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Cruel Heart | BH Films

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Rabbi Yaron Reuven

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[music] A person that forgets to have mercy is going to have a very difficult life. [music] A Jewish heart without mercy [music] is going to make mistakes that can bring judgment on them. [music] It says in a person has to remove all cruelty has to be removed from your heart. [music] The body doesn't work unless the heart is behind life and your body is working [music] doing bad things. That means that the heart is following it. That means you have not removed the cruelty from your heart. If you are cheating in your business, if you're cheating on your spouse, if you're simply a disastrous type [music] of human being to certain people, but not all the time, that means there's still cruelty within your heart. If your wife cries every week [music] because of you. If your children are constantly crying because you are simply a mean father, mean [music] mother, not because you're rebuking them because you're trying to do and help them and educate them, guess what? There's cruelty in your heart. If your customers are one-time customers because you're a cruel person and you hurt all of your customers, that means there's cruelty in [music] your heart. If you want to save, yes, but I'm good husband. I'm a good wife. I'm a good father. I'm a good mother. It's just that in business, [music] I'm making so much money. I can't make that much money anywhere else. Your customers are suffering. You're ruining their lives. Sad. I I'll fix it by giving saka. No, no, you're not understanding. [music] Having a cruel heart brings an enormous price [music] with it. The same says, [music] "Know that the soul of the wicked, the soul whose desire is only for the cravings of the body during its lifetime, a desire divorced from the divine service and thus a [music] soul separated from its roots. When it dies, it descends to the earth to the place of its desire." You desired materialism. Hashem brings you back to [music] materialism, taking on the quality of dust, which descends and does not rise. Nonetheless, it is brought to heaven to be tried [music] and judged and that it may view how it is exchanged heaven for sh. The way a stone ascends when thrown from a slingshot. It's talking about kafa. Meaning if you are in a [music] business or simply living a lifestyle that is simply materialistic [music] to the point where all you do is influenced by your addiction to material expect. [music] Why? Apparently said this is the puzzle piece that fits this board. After the souls are sent to heaven, [music] it will naturally fall back to earth. Just like the stone plummets back to earth when its [music] thrust is spent as the verse in Alif 25 [music] 29 says may the Lord's soul be bound to the bond of life with Hashem your God and may he fling the soul of your enemies as one flings a stone from a slingshot. Our sages said concerning [music] this ina both the souls of the righteous and the souls of the wicked ascend above and are judged there. The souls of the righteous the king are judged as worthy secreted [music] beneath the throne of glory while the souls of the wicked descend once [music] again scattered to the earth just as the verse says may he fling [music] the soul of your enemies. go to the generation of his ancestors. They will see no light for eternity. A person that has no mercy will also be ungrateful. A person that has no mercy will have a terrible marriage. A person that has no mercy [music] will have terrible relationships with their children. A person that has no mercy [music] will end up losing their because if you don't have mercy, you're the opposite of the attributes of Hashem. [music] Mercy sounds good. And many people [music] think they have it. If you want to check whether you have it or not, check the fruits that [music] from your business, from your marriage, from your parenting, from all the things that you're involved in. Do they look good? Do they look healthy? Or is it just benefiting you? If it's only a one-sided benefit, [music] you'll see that there's some lack of mercy somewhere. Fix it. [music]