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Do You Want More LIFE | What Can You Do To Earn Longer Life (BH FILMS)

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Rabbi Yaron Reuven

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[Music] one of the things that people want more than anything else is life people want to live so if somebody finds out that they have a disease that's going to lead to their death there cannot be worse news when they find out that somebody that they care about has a terminal disease they cannot be worse news people want [Music] life when a woman finds out that she cannot have a child to celebrate and raise with her husband she cannot produce life s menu taught us this is like death this is like the news of death people want life they want to live they want their loved ones to live they want to their kids to live they want to bring kids to the world they want to create life there's nothing greater than life even the people that chased money and wasted their whole life chasing money and honor and and and all types of lust at the end they're willing to spend all of it just for an another day of life if they could but the Torah tells us hasem decides who will live and who will die meaning that even if somebody tries to kill themselves they will only succeed if it was already decreed upon them to die if they didn't kill themselves they would have died anyway just in a different way just now they're dying and is a sin and they'll have to pay an extra punishment for what they did to themselves they murdered themselves but at the end of it all when you sum everything up what is the number one most important thing for any one person out there it's life and every aspect of life their own life and their loved ones life producing [Music] life and despite the fact that we know that a who is the only one to decide who lives and who dies and he decides this on hem also told us that there are things that influence his decision things that we can do to give us more life because when a person is judged in sh to live or to die Hashem does not only judge that person but also every single person that will be affected by it his mother and father his siblings his wife his kids his friends his co-workers employees long-distant friend that he hasn't spoken to in years everyone gets judged because everyone will be affected by it and therefore theim say that one of the greatest things that a person can do is have a very close relationship with a sadik because that sadik can save his life and if he hears that his long lost friend has died it would cause him sorrow and for that the say hasem will not let him [Music] [Applause] die when aadesh who decides what he's going to decide on he's going to evaluate the person and everyone around them and therefore if a person makes himself a benefactor of the public meaning more and more people need him people need him to teach people need him to give staka people need him to uh to help them in different ways to give them guidance to give them a house to whatever it is he's a he's a benefactor of the public the greater of a benefactor he is to the public the more the public needs him the more there's a reason forh to leave him in this world because even if none of those people are sadik the fact is that he's still a vessel that Hashem is using in this world to benefit his people to benefit the world so if he's responsible for helping a thousand people eat through his donation if she's responsible for helping 5,000 people celebrate the holiday if they're responsible for thousands of people doing chuba in the last several months as a result of their donations as a result of their teachings as a result of their actions and therefore I could those decrees they're good for the public the Merit the combined Merit of the public will give them [Music] life so while somebody thought oh yeah well there's Torah out out there you're right there is Torah out there but not every Torah is for the sake of hem sometimes Torah is used as an axe to self a self-purpose selfish so how does a person turn themselves into a public benefactor the mid in says us follows and these are the laws the laws that are being referred to of what was written about the king the king who would build the land on these laws and the man of tum will destroy it the king the Mel is referring to the king of Torah as we see from The Book of Proverbs 29:4 what about the we see the king will build the world based on the laws so the king built this world based on the laws of a Tora what is this that's going to destroy the world this man of is an offering that they brought at the BET mikash and therefore the mid is teaching us that if a person makes themselves into the man of Tuma in order to relieve themselves from becoming a benefactor of the public where this person is precious he has an abundance of Torah he's extraordinary Torah knowledge that he can help judge in aedin he's wealthy and he can help people go to Yesa have money to eat and celebrate the holidays Shabbat feed the poor he has tools precious tools that aosh gave him but he doesn't want to be this he doesn't want to be a public benefactor he wants to be left alone ah they're going to call me every day and invite me everywhere they going to ask me questions nonstop let somebody else do it he doesn't want to donate he wants to get himself nice vacation expansion to the house maybe a second or a third car redo his garage perhaps plant some more trees in the backyard so he could look at every day while he's drinking his coffee in the morning and the aroma of the coffee will be perfect fit for the beauty that's in his garden she wants to get herself another piece of jewelry to our collection so that way when she walks down the street people will not only see her but perhaps a spark coming out of her she she doesn't want to use that money to benefit the public she said listen I I benefited the public last month I gave a little donation I even told a few other people it's good for you but now it's enough enough yeah but you have more you have 100,000 500,000 a million in the you have a lot of money it's not like you're struggling yeah but I already did I understand you already did but hasem also gave you more than just what you did ah leave me alone the sages teach us the person who makes themselves into a t in order to relieve themselves from being the benefactor of the public is judged as if they destroyed the entire world and on them it's written this verse the man of T would be the destroyer of the world I hope that everyone takes everything to heart to do Chua to get closer to to Really uh push ourselves to the maximum to become a benefactor of the of the public whether it's with the gifts and talents or the gifts of money or skill whatever it is a person that wants life has has to choose the perfect solution that gave us which is to help other people really acquire life which means to get closer to him by being a benefactor of the public you're certainly choosing life [Music] for amen amen