Pitfalls Of Chasing Fame And Fortune

there's nothing good comes out of it but people still Chase it people for some reason are convinced they will do better if they were given the opportunity to have a lot of money to have Fame and Fortune to have the popularity to have whatever the power they will do better than all those that failed before them the despite the fact that every single day there's another horror story of someone that won the lotto and ruined their life or someone that uh you know got $100 million contract and went broke because of it and somehow ruined his life alongside it and someone that made it and lost it and you constantly have these stories it's almost like old news when you hear a another one it's like it's like another one big deal another basketball player declares bankruptcy big deal who cares another NFL star spent a100 million on cars he's leasing he doesn't even own them another idiot spends $200 million helping his friends out on scams another goes to jail for fighting dogs even though he gets $100 million just to throw a piece of leather and you have these people ruining their lives every day with the money that Hashem gives them and somehow we are all convinced I will do different if I get this money I will do different I'll be a big sadik I'll build your shot I'll build a business I'll be a b no one will be homeless no one will be homeless ever again everyone thinks they'll do better I'm telling you from experience if you never listened to anything I ever said before should listen to this should listen to the other things too I think there's a little in some of them I think without a doubt that if you're not living a life today that's mamash at least trying at least trying to be abah ainu you can't be abah ainu there's only one of a kind but I'm talking about not being abah ainu like you're going to go put your kid in as a kurban forem or anything but I'm talking about I'm talking about hem says go why doesn't make a difference it doesn't make a difference why Hashem said keep Shabbat doesn't make a difference it doesn't make a difference why hasm you have to be modest doesn't make a difference doesn't make a difference doesn't make a difference why you have to eat kosher even though it's 50% more expensive it doesn't make a difference that the rabbis charge so much money for your shot and you still have to send your kids there it doesn't make a difference whether you understand it or you don't understand it it doesn't make a difference if you agree with it or not it doesn't make a difference I believe without a certainty without without a doubt that if you're not living a life of Torah mamash Torah like 100% you are mamash putting your life and anyone involved in your life in danger right now you're in danger you are a walking time bomb if you're not saying God said it I'm doing it if I don't know he did he said it how could I do it hopefully I Do by accident but in reality if if you're still debating whether I'm going to go or not whether I'm going to go with AEM or still stay like somewhat secular and weight tight pants and still go chase money instead of chasing Torah go try to be the celebrity with a big watch that you know is enough for three people to have on one arm you know these guys wear these giant watches it's a clock just put the clock on your hand and that's it why you have such a big watch were you blind if you're blind no one's going to ask you the time anyway just have a stick at least give him a shot give him a little hand tell them you're blind why such a big watch awful awful clothing that people have today M no sense of decency left in the world no sense of decency left in the world not for men not for women nothing not for religious not for not religious if you're not 100% on board with hem you are m a walking time bomb and this I'm not telling you this is a Rabbi I'm not telling you this as uh some type of ultra sadik I know it I'm telling you as someone like you I'm telling you that M the greatest thing the greatest that hasem has ever done for me was forc me to do chuva the greatest thing was put me through hell so I could finally be forced to wake up and see ah it's you okay okay I got you I got you okay took me a while I know you beat me up I know you pretty much destroyed my life or what I thought was a life but thank you thank you for making me really really sick like I pretty much was dying thank me for for giving me pain that's pretty much permanent I still have some of it till this day even though I'm 99% better that 1% is probably more pain than everybody in the room put together I still have to deal with it every day but B this is great I can still speak in front of you you don't even know what happens all of that millions of dollars that I thought I had all that stuff all garbage garbage mamash toilet paper is worth more and people are still chasing it people still ask me oh don't don't you miss it don't you want to go back to why don't you go make $50 million and then do kiru again the reality of it is that if you have your mind anywhere other than being much glued to hem you're walking Time Bomb you're putting your life at risk because everywhere you look is Sodom and Gomorrah we are meant to be a light unto the Nations not to follow their misguided practices remember every Jew has to remember that he's a Jew and she's a Jew we don't celebrate non-jewish holidays even even if they seem harmless it's a z disrespect to the Tora and could lead to CH hasem desecration of God's name stick to our holy tah and our own holidays that's the path of a true Jew