DAILY CHIDUSH: Paying Employees On Time (Shocking Ba'al ShemTov Story)

[Music] and last week says that has to put judges and officers in all of their cities but kazal explains to us that we also have to put judges and officers and ourselves to limit our own yet to put ourselves a uh limitations on ourselves if we know that we can't watch our eyes if we go to a certain uh place then don't go there if you have to go to a certain destination go around the block and so on and so forth in this week's par we see how when it's not applied how uh terrible the situation can be and the says that you'll go out to war against your enemies kazal says who is the enemy the enemy is the so one of the ways that we see in the is in chapter 23: 22 in book of Deuteronomy says that when you make a vow to Hashem your God you shall not be late paying it for hem your God will demand it of you and there will be a sin on you meaning that when a person says I'm going to do such and such for example I'm going to donate $1,000 I'm going to buy Aliah $1,000 $110,000 whatever the amount of money is that's a Val to that as long every second that you do not fulfill it you have a very serious problem unless there's already a pre- range plan where you already told them listen I'll donate $10,000 but I'll pay it over the next three months over the next six months it's pre-arranged but if a person uh simply doesn't pay it every single second that he doesn't fulfill it he has a very serious sin on his hands and the uh the par says hasem will demand it of you meaning that will send his own private collection on you meaning that I'll give you problems in your life now most people think that the biggest problem is the issues that we have between us and hasem but in reality if you continue to par you go to chapter 24 verse uh 15 and 16 uh 15 you uh see that this is really a problem with between person and another person where it says on a day this is talking about um hiring employees he says on a day you shall pay for his hire the son shall not set upon him for he is poor and his life depends on it let him not call out against you to Hashem for it shall be a sin to you so here the par is talking about when you have employees you have to pay them on time because you do not want a person that depends on you paying them on time to ever cry to AEM that uh he didn't get his money he worked he expected to get money whether you have problems or not whether your business is doing good or not that's irrelevant he worked because he supposed to get paid he's expecting to get paid no one works for free and no one works with the uh consideration that if your business doesn't do well that they won't get paid why because they're not Partners in a business they're employees if they're Partners in the business then that's a different story they know that there's a risk there but an employee a wage worker always knows that the security blanket that he has is that if I work I'm GNA get paid whether there's a profit that there's a loss in a business is not my problem now here we see that a is even just as strict as he is when you break a promise to Hashem himself meaning he says don't let this situation get to a point where this person cries to hasem because he doesn't have money why because then himself has to take revenge against this person this person that's not paying this employer that's not paying making his financial situations even worse to such an extent that you see that it could literally cause the entire business to go bankrupt it could Lo cause the person to loses everything that's dear to him now worse than all of this is that it's considered gel it's considered stealing so long as he's not paying back his employees he's not paying his employees on time it's considered like as if he's stealing it from them now if the person in his mind says okay and I'll just pay in the back next week I'll just pay them back next month I'll just pay them back uh next year whenever you know they I'll keep them around but I'll pay them back eventually meaning he has good intentions the only problem with that equation is the fact that he doesn't really have any guarantee that he'll live to see that day why because so long as he's an enemy of hem he's living on borrowed time so that means that if sees the sin is too great he's not paying good people for a long period of time hem could literally take his life now what's the problem with that the problem is that no person can ever enter ganeden if he has even a single dollar that he stolen in his life even if he fulfilled all of the other mitv even if he kept Shabbat and he kept and he kept kosher and he kept this and he kept that once he gets to sh they said I'm sorry sir you cannot enter ganed yeah but I did all these MIT I learned to I did this I did this okay you did all these things great but you have blood on your hands another name for money in the Torah terms is damin blood why because people spend their life their blood acquiring it and Sh says you you have blood on your hands and so long as you have blood on your hands you cannot enter ganeden meaning that the person has to go back into life again be reincarnated in order to pay back the debt and since we are in the days of mashiach no one could depend on reincarnation anymore we'll finalize with a short story to just explain to people what this means there was one time a talid of the bov that owned many horses and the B one day came to this and he told them I want to acquire a horse of course anything you want just come here I have all my wrench over here you could anything want the guy had hundreds of horses and the bov looks at one of them and he says I want that one the poor guy starts crying he says what's the chances that you're gonna pick that one I told you you can have any one that you have figuring there's hundreds over here you pick something else please not this one says I'm sorry that's the one that I want that's what I came for I came for him because please this is a good this is such a good horse this horse I don't even have to tell him to work he just he wakes up he's ready to work he wants to work more than I want him to work all the other horses you have to maneuver them convince them this entice them this one works so much he's the best worker any chance you get any other horse he says no this horse because listen because of you I love you you want this horse here you go it's my best horse you could have it says to him you sure I can have it he says yeah 100% goes okay good he said let me ask you a question now that it's my horse I wanted to ask you a different question because any chance that uh you know anybody that died recently he goes yeah yeah my my dear friend my dear friend David he uh he he died recently just uh few months ago goes oh and and there D he uh he owed you money goes yeah for it's my friend I feel bad that he died no big deal he goes yeah but did he owe you money goes yeah he owed me a little bit of money goes how much did he owe you goes he owed me $100 goes now $100 I mean was important to you he goes listen it's a $100 $100 but uh it's not it's my friend I like my friend much more he says if David is in a situation where I mean right now he can't pay you the $100 back I mean you forgive him he says of course I forgive him of course I forgive him he's my friend he died he can't pay me back he died he goes no but you forgive him 100% it's out of your heart he says I forgive him I forgive him I forgive him the second he said to forgive him the third time on the spot the horse died the guy is shocked what happened here V says I couldn't tell you but I saw that the N of your friend is inside that horse that's why I wanted this horse and that's why I had to acquire it first because he came into this world as a reincarnation as a horse just so he could work for you until he pays you the money back however many years it could be to be worth $100 but now that you say you forgive him he completed his T and he can go to Gan this is a common problem that people have where they think that they could just simply pay people whenever they feel like it or not pay them just because they have it it's a mistake it's a very very big mistake in sh says that owing people money is a very very big problem it's a very big sin if you have the ability to pay somebody you must pay them doesn't mean it doesn't matter whether you're profitable or it's convenient if you have it meaning you have employ employes you have Partners you have a uh friends you have somebody you owe him money especially if it's a yid especially if it's a Jew you owe him money you have to pay him back yeah but uh I don't have it cash now so go sell your goods yeah but if I sell now take a loss it's better take a loss than end up going to G the point is is that if you can have employees you have to pay them on time you must pay them on time every second you delay a s from aah every second you have to make sure you pay people on time why because none of us are promised another second because all the plans we have oh I'll pay them on Monday I'll pay them next week I'll pay them next year doesn't always work that way and I promise you all the losses in the world are not worth coming back as a horse will give all of us some especially before the yip where we promis to that we're going to close all the loans that we have outstanding all the debt that we have outstanding to to our fellow brothers and sisters and even more so to fix ourselves moving forward [Music]