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Facing the issues and not hiding behind them

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Rabbi Yaron Reuven avatar
Rabbi Yaron Reuven

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[Music] facing reality is what we need to do if we don't face reality we'll never fix it I ran a multi-million dollar company and I know that we had problems at times and we had great things at times if I ignored the problems we would have never succeeded if someone has a small pain on his right side and he ignores it and it doesn't go away he should take care of it if he take care of it he turn into something bigger but by the time he decides to deal with it it's so big that it becomes bigger than him it can become a systemic problem so we run out of the room after making our voices heard and wasting everybody's time without actually dealing with the problem and just calling the problem negative yeah of course it's negative if you want another sh about or another sh about some for for or you want some uh you know sh about some neutral subject like a schom bite you have plenty of other classes to go to I'm here to give a reality check I'm here to address the problem the problem is that we're not facing the problem that's the problem the problem is that we're running away from the problem we want to go to neutral classes that talk about positive mindsets and if I think okay it's going to be okay if I think good it'll be good what about the fact that you drive on Shabbat you desecrated name on a regular basis that doesn't matter just think good if I think my marriage is going to be okay it's going to be okay what about the fact that you cheat on her every Tuesday with your girlfriend that doesn't matter would ignore that if I think okay I'm eventually going to lose weight so the fact that you eat burgers every Tuesday Wednesday Thursday and Friday that's not going to affect your weight it's mysteriously going to disappear we have to address problems that's what the Torah is for Torah is not to give us some unusual Enlightenment that puts us in a different world where there's no problems there the Torah is an instru Ru set of how to deal and manage problems including the ones I mentioned today and the reason why I started with such a Negative subject is to get that type of attention is to get somebody to become uncomfortable because the only way you're going to get yourself off the chair to deal with the problem is if you're uncomfortable but if I gave you all sofas and beds you all fall asleep because no one thinks it's a problem that there's people that think the rabbi is God or that the Christians believe that some idiot that died on a cross is God and that 7 billion people think that somebody's God and not God the fact that we're ignoring the problem is the problem the fact that we want to hear nice things no I'm here to learn T what kind of Torah do you learn what kind of Torah do you learn let me tell you the I learn Yeshua B do you know who he was he was Jesus's Rabbi that's who he was anybody know that do you know why he said this mishna do you know why Yeshua actually said this specific Mish the six mishna in the entire mishna sixth one which means level of importance level of closeness to mount saai because of the issue that happened with Jesus that's why he said it this whole mishna is about what happened with Jesus and we need to know what happened because number one there's plenty of missionaries that are taking advantage of naive individuals that have no clue of what's right and what's left and they're leaving Pur Judaism and and going to desting hm's name and going to Christianity and all types of idol worship or we have very nice people that have no clue what the truth is but some told makes everybody healthy actually really work just to keep money every month and maybe one day it's going to work we just make sure you use the chemo cuz that could help and they make all these weird things and they make people do weird things and they fill up football fields full of people 50 100 250,000 poor people to give this one guy that's a very clever speaker an audience and then a jet a 50 or $60 million jet because he's a good speaker and he's speaking about idol worship and the fact that we ignore it and we let them do it when we are commanded by the Torah to be a light to the Nations is a poor job by us but even if we ignore the G even if we say listen let them deal with their own problems we're not necessarily obligated to go convert everyone fine you could there some sages that you can rely on for that fine what about the Jews what about the Jews that are Idol worshiping what about the Jews that are worshiping their own Rabbi and going against his own Torah what about the ones that said that RAB from bre said go to his grave site on but then they add which he did say that you should go but they added something under all costs that's why you see people completely leaving their marriage creating schom bite problems leaving their kids leaving their wife the only time of the year they actually have together is during this holiday time the wife doesn't want them to go the kids don't want them to go it's finally they saw their dad the first time in the year he works 900 hours a day and no he's not going to be with them he's going to go in a grave site with 30,000 other people now if your wife agrees to it and she's okay with it and the whole house is cheerful about it go to the gravite pray for me too I need some prayers but if your grave site praying is going to create schom bite problems then you have a mental issue you're going against theah that actually taught he didn't tell you create schom problems do you know what is we learn it from this week's this week's God was willing to erase his own name for the sake of schom bite erase his own name that's why in the whole issue of s when there's a wayward woman that's suspected of cheating on a husband AEM says the cure to know whether she's cheating or not because in those days there's no private investigators you take my name you write it on a scroll you put it into the holy water the same water that the Kim used to wash their hands and their feet before they would work they would do the work of the bet mikdash you put it into that water where the ink would come out of the scroll and then you the woman would drink the water if she cheated on her husband she would blow up and die instantly if she didn't she would get the blessing of the K which is the holiest man of the land if she had trouble giving birth she would be able to give birth if she was giving birth to ugly kids their kids will be beautiful different magical mystical amazing things directly from but it's through a process that's an essence of sin we are erasing aem's name you're not allowed to erase aem's name it's one of the Commandments you can't do it you're not all to eras H's name hm says no no no you are allowed to erase my name because by erasing my name for this manner order only you'll create schom the husband is either going to know that his wife is righteous and he's wrong or he's going to know that she cheated on him and obviously he's not allowed to be with her anymore and she gets punished for it but from for schom bite you're allowed to eras a God's name so do you think that rabman didn't know this you think I know anything that he didn't know you think rabman said Hey listen come to my grave and pray and doesn't matter if it creat slum bite problems what crazy person thinks that go ask r sadik that he is read his book ask Rabbi laser bro giant giant sadik the prot RAB arush go ask him ask him what he thinks does he have schom bite problems when he goes to the grave no because his wife is on on the same page as him they go they're excited they go but if you have schom bite problems because of it if you're putting your whole life at risk for it obviously you're not supposed to do it so the whole issue here is not the rabbis the whole issues here is the students not listening to the rabbis and is telling us here make yourself a teacher make yourself a rabbi meaning you can't buy a rabbi like he said acquire yourself a friend because if you buy a rabbi then he's no longer your Rabbi he's your employee said that the Torah declared bankruptcy the minute that rich people started giving money to rabbis because they were no longer rabbis as soon as rabbis started accepting huge sums of money from people they were no longer able to rebuke them because if I rebuke you knowing that you're going to give me a million dollars each year to fund myet to fund my this to fund my that I'm going to think twice before I do it wait a minute if I tell him listen you're not allowed to drive on Shabbat by the way then say okay I'm not allow to drive on Shabbat okay so I'm not allow to give s either hey by the way you're wife can you please tell her to put some clothes on oh okay yall tell put clothes on for somewhere else for a different besset I'm not going to come anymore the rabbi I want the rabbi I'm going to give a million dollars to is the rabbi is going to do whatever I want he's going to change the Torah for me that's not a rabbi my friend that's not a rabbi