Dancing Before Death | Torat HaChassidut (14)

they came to him as he was taking his kids to kindergarten arrested him in front of his kids left his kids in the middle of the street arrested his wife the poor sadika that was pregnant and took this poor a that literally is is a wouldn't even pick up a a fork the wrong way and took him and beat him senseless as if he is the worst terrorist in the world just to get him to admit that he killed his parents which obviously he never did and they beat him and tortured him in Israeli prisons we're back here on a Sunday night the the the foundation of which uh is certainly teaching us a lot each and every single week of not only uh what is all about but also how much we can do to improve ourselves tonight's sh is going to be for the um and all of and all the righteous noid that continue to support continue to help us do all the amazing things at the organization that we're doing anyone that wants to donate and help the uh campaign that we have right now for uh feeding poor people in is you 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cannot be straightened there's a couple of options there's an option of someone that's a Mel someone that brought a Mel to the world a uh a forbidden relationship brought a Mel is that something that can't be fixed another one is giv an example of a Thief what if a thief a thief can't you know he's a Thief he can't fix himself and another one said maybe a who is no longer studying T now of course uh the uh initial inclination is going to be to say yeah for sure it's the Mel because once you bring that to the world you can't undo it but tonight we're going to learn a little bit more about what it takes what it takes to uh to serve AEM like we're supposed to now told us in this segment about how critical it is to be diligent when it comes to Torah study now the importance of Torah study and having a schedule is agreed upon by all of by all of the Torah Scholars that are out there they're going to constantly mention that to you you have to learn to every single day there's no question about it there's no doubts about it there's no debate about it learning Torah every day now for a person that's not a Torah scholar a business businessman a business woman a you know a mother a father an average person a teenager this seems a little bit excessive perhaps maybe it's you know the person will think oh maybe these Scholars are saying you have to learn TOA every day because they like it uh but uh I don't like it or it's hard for me maybe it's easy for them and all types of different rationals that a person will have to justify this uh constant pressure if you will that you have to learn toah every day but in order to truly understand what this means sometimes a proper analogy with an extreme twist is the best fit tonight we're going to learn about something that's called the death before dance uh the dance before death the Crooked that cannot be straightened and ultimately one who chose the wrong side what is his end tells us to be very diligent when it comes to having a proper Torah study program meaning that before everything else a person has to know that learning to is of utmost importance and until a person understands that they're not going to make it as a top priority maybe they'll watch a lecture here and there whenever they get a chance when not doing anything else maybe they're going to open up a book when there's nothing else that they can do but learning to is the top priority they haven't made it yet whereas we see the difference between what and and what they're saying and what the average person is doing even if I'm talking about a person that you know is religious when we're not talking about people that not religious if they're not religious then of course they're going to say it's not important talking about people that are religious within the religious community not truly understanding the importance of learning toah every day now diligence in Torah study for Better or For Worse Rik who was the third generation after the bmov is telling us that this is the ultimate part of servitude that man has for his creator in so many words is just repeating what what the sages have told us in the that learning T is not something that a person should do as a hobby or as something that's a nice recommendation so when I get a chance I'll I'll try it out but rather this is the ultimate way to serve your Creator and the Mish in in the first chapter in the first Mish says that all of the that gave us there's many many mitem gave us some of them we get rewarded for them in the next World some of them we get rewarded for them in this world but when it comes to Torah study Torah study is above everything meaning if a person learns Torah is's in essence fulfilling the mitv is's learning about and this is actually something that anyone that prays prays the morning prayer reads this every morning perhaps you know to their knowledge without their knowledge but uh when we read about the corot read about the sacrifices and is Rabbi and his discussed the issue and this is actually in our prayer where I uh when we read about the corot the conclusion is we read about them not because we're about to make a sacrifice tomorrow cuz quite frankly even if the BET mikdash was built tomorrow the overwhelming majority of people are not going to be serving in the bet mikdash at best they'll bring aan they'll bring a sacrifice but they're not going to actually do the whole process so why do I need to know all these details of the that's because when you learn about the just like any other mitah you are fulfilling that mitvah so studying Tor is a lot more than just gaining knowledge of what happened thousands of years ago of uh the different Prophecies of what's going to happen in the future studying toah is fulfilling in essence studying Torah is above all this is why a person has to invest an enormous amount of time to ensure that he has a Torah study program now since this is also known to the yet it's known to the evil inclination the yet word Works extra hard in order to get a person to do anything except learn to and this is actually one of the things we learned in our other series The War of amalik whereas emphasizes week after week that the only defense we have against amalik is publicizing toah is learning toah and publicizing it getting people to do Chua getting people to learn TOA that's the only defense we have against amalik whether that amalik is coming in a form of missionizing spiritual am or there's am it's a physical am regardless of what it is the only way to fight it is by learning tah and unfortunately people that don't learn toah don't realize what the risk is now the in in page 30b says that a person's yet a person's evil inclination tries to overpower him every single day in order to kill him and if not for hashem's help the person cannot overcome the evil inclination as it's written Hashem won't leave us in his hands now if we dig a little deeper into this page 30b we see that the sages are giving us clear warnings against abandoning the tah but they're not just saying listen don't stop learning toah they're giving us clarification first and foremost the uh sages say the Torah is compared to a lifegiving Elixir an analogy can be drawn to a man that dealt his son a great blow and then plac the compress upon his womb saying to him my son so long as the com compress remains upon your wound you may eat what you desire drink what you desire and bathe in either hot or cold water and you need not fear that any harm will come to you by these actions but if you remove the compress your wound will surely give rise to boils so too has the Holy One blessed is he said to am is my son I have created the evil inclination and I've created Torah as its antidote if you involve yourself in Torah you will not be delivered into his hint as it says certainly if you correct yourself you will prevail but if you do not involve yourselves in Torah you'll be delivered into his hand as it says but if you do not act well sin rest at your door so here the sages are giving us a relatively simple analogy to understand where just like the compress is in essence to protect this wound that this son has this opening that this son has requires him to keep his hand on the compress the same thing with in order for us not to allow that opening that we have in our that opening whether it's the windows to our soul like the eyes or it's simply the what what we allow into our mind and into our hearts if we protect it then we don't have to worry about anything protect it from what protect it from the evil inclination and what he wants to show us what he wants to tell us whether he wants to show us things that are not modest things that are inappropriate things that are going to confuse us or it's going to be things that people tell us whether it's a uh heretical ideas all types of nonsense that different uh uh people uh you know publicize and the reality is that when a person allows themselves to delve into any book no matter what delve into any teachings no matter what look at anything no matter what they are simply opening two huge doors for the yet to Simply do as he wishes so how could a person person overcome these desires by learning Torah why because the Torah strengthens you spiritually furthermore thear says that the yet the evil inclination is so terrible that even its creator called it evil as it says that uh because the evil of of man's heart is evil from his youth this is in Noah meaning that the is not your friend and if you've befriended him then that means you've already become his servant the yet is evil that's his job what does it mean evil he will do anything he possibly can with the permission of Hashem to distance you away from the source of all connection to hasem which is learning to now R says a person's evil inclination renews itself against him every day this is what we started off with it says only evil the entire day this is a verse uh from uh the the Tor init chapter 6 verse 5 and as well and rimon Ben says a person's evil inclination threats to overpower him every day and seeks to kill him and if it's not for the Holy One blessed is he he would be unable to withstand him so here we see the sages the holy sages how scared they themselves were when they are discussing the yet they're discussing the evil inclination now of course they were not scared of seeing an emodest woman or some internet site or or somebody telling them heretical ideas These Are Holy people but at the same token they knew that the yet comes with a customade proposal for every single person for the person that lust after women the will send him women for the person that lust all types of ideas will come to him with heretical ideas for the person that is weak-minded he'll come to him with those types of ideas that are going to confuse him for the person that lust after money he come to him all types of traps that have to do with money whether it's corrupt business deals corrupt jobs or corrupt uh you know uh dealings in general whatever it is the sages knew that although they don't need to be concerned with what let's say the average person today is concerned with or should be concerned with they knew the is working tirelessly for every single n because that's his job and then thear finalizes this how do you deal with this yet okay fine hasem will uh you know is is going to help you but how how is he going to help you last time you looked at something you didn't see some burning bush separating you and that Vision last time somebody was on a video telling you some typee of heretical beliefs idolatrous beliefs whether it's from the uh false Testament or it's from even people that call themselves rabbis you didn't see anything stop that video you didn't see the speaker just blow up and you know a sign on the screen said Heretics not wanted you didn't see any of that so how does Hashem help you because the says that if it wasn't for Hashem helping you against the evil inclination you won't be able to defeat so how is hm helping you by you helping yourself by connecting to Hashem how the Academy of says my son if the repulsive one engages you draw him to the study hole if he's like a stone he will dissolve and if he's like an iron he will shatter and so many words the sages are te teaching us that the the way that AEM allows himself to help us is when we help ourselves by learning to when a person learns tah they connect to hasem they strengthen themselves spiritually they strengthen themselves mentally they strengthen themselves in every single aspect so when these different traps come they have the tools they have the weapons to fight but if a person doesn't learn tah and the comes they're done now explains what the sages are saying in another way every person wakes up and has plans he has plans to do good things wants to go pray do some whether it's the blessing of after he relieves himself in the bathroom or it's before he eats he's going to say a different blessing depending on what he's going to eat or he's going to go to work and do honest dealings in his business perhaps he'll make enough money maybe he can give some staka help some people that are less privileged than he is or she is he has plans he even has plans to go to a later that day the rabbi is given a he really enjoys the rabbi speeches and he plans that at such and such time he's going to go now what that person is probably not thinking first thing in the morning and perhaps maybe not even throughout most of the day is that just like he woke up with plans the yet also has plans and his plan is to destroy him his plan is to destroy that person by doing anything and everything possible to create a greater distance between him and hasem ultimately there's of course the traps of the sins come on don't pray just skip it you got to go to work come on who has time for a blessing just bless anything everything is Shak oh come on just cut off this person on the uh on the highway you need to be somewhere faster they're too slow even though you're jeopardizing both of your lives oh come on just do this and come on just do that yet is trying to get the person to do all types of things and that person is only going to be a uh a victim if they allow themselves to be a victim but even if he doesn't fall for all those small traps even if he prays even if he does the blessings even if he doesn't cut off anybody on the highway he doesn't steal anything from the store the still has his big weapon waiting waiting and waiting for what for the moment that for the moment that topic comes up where the person is reminded oh I have to be at a certain place I got to be at the Sho or I got to be a certain location in order to go to that sh in order to listen to the Torah lecture and all of a sudden every distraction known to man shows up all of a sudden his wife needs his attention all of a sudden one of the kids doesn't feel well all of a sudden the dog has to go outside all of a sudden he has a flat tire all of a sudden this all of a sudden that everything and anything that could possibly happen suddenly happens it didn't happen the whole day nobody needed his attention nobody called him everyone for God even exists but when it came to the all of a sudden his phone cannot stop ringing as if he's a radio host getting phone calls and the yet has been planning this and planning this all day why because that's the key to destroy him if he doesn't learn T that means tomorrow he's going to be weaker that means that he's more susceptible to those traps of making sins tomorrow if he doesn't do it long enough he probably won't pray if he doesn't learn to for long enough he'll probably stop making blessings if he doesn't learn to for long enough most likely he'll start driving to work on Shabbat so the yet also has plans but his plans are different than the average person while the average person is trying to be productive to do good to do has a plan also to destroy the person this is why the ad mik said to his students to hisim you have to imagine that the yet is like some kak a giant kak standing over you with an axe about to chop off your head one of the talim said to the rabi what if you can't visualize that that because that his tongue was sharper than a knife says to him that means that he's yet is already chopped off your head meaning that means you've already become one of his prisoners you're already falling for his tricks he's already destroying you if you can't visualize the fact that the yet the evil inclination is trying to destroy you and distance you away from Hashem that means that you already are far enough if you don't see the lack of learning Tah as a problem that means that the is already chopped off your head and in so many words put you in a situation where you don't even think it's a problem anymore this is like somebody that has a terminal disease walking around as if they're healthy now the Torah commands us that if somebody comes to kill us we're we have to kill them first page 58 tells us somebody comes to kill you kill them first and the same concept goes with the with the evil inclination is coming to destroy you you have to destroy him first how can you destroy him first if you don't know when he's coming by learning T you are already destroying him because just like thear said if he is a stone he will dissolve if he is a piece of metal he'll explode by learning Tor you are fighting the with or without realizing where he is and therefore since the comes to attack the person as soon as they're awake he even comes during the night but he comes as soon as the person is awake a person should immediately do n dime that we spoke about in recent weeks do the morning blessings to allow themselves to learn toah because as the says that one of the reasons why hasem destroyed the BET mikdash was because people were not making blessings before they started learning toah they would just learn toah as if it's any other subject they didn't give the Torah enough respect to make the blessings so we have to do our morning blessings some of them three of them are giving us permission to learn TOA and even before a person starts their day by praying they should try to get whatever they can in learning to on the way to sh listen to a if you're walking read something if you have an extra few minutes try to read something try to listen to something get some Torah in as soon as possible why not only because this is going to help you the whole day it's going to gain knowledge but also it's going to change the prayer altogether why because as soon as you start your day by learning some level of Tor the's initial attack on you during that day is fought off and that's why the says that the Torah destroys [Music] the whether he's a stone or he's a piece of metal in so many words whatever aspect whatever way the is coming to to you the Torah is the same exact weapon and therefore when a person looks at the words of the sages looks at the words ofin he sees that everyone is warning us about the yet but at the same time they're warning us not to abandon Torah study because Torah study is your life now this as I said is understandable and very very clear to Torah Scholars if you tell a Torah scholar I'll give you a billion dollars but you Jo drive on Shabbat no legitimate Torah scholar will ever even contemplate it for a second I'll give you a $100,000 job a year go and leave the k no legitimate Torah scholar will even consider it they rather live in poverty if that's what Hashem decreed then leave the Torah it's not a consideration they're not learning Torah because someone forced them they're learning Torah because it's by choice and to them that's all they care about this one po was a uh some time ago a couple years ago there was a horrible murder in Israel of a older couple was murdered and of course the Lefty liberal Israeli government blamed who none other than their son who is a married aad with kids they came to him as he was taking his kids to kindergarten arrested him in front of his kids left his kids in the middle of the street arrested his wife the poor sadika that was pregnant and took this poor a that literally is is a wouldn't even pick up a a fork the wrong way and took him and beat him senseless as if he is the worst terrorist in the world just to get him to admit that he killed his parents which obviously he never did and they beat him and tortured him in Israeli prisons eventually they let him go not because they believed him but because the real murderer was caught some Arab worker that worked in the building but when it comes to this particular like any other the one main thing that saves them is the Torah and this that went to the says the one thing that saved me from the tortures that they put me through the beatings the the the horrible horrible things that you know technically other Jews are doing to him what was it he said in my prison this filthy disgusting place I found under the bed like inside the mattress there was hidden a small little Mna of and he said I didn't know how I'm going to get my head straight to listen to to to learn such a difficult but that's what kept me alive while I was there so to a Torah scholar to an saying to them Torah is your life it's like okay yes of course what's what's what's the here it's not it's obviously but to the average person which is the overwhelming majority of society they don't see it as anything like why do you guys read so many books books what's the difference between you reading those books and some scholar for uh I don't know architecture or world history or the history of the horses in the west what's the difference between their pleasure of reading about butterflies and horses and your pleasure of reading about the Torah that God gave you and the different debates between theim of how to perfect servitude of Hashem so the average person is simply far far away from understanding the importance of tah in fact this is not necessarily just something that we see here this is sometimes even great people even great people will sometimes miss the importance of toah the gives a very relevant to our times example of what happened at the times of the Roman rule where the Romans decreed that like other nations always try to fight us they know that the number one way to fight am is by getting us to abandon the tah so the Romans decreed that Jews are not allowed to learn toah anymore despite this anyone that would be caught learning T needless to say teaching T would get a death penalty 61b says that when this wicked regime the Roman government decreed that the Jewish people should not engage in Torah study papus Ben Yuda came and found RAB AKA as he was giving a lecture not only giving a lecture to a few people but giving a lecture to the masses in the middle of the street papus Ben was a sadik thear says that there was a a uh blood liel against the Jews one of the uh uh Emperor's daughters was murdered and they obviously blame the Jews because from their perspective you know the go never murder only the Jews murder so they said to the Jews if you don't give us who the murderers are we're going to kill everybody so papus and his brother lanus came forth and said yeah we killed them we killed they didn't kill but they knew that it's better for them to sacrifice themselves than for all of am to die because they knew that the Romans were looking for an excuse to kill all of the Jews so papus was certainly a tadik but when papus saw that Raba was teaching to in the public to the masses thousands of people he says to R AA what are you doing don't you know that you are at risk teaching toah when these Wicked people told us we cannot even learn Taha says let me explain to you what I'm doing in a parable says there was once a fish group of fish were running away because the people were coming down the river with their Nets so the fish were running away all of a sudden the fox saw this and ran over to the fish and said why are you running the fish said we're running away from the people they're trying to put us and bring us to the dry land and kill us and the fish said ah you don't need to worry why don't you come with me why don't all of you come over here on the land be with me and we'll uh we'll be safe together the fish said to him you fool you're the one that they call the most clever of all the animals you're a fool if we're scared when we're in the water needless to say are we going to be more scared to go out of the water where it's only death for us now why did R AKA give this example now of course there's a lot more to the story than appears first off as RAB AA said this initially papus was taken back that this was the explanation AA explains to him the water is the taah the water is the taah if we're scared even while we learn toah we're scared of this Roman regime killing us we're scared of the anti-semites we're scared of the liberal Lefty government that's more anti-semitic than some Nazis we're scared of all of that even while we learned tah needless to say if you take us out of a Torah how are we going to benefit if we go to a place where there's only death now as time passed shortly thereafter thear says that both were arrested R AKA and papus Ben yud RAB [Music] AKA was arrested for teaching Torah so he when he saw papus B says papus what are you doing here and papus put his head down and said praiseworthy are youa that at least you were caught and are imprisoned because you were teaching Tah I was in prisoned for some false charge that I killed somebody wait did they catch him or did he admit no he admitted he said he he turned himself in even though he didn't do it in order to sacrifice himself for the sake of am now this is considered very praiseworthy extraordinarily praiseworthy the itself in and other places says that papus and his brother were they were in in ganed at the highest places but even papus himself knew that even though I sacrifice myself and I'm going to die for the sa sake of saving Jews from being murdered by these evil monsters that's still nothing in comparison to what R AKA was doing when he was going to be killed for teaching tah because there's nothing greater than tah so he says praiseworthy are you AKA that you were caught on teaching to now why did RAB AKA use the fish example though he could have used any other example first we have to understand that when R AKA says the fish are in the water obviously like we explained as thear says it's because the water is always a synonym or or I should say a uh a something that the Torah compares to Torah as raich said to another Rabbi they were in a some type of speaking event with there were different Rabbi speaking and one of the rabbis wasik said the Torah is like air you can't live without air which interrupted and said I'm sorry I have to disagree with what K said because our tah tells us that the Torah is our life breathing air is not life it's just a little bit it's it's something that allows life to exist for another moment but it's not all of life but our Torah tells us that the Torah is our life so you can't say that the Torah is like our heart is like our brain it's like a breast of fresh air no no no the Torah is life itself and therefore AKA said to take us out of the water to take us out of the Torah and it's taking us to a place where the only thing that exists is death and what can that be compared to to this fish where one time there was a little boy that his father took him to the market for the first time and this little boy sees you know there's apples and orange jiz and all types of things and then they get to the fish market and the little boy sees that they took out one of the fish out of the water and the fish starts dancing and the kid starts laughing look at that look at that fish he's having such a good time he's dancing look look look look he's dancing look he's jumping he's dancing he's moving he's singing at the same time one of the fish inside still swimming also sees this he sees his friend outside out in the open the big world he's also he looks he wow look at this guy he's having a good time he left this mundane so-called safe Zone so-called good place and over there look at that I can see he's having a good time look at that he's dancing he's having a blast I can't hear him but it looks like he's singing so both the boy and the fish inside have the same amount of wrong knowledge about what's happening to that fish because to them it looks like the fish is dancing it looks like the fish is singing it looks like the fish is having a good time once the fish Cales down the kid says oh he's probably resting his fish is probably resting he danced so hard he's probably resting he's probably relaxing a little he's going to start dancing soon same thing that the other fish says says look he's sing such a blast he's even allowing himself to take a nap I'm going to go join him and that fish jumps out of the water also and the fish still left inside also look at him look at that he's also dancing look look look he's dancing look he's singing look he's having a good time oh now he's resting and it looks like they're both having fun it looks like they're both having a good time little does everybody know that they both died in essence Asim explains it that's exactly what the yet does to each and every single person that allows him to enter before he kills a person he lets him dance he lets him look happy why why does he let him have a good good time dance because that's going to entice other people to join so he left the Tor he left the Yesa he left the bet midash now he's going to some club now he's having drinks now he's dancing looks like he's having fun he's telling other people listen I got this new job I'm now making money I got this new girl I got this new this I got this new that looks like he's dancing looks like he's having a good time but in reality he doesn't realize that he's dying in reality the people that are looking at him that are not Torah Scholars that are not familiar with how the works don't realize that he's literally dying in front of their eyes and that dance simply dance of of the dead now that second fish that second fish that jumped out talk thinking that the first fish was having a good time he quickly realizes that he made a mistake because as soon as he got out of the water he realized that he can't breathe anymore he realized that he can't function anymore and he's not dancing and his friend wasn't dancing it just looks like that so with a little bit of strength that he has he still has an opportunity to do whatever he can to get back into the water the same concept goes with somebody somebody that left the somebody that left Thea left Thea left the synagogue left the community initially it looks like fun but quickly they realize that it's not all it's cracked out to be many people love to pin their their uh their blame of why they left the religious community on other religious people oh yeah they were not nice to me oh yeah they cheated me oh what you think that in the secular world they're not going to cheat you you think that in the secular world they're not going to steal from you you think that in the secular world they're going to be more honest you're in for a surprise you're in for a very very big surprise and while everybody likes to pin their excuse of why they left the religious community on other people the truth is the only real reason is because they wanted to follow their lusts that's the only real reason even though C people certainly experience bad things see bad things but that has nothing to do with God the fact that bad people are what you saw doesn't mean that God changed that means that God allowed certain things to happen why because you can pass the test because you can overcome it because you deserve such and such in order to get to a different place you deserve that door to be closed in front of your face in order for three other doors to be opened but there's no way to show you the other three doors so long as you're committed to the first door but the person does not realize that hasem runs the world and allows everything to happen because that's what he decrees to happen no one can help you or hurt you if it's not the will of hem which means that even if someone hurts you doesn't mean that Hashem is not going to punish them for sure he's going to punish them just like he punished par because even though the decree was from hasem to get am to be slaves chose to be the one that enslaved them therefore he's the one that's going to be punished the same thing that one of our D said to one of these horrible excuse for teachers that rejected one of the amazing sadikot that was trying to enroll to their school there no you know it's everything is from Hashem but your daughter didn't get accepted even though she has perfect grades even though she's aad even though everything is good no no she didn't get accepted why she's a little bit too saric for us if you're not asazi you're not allowed to get go into that school so he says to you know listen everything is from hasem but remember chose to be he didn't have to be po Hashem decreed that there's going to be slavery Hashem decreed there's going to be slavery but par chose to be par Hashem decreed that there's going to be certain difficults to get this young girl into school but you chose to be po this unfortunately is a very common story that happens practically to every parent trying to get their kids to go to religious school why because there's a bunch of G and at the administration of many of these places that are racist that are simply despicable when it comes to who they choose to allow to go to a school now a person should not abandon hasem and his Torah because there's bad people but rather should know that Hashem is the one that is allowing this to happen and you still have to overcome the obstacle why because there is a reward at the end there is a reward at the end the difficulties that Abu endured endured yobu endured mosu endured David endured all of the throughout all of history those were all decreed by hem and hasem said this has to happen in order for that person in order for that sadik to get to where he needs to be nobody has an easy life nobody has a clear Road by abandoning hasem all you're doing is simply allowing the yet to navigate your direction so when we go back to the the example here we see that there is a time where a person realizes you know what it looked like the other fish was dancing but in reality he wasn't dancing he was dying I got to go back it's not so simple to go back why because now you have to exert even more effort to go back and the yet didn't go on vacation after he got you off the the now is going to exert dirt all of his efforts to get you to give up why ah you already left going back is going to be embarrassing you already left what's everyone's going to think if you come back with your tail between your legs you already left Hashem hates you already you already left you made so many sins you're unrecoverable you're the Crooked that cannot be straightened you already left and that's what the yet the evil the evil is going to tell that fish don't go back it's already too late because his new mission after he got you off of learning Torah after you got you off of making blessings after he got you off of Simply understanding what your purpose is in this world he now is going to do everything possible to keep you off the right direction not going back now in page says a person that takes out a fish a living fish out of the water on Shabbat is considered as if he violated Shabbat not allowed to do that because you're killing the fish you're not let to kill not chabat then discuss when is it exactly the moment that the fish dies why do we need to know when is it exactly the fish dies because so long as the fish did not die technically you didn't violate the to yet because the the violation is killing if the fish is still alive then technically you still have time to put them back in the water and you didn't kill them Shu says if he takes the fish from the sea as soon as it's dry as soon as he has a the fish has a dry spot as white as a Cella Cella is like this big a little circle as soon as the fish has a dry spot as big as that then it's that that fish is considered as if he's dead even if he's still moving if he has that much dry spot on him for sure he's going to dry up and die and that's it so it's considered as if he's already dead now Rina says no no actually it's not just a any dry spot but rather it has to be a dry spot between its fins if the dry spot is between his fins then yes he's consider the fish is considered dead even if he's still moving cuz even if you take that fish and throw him back into the water that fish is not going to move he's done now the B said a very deep very very deep idea here said why the fence why the fence why not the head the body why the fence connecting it back to the analogy that R AKA said to says if you throw us into the water the water of to we're going to live even if that's in fear because the Romans want to kill us but we're still going to live the moment you take us out of the water the moment you take us out of the Torah that's it we're dead even if the Romans themselves don't kill us we're spiritually dead there's no purpose for our life now sometimes a person thinks that they can perhaps become like the Zionist become like the M the Greeks of the Day become like the Romans become like theim and still save them their Judaism in some way but then when they go there they realize they made a mistake those other people that left before me they look like they were having a good time they look like they were dancing in reality they were just dying they were like the fish that came out of the water and died but it looked like he was dancing beforehand so they want to go back and the is going to do everything possible to stop them but so long as their fins so long as their fins can move they can do something about it so long as they have the tools to go back to move forward they're still considered alive but the moment those tools have been destroyed the moment that the yet the evil inclination has convinced you that you don't have the tools to go back and do chuva you don't have a door open the rabbi is not going to accept you your family is not going to accept you no one's going to accept you hasem is not going to accept you nothing the moment that the yet convinces you that you no longer longer have fins that all of your hopes and chances have dried up that's when you're officially dead until that point where you thought that there is a way back the fins didn't dry up yet your tools to go back were still available you're still considered alive but the moment you lose hope of coming back that means the is won that means that the is won now the works hard to break the fins of the person that's trying to do chuva by showing him dancing [Music] fish showing him dancing fish he came out he's starting to question whether this is the right direction or not so the start showing him other fish that look like having a good time other people that have left the Tora that are pretending like this life is better it's better to abandon it's a better to abandon his wife and kids and now live with some public property and pretend like she cares about him so the will do everything possible to get the person as far as possible from the water and the longer he does not learn toah the longer he does not do MIT the longer he's not connected to hasem the more difficult it is for him to go back and that's why when a person does Chua let's say they grew up without a Torah education and now they watch the lectures they watch the films they're inspired they want to do chuva and then at some point that initial learning that they were doing the watching the lectures perhaps even reading some books they figured listen I'm already religious for a few years three four five six years I don't need to learn as much as I learned in the beginning because I already know I already know I already know enough I'll just keep the mitv and I'll study Torah whenever I get a chance because now I have to worry about making more money now because now I'm married and I have a few kids now I have to I run the company I'm the president I'm the vice president I'm whatever president now life is busy now I'm not really young anymore that I have all this time I can't listen to four or five hours of lectures a day I can't uh read books only on Shabbat and a person that has done chuba either for the first time or the second time and thinks that he or she can do Chua without learning TOA is simply fooling themselves just like like a person that decides to go to war against a horrible enemy but chooses not to bring any weapons the Torah is the Ultimate Weapon so long as you learn Torah every single day you have a weapon to rely on the moment the Torah becomes like a hobby the moment the Torah becomes something superficial the moment the Torah becomes something you do when you have nothing else to do that's when death starts to arrive without a person noticing it why cuz each day they're getting a little little more dry and they don't realize it it's like the Frog a frog if you put it in water and then you start heating the water the Frog will stay in the water even while it's boiling to death the Frog will stay in the water and die that's the same concept of a person person that came in did Chua started learning to used that spiritual weapon to grow himself or herself and then figured that you know what now that I've done it now that I'm modest now that I go to sh every day now that I geta that's it I don't need to learn toah in reality what they've turned themselves is from the fish that was out of the water and then saved thems by going back into the water now they turn themselves into a frog that's being cooked every single day it's getting worse and worse and they don't realize that it's only a matter of time before the yet will come back with a vengeance with new things not the old things New Tricks new tools and you don't have the weapons to fight them now people love today especially people that are new looks like it's something from the you know authentic something from you know a long time ago it has special garments special Customs so many people are attracted to the truth is that few actually follow what the actually says for example those that are really loyal to the teachings of rabman of breev know that rabman of breast Shalom wrote in hisim can learn his Seer as much as they want as long as they do not forget or avoid even a single letter in the in fact you have to learn the you have to learn the you have to learn the you have to learn all of the basics of the Tor even before you learn that's says now what many people visualize is like what cartoon happy dancing enjoy but there's a seph called about the life of of bre and Page 547 is a story where a few of the students of RAB of bre came to him and said to him they were impressed by a different a different and they said that he learned 191 theim of in one day whether he did it every day 191 theim every day or he just did it one day regardless the response of rabman of breast to his students obviously he's not showing off to his students he's there to teach his students of what's possible he says to them in regards to this that learned 191 of in one day is it's what's is it's very few which is also the gim of 191 by the way now of course anyone that's going to study today or is studying today and hears this say what do you mean 191 of is very few I'm lucky if I get three a day I'm lucky if I get two d a day or one d a day how was 191 very few that's coming from a sadik that's coming from R of BR that's telling you yes that's what's possible you could even do more than that by pushing yourself and pushing yourself and pushing yourself and having the can allow you to to do things that are not humanly possible not with based on time and space but the key is to understand that the Torah is wider than the ocean and if those that were able to study hundreds of the in a matter of hours where the average person is not going to finish hundreds of the people in a matter of years but yet those continue to toil over Tor day in and day in day out all of all of the sages of is whether it's from the ones of thousands of years ago to the ones of today living among us everyone one of them has always had top priority in their life is learning toah top priority in their life is teaching toah top priority in their life is t t t but they have already learned a lot of Torah they've learned countless books and countless pages and countless everything else but they continue to learn more why because the Torah is greater than the land wider than the ocean there's no end to it so if they the Torah Scholars continue to Toil and toil over Torah and not allow themselves to take even a small break how is a person going to allow themselves to make Torah anything less than priority number one now one of the extraordinary examples that the Mish says in is who is considered crooked that cannot be straightened so they first say perhaps it's someone that has cohabited with a woman that's forbidden to him and produced a MZ from it because technically so long as the mamzer is here he can't fix the sin even if he stops even if he doesn't go back with that person still there's a mser in the world there's a sin that exists in the world so long as this child that came from a forbidden relationship exists in the world that's a constant reminder of that sin so he is crooked and he can be straightened but then Mish says maybe it's a thief CU he stole soim says no it's not this one or that one why it's not this one or that one technically it's fixed eventually when that person dies if that child dies that's it that's the sin is no longer there if if the person that made the sin does complete Chua that's it a thief can fix it also he can also strain his uh his uh himself out by doing Chua by returning while he stole but you do know who is a who is crooked that cannot be straightened it's someone that used to learn T was and then he went off the he abandoned the Torah and therefore he became something crooked that cannot be strained they say wait but if he abandon the Torah we understand that he's crooked but what if he came back to the Torah wouldn't that make him straight says no why not because if he stays the way he was meaning if he's Torah scholar and abandon the Torah then he stays crooked but if he abandons the Torah and then does Chua he comes back now if it's a legitimate chuva he's going to be sorry about all the time that he missed learning to when he was off the D and that time he can never get back so he'll never be able to strain thems out completely become even a bigger become really really good but the bigger the greater he becomes in tah the more sorry he's going to be about leaving the tah even for a moment now there are some people that left the tah and they were the dancing fish over the last couple of hundred years the biggest attack on the Torah world was by Jews the enlightenment movement the reformers many of those started off their lives as religious Jews but they opened their minds up to heretical teachings and eventually welcomed those heretical teachings and started spreading that heresy across the board and the vast majority of them died Heretics died losing theira now what does it mean to lose anyone that wants to know about G there's a whole film that we made about three hours talks about Gom but there's one thing that people keep asking a question of because it's incomprehensible when theim say like the ramban says that or the rambam both of them say that there's certain types of Sinners for example someone that's a heretic or that caus as a missionary causes the masses to to to sin they lose their someone that's dies they lose their meaning that their sin is punishable with eternal punishment it's hard for people to Fathom such a thing because we have no concept of what that means what does it mean eternity because we are in flesh and blood we occupy space we're subject to the laws of physics and therefore we do not understand what timelessness is or what endless is we have no concept of what that means so when you say this is an eternal punishment people have to well what do you mean Eternal like it's a long time like it's a thousand years or like a like a 10 years especially when you see that in the introduction to the comment to the ramban's commentary in the Book of Job he says that one year suffering that job had is not equivalent to even one moment that a wicked person is going to get in G now to explain eternity is impossible but we can't explain how severe the judgment is without even getting gruesome one of the Defenders of am is is known for being a defender of giving to everyone doing whatever he can to help people do chva but what a lot of people perhaps don't know is also told his community the truth without sugarcoating it and the called KES page 77 and this is also mentioned in several other books a famous story of where there was one time that he was uh invited to a s and uh sud and as he was uh speaking he says to the crowd I'm going to tell you a story he said recently L I was invited to be a Sak in a bre and the B was delayed they're waiting for some of the guests they waiting for the mo so there was time that was being wasted so I took one of the books from the Shelf it was aash but I noticed that this Kash has commentary by somebody that I'm not familiar with so I since there was so many reformers and and Heretics in the generation I did not read the commentary I just read the verses from the Torah but yet later that day I found out my judgment in shamayim for what I did and the Heavenly Court decreed that because I read in a book of a heretic even though I didn't read the Heretics book I read the words of the Torah it's just that the heretic he put them there alongside his heretical commentary but because I opened that book and I read from it the Heavenly decree was that they're not going to listen to my prayers for 40 days and today those 40 days are complete and I'm doing a sud thank you but do you guys know what the punishment is for that heretic himself that wrote that book and of course the crowd is waiting eagerly to hear the holy rebi the defender of tell them what is the what is a such a heretic a reformer someone that says God needs you someone that says God has Flesh and Blood someone that says that you we need that God needs us we don't need him all types of nonsense what is the punishment for such a person well for the person that wrote the heretical book I could tell you because the holy lips of the said it so there's no speculation and he says do you know what his punishment is it's going to be is 50 years 50 years of G well that seems like nothing goes no no no no do you know what is 50 years but it's not 50 years like us the punishment in sham is not like here because each year has 300 days 365 days 365 days but the days in sh are the days of hem which D tells us each day is a thousand years and therefore each year of those 50 years of punishment in Gom is a thousand years so go do the math of 300 65,000 time 50 y years that's the punishment for the person that wrote the book needless to say people that published a book wrote more than one book writing even more books today following those teachings today tells us you see it looks like some somebody wrote a book that has heresy in it somebody gave a lecture that has heresy in it it doesn't look like a big sin that's because we're not looking with Divine glasses we're looking at a fish that's dancing and looks like he's having a good time in reality he's dying and that's why says do you know why people make sins because sins are like stars from far away they look very small but as you get closer and closer you realize that that star is even bigger than the world the same concept from somebody that does not understand the significance of learning toah it looks like it's not a big deal it looks like learning to is not necessarily something you have to do it's not something that everyone should do it's not something that you must do it looks like it's a small little thing but the reality is the closer and closer somebody gets to the truth the more they realize that their necessity to learn to is even bigger than you can possibly imagine and without it whatever dancing you're doing whatever singing you're doing is simply the dance of death a life that's empty of Torah is simply not life and until you understand it until we all understand it that means we're still not living we all succeed in understanding the significance of learning Torah in order to do it every day with complete commitment and dedication to help us fight the to help us serve a and to help us fulfill our purpose in this world especially when it comes to getting other people to go on the same route as well the route of hem the path of the king thank you very much for learning with me May hasm bless each and every single one of you with a lot of success in all of your Torah learning anyone that wants to support to help can donate on the website.org BH torah.org you could also order the uhar for to distribute in your synagogue or your Yesa by going to K store.org subscribe to the AI Rabbi app and all the other good stuff of course all of that is available all of that is different tools to help you serve a to help 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