Can't do the time don't do the crime! - Rabbi Alon Anava

[Music] Rambam explains that there is the concept of sahara reward and Punishment amish even in the torah is very clear if you do this you'll get reward you do that you'll get punished we just read two weeks ago right if you listen you'll get about five you don't you get a claw like it a curse so there is the concept but I have rules in my home and I tell my kids if you put your hand in the socket you're gonna collect recruited it's a pretty good rule it's a very good rule if you bang your head at the wall you're gonna get a headache that's another good rule if you run down the stairs real fast you're probably gonna fall and hurt your back so let's say one of the kids don't listen to me and they run down the stairs and they fall my wife starts crying oh the poor kid and I say well yeah she's a surfeit I told you not to run I warned you I told you there's going to be a reaction a consequence you do an action there's going to be a reaction so she um says listen I'm not going to punish anybody but here's a book read the book and the book says if you're gonna eat kosher then your soul is going to be more pure then you're going to be more happy you're going to be a little bit smarter you're gonna be more healthy and so forth and if you're gonna eat not culture then this is going to happen now you think of shem has something against pigs Shem likes all the animals why do the Shem said okay if you don't eat cows chickens goats it's good but you can't eat a camel and not go in a pig and a rabbit Shem is not saying now oh I don't like these animals rather in the spiritual term everything has a godly spark that enlivens it this is called me it's not sale okay a godly spark sometimes you put too sparks together it will cause a very good reaction like in our days you put a plus and a minus the lights will turn on but if you put two minuses together short-circuit explosion so Shem says these two Sparks they go together these two Sparks don't go together so don't eat pork because the godly spark that the pork has and the goalie spark that you has together will create a short-circuit now what happens is a person will eat pork and I have nothing against the pork so I'm just making a point then then I'm going to feel right away a problem but in the spiritual term there's going to be a short circuit and then the person might get very agitated and annoying constantly there'll be uptight or anxieties or whatever it is and there's a Shem punish that person right now no Shem says listen I told you not to touch it why are you touching now I'm sorry a Shem created the world with rules Sharon says I'm very sorry there's rules and I'm not breaking the rules not for anybody you know when Moshe took the Jews out of me-time all the miracles that happened were in nature it's not that something happened that we didn't didn't exist there was a lot of hail big pieces of hell didn't change anything just made a lot of it there was a lot of animals Shem didn't create something you just said okay let's bring a lot of animals so a Shem says listen I'm not changing the rules of the world for nothing the rules are rules doesn't know who it is we're not gonna change them here's the rules here's the manual it's called the Torah follow it you're not gonna follow it I'm sorry to tell you there's gonna be consequences very sorry you know go you cross a red light a policeman will stop you and if a policeman stops you you're lucky because they're worse that can happen you can run into somebody and kill them husband Shalom or you run into an accident or you get a ticket oh you're lucky nothing happened so sometimes you get away but the reality is that every government every country has rules as universal rules you break the rules it's going to be a consequences so even with the yo of in the Torah there's always some type of an example I'll give you a different example we read three weeks ago about a certain individual that his daughters came to claim possession of the land for him there are called bonnets of cod the daughters of Suhad and they came and they said listen this is not fair we are only daughters and we don't have a possession of the land because our father died that's not fair now this guy you know whose stuff had one opinion says remember the story about the man that was chopping wood in the on Shabbat and they stoned him that's him now you would say that's a wicked person he chopped wood on Shabbat and he got stoned to death it says in the Talmud that there was a group of people that after the spies came back from Israel and they said we don't want to go into the land and there was the whole story with the spies and you're not going into the land now for 40 years there was a group of people they were called ma appealing and they didn't listen to Moshe Rabbeinu and they went into Israel now you know what happened the Canaan Canaanites the Kanani killed them all they didn't listen they were like we're not listening it's time to go into LT soil we're going and they all got killed the Talmudic maja says that so hard was one of them now there's a different opinion that says that Caesar was actually a Siddiq he was willing to take on himself to desecrate Shabbat to chop words on Shabbat that he would get killed that now everybody for the rest of the generations will know oh he desecrated Shabbat and he got punished so now you know in Hebrew we salem anyhoo v doubt that you will see you know now I'm going to have fear so the Talmud actually says no he wasn't Sadiq he wasn't a wicked person the desecration he was willing to take on himself the death so for rest of the generations everybody will know oh you desecrate Shabbat the Deen the judgment is death so could be the same thing one can argue with a of first of all there's many different opinions with a oath but the point is that Hashem was always going to make an example of something so people say oh there is constant quinces now if I'm going to tell now a person imagine nobody would ever get a look electrocuted and if I will tell you put if you put your head in the socket you'll get electrocuted yeah nobody ever did nobody ever did that so you know there's always the first one and I'm oh it happened to him so the reality is the regime doesn't really punish Hashem created the system he gave the rules and now he says okay I'm very sorry whatever you do your responsibility if you bang your head at the wall you're gonna get a headache and don't blame me so shame really in essence doesn't punish anybody he just created the rules and if you break the rules you know what they say here in America you can do the time don't do the crime [Applause] you [Music]