Mitzvah #6: Lo Sasuru

we've gotten through five out of the schmitz of course it means not to believe in any other and we saw that in practice the way we're showing our learning it it's not just a matter of literal availa but that the concept involved is not seeing any other road road to success all is one there's one purpose to everything there are no other powers in the world even ra has its place it's the force of challenge and then avas hashem living with that sense of ecstasy is awesome everything he's done everything he does is so big so powerful so wise so good the desire to come closer and closer to him and yura understanding that there are consequences to our actions it's not a game that things are for real everything really makes a difference so what's left the lava is what does this mean in practice so first the rambam says that means to entertain any possibility that there's an alternative to hashem's existence now there's a general shiloh altogether what's wrong with entertaining a possibility what are we so afraid of if it's so true if we've got the emis why are we so insecure according to the rambam you're supposed to stay away from reading it's not just the rhomba but he baskins it you're supposed to stay away from reading si free minos syphilipi courses you're not supposed to read them a hectare if you need it list law made you have to go in and counter those who believe in it but otherwise you're not to read it doesn't that sound like insecurity like we're afraid you may read other stuff and you'll realize that what we believe in khalil is not so solid and if you look at the way the ramen describes it the answer is the answer is that when you're sure of yourself and you know something's right and you realize that the world's a confusing place and you have all kinds of human beings that have fallen prey to things that don't make sense because there are catchy ideas catchy phrases you understand that you want to protect yourself you don't want to even on a theoretical level entertain the possibility that maybe maybe khalil there isn't when you know something's wrong when it's so boring that something's wrong and you see that people are getting all mixed up by it so you want to get mixed by it mixed up by it too what you want to do is protect your sanity when it's obvious that something's clear and something else is off you protect your sanity by not getting involved in insanity because you can start getting used to the ideas and i'd like to perhaps take a minute or two out to talk about what has become the whole mahalo of western society over the generations this is so important the longer you're around the more you watch the deterioration of values where liberalism is taking ideas that everyone accepted before in questioning them not through intellectual honesty where you know we're putting up an argument but simply by breaking the rules and making them socially acceptable so much of western thinking is based on the fact that nothing is really absolute what counts is what goes so what goes whatever you make go and if you can slowly tear away at allow for the erosion of accepted values with time you'll get rid of them and that's what happens what was immoral a couple of years ago is today within the realm of social acceptability now one second is there right and wrong even that concept did the average kid in america ever really sit down and work through the issue is there absolute truth or is there no absolute truth society is accepted that all that counts is what society accepts it's sort of taken for granted today anyone who's an absolutist is either a fascist an extremist outdated liberalism says you have to be open you have to be accepting and people buy anything so for example it is commonly understood by the majority of jews in the west that are most basic jewish value is tolerance of ideals a most basic jewish value is that you have to respect everybody else's beliefs the concept of democracy the concept of everyone having the right to express their opinion and believe in it now open your humish is there anywhere in humish where you find this kind of tolerance anywhere i mean you got to be someone who never never read the homicide to say such a thing more than that most american jews except as spokespeople for judaism people whose credentials are all societal like is there some objective way of i guess giving someone accreditation as being a spokesman for judaism what do you need to be a spokesman for judaism do you have to know something do you have to be something what does it take who determines this it's a whole world that's built on values that got snuck in they got accepted with new definitions and everything's taken for granted and then i got a couple of die hard orthodox jews that are coming back with these age-old ideals and they're stubborn and we're a minority and we refuse to accept the fact that we're a minority and who are we to say anything anyway so maybe they're right maybe the most basic jewish value is tolerance how do you know how do you know open a homicide it used to be said in claudia's role that the reason for the blood libels the reason why most in europe actually believed that we needed goyish blood to bake matsus even though there wasn't a single yi that thought that way the reason for it was just to make sure the jews were secured that they knew that the whole world was wrong and they were right should anyone khalilah wake up one day and say well listen you know we believe in the terror maybe we're wrong the harayah the whole world doesn't we do we're a mute so it's there to remember the whole world believes that you use goyisha blood to bake matzos until when i was growing up my mother worked for a company that was bought by two chinese businessmen my mother went to tell them that she had to take off for passover so this one boss over there stopped and thought past oh oh that's the festival you need the blood for the man was from china my mother was in disbelief i mean she grew up in eastern europe she grew up with this stuff the world really believed it they really believed that when you know the shame monster smith said what you got to do first is take a uh you take a non-jewish kid and you squeeze out his blood and you make monsters the world can accept anything you talk about it long enough get enough people to talk about it everyone believes it i it is absolute nonsense okay holocaust denial is already becoming common they're still survivors hallelujah wait they will there won't be any survivors you think you think it won't be more common it doesn't take much human beings are gullible anyone that's got sacral knows you don't play around with this thing of well let's let's just hypothesize well maybe this and maybe that and you think about it long enough you can accept anything because it becomes a fact of life you don't question it anymore i it doesn't make sense so it doesn't make sense but but come on but it is in the questions we talked about evolution here there yeah everyone everyone except for us believes that the origin of the species is all by way of evolution and go ask anybody does it make sense did you ever think it through how do you deal with the basic questions but what do you mean if you talk enough about it and enough people talk about it then people take it as fact no you can't just trust your judgment however we should always be intelligent wise and objective ha halawa so you don't corrupt your mind with havamines that you know are stupid that you know are wrong because if you think about them long enough you're going to believe them lysosuru when it comes to kefir now included in that are lots of lots of ideas of theory if you open your javascript this gives us all the different spaces your yatsahara may make in you touch their old varm shooting that they're not true you got to make sure that they haven't crossed your mind not in an intellectual way but at least in an emotional way yeah he created but he's not he's not really paying attention anymore even the fear of he understands he understands i'll get away with it he's on on a certain level changing the whole mahouse of what the rabbi shalom is urbanishable as the ms the absolute ms and turning him into some almost boss of adam so those are issues we also have to be careful of but the eaker is when it comes to real fear and wherever you go there's fear watch out because you can get used to any idea silly as it may be look what's happened to the west look what's happened to the west looks look what's happened to jews it's just unbelievable how the most basic jewish value to most jews is what the greeks believed in the jews fought and it's funny when you hear what they're celebrating on hamik second part is noos so the rambam learns that that's a key word for all goshmes there's another one of this these misleading things that lead you astray where you end up missing the point and that's gashmias when we get into gasmius we forget what we live for of course it comes in different levels but what we call our negias the fact that physically and emotionally something is comforting it allows us to escape from the hard decisions of life in the case of arias which the torah is using according to the rambam is the symbol of gashmius when it comes to arias and dhafka there it's more strong than elsewhere and that is because pashit there's what hazal called the yitzra there used to be a yitzrada vaidazar where people didn't know what they were doing they were just running to bow to stop to to sticks and stones there's the hitsuit our eyes the it's means that there's something going on both biochemically as well as in the way the the brain functions where people just become insane people become insane uh it's you know maybe it's not so nice to talk barabbi but the fact that seemingly intelligent human beings are willing to sacrifice their oil hazel let alone the royal hub but they're willing to jeopardize their reputation their families they jeopardize their families their future their parnassa make absolute fools of themselves shades they decided it's worth it this is the greatest it's such a great experience it's worth committing suicide on every other level just for this someone thought that way it's insane it's partially insane what people do to themselves this is a is a one big shtick it just takes over you know what you're doing understanding that it is not that something within you is really thought it through and decided this is the best thing for me it's just a ruach of insanity and while when it comes to arias the is stronger than anything else all of gosmius is like that depending on what your issue is people don't eat food that they know isn't good for them people don't overeat knowing that they're ruined they're they're making sorrows for themselves anything gosh me anything someone enjoys does he enjoy it so much that it's worth jeopardizing either his future or possibly over miso in the very beginning makes it very clear when you talk about gashmias and rochnias when you talk about being misdiabetically missed in the rabbanus the ultimate compared to that everything else is hevel veshovnisse everything else is really worthless what happens one second after you swallow the food does it make a difference what you ate oh it sure does but not what it tasted like the tasty food may be making you good sorrows now in terms of whatever pleasure there is the second you swallow it it's over you don't run around dancing you know what i just ate it's over in all of gashmi's it's that way it's nothing lasting it's nothing that builds it's heave of the shove nissa so what's the issue the issue is that the same way that minus that when it came to apicarsis we were afraid of what happens to your mind when you allow it to think about a possibility it's the very same thing when it comes to kashmir's if you allow yourself to get into gasmus to really get into it it's habit forming it's addictive to the point that you forget what you live for you forget what you were created for so the love of lois is saying don't be reckless protect what's dear to you protect what you live for don't get your brain all mishubish with the wrong ideas derail yourself you're working towards becoming closer and closer to the rabbinicial islam and suddenly you take a deep tour and now your purpose in life is to amass wealth with a little cheating here and there and some more charis on your islam haba the david and goes and the learning uh becomes epis uh you say it's a daf you share the air that's where you go for your nap that's what happens you forget where you're going well he says suru is don't do the things that make you lose track of where you're going the fact is that human beings run to all sorts of goshmia stuff to create something new to give them gratification with it when they don't feel it in a meaningful way and you find that when people are really running into tsaris when life is tough when life is demanding on them often they do use gashmias in one form or another as an escape and they get into very bad habits that's the test taking life seriously or allowing yourself to get derailed running away from real life from real responsibility and really look at yourself and find out when is it that we run togasmius most it's when we have difficulty in standing up to the real tests of life bite the bullet adarab take the achrais remember what it was like as a kid you didn't want to do the homework and you couldn't get yourself to do the homework and any way to get around the homework but honestly when you did the homework didn't it feel so much better how come you faced life listen you got you gotta live up to your achrais it's the only way you grow you