Daily Chidush: Teshuva For Frum People

[Music] okay so say a couple of words it won't take too much of your time as the uh first of all um the uh amount of Tora that's been learned has been enormous we uh we started a sh at uh at ass's house uh three months ago which has reached many many people we put it on the internet put on our website bash.org and a lot of people have actually started doing cha a few people started converting a few people uh uh has fixed their lives so a lot of T has been learned uh in just in the last few months and of course obviously in the last uh year now the last couple of times I spoke here we spoke for a couple of other occasions I mentioned a couple of ideas which I think are interesting which connects with something that I learned today I think you may be find interesting there is a um it talks about how if uh someone has a [ __ ] someone has some type of a uh discoloration in his skin is something in essence it's satat he has to go to the co he has to go to the co to go check it now the question is what if the qu himself has a [ __ ] where does he go can he just check it himself if you have a house if you're a builder and you build houses and something broke in your house can you fix your own house the answer is yes but the but the quen cannot fix himself why we'll answer with the two other things I said here in the last month if you remember in we learned something good and something bad right right in the beginning first we learned that left Egypt after being there for 210 years 116 of them which were slavery people were leaving there with missing body parts blind legs broken took us out of Egypt with a strong arm but the starts with the word and the and the sages teach us that any time starts with such a word it means it means bad news bad news what could be so bad you just left slavery you've been waiting for so long to leave slavery good news no everyone was crying why everybody was crying because it says no it's before am we just left Egypt but this is before we can't cry about something that didn't happen yet they're crying about something that happened already what are they crying about it says that only kimim meaning one and some of the sages say much less than that actually left Egypt 20% where did the other 80% go the other 80% did not want to do Chua they don't want to do Chua hasem says you don't want my Torah you don't want to do Chua I don't need you I'm God I'm already perfect the whole Torah is for you to become better than what you are right now you don't want it okay no deal now there are some sages like that says Al it was one out of five Al was 1 out of 500 Al was one out of 5,000 but we all know it was much less the mid goes to the extent of saying maybe it was one out of 500,000 that left Egypt two out of a million so you and I being here when they say you know one out of a million yeah one out of a million why want do chba in we said starts heard he heard about what happened in like said he heard about he decided we have have to do I have to go convert because of the that he did gave him the that he in essence came up with the of the court system and he tells mosu you should pick specific people to run the court system they have to be they have to have a um they have to hate money meaning disconnect themselves from materialism they have to have certain qualities and most importantly they have to be successful why successful no one's going to listen to someone that's begging for change in the corner that's the reality of life this is why one of the at the time when we had is we had to make theim very rich why no one's going to listen to a poor and the whole world have not necessarily changed throughout history so now he gave him this advice but Moshe did not find people with he did not find find people that were he did not find people that hated money he only found people that were successful so now the three things will connect why didn't after seeing all of the Miracles we saw in Egypt you saw the water turn into blood when the Egyptian wanted it you had the water now he had blood you used two straws yours is water his is blood it's not like it was like a hidden Miracle then you saw a giant dinosaur comes a big frog they wanted to kill it more frogs will come out so much so is inside their bodies the the Egyptians you saw hail hail like they had in New York today hail but different what our hail in Egypt first of all didn't touch am second of all even worse why it had lava inside it meaning it's against nature all types of amazing Miracles why to what's the matter with you what you don't believe in God what do you think you just the Egyptians just lost their mind said you know what go go away I'll sending I'm firing all my employees here a compensation package is a golden parachute it's okay why did you do Chua second question is why can't we find anybody with for to be in the court system why can't we find somebody that's is why is the only thing we have is money and people that have a little bit of money why why is it the only thing we have the entire millions of people that's all we have that's all we good for money you ask the go how many Jews are in the world it's oh maybe two three 4 billion no you know there isn't you know it's probably maybe 15 to 20 million like no come on that's a joke it's 2 billion 3 billion how many Muslims maybe 20 million it's the opposite why they ask him who runs the world the Jews why they run this one they run Hollywood they run the the hedge funds they run Wall Street they run all these different things they run the government how could it be all all were good for his money that's it anybody wants a lawyer what is that I want a Jewish lawyer any wants a doctor I want a Jewish doctor that's it that's all we found after Egypt the whole thing everything we Le it's all we're good for money how could it be how could it be that's the only good thing we're good for and last but not least the same qu question we started why can't the Coen check himself anyone that comes to him says is this yes go yes no so obviously he's experienced he an expert he's an expert he knows why can't he check himself well he doesn't know says a person does not see anything wrong with himself naturally and Page 119 says the same exact thing and slightly different words meaning a person could look straight in the mirror and all he sees is what what's wrong with everybody behind him I'm sorry all he sees what's wrong with everybody behind him himself oh he's a model he looks good he's this he's that everything is good he doesn't see anything wrong in himself did not do in because they figured listen if God already saved us till now he must like us look at all the M we had look at all the sacrifice we made we're in Egypt we don't need to go desert desert is dangerous we already dealt with danger for 100 years leave us here hem give us the Tor here we don't want to go to the desert here give us the Torah Hashem says no no Torah has one condition what's the condition my condition I'm God that's the first commandment meaning I call the shots that's the first and most important mitvah that you need to know out of everything in the world why because if somebody doesn't when he's not obligated versus somebody that does a mitvah when he is obligated the it logically to our rational sense should mean the guy is not obligated should get a biggest but it's wrong the guy that's not obligated he gets the biggest why because he did what God commanded you might learn tah because you like it but that's not the reason you should be learning to you should be learning to because you have to you might like Shabbat because the one day week vacation for free but the reality of why you keep Shabbat is because you have to the reason why we need to know that we have to do the mitv is because during difficult times when we don't feel like doing it anymore we don't like Shabbat anymore we don't we don't like kosher food anymore we don't whatever the comes in if a whole religion a whole connection to is based on liking it or not liking it one day we're not going to like it and that's how people fall use their brain and they said listen we had we suffered we this we that enough we don't need to go to the desert hasem says rule number one you don't make the rules I do you don't want to do CH I don't need you friend you want to be in the court system you have to have all qualities they still again this is the best of them the best of them they were actually the ones that actually survived the one out of 500 or 500,000 or whatever it was the best of them still did not get the point yet still did not get the point yet and still did not work on their still did not work on why they really have to do the why why didn't they do it because every time they looked in the mirror they saw nothing wrong they saw nothing wrong now at the end of we got the Commandments it's the Highlight like what said it's the highlight of the entire Tor I mean you can read this a million and a half times and still get highlight of the Tora The Ten Commandments wow amazing they saw the they saw shem's voice they literally saw the voice they saw the voice not just heard it like us they saw the voice they saw the sounds wow he says I'm The Only God don't have any other gods don't use my name in vain keep Shabbat we have the all commandments great but then after the whole amazing part what do we hear don't replace me with El well we heard already though we said you said he no other the gods that you mean the same thing no he says no does mean the same thing why which was an event that happened don't replace me with everything is to us but is the key ingredient that has killed us from day one connecting to materialism to such an extent that we forgot about God after yam the amazing Miracles that we saw all the amazing things that we saw we crossed the ocean we saw the Egyptians getting killed everything was great is singing everyone's singing and then what happens everybody leaves where are they looking for they're going to the beach why there's gold there they left God to go to the beach to collect gold don't you realize that he's the one that gave it to you the one that you're leaving no one second God one second we got to get a few million dollars each we got to get a few million dollars they saw nothing wrong with this and this is why this week's par starts with these are the ordinances these are the laws you put in front of them says tell them the truth to their face tell them everything don't sugarcoat it don't use euphemisms says when someone comes to you he says listen I'm ready to do CH what should I tell him should I just tell him you know maybe you should keep kosher and then 6 months from now I'll tell him Shabbat and 6 months from now I'll tell him and 6 months from then I'll tell him about something else says tell him everything why he's obligated to do everything whether he does it or not it's his choice it's his issue but you can't choose friend what he can handle what he can't handle why because you're looking at it from your own perspective and if we only use your own perspective you don't see anything wrong with yourself anyway so what are you going to tell them you're going to tell them the things you like oh you should keep Shabbat why cuz you like Shabbat oh you know you should keep you like oh you should keep kosher because you like kosher food oh you know you should study T cuz you like studying Tor you cannot be AI you cannot be a prophet what you have to do is you have to first and foremost understand he's obligated to do everything you tell him what he has to do he picks and chooses he's an adult he can pick and choose this I can do this I can do this not yet this I can do this I can do so on and so forth he's an adult same thing we do with a convert you ask to they even know they tell a few basic mitv in the beginning they don't change it they don't say listen you know for now you can drive on Shabbat it's no such thing they say what if somebody's a convert and in reality was still after he converted he still lived with the so when he came to you he was still what do you do says he never converted why if he doesn't know Shabbat then obviously he doesn't know anything he doesn't need to know all the we don't have to give him the biggest in all the laws on day one but you have to give him some Foundation now all of the basics are for the rest of am what about us that are already in the system the most important thing that a person needs to understand when he does CH whether it's now yesterday tomorrow 20 years ago whenever it was is that the mitv are supposed to improve our character traits if the tah that you're learning is just improving your ability to remember nice stories you know a few but you still have horrible you should know all you've become is a and what does the say about somebody a dead animal in the middle of the street is better than him why before before he actually didn't have to there's no there's a lot of excuses huh so the reality is when someone does not work on his when not he does not work on his M because he doesn't have t we don't blame him we don't blame him why he has no instructions way he's going to listen to Tony Robins where is he going to get good midot from where is he going to get good midot from from from the go that celebrate the Super Bowl they kissing a statue where you going to learn good mid but if you already learned T but you still have horrible mid you're still stingy you're still angry you're still everything else what you what did you learn a history book this is one of the most important things that everybody has to include into the learning m is not a nice thing to do it's an obligation and that's why the V Shalom said to fix your midot that's the entire purpose of your life it's the entire purpose of your life so one of asking for if to fix is the entire purpose of your life then why is it one of the 63 the answer all of the MIT if you do them right they're supposed to fix your mid which means if they're not fixing our midot we're doing something wrong this will all help us wake up a little bit add a little bit of to our learning every single day get all of us to do [Music]