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Is My Platonic Relationship at Work Kosher? (9 minutes)

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Rabbi Yaron Reuven

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Page five, Hashem is telling us that he created the created an evil inclination inside each one of us. For someone that's not religious, not connected to Hashem. It sounds kind of silly to be honest with you. Before I actually really did Chuva, it sounded like a cartoon character to me. You know, you're having cartoon character. You have like the red guy on the left shoulder and her, you know, uh the angel white guy on the on the you know right shoulder. It's like this one says no go. And the other one says no stay here. And the red guy kind of seems like he's more fun too. doesn't sound like a cartoon character to me until you actually start learning and you start seeing who we not believing in the means I already lost the battle. So the evil inclination is in each one of us. It influences to do influences us to do everything that's the opposite of what we're supposed to do. Meaning you want to go to all of a sudden you're tired. All of a sudden you get a phone call that's you've been waiting for all day. All of a sudden, somebody shows up at your house that's unannounced and wants your attention. All of a sudden, the kids crying. But if you say, "Listen, I want to go to the game." Nobody's in the way. Yeah, honey. Go, go, enjoy. Your wife gives you a little lunch bag. You're all excited to go to the game. Nobody gets in the way of you going to the game. You want to go to If could come to your house and stop you would do it. Going to the doctor, we're on time. Even though we know that the doctor is going to make us wait in the waiting room for an hour and a half, still on time. We're even early 15 minutes. The lawyer that charges three hour $300, $400 an hour just for his assistant. To use his assistant, it's $300 an hour. To him, $67, $800 an hour, maybe more. To him, he says, meaning at 2:00, you go 2:00. You're there already at 1:45. He's busy till 3. You're standing standing over there like a little donkey. He starts at 3:00. No complaints. Hey. Yeah. Thank you. I know you're busy. It's like you're giving him credit for being so busy for making you wait. I understand. I understand. Thank you. And he's charging you for the 300 bucks for that for that hour that you waited in his you read his magazine. It's worth something. You go to shoot doesn't start on time. Ah, come on. What kind of place is this? Not organized. It's not professional. Making us wait 10 minutes. Making us wait an hour. gets gets into your mind, convinces you to do the opposite of what you're supposed to do. Think the opposite of what you're supposed to think. So, Hashem says that once in a while, listen, you're doing chuva yet is going to come to you all the time. All the time, every day you wake up in the morning, is there like one time this RA tells his students like, "Listen, you have to come to the sh every day. We have at 6:00 in the morning. after is over at approximately 7:15. We have a sh for a half hour to get the day started. No, come on time. It's very hard for me to wake up in the morning. Yeah, but you have to pray. It's like, okay, okay. No, cuz I'm watching YouTube videos at 1:00 in the morning, so don't watch it at 1:00 in the morning. Watch it at 8. I'm in front of my pool at 8:00. Okay, so switch. You don't have to be. change your schedule. Why? Cuz you have to pray. Can't pray at noon. Okay. I'll be at the shield tomorrow. So the next morning starts at 6:00. He's not there. The se starts at 7:15. He's not there. At 10:00 he finally shows up. Rabbi says, "No is very strong." So beat him already. No. Come on. Beat him. You can do it. Okay. Okay, fine. Tomorrow I'll be there. I'll be the next day shows up at 12. Worse than the other day. Knew what happened today. You never believe it. I actually beat today. Goes, "What do you mean? It's 12:00." Goes, "No, no, no. I actually woke up at 5 knowing that I have to be at 6:00. I woke up at 5. No, I got dressed. No, everything was ready. No. 15 minutes before I leave yet shows up. And what happened? I started fighting him. He told me to go back to sleep. I said, "No." He told me to go back to sleep. I said, "No, we're fighting. We're fighting. I'm punching. He's punching this, that, the other thing." I beat him at 6:00. I was ready. Now what happened? I was dead tired. I had to get some sleep. So Hashem is telling is always going to be with you every day, all the time. Now there's two different types of one yet is going to be on a regular basis ongoing basis every day all day waking up in the morning learning to here and there doing before you eat regular stuff every day every day evil inclination and then there's a different yet that's like an atomic bomb on your head you go to work. All of a sudden, they hire a new assistant at the office. And this new assistant, all of a sudden, she wants your attention. You're married, though. And all of a sudden, she wants you to show her around cuz she just moved into the area and be friendly. Platonic relationship. More like atomic relationship. Atomic bomb. Because as soon as your wife realizes that you hung out with some girl from the office for an hour and a half after after work time or during work time or before work time or any time at all, your marriage may be over, but you're not thinking about that at that moment. You're thinking about ah she's cute, she likes me, I'm helping her out at the end of the day. I'm being such a nice guy. She's new in the area and she's a goyam. Perfect. Look, it's kushem showing the goim how nice Jews are. All of the justification in the world is going to come to you. He's going to tell you, listen, you should take her out, show around, maybe even pay for a rent for a month or two. Yet somebody is going to tell you all these different things, but this is atomic bomb. So page five says if the Satan comes to you this way with this atomic bomb then you do what we talked about in previous first then you learn some and then you remind yourself of a day you're going to die simple explanation of all three he says first remind yourself there's a godm I remember there's a God's watching me. There's an eye that sees, an ear that hears. Everything that we're doing is being written in a book. It's previous week's last week's Mishna. Last week's show we did in New York. I remind you there's a God that's watching you. Eventually going to have to pay the bill, my friend. Maybe your wife's not going to find out, but Hashem knows. Maybe your wife's not going to find out. But the demons you're creating, they also know the mitzvah you're trying to make is no mitzvah at all, my friend. You're destroying your eternity with this. So say sometimes not enough though. Sometimes not enough. Maybe somebody's connection to Hashem is not that strong for him to even put himself in that situation already shows may not be enough. He's not that strong. He's very vulnerable. He watches a few things with some immodesty on the internet. So he always thought about this thing being, you know, exotic. All this in his head that show him in movies. He wants to be like a character in the movie. So Kachma is not going to be enough for him. So go go go go go run go learn some Torah read something open a This is why every one of you should always have something some with you at all times. At all times get ready. Satan's coming. Read something. What do you mean reading? I can't focus. All I could see is this blond air blueeyed girl that wants my attention. You want me to read Tawra? Okay, maybe that's not going to be enough for you. So he says, "Remind him of the day he's going to die." Why? No one likes to think about death. 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