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Why were you punished or others punished if they were born into a non religious family?

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Rabbi Alon Anava

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I got this question a lot from many of the viewers and a lot of you guys are asking why was I punished so harshly uh considering that I was a raised in a non-religious family uh different type of the question but on the same topic why was I judged so harshly uh considering that I was born not religious uh on the same topic a lot of people asked me isn't it considered the that I was like a a baby that was captured that the concept is that a person was born to an odd religious family he's like a baby that was captured he doesn't know he doesn't know any better so the question is in general since I got it so many times is why was I judged so harshly or why was I punished so harshly Er When I Was Born not religious to a non religious family so the answer has two parts to it the first part was that I wasn't judged or punished harshly in fact I wasn't judged at all harshly uh they only showed me my life the fact that my life how I lived my life was embarrassing that's a whole definitional but I wasn't judged harshly there wasn't they weren't like screaming at me like how dare I behave like how I behaved the same thing in real life a person can be now like a very famous or public figure or somebody who is very honorable or very respectable can be uh arrested for for a very embarrassing offense and uh you know everything is covered in the media and all of the newspapers and the TV and then he gets to court and they find him court that he is actually not not uh he's not wrong that he wasn't guilty so he wasn't found guilty he wasn't judged harshly but all the way to the court and the media and he's all over the place it's extremely embarrassing for him even even though he he he was found not guilty the fact that he was all day long on TV and on newspapers saying that this guy did a certain bad thing it's extremely embarrassing so the same thing I wasn't judged harshly or I wasn't punished harshly on the contrary the fact that my my behavior during my life was not the right way it was very embarrassing to the soul but when I was standing in front of the the judges they weren't judging me they were just telling me here is your life this is how you behaved what do you have to say for yourself so the thing is that again again in the video I'm I'm I'm cutting a lot of details just because I need to keep it short but the fact was that my my life was shown from beginning to end and that was the embarrassing part it was embarrassing it was you know that was it what it was so I wasn't judged harshly for sure I wasn't punished harshly on the contrary they didn't even punish me they gave me an option to come down back to this world and fix everything do that's actually being even more merciful than than judging harsh the thing is that to answer another part of the question that I grew up not religious or I didn't know or like some questions that I got that it's the concept of a baby that was captured that might work for somebody else somebody who grew up in a different place maybe somebody if I would grow up in Alaska and you know I can say you know I didn't know anything but I grew up in Israel in Israel I I celebrated all the holidays we study in school in in public school you studied Torah I knew everything it's not that I didn't know the fact that I grew up to a nonreligious family that's one thing I knew everything I knew all the holidays I did B Mitzvah I just didn't like it I didn't want to do it it didn't interest me so it's not that I didn't know I meet a lot of people that I tell them you know you know you're not allow to do ABC and they're like wow I never heard of it I I grew up Jewish but I never heard that I'm not allowed to do ABC so all the things that I didn't know then I wasn't judged for anything but I knew that we were supposed to keep Shabbat and I knew we're not allowed to eat H you know certain animals and I knew we not allowed to eat milk and dairy and I knew so many things I just didn't care I didn't care I didn't want to care I didn't want to do it so for the stuff that I knew and I just didn't want to do for whatever reason then you judged for that but going back again to what I said before I wasn't judged harshly for anything and nothing was was punished harshly first of all there was no punishment at all because obviously I can't they were too nice to me and and they brought me back so there was wasn't any punishment at all and the Judgment the Judgment wasn't harsh the fact again going back to what I said before the fact that was extremely embarrassing that's my problem that's nobody else's problem so when a person behaves in a certain way that is shameful then you know even though one will not judge him but it's still shameful if a person will walk a dignified person will walk in the street and will behave in a very shameful way even though people would look at him and be like you know maybe maybe he's having a a bad day maybe something's wrong people will not judge him but it's still shameful and it's still embarrassing and the embarrassment came in many many different ways of suffering you know the general term was embarrassment but the embarrassment was a way of suffering it was just beyond it wasn't it wasn't bearable now going back to the beginning where I'm you know describing the whole black part that took me and it was scary and painful and and all that that has nothing to do with how how I behaved when a person behaves in a certain way in this world doesn't matter if he's religious or if he's not religious if he he does certain things that are let's call it for the sake of the example evil or or sinful or or or hurtful to other people then he creates a certain spiritual blemish he creates a certain void a darkness when a person does a bad something bad in this world let's say a person steals something you know besides that it's a commandment from the Torah that you're not allowed to steal it's it's like it's not a nice thing to do anyways regardless so when a person does something like that he creates a spiritual blemish in the world he creates like a certain void a Darkness so when I left the world my when my soul left the body I I I was introduced to it I saw that blemish I saw that void that darkness and it came in many different negative ways hey you know I describe it sometimes as pain or or suffering or as fear but was just reactions to my ACT if in this world if I you know spill a bucket of paint on the floor okay maybe I didn't do it intentionally but the dirt is still on the floor and it still doesn't look so good and it you know it might be very annoying to scrub the paint off the floor maybe even painful so it's the same thing in in in in this world the fact that I did something wrong maybe it wasn't intentionally but the fact is that I still did it and the fact was that I still had to face the spiritual problem the spiritual blemish I like to call it because it looks like a a blemish to the perfection in in the spiritual world and it looks like Darkness the opposite of of light is Darkness and Light corresponds to good everything is good is corresponding to to to light and the opposite of light the opposite of good is dark and it looked like a void so it's the same thing in in in this world when a person behaves a certain way in a certain manner that's you know is hurtful you know he will have to suffer the consequences whether he did it purposely or not you know a person can can you know be in a tight situation and maybe steal somebody's credit card and and and go and use the credit card the fact that he may right now it doesn't matter why he did it maybe he was starving or maybe he needed and the fact that he did it was wrong he still has to give the credit card back he still has to pay the debt and he still has to be a little bit punished for the for the wrongdoing maybe he will be judged very very soft because you know because of the circumstances so to kind of sum it up first of all I don't think I was in the category in a lot of the things of a cuz I didn't know what you don't know then you don't not judged for it but a lot of the things I did know and I was judged for that but to make to make it clear I wasn't judged harshly for anything anything anything I was just shown everything and the fact that it was extremely embarrassing that's my problem it's nobody else's problem and it wasn't you can't blame anybody for judging me harshly on the contrary I wasn't judge harshly at all and more than that they were so kind to even tell me okay we'll give you another chance now 99% of people don't come back so you might wonder oh what what do they go through I believe that most people you know they go through a fair trial and they judge favorably or let's say if they don't judge favorably so they go through what they need to go through to to to clean themselves up they pay the fine and that's it and they're over with it but I don't think not in my case and I don't think in any other cases that anyone is judged harshly especially for things that they don't know especially things that they that they like like they grew up and they and they weren't aware of you know it's it's it's AED it means that it's like a real it's real judge Justice it's not like in in the Jud in the courts in this world that can be influenced by by different by different opinions lawyers or the judge or whatever over there it's it's it's 100% Ted so I hope I answered all your questions uh I got this topic a question many many times so I hope I kind of covered it all and didn't make a whole mess out of the whole the whole answer uh if something is still not clear please feel free to ask