Questions from Teens of Montreal

[Music] okay so did was everybody at the everybody was at the previous your is a completely new crew new people new people okay uh let's let's start with this anybody have specific questions about Torah about Paras about life about science about business about whatever you have ask away go ahead everyone okay if a guy what AWI guy thank you so the uh T is one of the par that's one of 12 places that hasm saysat some it's a Shabbat he not only gets at the time of the sanedrin the time of mosenu the time of the if they found somebody that violated Shabbat they would kill him like if he did it on purpose they told him don't do it and he still did it there's evidence there's proof that he did it there's two witnesses that he did it they would kill him they would give him a death penalty which is horrible way of of dying and actually there's a uh in a Tora of a person named so was a sadik that he saw that Isel wasn't taking the Tora seriously because we just got it a week before and uh he thought that yeah you know maybe uh we need to show am Isel that uh Hashem is very serious about this Torah so he decided to sacrifice himself for the sake of Torah and he said look if I violate Shabbat even though I was a sadik my whole life 50 60 70 years if I violate Shabbat one time hasm is going to kill me and he went and he gathered a bunch of trees you're not allowed to gather on Shabbat there was Witnesses told him don't do it he continued doing it they brought him to mosenu mosenu asked hm what do I do with him Hashem said kill him in front of everyone no mercy no Second Chances no third chances no nothing why why is such Why is AEM so harsh on someone that wasn't not only giving was learned T everything he was bigad why because he writes in the in something that you read part of it on Shabbat someone that violates Shabbat you have to keep Shabbat because it's holy to you but the violators will have m death upon death because anyone that performs any type of M any type of creation on Shabbat any fire electricity driving a car smoking cigarettes any of those things his soul is cut off from the nation so the asked a very serious question they said we don't understand this PUK one end you told us if you violate Shabbat you get two deaths death upon death M but then you say we're cut off so what does this cut off mean what does this being cut off mean if I already died how am I being cut off also so Rashi says first off a person why do it say death Twice first off it says a death meaning at the time of M they would actually kill him but the upon death meaning that they lose they don't have G if they violate Shabbat says okay but what about why is he cut off if he already died he died twice he this world the next World what's the cut off for so Rashi says this means that as long as he's alive and he he's not keeping Shabbat he's cut off from the Nation meaning according to he's not considered a Jew he's considered an idol worshipper why because he's taking the biggest mvah the biggest present that hasm gave us and he's deciding he doesn't want it he wants to be like a hasm says he wants to be like a you have to treat him like a so if for example he's still a Jew you still have to help him you still have to love him you still have to try to get him to do chuva but if let's say for example this Jew may be the nicest person in the world but and he says you know what I want to be your Rabbi to to do the wedding for you or maybe I'm not going to be the rabbi I'm going to be a witness you have to you have to have two witnesses to do any type of Jewish ceremony any type of Jewish ceremony you has to have two witnesses but I don't want to keep Shabbat is if he's one of the witnesses for the wedding the W the wedding is not valid meaning the two people are not considered like they why because he's not considered 100% Jewish is Judaism is on suspension so even though theah is very big it said is going to save from Death what does it mean that will buy a person more time in this world to do CH so sometimes you're going to see a person violate Shabbat on purpose but he gives a lot of andm is not killing him and the reason why is because that's the is giving a merit to buy more time to do Chua because hm doesn't want to kill him hasm doesn't want to punish him he wants to give him reward but he can't give him reward as long as he's aab so because of thead that he gave he's giving him more time to do chuva more time to do chuva the problem is we don't know how much time we have like for example I have a cousin Shalom he was 23 years old his father had at least 100 or $200 million in the bank meaning he had everything he wanted except to he didn't have any T any to such an extent that on instead of going toet they drove they did everything so on his parents went on vacation to Israel they went to the beach and he stayed home in their mansion on the second day of R which is the same level as Shabbat you're not allowed to drive on R sh he decided to go on his scooter decided to go on a scooter to have fun in front of his house he fell off the scooter and he hit his head the neighbor saw him she called 911 she called the emergency they came they picked him up they did a uh check said oh no he's okay he's okay you can go home he called his parents IMA ABA I fell but I'm okay he went back home he went to sleep and he never woke up meaning that why am I telling you this this this this scary story because no one that's 23 years old thinks they're they're going to die no one that's 23 years old thinks that their time is up everybody thinks they're going to live to at least 120 the reality is no one knows how much time we have and as a as as a young person today each one of you need to take advantage of every single second you have to get closer to Hashem why because you're going to need it as you get older you're going to need it more and more as you get older you need fora you need it for Z you need it to succeed in life to be happy you need to have a purpose in the world so Shabbat is what keeps you close to Hashem without Shabbat you're pretty much saying that I don't really believe in Hashem I believe in Hashem only sometimes yeah okay depends if they were violators of Shabbat before the Holocaust they didn't keep Shabbat which many of people that uh were alive at that time didn't keep married go married some of them even converted to Catholicism and Christianity meaning they were already completely disconnected from Judaism so and then they ended up dying in the Holocaust now it depends if they did chuat to some extent during the Holocaust that would help them a lot even if they didn't do Chua completely still the suffering they have during the Holocaust definitely will help them to a certain extent do they go immediately to Gan Eden just because they died in the Holocaust absolutely not just because somebody died a vicious death does not give them a ticket to go to ganeden the only way you get to ganeden is if you did me but not just small ones that you like to do things that are big things that hasem said to do so a lot of people like to think that uh all of the Holocaust survivors were all holy and were all perfect but the reality is that all of the sikim that were alive at that time say themselves in in books they say listen the reality is in certain places like Germany over 80% of them were married to go meaning they were completely disconnected forget about just not uh keeping Shabbat they became a different religion so a person like that you can't say he has G even if he died in a holocaust he didn't want Hashem didn't want Judaism didn't want anything in fact there are certain Jews unfortunately that you don't hear about very often but there were certain Jews that were pretending to be Germans because they wanted to fight in the German Army in the Nazi army and some of them actually fought in the Nazi army meaning they went and killed other Jews even though they were Jewish themselves they were pretending not to be and they went and killed other Jews so it's just because somebody died in the Holocaust does not give them a free ticket there's no get out of jail free card it's not Monopoly you know you want to go to ganed is works it takes work like anything else in life you want to be successful you need to work you want to be need to be want to be smart you need to work you need to study and so on and so forth y so when you depends depends what kind of sin it is if it's a type of sin that says has no share of the world to come no then yes it means that they will never go to GH but if it's a sin that it's a sin that is not permanent it's not one of those where a person loses there are certain sins page 92 101 gives a list of people who lost their share of the world to come it's okay you can have the pizza just make a little less noise so the the oral Tora tells us that there are certain people that have no share of of the world to come meaning there's a sin for example if somebody stole money somebody stole $100 let's say what's what happens if they're still alive and they admit they stole all they have to do is return the $100 they stole 100 they have to return the 100 but if so if they don't admit it but somebody catches them they catch them you you are the thief I prove it you're a thief you stole $100 the punishment they have to give 200 they have to give a 100 that they stole and and a and the same amount as a fine as a penalty you made a punishment that's the penalty but what if somebody stole and they never returned it and no one ever caught them and then they go up to Sham in shamim they say even though you kept shabat even though you kept even though you kept kosher you kept the laws you kept everything else but still you have blood on your hands what does it mean blood on your hands money is another name for is another name for money is blood because people spend their life to make money money so you have blood on your hands that means you have to make up for it how do you make up for it you have to come back you have to come back to the world as another person and return the money to that so there's a story of one time there was a uh a person that was a talid of the balov and the balov came to him and he says I'm looking to buy a horse I have many horses go ahead any horse you want so the bov looks at the horses and he sees one horse and he says I want that horse and the guy is shocked he's in a panic and he starts crying goes please I'll do anything for you you're the b you're my re but please I have 500 horses pick any other horse not this one go no no I want that one go please I'll give it to you but could you mind just the other horses are faster the other hores are stronger the other hores are better no no I want that horse goes but please this horse is the best horse I have I don't you have to tell him to work he works by himself he says I want this horse says listen you're my Reby sold he goes you promise sold the minute he said sold the horse died on the spot so the guy was in shock and he didn't know what would happened re said says this horse I saw toes this horse was somebody that you knew do you have a friend that died a few months ago he goes yeah my friend from uh down the street goes yeah did your friend owe you some money goes yeah nothing he owed me $200 not much goes yes when he came up to Sham he told you cannot enter ganeden because you owe somebody $200 you didn't return it you have to go work for him until you pay back and then come back so he can't come back as a human being leave another seven years so they return them as a horse so when you sold them to me that was his completion of his tun which means that no person can enter ganeden with money on their hands now this is a sin it's a big sin but it's not the end meaning after he fixed it he goes to G on the other hand there are certain sins for example like Shabbat or is is being with a woman it's not your wife or uh embarrassing your friend in public making fun of him in public making everybody else laugh at him this is a type of sins that if you don't do cha for them there's no G just doesn't happen andar gives the details so it's very very important to know that before we do things since we're all Jews we have to think about them we can't be like the go to just do and then think later before we say something think about what you're going to say and then say it before you do anything take any action think about it is it worth it does hasem approve of this hasem agree with this is this aah this if you think about it for even one minute before you do it already 95% of your sins are just not going to happen because you realize that most sins are just not worth it it's worth it to get to it's worth it to get to G you have another question followup okay you sound you look like you had a question so uh yes there are two gun Edens the tells us zad more detail says that there's two gedin there's a physical gedin and then there's a spiritual ganen the physical ganen is where was where uh there's uh specific things that were there that are still there in the world no one knows exactly where it is but there are certain people that had the Merit to get to the entrance but they weren't allowed to enter they weren't allowed to enter Gan but it does exist in the world and then there's a spiritual ganaden that's outside of this world that's so that's the ultimate ganeden that's where we all want to be so sometimes a person can be in the physical ganeden for a certain amount of time before they go to the ultimate one sometimes they go to the ultimate but there are two GED just like there's also two goms there's one in this world and there's one that's a spiritual one do Depends depends how much that dollar or $2 doll is worth meaning today A dollar is insignificant meaning if you lose a dollar it's not going to change your life it's considered a it's considered insignificant money but 50 years ago a dollar was worth something a dollar was very valuable or to some people a dollar is all they have so it all depends on the value of it in general a person should always remember what he owes to everybody but always think that when he's giving when he's giving he should always think also please AEM I forgot who I owe money to who I don't owe money to please have thisa be for the Merit of of fixing all the money that I owe and I forgot so at least the has another another significance that it's fixing because you can't return it to the person because you don't know who he is but you're giving the to to T to to something because you don't know but you know that something is there just to make sure you givea for that because there are certain things that we forget like you're right there are certain things you forget you forgot who you owe money to or maybe they moved away and there's no way for you to return the money so you can use for this reason that also can it's just it's the same thing as if you borrowed money from them and uh you have to return the money now if you forgot to return the money then and you remember one day then you have to return it regardless of what it is even if it's 10 years later you have to go return the money you got to try to find this person to return the money to them uh but if you forgot who the person is or you tried looking for them and you can't find them like you made real effort to find them but they moved to a different country and they Chang their name or there's no way for you to reach them then you have to give money in to say that this is the best thing you can do you're considered at that point an anus meaning that you can't fix it even if you wanted to because the person is simply uh not alive or not around anymore so you use your money in order to fix this past sin yeah next anybody here have any questions yes oh we I rather talk to these kids than go pray high if they have questions here oh they pray here okay um okay I mean anybody have any questions we could do it after M if you'd like uh there anything until they start you have any other questions anybody anybody all good thank you for having me to the school [Music] n [Music] [Applause] [Music] he [Music]