I'm just a butcher you think I'm going to get Anya now that I'm hearing that your husband was a doctor and he treated the poor and he had a big share in the world to come and I bought it I will never give this up forever so I really feel bad for him and has on your husband but I cannot return his this belongs to me have a Wonder F day and even though it was and they didn't know he said that night she goes to sleep and the husband is tormented he's he's Disturbed he's screaming he's yelling lady get me back my they're going to torture me my existence is is in Jeopardy just get back TOA give him a $10000 give him $10 million just give me back get me back TOA so she goes back to the butcher the butcher says I can't tradea for money I would never do that he comes to her in a dream again and he says you're going to go to the ra the r of the city you're going to go to rvas and you're going to tell him the story and we have to have a court case yeah we have to have a din Tora he'll hear both sides and we'll see what he paskin so the lady knocks on the the rabis door and I don't know of any Rabbi if somebody knocked on your door that they sold their and someone came to a dream I don't know too many rabbis that they would give them the time of day but the rvas listen very carefully to the lady and and he said we're going to have to convene a court case and word got out in the city of slutsk that there's going to be the court case of the century the woman AET har again the butcher where will thisam Haba go and the town is buzzing this was like the most exciting thing that ever happened in the history of the city of slutsk and the rabbi hears the butcher's case and he hears the woman's case and he's thinking and he's deliberating and he says I'm going to go into my Chambers I'll be out in 30 minutes he comes out 30 minutes later and he says I have myak the s has three parts to it and the people sitting there they're they're waiting with baited breath they feel so terrible for they remember the doctor he wasn't a great guy but he's he's Ina he doesn't have a share Ina the first part of theak says the redas is the sale is Bal it's nullified it's not a good sale says the redas you can't sell is not trans transferable you could sell an item you could sell a possession if let's say you owe me $500 I could say don't give it to me give it to ruin we could transfer money furthermore if you support Torah then the learning and the mitv that you support you get not because you bought the because you facilitated the performance of the Mitzvah but once someone does a mitzvah you can't buy his I'll give you an example I see some guys over here you go to the gym you out you have big you know you're healthy imagine like this you hit the gym for 3 days straight you lift weights you do aerobics you you know you're in good shape then somebody comes to you this guy's a couch potato he hasn't gotten off his couch in 10 years he knows every bad episode of Every rotten television show he hasn't moved he his arms are like macaroni and he goes to you he says you you hit the gym every day I want I'm going to buy off of you your health well-being cardiac um Vitality I'm going to buy it you know money K could you buy exercise could you buy good health of course not it's not transferable it's part and parcel of your identity it's part of your essence imagine somebody goes to Florida they sit in the Sun for a few days they breathe in the good air and then they come back and someone says oh you look really good I'm going to purchase it off you you can't buy that so TOA you can't buy Haba you can't buy the world to come it's it's not transferable so the first part of the says this Rabbi is that the sale is B the sale is off the sale is nullified it's not transferable so everybody breathes a sigh of relief now this butcher uh will have to give back to the doctor his and the doctor will have a big share in the world to come part two of the says the RAS the doctor lost his share in the world to come everyone gasps why did he lose his share in the world to come sayas the gar tells us Sid the righteousness of thead will not save him on the day of his sin which means somebody does a Mitzvah and then they regret the Mitzvah they get no reward for the performance of the Mitzvah if somebody does not believe in they don't get if somebody disparages they lose theira this doctor was Mel he disparaged hisa he said here you take Mya and you give me a few bucks you give me a rubble so he was he didn't value it he didn't consider it important if you don't value it you don't get it the doctor lost his share in the world to come and people are beside themselves people are crying why the doctor lose a share in the world to come he was such a good man no the rabbi said he was but then the r says one last Clause the doctor will get a great share what I thought you just said he lost says the RAS this doctor created a big K hasem what K hasem says the K hasem was that until this court case everybody just talked abouta what's Haba it's a concept that you hear about from a rabbi it's a concept that people talk about but it wasn't real to anybody nobody valued it nobody was worried about it nobody was concerned about it everybody was worried yeah where am I going to live in this world how big is the lot of my house in this world how big is my kitchen how much marble do I have in in my house what kind of vehicle do I drive what kind of clothing do I wear everybody was was worried about and is just like a word two words nobody treated it like a reality was anybody worried what their house is going to look like Inaba did anybody think about what their vehicle will be Inaba did anybody think about what their clothing will be like oh no NOA is just words but now that we had a court case abouta and people realized this is something real this is someone something actual this is reality of existence that wherever you live in this world is only for 50 60 70 years so where are you going to live forever and whatever you wear is how long do clothing last for one two three seasons but what kind of badm will you have Ina this the reality of habah that was brought to the Forefront from this court case was such a K hasem and who calls the kashem the doctor the doctor will get a great share in the world to come we're going to be speak about a subject tonight that you're not going to hear about too often because the is so clever that he makes sure that nobody talks about it yeah you could hear about and you could hear about and you could hear about gar but nobody could talk about this cuz if you talk about this this is the single most important fundamental principle that will spell the difference in every single decision that we will make throughout our life what I call the seven most important words in Judaism this world is a wholeway before the world to come this world is just the entrance the alleyway the hallway the corridor before the world to come is it so important what kind of house we live in in the hallway what kind of clothes we have in the hallway what kind of possessions we have in the hallway when it's just a preparation for Eternal existence now Ruderman the rash of is he would always say over at at a pon any Kim over here all right we have another Kim so we have opin that we have a firstborn kid so at the first point uh the kid is born he's 30 days old we go to the Kain and the father gives the Kain five silver shekel and the cohain asks what's got to be the quintessential rhetorical question three words what do you want more your firstborn son Oram or five uh five bucks what would you rather have your kid or the money and I don't think any parent in history ever told the Cohen Coen you keep the kid and I'll take the money maybe the parents should have told the Cohen that but certainly not by the first born I don't think anyone ever told the Cain hey Cain you keep my kid I'd rather have the money that's the question the cin asks what would you rather have the kid or the money and Rudman would say this question is not an isolated question that is only asked at the time that you go to the cohain and the cohain says what would you rather have the money or the kid this is a question that literally affects every single decision we will make for the rest of our life we can always ask asked this question what would you rather have let's say we're deciding what neighborhood I live in the question is what would you rather have or which school do I send my kid to you know what that decision is based on what are you more interested in Ora where do you go on vacation one central question which world do you want you want this world or you want Eternal world every decision we make throughout our existence is dependent on one major question do we love or do we love you say Rabbi let easy bug off I like both worlds I like and I like look I'm here already so if I'm here I might as well enjoy my meals wear nice clothes live in a nice house drive a nice car I mean I'm here so I'll have this world and I'm going to have the world to come and the answer is you should enjoy every moment of life every blessing God gave you every meal you have you should enjoy to its fullest enjoy your children enjoy your house but what we're discussing is which world are you after which world are you pursuing and their mutually exclusive and that's the decision and the most important decision that we will make in our life which world are we running after what are we chasing says the you cannot put into one cup Fire and Water try it you can't put fire and water in one cup in the heart of the believer you can't love and you could be happy here you could enjoy here but you can't be after Both Worlds and the single most important decision that any human being will make in their life is which World they want we had a question who's a bay you think anyone's a Bayon you think anyone has exactly equal number of MIT you know who's a bon every single person is a bon see really and you know where they're suspended let me explain something to you we're all suspended in between two worlds between this world and the world to come we want want this world we want really good food and really good clothing and really good vacations yeah we want we want we desire and we're here in the and we want to hear words of Tor and we want to do mitv we want and we're smack in middle of Both Worlds the body pulls us down and the Nish pulls us up and we're by definition Bon God created us Bon we're pulled after this world World we're drawn to the world to come and it's a big aod it's a big job during these 10 days we got to pull away from our yearning for you know what God does for us he does us a very big favor because if we would be able to see if we could taste it if we could feel it there's no question we would say Okay God that's what I want I wanta so God says I'll do you a favor I'm going to take one day out OFA I'm going to give you one day there's no eating there's no drinking there's no fighting and when the Nish experiences that day the Nish will say hey God I don't want I don't want this world I understand this world is like a Suka this world is just temporary that's why after hasem gives us one day of and once the tastes and feels the says to God God that's what I want that's who I am so Hashem says okay we're going to practice for seven days we're going to have an exercise that's what you want you ready for this 1 2 3 okay you're going to leave your house you're going to sit in a temporary residence for 7 days and you're going to change your existence you're not a b anymore you don't live for you live for says R you know why it's so troubling to us why does God first judge us and then forgive our sins isn't it backward he should first forgive our sin and then judge us you know why we're bothered by this question because all we think about isah we think about life we think about health we think about our children we think about money so we say it's not fear first forgive our sins and then judge us but God knows the truth God knows that this world is is a speck of dust in the spectrum of our existence our main existence is so God says like this R Jew if you would first come to the sh for a yur do you know what would happen Rabbi I'll tell you what's going to happen if you would tell the people okay first we have y people well Yip what do we do on Yip there's no eating there's no drinking why we have to clean our Rabbi why do I need to clean my you know why because your needs to be clean for Rabbi why do I care about what in the world Isa that's why you want me to come to sh because of clean my soul for what's going to do for me so God says okay we're going to we're going to ease you into this whole thing very slowly first we're going to tell you come to do why should I do for your health for your money for your family oo now you're talking my language I know what health is I know what money is so we come to the for rash and the language that the repercussions the the um what is at stake is something that's meaningful to us and then after rashash is over God says just joking it's not about rashash now that we got you into the sh and you started thinking about your souls it's not about the rashash Shana it's about the world to come and for the world to come you need to make sure you show up there with a clean but once we've already began the process on rashash and we started thinking about ourselves now a little bit Hab starts to make sense to us and therefore we have to come to the and understand that our mission is to identify clearly with conviction my which world are we after which world are we interested in about six years ago I was invited to speak in a community Community down south in Memphis Tennessee and interesting in Memphis Tennessee it's right off the Mississippi River you could go to the Bass Pro Shop and uh in the Bass Pro Shop you could buy any you know it's like the heart of the NRA you can buy any weapon you want over there you know there's a that's like the big religion to make sure you own a weapon there down south and there's the tallest freestanding elevator in the United States of America you go up the elevator you look down you see the Mississippi River in Memphis Tennessee I met an old man he was a man in his 90s his name was Yeshua Kutner and he told me one of the most moving stories I ever heard he said he grew up in New York in 1920 in the Bronx and he was a kid in the time of the Great Depression you know in the time of the Great Depression you had businessmen who they used to be multi-millionaires in the 1930s they couldn't even buy a loaf of bread and a loaf of bread cost two pennies a Cardon of milk was 5 pennies a newspaper was one penny people could not afford the basics even the wealthiest people the wealthy people would stand on street corners selling buttons apples and shoelaces to put food on the table my grandfather grew up in the Bronx in the 30s all six kids slept on one mattress that's that's all they could afford in the Bronx there were 600,000 Jews 600 boys went to Yeshiva the assimilation rate was astronomical so this uh family the ker family went to one of the only Orthodox yeshivas of the time the problem was as hungry as they were the rabbis and the Yeshiva were starving and the rabbis went on strike because the parents couldn't pay tuition the principal told these boys either you come into tomorrow with $6 all the back tuition your parents owe or you don't come back now you have to know something I'm not going to mince words any child that went to public school in the 30s in New York does not have Jewish grandchildren [Music] today I'm just going to say it as it is a kid who didn't go to the Yesa did not have Jewish descendants and these are F kids from Orthodox families their parents were rabbis in Europe they didn't go to Yesa they didn't have Jewish descendants and many Jews many Jewish kids their parents couldn't pay tuition they had to go to public school and uh the boys uh they come home they tell their parents their parents didn't know what to do so Mom says to Dad hey Dad you have one suit it was an ugly suit but you have one suit where the jacket matches the the pants go to the pawn shop maybe you could get six bucks for the suit so he goes to the porn shop the owner of the porn shop says this suit is a piece of junk it's not worth more than $335 but the father begged if I don't get $6 my kids are not going to get back to Yeshiva so he got $6 for the suit the kids bring in $6 and they go back to the Yeshiva so this gentleman told me this was one of the most moving experiences in my life now me and my brother Brothers knew what Torah meant to our family if we were not as fortunate we would have ended up like a lot of the other boys who didn't get to stay in the ISA and they don't have Jewish descendants today my father never had the money to buy his suit back but God gave him something more valuable in return God gave him generations of God-fearing Jews all of my great grandchildren today our Torah our sh Torah ourain wore eight garments a regular cohain wore four garments my dad had a suit that was his big day Kahuna he sold it for $6 that was the best $6 he ever spent in his life here's one mistake we make we think our life is finite nah you wish our bodies are finite our actions are infinite our actions will continue to reverberate forever and ever long after we're gone does anybody know why is it called Yip the day of atonements what why plural why plural the wres because God doesn't just atone for the living He atones for the dead the dead get atonement on yum Kip you know people come to sh they give money for yizar why to atone for the dead you light a candle for the dead Yip to bring atonement to the dead could someone tell me why do dead people need atonement what exactly are they doing wrong buried six feet under the ground they're doing aot the guy hey move over it's a little stuffy in here what exactly are the Dead doing wrong statistics show that the dead find it very difficult to speak lashan Hara once they're buried very little lashan Hara going on underground over there nobody's driving car in Shabbat under the ground there's no nobody ate any trfe once they're once they're buried under the ground why do dead people need atonement why do they need kapar I understand the living need kapar why do meim need kapar I'm going explain says Rua here you have a guy good guy honest guy good Jew he came to schul every day he prayed with Manan three times a day but not only did he pray with Manan he wouldn't even bring his phone into the bet because you know if you come into the bet with a phone on that's not really is to pray to God with all your heart if you're distracted looking at telephone then you're not praying with all your heart you're praying with half a heart that's that's not really this guy would not even bring his telephone into the bet that's the correct thing to do not only that he learned every day he worked honestly and then he went up to shamayim and God said Zinga you're a good boy we're going to give you a nice spot in so he got a nice house he got Corner property with Nice Landscaping luxury vehicle Ina he has a yacht in his backyard he is nice he's doing very well Inaba next year comes Rashana they say rabid guess what you're getting a promotion he said promotion I didn't do anything I'm dead I've been here Ina I didn't do any mitzvah said you're right you didn't do any mitv but your children they worked honestly this year because they learned from your example that goes to your Merit and the guy who sat next to you in sh he stopped bringing his cell phone to the betet because he learned from your example so that goes to your Merit and the guy who sat two rows behind you he started learning every day because of your example so that's residual income you didn't have that income last year those were dividends you didn't col El so now we're giving you a promotion now you're moving to Long Island in and you're going to have a much bigger property and you don't have to worry about New York City taxes Ina you're going have a much better spot said okay I'll take it but it's a pain in the neck to move no in we have very easy moving procedures you just tell us where you want to live and we're giving you a whole black on Long Island yeah take it the next Rashana they come knock on his door they say R you're getting another promotion so what I do now what do you do now you have grandchildren they're learning in Yesa there were the people the guy who didn't bring in his phone because you didn't bring in his phone the guys who saw him they didn't bring in their phone so now you have even more residual income so now we're moving you to The Hamptons OFA and you're going to have a whole beach front area it's unbelievable the guy says great wonderful it's good that's why the gamar says the righteous have no peace not in this world and not in the world to come in this world they're busy they're busy they're amassing Torah MIT and the world to come every week they're getting another promotion but then you have a guy he didn't live that great like an hour before Shabbat was over he cut some corners and his he was like in between WhatsApp WhatsApp email his learning wasn't consistent it was he didn't treat people with proper respect but he what's the name of the sh what's the name of what B Nim but he gave a lot of money to B Nim so we have to reward him for that so he goes up to the Shay and he says pal and there are a lot of these scary Angels cir you know around him and he knows he's not getting a good spot but they said look we got to give you a place to live so they give him a one-bedroom apartment in Harlem of olaba and he has to lock you know 20 locks on his doors because there these scary Gremlin malim who are peering Through the Windows and he has to buy he has to a year later they knock on his door and they're like these frightening angels in the front door they said well you're being evicted I didn't do any of here in yeah but you now five people brought their phone to the because you were busy on the phone the whole time and six people were not careful with shirat Shabbat because you weren't careful and the way you wanted your wife not to be S not to be modest and because of that another 30 people relax inot so we're evicting you you're going we're moving you to a park bench in Central Park of olaba you're going to be homeless Inaba and that nice suit that you're wearing no now you're going to wearing shatas Ina and you're now going to drive a Ford Taurus Ina that's the first car I ever had says Rua ha we think that our actions are finite our actions continue to reverberate forever and ever and ever every decision we make every Mitzvah we do every AA we do they're not limited they reverberate there's Ripple effects it affects the person next to you the person down the block the person in the next neighborhood in fact RAB Yeshua heler quotes an ancient Rabbi named RAB AAR Shalom who was a contemporary of ramal remember the wicked King manasha who introduced AAR throughout the land of Israel and because of him AAR proliferated for generations and generations and ultimately Masha did chuva but man is not recorded in the book of MIM it's only recorded in why is that why is Mas not recorded in only in the you know why because manasha influenced so many people to serve Idols that when he tried to repent God said I can't accept your repentance the children the grandchildren the great grandchildren of the people who you influen they're still serving Idols so it's very nice you're sorry about what you did and you'll never do it again but the Ripple effects of your actions have already gone out of control we cannot accept your chuva but then Generations later when the BET mikdash was destroyed and all the idolators were murdered and Ezra prayed that God should abolish the desire for abod Zar so now masha's repercussions had finished then and only then was masas tra accepted because we have to recognize we have to understand that our actions have have fruits and those fruits produce more fruits and it's a NeverEnding series of influence that we have says rabar Shalom that when God analyzes and scrutinizes and judges a person in order to judge any individual he needs to judge everyone alive on Earth just to be able to determine the influence that each individual had my grandfather grew up in the Bronx in the 1930s it was very challenging to remain observant in that time and one of the ways that he was able to remain strong is he had a grandfather his name was mum F he was a working man but he was a spirited Jew and my grandfather would go to his grandfather Friday night and his grandfather would sing shabbatot with such passion and his that the roof would shake and those of me wrote entered my grandfather's heart and it remained with him for the rest of his life and he remained a loyal and faithful Jew and I tell you every rash my grandfather's grandfather my great great grandfather they knock on his door they say R you're getting a promotion this year so what did I do so you didn't do anything new remember when you sang zirot 80 years ago your grandson has a grandson gladstein and Cedarhurst he has boys who DAV in very nicely all of those they go to you so you get another raise this year you get another promotion and therefore Sayes Yeshua hel for this man's heart should tremble when we focus when we pay attention any act that we perform in this world your actions will outlive you so you better make sure where are my actions headed if my actions are good they'll produce good fruits and I will reap the benefits from them forever and ever but says if a person was not careful with their actions in this world who's going to wake you up from your grave that you could run to every person who watched what you did and say please don't pay attention to my life don't pay attention to how I acted I beg you it's bad enough what I did just ignore everything I did is anyone going to wake us up and allow us to visit every person on planet Earth to tell them please do me a favor ignore my lifetime says Rua heler what you do makes a difference what you do today makes a difference what you're going to do tomorrow makes a difference life counts life's not a joke life is important every action that we do has a ripple effect on all of mankind yum Kipper is not only a day of forgiveness for the living yum Ki is a day of forgiveness for the dead may give us the Heavenly assistance to recognize and identify which world we are interested in may give us to recognize the value of every moment of life to Value every action that we do and hasem puts us in the right path we'll reap the benefits and the rewards of our forever and ever and ever for this world in health happiness and thank you so [Music] much you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com