If You Knew I Was The King Why Did You Keep Me Waiting?

Hazal is explaining is here. Ben Azai is saying there's no such thing that doesn't have a God. There's no such creation that doesn't have a God. Whether you admit it or not is irrelevant. Everything and anything has a God. So what does this mean? Everything and anything has a God. What does it mean to have a God? Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai was at the time was alive at the time where they would destroy in the Bet Hamikdash. And we said this in the uh Tisha B'Av. It's a story in the Gemara. It says that the uh Vespasian was a uh Adrianus, I think it's in Hebrew. Uh was uh the general for the Roman Empire. He was outside of the uh gate of Rome for 3 years. 3 years. They won't let him into Yerushalayim. The Biryonim, which were the Zionists of their day, the uh the bullies, the Zionists of their day were not letting anyone in, were not letting anyone out. And uh Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai knew that their system was not going to work. Not going to work. And reality is is that eventually everyone's going to starve to death. So he wanted to try to negotiate with the Roman Empire. So he knew they're not going to let him out. So he made his students make a funeral for him, pretend like he was dead. They put his body in the coffin. And eventually they he snuck his way out. There's even a story about that where the Biryonim were such a rasha that they actually wanted to stab the body just to confirm he was dead. And the talm- you know, the talmidim of Rabbi Yochanan are saying, "Come on, you're going to dishonor. Even the don't do this to bodies. You're going to dishonor a righteous Jew, the gedol hador, just died. You're going to stab his body? You're going to disrespect the body like that? What's the matter with you?" So they said, "Okay, fine, fine, fine." They let him out. Anyway, he gets to Vespasian, he gets to Adrianus. And he says, "Hello, king your king your highness. Hello, king." So Vespasian says, "You deserve two death penalties. Mot yumat. Like it says, mechallel Shabbat, mechallel Shabbat, mot yumat. You deserve not one death penalty, two death penalties." He goes, "One, first one, I'm not the king. So you just addressed me as a king. I'm a general. That means you disrespected my king. Death penalty." He says, "No, no, no, you're the king. You are the king." He goes, "I'm not the king." They're arguing, "You're the king." "I'm not the king." "Why you think I'm the king?" He said, "Cuz it says in the Torah that only a king can take down Yerushalayim. They're not going to give it to some common person, to some general, even if he's fancy schmancy, even if they're not going to give Yerushalayim to just anyone. Only a king that Hashem decides can take down Yerushalayim. Only a king. So you are king." "I'm not a king." "Yes, YOU'RE KING." "I'M NOT A KING." "YES, YOU'RE KING." THEY'RE ARGUING, ARGUING, "Doo doo doo doo." Surely all their arguing, somebody messenger comes with the horses, doo doo doo doo doo. Comes in, "Your highness, the king just uh uh committed suicide, and the government decided you are the king." "You're the new king." On the spot, yes, the school to see Rabbi Yochanan. Almost like prophecy. He was like, "Okay, you still deserve death penalty." Second reason. Deserve death penalty. What's the I'm impressed. Okay, you know he was the king, great. Sure. I got to leave now. I got to go back to my country. King, you still deserve death penalty. Why I deserve death penalty? Cuz I've been here for 3 years. 3 years I'm here. 3 years I'm here around. If you knew I WAS KING, WHERE WERE YOU UNTIL NOW? Where were you until NOW YOU COME TO ME? 3 years you make the king wait outside the gate? If I'm the king, where were you until now? Hashem Yitbarach gives us Elul. He gives us Elul because judgment day is in 40 days, Rosh Hashanah. He gives you an opportunity to do teshuvah because the trial there's no more teshuvah in trial. Whatever the case is, the case is. He gives you second chance to appeal on Yom Kippur, but there's no better good you know, better time to have a good judgment than the original judgment. Now we don't want to be in a situation we show up completely unprepared because we overslept every single day. We didn't do selichot. We didn't even say selicha before. We still have ga'avah. We still go against Hashem every day. We're still mechallel Shabbat. We're still eating non-kosher. We're still looking at all the girls. We still haven't done teshuvah. One of the questions what's the foundation of teshuvah? Foundation of teshuvah, develop yirat shamayim. That's foundation of teshuvah. Why? Simple answer. Once you are developing yirat shamayim, everything else comes. You're not going to go against Hashem if you have yirat shamayim. You're not going to violate Shabbat if you have yirat shamayim. You're not going to eat non-kosher if you have yirat shamayim. You're not going to go play football instead of learn Torah if you have yirat shamayim. You're not going to do things against God on a regular basis if you are afraid of judgment, if you're afraid of Hashem Yitbarach. Foundation of teshuvah, simple, yirat shamayim. Develop yirat shamayim by learning mussar, everything else goes better from there. Why? Cuz from now on, once you have yirat shamayim, you ask yourself, "What does God think about this?" That's yirat shamayim. Not do and then ask. Not like some people they say, "Rabbi, can I eat this?" And what do they send me? They send me a picture of a wrapper of eating food already. They already ate it. They ask me, "Can Is this kosher?" You should have called me before you ate it. Not after. "Rabbi, what's the uh what's the halacha of if I'm about to marry a woman and she really, really is great. She loves Hashem. She loves Hashem, but she's not Jewish and and and we're about to get married. What's the what's the halacha with that?" I don't know. You're supposed to call me before you even met her. Before you ever decided to go and get engaged. Before Not after you're at the wedding, you're going down the aisle, you're calling me. You're at the aisle like, "Hey, Rabbi, is this okay?" Cuz the rabbi, even though it's a woman, they call themselves a rabbi as talmid on, and the dog is next to them under the chuppah. They said it's okay. I'm like, "Yeah, he's reformed. He's a Amalek." Of course he's going to say it's okay. So what's yirat shamayim? Yirat shamayim is asking Hashem, "What do you think? What is your opinion? Not what's your own's opinion. Not what's this What is your opinion? How do you know his opinion? You open Torah. You have Torah. It tells you what's Hashem's opinion. It tells you his opinion about homosexuality. It tells you his opinion about Shabbat. It tells you his opinion about ni'uf, going with women you're not supposed to. It tells you about his opinion about jealousy. It tells you his opinion about business, how to conduct busi- It tells you his opinion about everything. Everything. Once you start asking Hashem, "What is your opinion?" you have started officially teshuvah. Why? Cuz you're going to stop sinning. You're going to stop sinning. You can't say, "I have fear of Hashem, but I'm planning a barbecue on Shabbat right after Yom Kippur."