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Official by your highest how could it be
that a person
You didn't ask to be created and then I
buy Nemo start telling you who Shabbat
kashrut all types of things.
And you say wait a minute
I didn't ask to be signed up as a Jew.
If I was born a
I was Shalom. I was born a then I
wouldn't have to do all this. First of
all you should know that the are
also obligated to keep mitzvot. Not as
many [music] as the Jews but they are
obligated to keep mitzvot. They have the
seven Noahide laws and all of the laws
that have to do with common sense.
Meaning even though the seven laws of
Noah do not have honor your father and
your mother, the also have to do
it cuz it's common sense. You don't need
a Torah to tell you that you have to
honor your your father and your mother.
But a Jew says wait a minute. Okay, so
why can't I just be a Why can't I
just put my my Judaism on a side and
I'll be a No?
Because the kadosh baruch who had a
eight billion people [music] that exist
in the world today he decided you're
going to be a Jew. Why? Cuz you made a
deal with him 3,300 years ago at Mount
Sinai. Tomorrow mashechet Shabbat says a
kadosh baruch who
gave Am Yisrael the Torah and he said if
you accept it good this is our wedding
day.
If you don't this will be your burial
ground.
So now Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai says wait
a minute but I didn't ask to be created
even the original neshama.
He says yes you didn't ask to be [music]
created
but
you benefited out of being here. Meaning
[music] once you were created
every normal human being wanted [music]
to stay here.
Yes you didn't ask to be created in the
beginning. You didn't ask.
But once you are here
if Hashem told you you mind if I kill
you?
No normal human being will say no hey
hey hey. Don't touch. Don't kill me. I
don't want I want to live.
I want to live.
Ah, now you want to live there's
conditions [music] for living. There's
conditions for living.
So now Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai says
there's an analogy.
There's an analogy.
He says wait a minute. Hold on a second.
What if let's say a person [music] dies?
Person dies the neshama goes up to
shamayim. He said hold on a second.
Hashem, I didn't sin. It was the body
THAT SINNED. THE BODY SINNED. The body
died. Look, as soon as I left the body
the body's schnitzel.
The worms are eating it. Nothing there.
[music]
I didn't sin. I was perfectly clean.
The body says hey Hashem Hashem it's not
true.
The soul is the one that sinned. Why?
Look, as soon as it left I stopped
sinning. [music]
I stopped sinning.
I stopped sinning. I didn't sin. Will
you EVER SEE A DEAD person sin?
You ever see a dead person mechallel
Shabbat?
You ever see a dead person kill
somebody?
No.
So Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai says this. He
says what is this like?
Once there was a king and the king
[music] had a very very expensive field
full of the best fruits and trees and
all types of wonderful things. He was
always scared
>> [music]
>> to put normal people to guard it. Why?
He says it's very precious. I don't want
to lose it. So what did he do? He put
one guy that was blind
>> [music]
>> and one guy that was paraplegic.
Why? He said the guy that's blind he
can't see what's there so he's not going
to steal. The guy that's paraplegic even
though he sees [music] all my wonderful
things he can't run anywhere.
So you two be my guards.
So the king left [music] them in charge
and then he left. A few months later
he comes back he sees the whole field is
[music]
gone.
And the two people are just there.
What happened to my field?
What happened [music] to your field? How
would we know? How would we know what
happened to your field? He's blind and
he's a paraplegic. He can't walk.
The king says no no no no.
Not normal for such a thing to happen.
>> [music]
>> What ended up happening the king was
smart. He says you guys
you guys teamed up. You guys teamed up.
The blind one couldn't see but he could
[music] walk. The paraplegic
couldn't walk but he could see. So what
did he do? The paraplegic went on top of
the of the blind guy and said he told
him where to go.
He told [music] the blind guy where to
walk and while he took all the fruits
and they both benefited out of it.
So the king says now I'm going to punish
you. I'm going to put one on top of the
other. I'll punish you together.
>> [music]
>> And that's what Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai
says to Rabbi Akiva.
He says that's what Akiva does after a
person [music] sins and the soul says no
I didn't do it and the body says no I
didn't do it. Hashem says no. First
thing [music] that happens in the grave
Hashem takes the neshama, puts it into
the body and judges them together.
Judges them together. Why? When you were
alive you wanted to live. You wanted to
live. You benefited out of this world.
You [music] enjoyed this world
and you also had a mind to understand
that nothing comes for free.
Nothing comes for free life.
>> [music]
>> You heard that there is Shabbat. You
heard you were [music] a Jew that's
obligated to keep Shabbat. You decided
not to. Meaning you decided to benefit
from the world without paying the bill.
Okay, you didn't pay over there. Now you
pay over here.
Simple. Before Akiva created the world
he created neshamot.
The neshamot were in heaven and they
were just getting the beauty and the
glory of Hashem and benefiting out of
everything. But
good the definition of good is something
that wants to create good. You cannot
say I'm a good person but you're bad to
everybody else.
You can't say I'm a good person but
you're mean to your parents.
>> [music]
>> You can't say I'm a good person but you
steal from people. You can't say I'm a
good person but all you do is take from
people. You can't say. In order to be
good you have to provide good. You have
to create good. So Akiva is the ultimate
[music] good. He wanted to create good.
He created good neshamot but those
neshamot started suffering. Why? [music]
They said listen
you are good. We are good but we can't
be good. Why? Cuz all we're doing is
receiving.
>> [music]
>> We want to create good. We want to
deserve this good. So Hashem said okay
you want to deserve this good? I'm going
to put some pressure on you. I'm going
to put you in the world where you're
going to have to overcome major
obstacles by fulfilling my Torah. Once
you fulfill the Torah you overcome these
obstacles then you can come back to
heaven and then you can feel righteous
and well deserved of the good that
you're going to get for eternity. Why?
[music] Because then you deserve it.
So technically all of us our neshamot
asked to be [music] created. The fact
that you don't remember it is a mercy
from Hashem. Why is it a mercy from
Hashem? Because if you would have
remembered everything that happened to
you in heaven you wouldn't have free
choice which means [music]
as soon as you sin Hashem would have to
punish you immediately. And that means
you wouldn't be able to survive one day
cuz there's no such thing as a righteous
person who doesn't sin. [music]
Everybody sins to some extent. Some big
some small.
The point is that a person needs to at
least know that when Akiva
gives you good [music] you have to at
least say thank you. How do you say
thank you? By listening to him.
Hashem
I say thank you Hashem for more Torah.
One, two, three.
>> [screaming]
>> We thank you Hashem. One, two, three.
>> [music]
>> We thank you Hashem.