Chofetz Chaim and Parashat Balak

foreign says that balak and bilam have a similar their tests that we failed at they tested us with imadisti she says both of them enticed the goyot to count imadist and influence on Israel so one of the major tests that we learned from this palasha is that we have to watch our eyes because if we watch our eyes the sin will not come upon us as says but also watch what your eyes see during the day so the ra doesn't come to you at night so the evil doesn't come to you at night so the gemara says what is what's evil evil is when you lose control of your body when you go to sleep you end up wasting seed and even though you didn't mean to you didn't do it with yourself you didn't do it with a woman you did it what came out by itself it's still considered evil it's still considered a sin just not the same level of sin why because it's still your fault it's as a result of the things that you looked at now I brought a letter with me that I didn't know whether I was going to read it or not but a lot of people when they talk about the cafe Unfortunately today they make the cafe seem like a puppy seemed like a little uh you know a little uh that's very 13 years old doesn't know yet so I actually have a letter written by the cafe that he wrote about 15 years before the Holocaust and that's what he says today because of our great sins bitterness and bitterness surrounds us and when a person looks around him at the state of his life there's not a day that is not cursed more than yesterday and when he examines this situation regarding twine Meets World he sees that there is also no absolutely no success meaning that even if somebody is trying to follow at the time of the he's still not succeeding meaning everybody whether you're secular religious Let's Make a Difference everybody's failing everybody's seeing their life is just cursed was a disastrous of a Time so the point of the lettuce to answer why and even though every Jew beseeches the Holy One blessed is he to answer his pleadings and Grant them respite no one hears this is a true situation he says even right now 1927 all Jews secular religious whatever you want everybody prays to Hashem and everyone has them is going to help them but hashem's not answering anybody's press meaning your day is cursed regardless of what your background is what Yeshiva you went to everybody's days cursed I've said that the main reason is that we ourselves distanced the Holy One bless DC from us it says the reason for all this is because we are far away from Hashem because of what we did what do we do Behold our sages stated in page 24 a a hand breath exposed in a woman in a place that is usually covered constitutes sexual unchastity and today due to our many sins this matter has very greatly spread and the evil inclination seduces women to walk around without covering their hair and to go out with their arms exposed in sleeveless dresses and many of their garments exposed their chest everything is exposed so that in whatever place a man should look he's confronted with unchastity this a battalion cream is almost a hundred years ago 1927. back then in comparison today the most immodest woman there was modest to comparison to today and he said look at what they're doing they're not covering their hair they're not covering their arms they're not covering their chest properly look at all the disasters bring into the whole generation don't blame me in summary this terrible fashion of the times brings a man to have evil imaginations and sometimes also the emission of seeming in vain God forbid and in doing so he endangers his own small children as the brilliant Torah scholar the yavits wrote in his prayer book The yavits I love a Shalom actually wrote even in his own sidhu about how to be careful about not wasting seed that's how from previous generations were careful about this sin that no one wants to talk about in this generation and almost because of this terrible fashion alone we ourselves negate the admonishment of the Holy One blessed is he as it says Therefore your Camp shall be holy and he not seeing you the unjust thing meaning that who simply runs away from me modesty if you have imadasdi you simply cannot have a kadus in that place to such an extent his talmid was shalom one time was a guest in America and a religious family's house religious family's house and he's reading the real menager is that somebody reads it for everybody that's the problem says that one person is supposed to read to everybody that's the way it's supposed to be today most people read it for themselves even if you have 10 people it's not supposed to be that way it's supposed to be one person for everybody else problem is that it's supposed to be somebody that loves people so when he says the blessings he doesn't want just for himself he wants it for everybody today it's hard to find people to love other people other than themselves anyway was sitting at dinner at the religious family's house because Amazon in the middle he stops stops in a row everyone's waiting one minute two minutes three minutes stops trying to get the rabbi's attention everything okay doesn't answer everything okay nothing nothing nothing almost 15 minutes pass nothing then a little six-year-old girl that was wearing short sleeves six years old gets up from the chair and leaves he continues why not allowed to say because Amazon now talk to Hashem in front of the modesty Allah six years old six years old she's not slaves can't talk to Hashem right now why hashem's not here what am I talk to myself is here six-year-old with the short sleeves I can't talk to Hashem what's the point I'm gonna pray to myself if you think that's crazy that means you're crazy you don't know what Torah is now confess time continues and he says and due to our many sins a great Blaze has erupted in his Vineyard in several places because of this terrible fashion for the power of impurity has considerably strengthened because of this as our sages have said on the verse and you shall guard yourselves from Evil thing the book of Deuteronomy chapter 23 verse 10. that a man should not have a sexual thoughts during a day and end up polluting himself at night for if this should occur all the blessings and the Divine flow to this man's deeds will be cut off and because of this you will be surrounded by evil tribulations as is written in the Holy wisdom books of wisdom meaning that a person that ends up wasting seed all the bracha all the blessings all the good that Hashem wants to give him as a result of his Mitzvah all of it goes to the all of they go to the Satan and his employees yeah but I kept Shabbat okay so the sky will go to someone else yeah but I did meet smart good so this it's gonna go somewhere else everything why once the person weighs seed that's upon a size wasting hispan aside the shepher therefore every man has an obligation the letter ends saying to extinguish this terrible fire and to rectify the situation in his own home so that everything will be according to the law and not to allow licentiousness God forbid and in doing so he will have the Merit to have upright and exalted holy children these words are written in the honor of God in his Torah out of Anguish over the tribulations of his Nation Israel with the longing for redemption speedily in our time amen signed Israel mail the son of aliazev the Quran this is the cafe who he really was not the puppy that sometimes you hear about and they tell you oh no he loved everybody and everybody's at Sadiq and uh it was only about and you should watch your mouth and he talked about all the same things we talked about we talk about what he talks about this is just a small token of the cafe really was meaning that if came to a bikini today no one would let him in to speak well he's not politically correct he can't build buildings with this but until this day because of his you have buildings being built give entire organizations being built the organizations sometimes themselves say what he says sometimes don't say what he says but they like having his pictures on it the picture everybody every every every company wants to have his picture on there every book wants to have his picture you know how many books picture on them right now I don't even think there's a number honestly but to say and do what he said in this letter and the rest of it you're not going to find money you're not going to find money why because like I said it's not politically correct so your your Volusia the question that you asked match the letter you want to learn something from this problem learn something from which is you have to watch your eyes why if you watch your eyes you're not gonna make sins at night even more so if you are about Israel if your body said make sure you realize if he doesn't watch his eyes he looks at you your partners to the sin you punished to the sin he he loses you he makes sins you make sins yeah but I I just walked around innocently not my friend there's no such thing as I walked around innocently everybody's responsible for each other you walk around immersedly somebody sins because of you your partner to the crime that's the point of the shoe the point of the shoe is if people listen to the show and do what he says then yes then people do chew up and people don't do true rather than yes it says actually continues to increase in size says how big is how big how big is how big is Canadian says the Canadian is 60 60 times the size of Earth 60 times Earth 60 times that's Canadian so they say okay so how big is gay no this is and there's no size it's like it doesn't have size because it continues growing more people coming in why less people doing chuva listen my health my bank account for what what is it shooting for show him Mr how people do chuva if a person listens he does his kids go to Canadian his wife goes to grenade then the husband goes together they don't want to listen it's not listening to me listen to the door then can't be that a person goes up to somebody and says I didn't know no such thing as I didn't know everybody lives in his life for 50 60 70 80 90 years they go up to shamaim they say wait you knew why that Rabbi from New York came to show he told you you didn't listen that's your problem but you know yes like you do thank you everything blessing I bless them everything so I don't believe we're gonna go together the people don't do the way you say you try to teach them to behave to be United to tell the truth all what you say is true hey you need to listen to the rabba yeah I mean if if people do chuva absolutely you're right that's true the problem is that even a lot of people didn't do [Music] I wish I was in uh I know what you people you know because I'm also part is it depends how you grow up it's also a just tuba because it doesn't make you want they make the medicine amen that's the key the uh this this this pasture also ends in a very uh uh a very serious uh lesson we see that some people Hashem 24 000 people 24 000 people at the end of the power shop didn't let him do chuva why kill them meaning Hashem doesn't want to kill anybody which means that if you're already alive and you listen to this you you already have an enormous Merit and an enormous opportunity why because that Shiva is not actually automatically given to everybody my cousin that died two weeks ago 50 years old he had he was given the opportunity several times he didn't want to do it eventually his time ran out my other cousin from a year and a half ago 23 26 years old it's time right now at 26. he didn't think so but he ran out he died point is that as long as a person is alive he has an enormous amount of opportunities to do chuva and if he takes advantage of that opportunity the rambam writes there's nobody in the world that akados who loves more than him yesterday he hated him he was his enemy he was a Rasha he was this was that today today I love you everything is good but that's not the thing that Hashem is a fool and think no no I'll do it tomorrow someone says you know what yeah it's nice this chuva stuff is good I'll just do it next week I'll do it next year I'll do it when I get married I'll do it when I get old I'll do it when I have time somebody says something like that can lose their opportunity to do chuva how that's what we learn also from the parasha some people Hashem those 24 000 people that sinned with the guyot Hashem killed all of them which means they did not have an opportunity they had to come back and so on and so forth for another topic for another day but the point being is that the fact that you're hearing the truth and you're able to do chuva that already puts you in a fantastic position but that also puts the case and puts the uh the the case against you if you don't do chuva it's like somebody giving you yeah hey I'm giving you a 10 million dollar Grant give me a 10 million dollar Grant you have to use it to build a building they come back to you A year later and they see it still land nothing exactly wait a minute we give you 10 million dollars what'd you do oh no I'm not ready yet okay listen five years you have to build the building here because we give you 10 million dollars a hard work buying we give it to somebody else yeah yeah no problem no problem five years they come back to you nothing still mud no what's good we gave you 10 million dollars we could give it to somebody else yeah yeah I was not I'm still doing the plan and then okay fine 10 years 10 years we're going to give you so five more years they come back to you five more years not even a parking lot nothing still mad it got worse over the last 10 years because you abandoned the land how many times do you wanted to give you five more years eventually it gets to the point where they say you know what not only I'm going to take away the 10 million dollars but we're going to put your name on a list that no one is ever going to be allowed no one's even going to look at you no one's ever going to give you a grant why because you're an idiot you were giving so many opportunities to do the right thing we give you the money we give you the time we give you the opportunity another opportunity another opportunity and you're still going to do nothing no who are you going to complain to us you can't complain to us anymore who says look I gave you an opportunity I brought it into the world and then I introduce you to Torah and then I sent you to a certain school and then you met a certain person and then you met a certain Rabbi and then you saw a certain shoe and then you all types of opportunities that a person sees through his life which means that by the time they leave this world and they arrive in shamaim they don't come there with no I didn't know because in shamaim they knew exactly what you knew because they're going to show you all of the opportunities and the deadlines that we missed and then you're saying I send Hashem you're right you're right I missed the deadline time and time and time and time again I'm sorry I'm sorry it's too late now so that's why this shuim are to encourage every single person that's watching to do something [Music] overnight something you can do there's books of I brought here for free anybody wants to learn about how to keep Shabbat take a book learn how to keep Shabbat why if you don't know if you don't learn you're definitely not keeping Shabbat you can imagine and you light candles but if you don't know you're not keeping Shabbat men women everybody is you have books here for free now eight kids so I didn't have any money you have money is for free point being is that everybody can do something something you can do if you do it because you have a uh you have taken advantage of the opportunity you don't do it they're going to come to you and shine and says yeah listen you lived in the world for all this time and um you missed every single deadline we gave you instead of uh coming to the shoe and listening you came to the shoe and you fell asleep it was just a place for you to take a nap you missed the opportunity now you have to deal with a different uh judgment and that's not funny [Music] thank you