How Big Is A Sin?

[Music] someone came to one time he told him can you this fear of hem this this whole thing about being afraid of hem why do you need to be afraid of hem well I me okay you made a sin okay forgives no doesn't say he forgives forgives no says look at the sky you see the sky he says yeah so you see the stars he goes yeah how many stars go I don't know how many stars he goes any one of those Stars how big is it he say it's huge it's enormous could be bigger than Earth Stars some of the stars are much bigger than Earth some of the Stars you could put a 100 Earths in he goes but if you ask a six seveny old kid how big is the star what's the kid going to tell you it's this big is this big why why is the kid why is the seven-year-old going to tell you it's this big because that's the way it looks from here you look at the star you look at this is the how big it is that's it that's the star but you adult 30 40 50 years old you know it's not this big even though it looks that way he says that's the problem the only reason why you even have a question about fearing of a is because you have no idea how big a sin is you have no idea how a evaluates a sin in sham you think like the seven-year-old it's this big because it wasn't such a big deal to make it so what so I looked at her once why what's the big deal AEM there's 8 billion people you care that I looked at that one 8 billion people I looked at one I didn't look at all the whole 8 billion just one I looked at for 5 10 15 25 minutes why 8 billion people 24 hours a day I spent 5 minutes looking at the girl that wasn't my wife no no what's the big deal it's just a quarter no it's just this big says no my friend you think it's that big in's world when he sees the entire picture of what happens now he sees not just what you see he sees what's going to happen as a result he sees what's going to happen as a result in this world and above let's evaluate now you looked at the girl 5 minutes not a big deal right 2 minutes 25 seconds whatever it is your records permanently every single thing that you look at what is it like sometimes your mom asks you hone uh do you know where the such and such is no I don't really know I don't know I don't really know 3 hours later you need that tool you need that thing and you know exactly where it is how come when you were walking around around the house you saw it but you just didn't pay attention so when she asked you when she asked you you didn't know you didn't care but when you needed it when it meant something to you your sh repeated that information to you and told you exactly where that tool is exactly where what you wanted was the priority list changed when a person looks at something inappropriate the will record it permanently and what ends up happening is that he's going to think about that when he goes to sleep he's going to think about that maybe even 25 years later when he's his wife and six kids he's going to think about that image that he saw when he was 18 19 20 years old now it's a problem why it's going to create a dream or perhaps it's going to create a reality and say different types of comment and himself says that if you wake up out of a dream you had a dream and you thought about some woman in your dream and you wake up and your wife is there says you're not allowed to touch her yeah but she's my wife she's your wife exactly but you just had a dream about another woman now let touch your wife until when until you calm down why so long as the the thought of another woman is in your mind says in the if you touch your wife and it consummates to a baby it could be considered a Mel an illegitimate child in sham why yeah but I was with my wife yes but your mind was somewhere else that's how important the wife that's how important the mind is so now an average person is not going to think like this he's even going to laugh about something of this what are you crazy what are you this what are you that so then is going to tell you wait a minute look you looked at this precious her father is a nice Rabbi her mother is a nice raban they work their whole life to make sure that they give the good education to their kid and now one day they're going to find out that you looked at her when they're going to find out when they're in shamim it's going to be embarrassing to them in shamim that you looked at their daughter inappropriately and the point is the magnitude of the sin the magnitude effect of a simple thing that we take for granted is shown to us in such a big way that we realize that after all it's not this small it's not this small in fact it's not even this small when a looks at things it's very very different where do we learn an example of how a looks at things in last week's par anyone that read last week's Paras the par of theim and Par of theim we had 12 Spies 12 people that started off the parasa and they were called is they called the heads of isra what does it mean heads of isra the biggest the big multi-millionaires no no the biggest rabbis in is in biggest rabbis yeshu and so on and so forth these 12 went to the land of Israel which was called Canan at the time they saw giants they got scared to death they ran back they couldn't control themselves they said a bunch of things that were inappropriate about the land of Israel even more so they said something inappropriate about hasem where they said yeah we understand that hasem promised a a land of milk and honey but there's Giants there and there's stronger than us Rashi says what does it mean they're stronger than us they were referring stronger than us meaning these Giants they're so big they're stronger than hasem which is which is heresy you're thinking that anything in the world is stronger than Hashem Hashem punished them severely now how punished him I told you this a little bit on Sunday but even more so hasem wants us to get to know him in this par and he says says because you went there you 12 10 out of the 12 sinned two and said good things hm says they're going to see the land they're going to go to is mashia is going to come from one of them and so on and so forth good things the other 10 that said about about the land of Israel you're going to get punished like the rest of the people that followed you which unfortunately was the entire generation how are you going to get punished he says like the number of days that you spend in the land you went how much you went to the land 40 days a day for a year a day for a year shall you bear your iniquities 40 years and you shall comprehend straying away from me says you went there for 40 days you went there for 40 days you saw what you saw you came back the sin itself was really 4 seconds 4 seconds it took them to say something bad about but let's call it 40 minutes they a 40 minute conversation hasem says even if it was 40 days we're going to count every day that you went there for each day 40e punishment each day one year punishment meaning A's time span is very different we think that a sin maybe he's going to give us a uh little small sentence a little small no big deal in hashem's eyes it's a big deal something that took 10 people literally a few seconds to do gave an entire generation a punishment of 40 years and what does hasem say at the end from here you're going to learn what it means to go against me meaning he's not saying listen I'm going to punish you and that's it no no I'm punishing you but I'm also teaching you what am I teaching you you may think that seeing something bad doesn't have that much value because from your perspective it's limited it's limited that you looked at something inappropriate it's limited that you ate something inappropriate it's limited how something seems from your perspective hasem says I see the whole picture and I'm going to punish based on the whole picture so it took you 40 seconds but the punishment is 40 years for who for everybody involved who was everybody the entire generation so this RAB if it that doesn't scare you I don't know what would that's why the when they write it in their holy books that's why they're constantly talking about being afraid of a and very rarely do they talk about loving hem even though they loved theem and I wish I wish that any one of us would simply be the dust they walked on one time in our life I wish we arrive we achieve such a degree but the reality is in our generation you have many many people thinking that they're even bigger than theim they love hem why they did Chua last week they started keeping Shabbat and they started wearing a they're for sure lovers of hem even though theim themselves barely talked about it what does it mean says it just means that we have no idea how big the star really is our knowledge is like the knowledge of the seven-year-old the seven-year-old that thinks the star is this big even though really the star is the sun which is 90 million times the size of Earth [Music]