If I Don't Know, I'm Not Doing It

foreign [Music] first asked the one that said it then ask somebody else even more so you after you've asked it ask where is it in the book where can I see what you said in a book he tells you the source you look in a book you try to understand it you study the issue don't just say listen I heard that you're allowed to do XYZ so it's okay right oh no you have to check you have a responsibility your life is in your hands it's not in anybody's hands you can't just say listen I heard it in the shoes therefore it's allowed right no just because you already ensure doesn't mean it's allowed and it's because you're in the show that's me it's not a lot you have to double check your life is in your hands if all of a sudden you heard it in the news ladies and gentlemen a new uh goodbye law was passed by Nancy Pelosi everyone's allowed to murder for the next 24 hours that's it news is over so what are you gonna go first thing kill the neighbor that makes a lot of noise next thing the competition next thing and then you're gonna find out wait that was just a hoax that was some hackers that was some people that made low yeah but I heard of the news double check you have a responsibility your life is in your hands you can't just make these rash moves just because you heard it somewhere you have to double check and even sometimes triple check because your life is in your hands it's not in anybody else's hand so if a person is going to play the lazy button or I don't have time a card this is not going to work out so well this is not going to work out so well God's going to ask you wait how come you had time to go to school and to go to work and to go bowling and to go to Thanksgiving and to go to everything else we didn't have enough time to double check whether you're allowed to do any of those activities how come you got time you got four hours to waste on Netflix it's six hours to waste on baseball you're 10 hours to waste on football and 12 12 hours playing poker now you have time but to go double check if you're allowed to do any of those things which shouldn't take you more than a half hour in total that you didn't have time how come oh because you know I didn't think about it I asked and the rabbi you know I figured since I saw and I and these are not gonna help you these are not going to help a person in your mind why you have a responsibility you have a responsibility and unfortunately today the mindset of people today is the Quick Fix Quick Fix either they go to Rabbi Google yes or no or they just ask somebody that has a keep on and if he says yes if he says no that's enough what if he's wrong oh no then everybody told me guess what that's not gonna help you it's not gonna help you what you're responsible to know you're responsible to know for you surely he's whoever you ask is responsible to know for themselves but you're still responding that doesn't uh uh uh negate the fact that you are responsible for you does it absolve you from it so when a person decides that they're going to become more meticulous in their observance of Allah they're going to have a fight a fight against their inborn tendencies and the way to win that fight is by getting themselves used to using their deep understanding of the law and their intellect using that to make decisions that means if I don't understand it I'm not doing it you need to make the decision wait this is allowed or it's not allowed I don't know okay so let's go check no no but we gotta go we gotta do it just do it or not no no it's not just do it or not I need to go check okay so just do it then and you know find that after no no I'm not gonna do it oh you're not gonna do it how you're not gonna do it it's gonna lose out listen I don't know if I'm allowed or not allowed I have to double check there was one time a guy that uh was doing Juba and uh this may sound silly to some people but he was very proud of this why you know he's one of these heavy guys big desire for food he tells me I overcame it I said would you overcome the cookie so what I mean cookie he's like listen on Shabbat you know my wife she cooks good food and uh I really like the food she makes but this Shabbat yo you know she got some snacks and everything we heard in the shield you have to be Onyx Shabbat all the snacks all the good stuff so my wife got some cookies I said okay what's the problem do you need the cookies no no Rabbi it's not about I didn't eat the cookie I hate the cookie I just I didn't eat it right then I'm like why don't you eat the cookie he said because we had the true length the children had meat and uh usually after you know children I have a tea you know some cookies and everything and then I went to get the box of cookies and she got it from the kosher store so I know it's kosher it's just that this is apparently like a bakery they make their own stuff so they forgot to put whether this cookie is parv or it's Dairy and I had chocolate on it like chocolate chips and I asked my wife was this dairy or is it part of my wife says I have no idea it's a the kosher store I know it's kosher but uh check he's like I checked there's no sticker yeah but I really want a cookie right now okay so you know it's in front of you nobody but I don't know if it's Dairy then if it's Dairy I just ate meat then it's milk and meat and you know Rabbi says all types of all the horrible stuff and the balotanya says I have to go and to Genome of of snow and the oh the horrible things just for the cookie okay so don't eat the cookie yeah but it's an emotional decision for me I want the cookie the big guy he likes cookies cute foreign and guess what he didn't eat the cookie he didn't eat the cookie it doesn't sound like a big deal but it's a huge deal well it shows he has he got your mind now you that don't have desire for cookies doesn't sound it sounds ridiculous to you ah come on what's the big deal you know what things I overcame one time I had this everybody has their little stories that's his story that's his story overcame the cookie and guess what it helped them learn more and help them do more meat and focus and grow why because it's not that he knew it's not allowed and therefore he didn't do it he just didn't know eventually found out it's parv so he was allowed to technically eat it but technically he couldn't eat it without knowing so a person needs to understand that when you are becoming more meticulous with Torah with Allah it's going to be an inner battle not just a battle with the people around you that are telling you to go to a Thanksgiving dinner or lunch not just a battle with your friends that are telling you to come watch baseball and basketball and all types of sports not just a battle with the society at large that is telling you should remove all of your clothes and become like a cow just like them not just a battle with the upside down business world that is literally building itself off of like a pyramid scheme after another no you're not just fighting those outside battles you're gonna have an inner battle the inner battle which is the inner inclinations that you have developed yourselves and ones you've already had from your previous life and the only way to overcome all of those is through becoming meticulous in Allah to the point where unless I understand it I'm not doing it I'm not doing it [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign foreign [Music] thank you