Dangerously LAZY PEOPLE - Jewish HaShkafa (60)

[Music] we are back on our sunday night getting back to our series of the jewish ashkaffa uh hashem tonight's shield will be for refwash lima for benitez but yael also for refuselima for bhatia but saga and tinok ben batya and for all of our israel uh and all of the righteous noah's that continue to contribute continue to uh watch our shulim continue to uh spread them please share this as i have said in the past you can watch the shulim live uh if uh if you know the schedule obviously we have sunday tuesday and wednesdays at 9 00 pm um on bh dot live b as in h is in hashem that live l-i-v-e you can watch him there you could also watch it on our app on our biz of the shim app you can download that for free on the app store and android and uh and the uh itunes uh and of course you can watch it on youtube uh the next day and uh you can watch it live also on facebook so uh with that being said uh brief update uh bob hashem uh the the store the key roof store.org that we launched just last week has taken off by uh storm to be honest with you i can't believe uh how many people have uh signed up and have sent and the packages are massive my whole house is full of packages the warehouses pull the packages so volk hashem lots and lots of packages uh for anyone that hasn't uh that lives in the united states that hasn't um gotten himself uh some of the things that are in the store everybody likes the price the price being free uh that's always the best price and everything is extremely valuable we we usually do at our organization as we make everything top of the line so you have uh the uh cds uh this is a double cd uh that we've been selling on our website for the last year or so this is a box of 25 double cd so you have 50 cds in here one is a dvd one's an audio cd uh i know some people say that you don't use cds anymore but you still use dvds and either way this is a fantastic year of cool cause uh tool because it also has a qr code this is very good to put in every single 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some time because it wasn't written in english and then translated to hebrew it was written in hebrew uh and we have to translate it to english but i'm working on it because of hashem uh but either way the book has hit the world by stormbo hashem we've already given out four thousand copies in edits israel and there's a thousand copies in america we're already halfway through them there's only maybe about 500 left uh but we already have a few thousand uh uh copies in back order meaning people have ordered them but we don't have them so the shem we are we need to print another 10 000 copies of this book and uh which will split between the us and america 5 000 to do two different places anybody that wants to sponsor the book uh is more than welcome to uh it's a uh book hashem it's gotten a lot of uh praise from tomidek yeshiva from birth all types of people have loved this book book hashem and it's already helped quite a few people get closer to akira's boho so that's the book and you have other items other items in the store that uh people are ordering all types of cards all types of posters so anyone that hasn't ordered anything in the qf store please do you'll just uh um you know take advantage of it and give it on your community uh yes you'll be giving me more work but uh it's work that we want to have because the whole point is for help tell people do chewbacca for any of you that do not have the uh the time or the ability to give out these uh these free material in your community um although i highly recommend you do then the opportunity is for you to sponsor it this this obviously cost an enormous amount of money we're not talking about a thousand or two thousand dollars this is costing an enormous amount of money uh the the books themselves are uh uh over a hundred thousand and then you have uh the uh the other cards the the cds we're talking about a few hundred thousand dollars that is going into this store we're paying even for shipping so anyone that wants to be generous uh on whatever capacity whether it's a couple hundred dollars or a couple of million dollars both are welcome uh and uh you know we're we're looking for partners uh with that being said let's get to the uh to the shield we have uh the hazonis teaching us for the last year or so uh what is the right jewish mindset i want to remind everybody that uh who hasn't watched the shiour from the this series from the beginning i highly recommend you watch the first 20 lectures also honestly i also recommend even people that have already watched it uh to watch the first 20 lectures again simply because that foundational teaching of the first 20 lectures teaches about the uh uh and clarifies what is real ammuna what is real bitercon because today there are countless lectures about those topics about emunah about bitcoin there are even organizations that uh simply their whole existence is about the teachings of the muna in bitcoin but when you compare the general teachings that are out there versus what one of the dele ado taught and sourced of what emunah beta khan is you'll see that there are many many differences and of course we always have to trust the lim rather than just the uh the the this you know regular speakers that perhaps uh either uh did not understand the issue before they taught it or simply never learned it to begin with um either way we have to uh constantly have uh hizuk when it comes to emunah when it comes to bitterroon because this is the practical day-to-day tool that a person needs to have in order to survive all the difficulties that are happening in the world around us every single one of us has difficulties uh whether it's your own personal difficulties or it's the difficulties that are in the world today uh of course you have the crisis uh that practically seem like they're happening every week whether it's a shootings in schools in america has become standard about one shooting per week there was another shooting last week unfortunately more people died then of course you have the weather crisis of tornado ripping apart through several states and many people dying uh and of course you have all types of other uh crisis in the in the markets and the uh in all types of social affairs a person needs to know how to deal with those things now of course a person can simply ignore what the torah says and try to deal with it on their own and then end up spending most of their wealth paying psychologists and psychiatrists that themselves are going to psychologists and psychiatrists uh it's it's much better uh although not easier but it's much better to simply go to the sages of our torah and learn their torah in order to deal with the problems that all of us have and once a person has the solutions they can reuse those same solutions regardless of what the times are now over the last several months the uh the section that we arrived in chapter three of emunah tahon the sephirah munaibi did by the khazonesh has taught us about the significance of the significance of fearing the almighty and one of the one of the things that uh i've heard uh way too many times over the years is that uh perhaps there is a difference between the uh balaya musa the uh fire and brimstone and the bale sidut you know the world of bresliv and uh and uh chabad and some of the other khasi dudes that are out there but mainly those two are usually mentioned uh perhaps there's a difference where in the musa world you're working on uh you know rebuking and harsh and don't worry you know we'll be afraid of genome and so on but you know we love everybody we accept everybody and uh perhaps uh uh you know it's a uh we don't need to be so harsh in order to get people to do chuba now that's something that i've heard time and time again uh we've actually done a uh we've given us about this topic specifically which is a shire called genome uh based on the teachings of the baal shem tov which is the father of hasidut and uh showed that uh really real hassidut has nothing to do with uh the khasidut we just spoke about which teaches that you don't need to teach about fear of heaven and uh everyone is okay that type of khasidhu does not exist in any book uh perhaps maybe it exists in some book that came out in the last five or ten years but none of the the shaneem uh i've ever spoken of such khasi dude none of them not uh baal shem tov not mcgee not or any of the uh great hasidim throughout history have spoken about such hasidut where everyone is okay you need to love everyone and simply dance around in fact uh one of the things i want to introduce today is our next piece of work hashem this yet organization is a uh right now in the printing process of printing the next cuntress uh called the uh kuntres agenome uh this is a uh not about all the teachings of genome but rather it's again this is something that was already put together by rubber frying several years ago but we're actually putting it uh and printing copies of them uh it's in hebrew only because hashem again will translate it to english over time uh it's very time consuming and expensive to translate things so uh we uh we do what we can but uh the uh this this particular kuntres is what we went over in that shoe that uh we uh we discussed a few years ago it's called genome based on the uh the baal shem tov but tonight since this kuntres is coming out i'm going to highlight a few other things that perhaps are in the countries and i didn't mention the show perhaps remind some of you that have watched it or just simply uh enlighten some of you that haven't watched it already and uh again it doesn't necessarily need to go into the gory things of which chamber and uh specific details of what happens to each person but rather you'll see what the teachings of hasidut really is because it's not me speaking anymore it's simply the forefathers of the world of hasidut speaking so regardless of whether you like me or don't like me your rabbi likes me doesn't like me none of that stuff matters anymore because if if you have a rabbi whether he's breast lift or his chabad or he's anywhere else he's ashkenazis whatever he is if he's saying that the torah says uh uh this and the torah says something else if he says that the sages say this and the sages say something else if he says that the the uh the the forefathers of khasidut say this and it actually is shown that it says something else that you my friend have yourself an easy decision of what to do with that uh particular rabbi because it's no one likes a liar but again we'll have to get to that because this is one of the things that keeps coming up keeps coming up is a confusion out there that you're supposed to love everyone no matter what or hate everyone that doesn't agree with you this is both thoughts both schools of thoughts are incorrect both schools of thought are incorrect the key is to learn torah to do mitzvoth to help as many people as possible get closer to hashem now if somebody is an ignorant person is a person that simply never learned torah never learned mitzvot the rambam pass that is your obligation to go and help that person teach him help him encourage him get closer to academics even though right now he's driving on shabbat and eating pig you have to go help that person he's ignorant he's like a person that uh lives in a jungle and thinks he's a wolf you have to help this person don't leave him the way he is on the other hand if you have a person that knows what the torah is knows what judaism is knows what shabbat is but simply doesn't care doesn't want to keep the torah doesn't even believe that the words of the sages are are divine doesn't believe that the oral torah was given to us in mount sinai uh doesn't uh believe in god doesn't believe that shabbat is an obligation for the jews and so on and so forth such a person it is a mitzvah to hate such a person a mitzvah just like putting on to fill in as a mitzvah keeping shabbat is a mitzvah learning taliza mitzvah such a person is a mitzvah even more of a mitzvah to go and destroy such a person that actually encourages other people to sin meaning a person that teaches things that are against allah knowing that obviously this person is supposed to know not a person that's simply clueless and makes a mistake person that's supposed to know presenting themselves as a representation of jews as a rabbi or the like and he teaches people things that are against the torah saying that homosexuality is not a big deal even though the torah says otherwise uh saying that there is a uh the mitzvot are not relevant to our generation even though the torah says otherwise such a person it's a mitzvah not only to hate them but also to do whatever you can to discourage other people from learning from such a person destroying such a person reputation and it's even allowed to believe about such a person so if there is a very very uh fine line very fine line between a person that is a wicked person intentionally and a wicked person unintentionally most people are wicked unintentionally because they're simply ignorant does that absolve them from the sin absolutely not the whole issue of tinukshenishba which is the captured baby has also been one of the tools of the satan to confuse the public through the uh slippery words of the uh of the uh ignoramuses and the con men that tell people that if a person is a teenager is a captured baby meaning he was uh born into a secular family he doesn't really truly understand what judaism is and perhaps even grew religious but never really truly understood the magnitude of the mitzvot he's considered a tinukshan ishba and therefore he is a absolved from all punishment there is not a single ounce of truth in such a statement it's important to know i have a whole shoe or several shulim discussing this captured baby is simply a a logic term of how you treat somebody that's not observant of the torah and the mitzvot due to their ignorance in this world meaning this person is a uh simply grew up in a secular house like i did okay now he comes to your house you invite him for shabbos now he doesn't know what does it mean uh to observe shabbat not observe shabbat this is the first shabbat of his life he's a jew born in some place and he you invited him he's your next-door neighbor you invite him to your house for shabbat he's saying come now he doesn't know anything and he decides to be nice according to the standards of the world and he sees that you want a uh a cup of wine in your own table and he decides to take the bottle that you have on a table of uncooked wine and pour your glass now if he was a knowledgeable person a person that understands what shabbat is and still desecrates shabbat you are not allowed to drink that wine that he poured you and in fact the whole uh bottle of wine is now pasul it's considered the the uh wine of idol worshipers why because he himself is a desecrator of shabbat and is uh therefore not allowed to drink the wine that he touches even if he just moves the bottle on the other hand if he is a teenager he's a person that's ignorant grew up secular doesn't know anything and it's not like he's been coming to your house for two years first time second time he's in your house second time he's observed shabbat even heard what it is he picks up the wine the tinucci term will simply allow you to use that wine that's it that's all that allah term does it doesn't mean that if that guy dies without doing chuva he goes to heaven he does not go to heaven nobody to desecrate shabbat goes to heaven nobody that desecrates hakshem's name and desecrates the torah and uh does all of the sins that are in it goes to heaven ever not just like oh you know he doesn't go to heaven right away but maybe he goes eventually no there are certain sins that a person makes if they do not do chew out for them and fix them if they don't repent they do not ever go to heaven so it's important to know that terminology it's an allahic term that is used by the sages of how to describe certain people at certain stages of their life in this world there is no tinukshan ishbad department in heaven there's no such thing there's no like chamber one chamber two chamber three and chamber tino there's no such thing there's another thing a person that's considered tinocchi is an ignorant person that grew up irreligious and simply you are not going to uh go with the letter of the law with this person uh early on now once this person understands what shabbat is he's heard that you're not allowed to drive on shabbat and still chooses to drive on shabbat he's no longer once he understands you're not allowed to light fire or work on shabbat he's no longer thinking because in essence the whole concept of tinukshi means captured baby literally means captured baby which is let's say a uh some woman is in the park with her little baby and some fatima or some christine decides to steal that baby okay and raise him as uh raise him as jesus raise him as muhammad okay now that little baby grows up he doesn't know that he's really jewish he doesn't know that he thinks that he's christian he thinks that he's arab he doesn't know that he's really jewish so of course hashem is not going to judge that baby that person that's a jewish as a jew is supposed to be judged because he doesn't know that he's a jew but of course we all know that hashem doesn't leave any of his children in such a fashion over the extent of their entire life he gives them endless amount of uh of uh tests and uh messages to show them that they are jewish to show them that there is a uh truth and i've actually met a woman that discovered that she's jewish and that uh actually had the opportunity about hashem through our shurim to do cuba at 79 years old 79 years old when she called me both of us were crying both of us were crying 79 years old she discovered she's jewish 100 and she said can you help me do chuba of course we sent the material we sent her a cure package for free because that's always the best price and bakasham 79 year old woman was not let out of this world by quedos balco without knowing that she's jewish so of course we know that there's no such thing as hashem having some captured baby in the world that's a jew staying that way for their whole life hashem gives them countless messages and only the people that want to be wicked die wicked but as far as the captured baby in the logic terms where a uh a jew is a uh is uh in essence considered a captured baby where he grew up in a secular environment he grew up among secular people his parents hate the torah and and you know he he's applauding helsel and uh and uh and i don't know hitler and all types of other anti-uh uh semites uh so now this person of course you can't uh judge him the same way as you judge a traditional jew that knows what tawa is but the second that you tell him this is what the torah says that said he's no longer a captured baby you've released them from his capture he can now choose to do whatever he wants just like if somebody saw this little jewish boy you know captured by fatima or by christine and he took him out of the cage he said run run boy run yakov run woven gun and little ruben runs around now if he chooses to go back to fatima he choose to go back to uh to uh to christine he's an idiot and it's his fault you can't say all this and he's still captured he decides to go back to his capturers that putting him in a cage that's his fault it's no longer anybody else's fault on the other hand he runs good help him help him show him away same concept with people of the world today the vast majority of people and by vast majority i mean 99 99.9 percent of people in the world are not captured babies they're not the innocent is they're aware what judaism is they have seen jews in their community or in other communities or on television and many many other places both hashem the jews have a very significant place in society in the world today like they've always had but especially in the media everyone has seen a jew at some point or another whether in real life or in media and everyone understands that the jews are different if a person is a jew he knows that there are certain laws that come with judaism a person doesn't want to comply that's his problem he wants to stay captured that's his problem he has to pay for it but what happens if a person knows that he's a jew but says listen i will keep some basics but i'm not going to develop anymore learn to lie every day i know i'm just going to do whatever i can whenever i can perhaps i'll learn a couple of hours on shabbat the rest of the week i'll do some other things what about that kind of jew what about that kind of jew well according to the uh like i said the fake version of khabad there's a real version of khabad like my old dear friend allah shalom who was a serious all-time chabadnik who the fear of heaven that's hashem's treasure and that's one of the foundations of the teachings of but there's the fake version of that unfortunately more predominant in the media today that tells you listen this guy what does he do he gives daca he keeps part of shabbat ah he's good he's good like this rabbi they used to come to my office on wall street day in and day out literally several times a week after i did chewbacca he told me that i made a mistake it was the biggest mistake of my life was doing chuba and when i asked him why he said because you used to be much nicer before you did shiva i said yeah but you you realize that you're only saying that because i used to give you money every week he's like yeah but that's the only mitzvah that a jew needs to do in this generation so of course this person is a heretic and there's no end to such genome that he's gonna have but the point being is that there are a lot of people like that there are many people like that that teach people that the only thing they need to do is simply to give staka or to do something small there is no truth in that whatsoever there is no truth in that whatsoever we're going to bring sources from the teachings of including including other sources to show you once and for all what does it mean to be a jew but not just this particular topic but also what does it mean to simply be a lazy jew a spiritually lazy jew why because this rabbit of issue of tinucs only pertains to some people but the issue of laziness pertains to all of us are we allowed to be lazy that is a very big question that many people need to ask themselves am i allowed to be lazy am i allowed to be lazy just hang out and and do nothing am i allowed to watch a movie instead of watching shioto am i allowed to read some book about i don't know harry potter flying on some broomstick instead of reading a rambam or reading reading ahumash am i allowed to do such things and that's a very very big question why because the answer to that the answer to that is very serious it has a lot of weight on how a person is going to this you know to determine what they're going to do with the rest of their life moving forward and this is in essence what the hazonis is going to try to help us today basically try to help us understand what does it mean on the third chapter 25th section the hazuni says the following just as the sages spoke at length about torah without fear of heaven so they spoke at length of fear of heaven without torah for the last several shurim about this particular topic we spoke about how it's critical to learn musar to learn allah not one without the other you have to learn both but unfortunately there are times where there are people that learn one without the other and therefore the results are a disaster where you have a person that knows allah but has no fear of heaven and the mara says a dead animal in the middle of the street is better than such a person that knows the law but has no fear of heaven the fear of heaven is one of the foundations of judaism it's one of the meets vote it's not a recommendation it's not a suggestion and it's not even a level to get to it is a prerequisite just like breathing is a prerequisite for living fear of heaven fear of hashem is a prerequisite of serving unfortunately in today's world fear of heaven has turned into almost like a cuss word or some type of slang in in today's religious society but the reality is that if you do not have fear of heaven that the sages say you are an all-time suspect murderer at all times a person that doesn't have fear of heaven at all times you have to suspect him that he may kill you you're not allowed to be in a room by himself by yourself with such a person that has no fear of heaven to such an extent so now the says the sages have spoken at length about the torah without fear of heaven such people but they also spoke at length about fear of heaven without torah what is fear of heaven without torah how could a person attain fear of heaven without knowing torah a person can simply tell you listen i'm afraid of going again i heard about it it's terrible i don't want to get punished i don't want to lose all my money i don't want to you know get divorced i don't want to lose this i don't want to lose that okay fine good for you you know what you're afraid of hashem that's fantastic that's a start that you have something in the brain so come to the shoutout for me what do you mean what you learn on your own you learn you learn musa [Applause] what do you mean you don't learn wait so you're saying that you're afraid of god but you don't want to learn his torah no it's not that i don't want to learn it it's just that i'm busy what are you busy doing you know i got stuff to do everybody has stuff to do what stuff do you have to do well the game is on tonight championship game is on tonight okay what about tomorrow is there a championship tomorrow also no tomorrow is my date night with my wife date night okay so you have date night you have championship game what about the day after you have date night and championship game on those days also no that night we're babysitting babysitting why didn't you want your wife babysitting no i'm babysitting because my wife is going out with her friends because there's a birthday party oh okay so you have date night you have a babysitting and you have championship game what about okay where are wednesday already wednesday what about you come to the shuttle on wednesday watch come to a uh learn something it's useful now i'm sorry why i'm working late that night okay so we have date night we have championship game we're babysitting and we have work you see where i'm going with this guys the reality is a person has all of the excuses in the world to not learn torah and then he's going to tell you no but listen rabbi on shabbat i keep shabbat i keep shabbat and on shabbat you know i go i go i go i stay extra half hour after the prayer i listen to whatever the rabbi is saying oh yeah what is he saying i don't remember so what do you mean you went the whole week no week you went without learning torah finally you go to for 20 minutes after the prayer while you're eating your chulant anytime you don't remember what the rabbi said no rabbit you have to have like a calculator as i had to remember all that stuff so so what good is it how did it affect your life well no i didn't i just i'm i'm jewish isn't that good enough i'm jewish no you know why it's not good because taught us that a person does not learn allah for sure is violating shabbat you my dear friend are going to go to gay nom and you don't even realize it because you think that you are religious you think that you're religious because you don't drive on shabbat little do you know that you're violating shabbat in many other ways because you don't even know what allah you don't know how to conduct business in a kosher way you don't know how to conduct a marriage in a kosher way you don't know how to be a parent in the kosher way you don't even know how to eat kosher in a kosher way countless people ask questions and it always makes me happy to hear these questions that are basic why because i know that that particular question is coming from a person that's really seeking really seeking to better their life when people ask me these convoluted questions of oh rabbi what was the name of of ira you know avraham's mother look up the midrash body like what do you need me for go look up to me rash you'll find out the name of abraham's mother like what like how is knowing abraham's mother going to help your life why don't you ask me rabbi how do i keep shabbat and then i can send you a link give you allah something or send you i mean but people like to ask convoluted questions all types of questions to sound like as if they're sophisticated in reality it's not gonna help their life when people ask basic questions i know these people want to learn they want to better their life unfortunately abu takari when a person does not want to better their life and simply no hope for such a person that's why the kazonish continues and he brings the mishnay navot he says in chapter two of it says there's no ignoramus who has fear of heaven and no aam is a haseed and as it says in the secret page 63a if a torah scholar avenges himself and bears grudge like a snake gird yourself with him meaning attach yourself to him stick with him don't worry but if it's an amma aggrets is pretending to be a hasid don't even live next to him here we're going to elaborate further this particular couple of points of what the mishnah here is saying what is the mishnah here is saying that is bringing the mishnah is coming from hillel as a kin cannot be fearful of sin what's a bull a boar is a person that completely lacks any torah knowledge doesn't have any good deeds that are as a result of his torah knowledge perhaps he'll do a good deed simply because it is his inner nature it seems fine to him it's logical but not because it's a mitzvah and as far as character refinement when you tell him listen you shouldn't be so angry i'll tell you what do you mean i shouldn't be so angry i was born this way you expect me to change you want somebody else not me i was born angry i was born stingy i was born this i was born that and therefore i'm gonna dye this i'm gonna dye that that's a boo such a person is unaware of right and wrong and is unable to maintain loyalty to the torah or to ethics both say such a person is literally like a hopeless situation does not know the right and wrong so he says that such a person that does not know right wrong there's no way for him to be afraid of sin why he doesn't even know what to say he's coolest completely completely clueless he invites the rabbi over to the house hey robert can you come to my house yeah sure what do you need i want you to uh you know come see my new uh living room we just read the demo of the the kitchen and the living room first of all you're inviting a rabbit to see your kitchen and in your living room and it's not exactly uh covered for the rabbi rabbi if he's a real rabbi has better things to do perhaps learn to help people but nonetheless let's say you invited this rabbi you figured maybe i figured maybe a nice check so you could he could do an extension for the synagogue's kitchen and the synagogue's uh prayer area he figures you're inviting him the rabbi shows up to your house he sees your tv on and you're watching one of these inappropriate immoral movies and you're laughing and the rabbi is there is wants to bury himself and like what happened what's wrong what oh you don't like the show well you don't watch this your kid my kids love this show you don't like the show that's such a person it's a pool that's a fool that's a person that's completely clueless the difference between him and a cow not very much not very much why this person lives simply based on instinct simply based on instinct believe it or not you can help such a person if he's willing to learn if he's not willing to learn he'll stay this way he'll die this way and unfortunately get punished this way so a person like this has no concept of right and wrong therefore there's no way in the world that he could be afraid of actual real sin no such thing he could be afraid of losing something he can tell you listen i don't want to go there because i heard that it's inara to go uh on a split road i heard it's aynara to take the left step first instead of the right step you heard all types of uh things some of them are jewish some of them are idolatry and he decides his life based on such things this person is not really afraid of sin he's not really afraid of hashem he's simply afraid to lose just like any other idolater out there is afraid to lose and therefore he brings some type of sacrifice to his idol that's it there's no fear of real sin from the almighty from such a person on the other hand he this guy is not really the real problem why he's a bull he's like a empty vessel that if he has merit perhaps you can fill up that vessel with torah and help him become a a good person on the other hand the more problematic person is the second one that hillel is a kid mentions that cannot be a hasid he cannot be a pious person now is a in essence a term that the sages implemented to specify a unique person it's not based on their color it's not based on their nationality it's not based on what kind of food they eat it's not based on their height it's not based on any of those things but rather it's based on how they treat the torah that's what it is now and is considered in essence a unlearned person but if it was truly just an unlearned person then we would call him also a bull abu was also an unlearned person what's the difference between a bull and a mitz can every single week and still be an amaris he can learn and he can even know a lot of things by heart and still be on amadez in fact he can be a rabbi and still in um why because it is not based on the breadth of knowledge that a person has but rather how they implement this knowledge first and foremost second of all where is the source of their knowledge how do they decipher it now this unlearned person is lacking the knowledge of what is considered desirable behavior because generally speaking the literal term is referring to a person that is of the uh of the land meaning that this is a person that's preoccupied with business preoccupied with business dealings and so on now the igmara teaches that even if a person studied a lot of tala he's still considered an amma it's he still considered unlearned if he did not serve an apprenticeship and observe the torah scholars in their uh daily lives meaning if this person learned torah but he doesn't have a rabbi he's in our mother's he has a rabbi but he doesn't ever contact him that means he doesn't really have a rabbi he's a pretend rabbi he's not malice he has a rabbi but he doesn't respect the rabbi rabbi says something says listen that's your opinion i'm going to do something else he's in omaha he looks at the books he sees the sages right the rambam rashi and he compares their opinion to his opinion but not to decipher whether his opinion is correct or not but rather to decipher whether the sages opinion is correct next to his because he assumes he is correct is it but a dangerous amahits nonetheless now the sages teach that when a person is involved in learning torah and especially learning from the sages learning from a tamikham having what's called shimoosh they're going to develop a sense of right and wrong that is applicable to their day-to-day life that is not literally spoken of in the scripture in the torah itself what is this like has an extraordinary story that's i've told it once in one of my shooting maybe a couple years ago and really when you think about the story the more you think about it the more surprised you are that hashem didn't destroy the entire world this story is unfortunately a story that didn't only happen once in history because today in today's society it seems like these types of stories are in the media or they come to different people myself included they cross our desk as if it's happening almost on a weekly basis almost perhaps not with the same exact details but this types of despicable behavior has become almost standard the world is becoming closer and closer to sodom and gomorrah but anyway the magazine says that there was once a rabbi young rabbi that uh struggling with money one of the congregants of his community had a lot of money and he also had an eye for the rabbi's wife the rabbanite young rabbanite didn't have any kids yet he figured maybe she'll have his kids what about the fact that she's around beneath and she's married to the rabbi well maybe she's not going to be married to the rabbi yeah but it's against the torah you're right i'm not saying anything i'm not going to tell her to do anything with me oh okay all right so just in your mind it's not good it's in your mind okay but at least you're not acting on it as you would have it the says someone that comes to become purified looks to do good things hashem gives them a hand someone that looks to do bad things hashem opens the door friend go you want things go ahead do it this guy wanted the rabbi's wife the rabbi had a financial issues and he came to the guy for some help and the guy said listen there you go i'll give you a loan just give the money back okay on such and such date no problem such and such date came up and the rabbi didn't have the money and the guy told them listen i'm uh sorry to tell you but uh you owe me the money yeah i'm sorry i don't know what to do it's a uh you need to pay them there's pressure on this guy listen i'm sorry okay so the guy kept giving him more loans the debt continued growing bigger and bigger but the relationship continued one day the rabbi seized this congregant and the congress says to him uh listen why don't you uh send your wife to my house to bring me one of the things that uh you're dealing with perhaps i can review it maybe she could be a helper so robert doesn't think much of it and he sends the wife the wife goes to this guy's house and she doesn't come back the rabbi doesn't know what's going on says the night passes the wife's not back a few days pass he doesn't see the congress doesn't see his wife eventually he runs into the congress and says hey listen uh how are you doing you see my wife says yeah sure you sent it to my house and uh she left but i did see that after she left my house she was uh i don't want to tell you rabbi but seems like she was hanging out with some guys if i was you i throw it out really you saw it with guys yeah rabbi i didn't want to tell you what i feel and broke break your heart but i saw it real nice somebody's like yeah what do i do if i kick her out i have to pick two bar i already owe you money i don't have any money to do that he's rabbi you're my rabbi how about this i'll give you the money for the dubai don't worry about it really you do that for me yeah i'll do it for you he gives him the money for the tuba he gives this woman a get and she's no longer married to him now fast forward the guy wants his money says rabbi listen you owe me money for long enough now you also owe me money for the dubai time to come gotta pay me rabbi says listen i'm sorry uh you know times are tough i don't have the money he goes listen if you want you come work for me oh sure okay what can i do cause grab you could be my uh my servant in my house i just bought a brand new mansion and uh my new wife and uh you about to be a servant okay rabbi is not really supposed to be a servant what can you do when you have such a big loan so the rabbi puts on the uniform of a servant and comes to the house and he tells him listen in the morning i want you to make us tea come to my room and bring us the tea rabbi hasn't seen the wife hasn't seen anything it's night goes he rests goes to sleep christ that he's in the circumstance the poor guy but what can he do he has to pay a loan to me try to pay the loan back so now this rabbi wakes up early in the morning makes the tea comes into the room knocks on the door you say open and he comes into the room and he sees that his congregant who's now his boss is sitting right next to his new wife who happens to be the rabbi's ex-wife at that moment who decided to destroy the mata midash now the yavitz the yabba zakadosh when he comments on the story over 1500 years later he says which law did the congregant break which allah did the congregate break she was she married she wasn't married did he touch her while she was married he didn't touch her while she was married did he really own the money he really owed him the money did he need a job he needed a job which law would tara did he break none no law so who decided says from here we learn that there are unwritten laws unwritten laws that akidos has that are called the the laws that are a hook that everybody with common sense will know this is not allowed this is forbidden to such an extent that the punishment of violating those laws is much more severe than violating the written laws now a person that's an amma a person that does not want to learn torah the proper way is never going to learn these these unwritten laws and is never going to develop the notion of what's right and wrong according to what's called da torah the opinion of the torah in fact they'll make fun of what doctor was they'll think now listen i don't agree with the yavitz i don't agree with the gemara you could not agree as much as you want but it still says that decide to destroy the better midash after this action happened now some people are going to tell you this sounds strict i don't like such a strict torah i like more lenience i like when my rabbi is lenient i like when everything is lenient leniency is my thing so i'm gonna go to a community where they're going to teach me khasidut they're going to teach me what the great qasidim taught which is all about love everybody except everybody as they are well let's see if you're really going to learn hasidut then perhaps everything i'm going to tell you now is what you're going to learn in the future if you've already learned khasidut then you should have never said such a thing because you should already know what i'm about to tell you what am i going to tell you all whether it's khabad or it's breast lift or it's satmir or it's a sans bob everyone agrees now in the introduction to this contras we highlight a statement that was made and confused many people that says that beyonce was born genome was burned up meaning was destroyed but this unfortunately is not true the goal of this contras is to enlighten people about the significance of fear of punishment its obligation of fear of punishment in serving hashem that it's not something that is hidden in the world of hasidut but rather highlighted by the world of khasidut and if that's not the khasi that you're learning then you're not learning you're learning a different religion rather the there's no such thing as there's a difference between learning musar and learning when it comes to the foundations of judaism meaning if you're talking about the has different ways of teaching their people about the stories of their sages versus you're let's say a litvish or your or your sparadi and you have different stories and examples and analogies to use you have customs that are different no problem but if when you're talking about the basic foundation of judaism that stands on the shoulders of all of our forefathers that had fear of the almighty to the extent where they literally shiver just the thought of a kalos mohu and you're saying that your hasidut is not teaching you such torah then you're not learning khasidut mussar and khasidud are not opposites in fact they're more synonymous than you would imagine because in essence the goal of both is identical it's character development is musar and musar is to teach you to be a hasid what is a khasid a haseed according to our sages is someone that's going to do something above what's required above what's required in the torah that's what a hasid is someone that's a baal musa that has good ethics is going to do at the very least what's required but is always going to try to do even more excel in essence means the same thing but for whatever reason or another at some point just like that confusing statement that became popular among certain communities especially secular ones that there is no genome when it comes to hasidut and because the it was destroyed when dubai shrimp was was born this uh this type of teachings obviously has fruits all types of rotten fruits that have showed up their ugly face in different communities now what did the hasidim really teach what does the baal shrimp to himself really teach whatever his students really teach now the balsam have taught all of this hasidim about the significance of him to the extent where in the uh one of the main fathers of hasidut the in the medic in the uh several devaleem parashat the commentary on on parashat says that is that the way to get people that are wicked to do is purely from fear of heaven fear of the punishment fear the punishment why you could visualize that you'll get a punishment after you sinned and you won't sin now fear of the fear of punishment is the beginning and it's not just for beginners it says here below that the uh fear of punishment is not just important or helpful for wicked people but rather this is the straight way that is for the path to reach the house of god just like it was highlighted in the sephir alveonachal in a section of bereshit in the lecture yud gimel and this is what he says we know that in the servitude of hashem a person needs to go from level to level and a person has to uh put his heart for uh towards the uh how he's going to approach his servitude of hashem he must get himself used to fear of punishment which is the lowest of levels it's basic level foundation not like it's not the lowest level like it's it's unimportant or it's a uh it's uh frowned upon but it's the first step first step you gotta go a thousand steps you still have to go on the first step you can't just jump to step number 900 you have to fear you have to get yourself used to used to stepping on this step why you used to stepping on the steps because even if you reach step number you still are stepping on step number one meaning you never eliminate step number one fear of the of punishment is always there regardless of which level you're in even if you're akiva you're always going to have to have this fear of punishment he has to get himself used to such a such a feeling of fearing of the punishment until he sees in himself that there is no way that he will ever make such a sin because of this fear at that moment he uh he knows that he has uh it's time for him to go to the next level and then he begins to hate such fear meaning he wants to go to the higher level of fear it is fit for every person to always have against his eyes meaning always having his imagination details of the punishments of genome and all of the other punishments meaning reincarnation and so on because not every person merits to get to a level of having fear of the almighty in the beginning and he regardless he has to from the beginning protect himself due to the fear of the punishment he writes the following how do you get to pure fear of heaven it's clear in all of the holy books that in the beginning a person must get himself used to a simple fear you got to own it which is fear of acts of punishment i know she attendedly meaning that he would put his uh his heart meaning start feeling and imagining all of the things that scare him as that was what will happen to him if he goes against hashem and he's afraid to uh do these actions because he doesn't want to get hurt another section el escutres says that in a he writes the following the wise men of truth wrote that the most important fear is the fear of the punishment in order to burn meaning to destroy all of the wicked desires that overcome a person in the countries suffer not was truly strong regarding how hashem punishes the wicked ayala limnum he would have not done this deed due to the fear of the punishment regardless of what happens because the nature of a person is that as soon as a person is afraid of something it uh it's it removes the desire for all desires what about helping people do chuva people say wait maybe that's what you teach people that are already in yeshiva people that are already from let's see what the baal shrimp have taught here in this talmudim in a uh regarding the first step of chewbaca in the safe film in agention this is in the words of the baal shem tov shalom teaches that it is impossible for a person to reach the level of chuva without getting to fear of punishment and also in parashat emo that without the fear of punishment it is impossible to get to the fear of the awe of the almighty now what about in regards to this uh this mishna that we learned today also comments on this in video it's written again these are the words of the baal shempt of different teachings of the baal shinto the different have written that there is no bull that is afraid of sin because he returns to the uh to the sin regardless of the of the punishment because if he would learn torah he would learn the fear of heaven he would not be called a uh a bull anymore he would not be a bull anymore because due to the torah a person ends up learning to ends up becoming a fear of fear of the almighty fear he by learning real tawa he becomes afraid of hashem these i said it in my own words but in essence that's what it means that a person must uh be uh serving [Music] and in such a way that he puts in front of his face the constant reminder of the fear of the punishment that if he forsakes hashem's laws god forbid that he will be punished with sufferings may hashem have mercy help him and this is the way he must get himself used to shirat ownership that the fear of punishment will always be in his mind and this is the gate that he must enter for his servitude of hashem and then he continues that the fear of punishment has to be before anything else meaning it's top priority over anything else what about in regards to the suffering that a person gets when he learns about the fear of fear of hashem meaning he learns about genome it causes them suffering he thinks about the punishment he would get if he died this way without doing survive she died immodest if he died in shabbat and so on and so forth that caused the person's suffering what does the baal shemptov say about this rabbit lublin writes in his that the suffering that a person has in regarding to the sins that he made in the past and now he's learning about what what's the consequence of them that's a replacement for the suffering of genome that he was supposed to get for that sin and he used the source of the muhammad page 12 that a person that uh is a uh embarrassed of his sin already that's the first step of forgiveness which forgive what does it mean forgiveness the punishment of genome is removed now some of the other talmudim of the baal shem tov say the following in the sephiroth yosef in the shot was shabbat regarding the uh uh the fire that was of of genome that was uh that was shut off he says that it was it was shut off but then it went back on due to the evil inclination of all the wicked people that caused the fire of genome to get turned on meaning the people that say that the fire of gain almost shut off simply read half the teachings not the whole thing and it's says that uh additional commentary about this particular teaching says that this is really referring to that the fire was shut off for all of those people that made sins but did not violate shabbat because because whoever uh lights fire on shabbat and violate shabbat then the uh the fire of the altar will also be a lit meaning the fire of genome will also be lit even on shabbat for such a person in the center by uh was born in uh galicia in uh year tough in 1760 um regarding the uh the judgments on the wicked people it says that one of the mercies of hashem is that he punishes that he uh when there are certain people that made certain sins he punishes them in this world that's actually part of the kindness that he has in this world because the punishment that a per that hashem gives anybody in this world it's not even one of a thousand of the pain that they would have gotten in the punishments of genome if the punishment was given there instead foreign that uh regarding the statement of the person that uh the wicked people don't uh do triva until they uh the gate of genome he says yes until they get the genome the gate of genome once they see what's inside genome and it's coming from their sins that's when they uh they they start wanting to do it his own heart says that he's wicked as i mentioned in previous shurim in chapter 8 of the tanya he talks about certain people that have idol uh conversations and they have to go to kafka but this is only for a minor sin of wasting time wasting speech because certainly greater sins go to much worse than kaphakala where they have to go to genome either the genome of fire or genome of snow he gives the details it all depends whether this person deserves caret or skila and he even says in chapter 12 that even the uh the the punishments or the suffering i should say the suffering of job that he received 70 years but even if somebody had the punishment the suffering of joke for seven years job actually had his own suffering for one year but even if somebody had the suffering of job for 70 years it wouldn't be equivalent to a single hour of genome in the fire section says in the uh of uh in uh ahmood discusses the issue of kafka in genome he was asked about the issue and he says that there is certain desires that it's not enough for a person to go to kaphakala rather they also have to go to and get sufferings and punishments in genome and he goes into extent over there discussing this particular topic so here we see again that the baal shem tov and his tummy team and this hasidim time and time again mentioned genome i mean there is over 1500 sources of khasidut that were reviewed as part of making this kuntres we didn't include all of them obviously but over 1500 sources of khasidhut that we know of mentioned the topic of genome and uh we tried to highlight the uh the the ones that we thought were best fit um but if you look at the jewish library there are literally thousands and thousands well over five thousand sources that i know of a just one program one library to discuss the issue of genome meaning that a person that does not believe in punishment is not a person that's not a hasid it's not a person that's even an amalet it's a person that's a bull because they're literally delirious of the basic foundation of judaism and a person that says no but i want to be more positive there is nothing more positive than knowing the truth there's nothing more positive than understanding the consequences of your actions and therefore using that as the steering wheel to your life if i know that there is heavy consequences for certain things automatically that allows me to make better decisions but to live in a delusion that everything is going to be okay because i decided so is nothing short of arrogance and stupidity and that's why the were not merciful about people that were spiritually lazy they did not cover these issues and discuss them and toil over them to find the truth a few years ago i had a hedoch i don't think i ever discussed it in a shield a 17b talking about hashem's mercy hashem's justice mercy being justice being represented by zedek debating over the issue to show hashem's mercy [Music] hashem is sadiq in everything that he does and he's a hasid in all of his actions he's a sadiq in his ways and he's a hasid in his actions and rabbi lazar says he says that to you hashem kindness because you pay somebody based on his actions see we see that sadiq is a person that strictly adheres to the letter of the law and hasid is merciful beyond the letter of the law meaning that hashem is sadiq and he observes his own law that's why he's called talik and he's called khasid because he is merciful beyond the letter of the law but does that mean that if a person leaves this world a sinner hashem is simply going to eliminate all of his sins no these verses specifically prove that how do they prove it in the first one in uh where it says that hashem sadiq and then is hasid because leads to the hashem is strict with the letter of the law in order to get you to do and then he's merciful he's hasid with judging you after you do triva meaning the first verse that brings is an essence telling you that he sadiq and he's gonna follow the letter of the law but he's gonna use that law in order to get you to do juba he promised that he's not going to forget everybody he's going to give everybody an opportunity he's going to forgive you and so on yes and he's hasid where after a person has decided to fix his ways hashem is extra merciful where in essence doesn't matter what you did if you're genuinely sorry and you change your ways hashem forgives you as if it not only never happened we could even turn it into a mitzvah that's it his mercy is beyond the norm but in the second verse that rabbi lazar brings where he says that uh to hashem he's uh for him is the said because he's the one that pays each person based on his actions he reminds us that although his merciless as mercifulness as he said allows us to do chuba in the first place he will be strictly at sadiq he will be strictly justice and repay each man in accordance to his deed if we don't listen to him and do cuba then hashem has to pay us based on our actions meaning he has to punish us and therefore this explains why why it's a uh it uh in the uh exodus it says that since hashem has an abundance of mercy kindness but yet emit emit must be carried out no matter what so when it comes to the punishment that people think oh but yeah but how come hashem created such a world why would he punish me who has this and who has that this really in essence explains all of that if a person truly understands what i just said it explains everything regarding reward and punishment and why the punishment is so severe because the reward for and the forgiveness is also to the same extent or even more so if a person does juva by following the laws of a qadhafi that person is forgiven for the worst possible crimes on the other hand of a person is simply not merciful on themselves and doesn't do chuba he leaves hashem no option other than to punish that person now who are the people that fall into such a such a uh such a category typically it's the amalets and that's what the kazonish now brings that's the reason why he says the inaudible can never be a khasid why he chooses to be ignorant where he says the americas the sages of the mishnah discussed his uh where where he's at and page 47b they came to the conclusion that a person that learned and studied torah but has not spent time in apprenticeship with torah scholars in order to learn all of their ways that person is considered he's still considered the unlearned person and wrote says the khazanesh in one of his letters then observing the torah scholars nowadays is the study of the deep discussions that were handed down to the allahic authorities to the puskin from the people of the great assembly as were handed down to them from the elders and from the prophet so that everything that was said to musher on mount sinai has reached all the way to our generation in so many words listening to the words of the sages whether it's the sages of the gemara or it's the lichonim or it's or it's the sages of the current generation that is in essence the way a person connects to the torah of mount sinai to moshe when a person refuses to listen to the torah of the sages this person is in essence a hundred percent in amma it's because he's not connecting to the source he's not connected to the source he's only connecting to whatever logic he has and that is continues to finalize this point and he says that a person who has not spent many years laboring over the study of germa and has not exerted themselves to understand the torah of the israeli enough to acquire the extra understanding to fathom abaya and queries meaning which is a expression of the debate between uh the sages are the most common sages that are debating in the torah in the uh talmud so he hasn't learned enough to the and which are the early sages to the point where he already understands what is the argument here before it even starts clearly he has deprived the soul from the title of chavel what's kavel that's another name for a torah scholar and the sages who were looking to wake people up and get them to learn torah didn't humor and didn't tolerate such a lazy person and called them in depriving him of special privileges and it's possible that this is about who it's written about that he cannot be a hasid so the says here in so many words that the sages came up with this term of its not to talk about somebody that is completely clueless of torah but rather a person that is spiritually lazy he's lazy to be an apprentice to atomic a rabbi he's lazy to really toil to the point of really delving into the law itself and understand the root of the law he just wants the superficial law he just wants to watch youtube for the rest of his life he told him why don't you open some books no the books um i'm not really interested in books i get everything that i need from the videos he doesn't want to learn the root of why this law is this law he doesn't want to learn it from the books he wants to learn everything superficial today it's even worse people see a two-hour video i know it's too much robert you have anything shorter half hour no you have anything shorter five minutes you have anything shorter one minute torah that's what i can handle one minute one minute torah in my opinion one minute taurus it's really not but in my opinion it is why it's really lowering the torah to such low standards that you're in essence telling people don't even aim higher we're just going to aim lower because you're you're spiritually kabutaki people have gone to the point where they're so spiritually lazy forget about going and opening the books and learning why the law is the law by going over the scheme going over the gemarot going over the different opinions between a different ishnim and that is for the select few today people are not even willing to open books and even if they're willing to open books they're not going to open the books of the israeli or the gemara or anything like that they're going to open a book that's going to comment on a comment on a comment of something that was written 2 000 years ago now if you're brand new and you haven't learned anything in your life that's perfectly fine because even if you open the mall you won't understand anything but if you're already religious for three four five six ten fifteen twenty years and you still refuse to open the mail you still refuse to open a rambam you still refuse to open basic stuff there's something really wrong here your amma against status is by choice it's one hundred percent by choice and that's why the sages were not merciful on such people because the amarett status was by choice it was a spiritual laziness that a person developed as a result of only wanting superficial knowledge meaning you tell a person listen such and such okay fine do you have any questions no no you just said it's it's this it's this that's it finished you don't have any questions never has any questions the guy never has any questions the same is not it says that the bull cannot be a fearful of sin and ahmad cannot be a scrupulously pious also says that a person that is a uh baishan he's a bashful person he can never become a tamik why he doesn't ask any questions but that baishan that bashful person that so-called shy person it's not because he's shy it's because he's spiritually lazy spiritually lazy rabbi might have to go there no okay are you gonna go yeah i just said no yeah well i'm gonna try to find another rabbi it says yeah people that look for superficial torah get superficial torah and break superficial torah and stay exactly where they are and never grow there are certain people that simply do not want to grow you tell them listen here are some books go buy these books okay when i get a chance six months later did you finish those books oh no i didn't get to it yet well did you buy them at least no no i didn't get to them yet i said oh so you didn't even buy them you asked me to recommend books i recommended books so you can do what you wanted to do but you didn't even buy them why you don't have any money no no i'm just busy okay so you just like wasting my time fine and then you have people they buy all the books in the world they show you pictures rabbi look all the books pictures of books do not impress me you know why because i know how hard it is to read them if you tried reading them enough times you wouldn't be impressed by pictures of books either the only people that are impressed the pictures of my books are people that don't read books people that read books don't look at pictures of books unless they're shopping i want to buy that one why i want to read it i want to read that one and that one and that one unfortunately sometimes people buy books and they pretend like they're smart they think that their iq increases because they have books this is spiritually lazy appetite spiritually lazy it's hard to not be spiritually lazy why because you have to rebuke yourself every single day you have to catch yourself being spiritually lazy every single day in order to avoid it why because it is our nature it is our nature to settle for superficial spirituality basic just tell me what to do yes or no i'll tell you the truth that's what i want to and guess what that's what you want to and guess what everybody wants that too but that's not how the torah works that's how you grow into a you have to delve deeper into certain things not everything of course people that delve too deep into certain things don't know where they're gonna end there are certain times to dig there's certain times to just scratch the surface and you can't dig everywhere even if you are looking for oil you can't just dig everywhere you have to be selective but there are certain people that simply don't dig at all they don't want to dig it even if you make the hole ready for them why they're not really interested they just want to do the basic minimum thinking that the basic minimum is going to get them to avoid punishment not realizing that that basic minimum although if they stated basic minimum may actually help to avoid certain punishments but that basic minimum is developing a trap a trap of being used to superficial type of torah superficial type of servitude of hashem and akadoshbo who is going to ask that person if i gave you a contract that said that if you do such and such you get a million dollars or 10 million or whatever is a lot of money according to your terms would you read that contract of course i read the contract would you follow the contract of course i followed the contract why because you know that if you don't follow the contract you're not going to get the 10 million dollars and in fact if there's a reward of 10 million dollars it's common sense to realize that there's potentially a punishment of 10 million dollars not just the loss of the gain but potentially a loss with a liability everyone that has done business for more than a day in their life knows that whatever deal you have that's a potential reward also has at the very least just as much liability aside from the loss of revenue no one signs a deal where there's only an upside to one party if when i gave you the contract for a million dollars you spent all that time reading the contract analyzing the contract asking questions about the contract looking at the details of the contract and making sure you fulfill the contract to the best of your abilities and anytime there was something that you couldn't do according to the contract you found and toiled and figured out how it could possibly be allowed according to the contract how come you didn't do that with my torah how come you didn't delve into my torah's laws to figure out how you can fulfill them how come you didn't feel didn't go into my torah and figure out where is the root of them where is the loss where is the game what's the upside what's the downside what's the source who said it why how come you didn't do that with my torah a person that is developing a habit of superficial superficial spirituality is also developing spiritual laziness and that spiritual laziness will lead to superficial actions and superficial servitude of hashem now the risk of getting to a point of serving hashem superficially is greater than it sounds what is that risk in the scariest parashai in the torah tells us that there's all types of horrible punishments if we don't serve him if we sin we do all these things 98 different curses are said by music if we don't service him but one of those curses didn't make sense until we read it today where it says in chapter 28 verse 47 takata that all of these punishments where shemishma diseases war sickness loss of money eating children because of starvation i mean slavery literally the worst genome that you could possibly imagine everything that's in essence these sages but said in this world is due to what because you did not serve hashem your god amid gladness and goodness of heart when everything was abundant in so many words you served hashem superficially you weren't excited to serve hashem you weren't full-heartedly serving hashem when you had the opportunity to do so when everything was going okay you were able to go and pray in the morning you were able to go learn to love freely you were able to give stucco you were able to do all those things but you were too worried about buying houses in different countries you were too busy getting yourself another two or three cars you were too busy opening another business you were too busy following the stock market you were too busy going to a few drinks and a dinner at a very high-end restaurant with some friends you were too busy playing video games you were too busy playing basketball you were too busy just hanging out with the guys maybe even smoking some kashish you were too busy going on a date for the third time with the sixth girl you were too busy doing everything else but serving and any time it came to serving you listen once the prayer starts starts at six no no when does the schmeichel part start oh that's like 6 25. okay i'll be that 6 you wanted the minimum why let me just get by rabbi do i have to wear a seat seat well if you have four corners you have to wear cheating i see rabbi if i don't wear four corners then i don't have to wear seat seat right so that's okay so see i'm okay my shirt doesn't have four corners so i'm okay right rabbi you're okay until there's a decree huh what do you mean decree come on the second minute page 25 says the people that do not wear tzitzit the jews that do not wear cheat sheet although they don't have to wear tt if they don't have four corners that's only valid when there's no evil decree in the world because when there is an evil decree in the world they're the first people to get punished why you treated my torah superficially and unessence treated my my mitzvah as if no i don't need to fulfill this mitzvah as if you have a extra you have an abundance of mitzvoth that you could just give up on my mitzvah cheat sheet therefore who says that mitzvah could have saved you that mitsuba could have saved you but it's not there to be found you serve me superficially when a person understands that serving is not only something that you can do purely from love you also have to do it from fear and as the sages the demon of the baal shem tov the baal shempt of himself said it's not possible to serve hashem purely from love it has to have fear also that's the foundation so the next time somebody tells you listen don't learn about fear of the almighty it's going to make you depressed it's going to make you afraid all the time tell them they should learn some torah and stop being in amma alitz stop being an ignoramus because if they learned enough tawa they would never have such words come out of their mouth because all of the sages of am israel whether they are the sages of the mara gemara are there the sages from eight nine hundred years ago that isho name are they the sages of khasidut or they're the dullado in any generation all of them had the same exactly the same exact torah that stood on the foundation of fear of heaven why so much fear of heaven because without fear we will all naturally become spiritually lazy the worst thing that a person can be aside from being an outright heretic is spiritually lazy because spiritually laziness feels good the heretic at times questions himself saying well maybe i should change depending on the level but the person that's spiritually lazy is so comfortable and so convenient because he feels religious he goes to school she puts on a kish they see a blessing before they eat they do some stuff feels okay he even learned some torah a couple of times a week perhaps even a duff yomi every day but our sages say this person is an ammaritz because he's spiritually lazy and he's spiritually lazy because he treats the torah superficially doesn't delve into it doesn't toil over it doesn't make it a priority because he thinks that other things are more important this is something that all of us have to be conscious of both teachers students parents children male female young adults everybody has to be conscious of this because it's very very easy to fall into the trap of being an ammar may we all merit to toil over torah with complete gladness and servitude to the highest extent and be proud to be his hasidim to be proud to be a sadiquim to be proud to be the children that publicizes tala day and night so other people see us and want to do the same and get out of their slumber that perhaps may not be hurting them until they see how great it is to be a real hasid thank you for learning with me bezos hashem we'll see each other again later this week we'll learn some torah together but for now amen [Music] 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