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Should Orthodox Jews Love Sports? (A BeEzrat HaShem Inc Film)

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Rabbi Yaron Reuven

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[Music] where does the word Sports come from Sparta Sparta were the place where you have people where all they cared about is their body their physique the materialism and the anti T what does it mean to be anti T anti t means they cannot live in peace so long as the Tor exist so these people these did everything they possibly could to destroy the Jews by enticing them to join Sports to live life to be careful about their physique do all types of exercises they made the coliseums where they would have they still have these coliseums uh in the old ones in Rome and other places around the world in Greece but then you have giant ones all over the United States they just call them sports stadiums these are coliseums where you have 22 Giant overgrown males trying to kill each other over some pig skin or a bunch of guys trying to fight over a little uh ball or whatever it is all of these people this is all Sparta this continuation of Sparta now the mentality of following Sports being allowed is one of the tools of Amal one of the tools of the Arab that if you're allowed to follow Sports why because Sports unlike anything else Sports is very addic Ive you can't just watch a game that you don't know who's playing like you're not just going to watch some random high school basketball game and everybody else is just an average player or less you have to watch the NBA and it's not just the NBA you have to watch the team that you like and how you going to like them you have to follow them you have to follow their players and who they're trading and who they're getting as the Rookie of the Year and who's the best sister and who's the best s and that and all that and what kind of sneakers is he wearing and what kind of this and what's his salary cap and he's getting paid too much he's getting paid too little and he's signed with Nike but he's with Adidas and what ends up happening you become a fan what's a fan where does fan come from fanatic fanatic about sports you know everything about these teams you're not just watching a 90minut game you're investing your life into it because in order to like the game to like the teams you have to know who's playing and why you like them you don't just like them because he's 6'6 and jump 40 in into the air and he runs a 40 a 39 no you don't care about that you care about different things that means you have to invest a lot of time into this and that is a lot more than the 90 minutes of the actual the 60 minutes that the basketball game or the football game or the baseball game is it's a huge investment you're constantly watching it you're constantly looking at it you're constantly arguing about it which means that even when you try to learn you try to learn you're thinking RAB AKA yeah RAB AKA R AKA Michael Jackson Michael Jordan Michael this Michael that LeBron James you're not even sure who you're reading about you're start to think maybe AA and ra maybe his maybe in the cave you had a basketball you start distorting things in your head you can't be focused when you're a fan now are you allowed to play sports is a different question playing sports in order to exercise is allowed you're allowed to play a little bit of basketball as long as it's not on Shabbat because for anyone that's an adult the ball is considered M and it's also something that you do during during the weekday not action that you would do on Shabbat but if it's during the week you want to exercise via playing basketball via exercising running or something like that whatever you want to do that's allowed that's allowed to exercise but to become a fanatic to be become one of the people that watches the games on a regular basis absolutely forbidden not only as a but also as could be even considered to some extent why when you become a fan you simply start obsessing over these people obsessing over this sport fighting over it crying over it what you're 25 years old you idiot you're crying over a bunch of people that make $50 million a year cuz they lost you idiot you understand what they're going to do to you in sham for crying over this but not crying over the bet mikdash you didn't cry this much when your own father died but you're crying over the basketball game a football game and not only that you're blaming hasem why is AEM doing this to me like he has to change the world so you can continue going against him demented mentality that we have sometimes really Buggles my mind it's that was still alive you see grown men crying over their football team their basketball team oh God forbid if they're from Europe or they're not area of the world s there's been murders over that game literally they kill people you think this is what says you're a holy nation you think he was referring to those people no he was talking to us that are learning tah that are fanatic about t you want to use exercise use exercise no problem but to spend any time watching these Sports absolutely forbidden in fact Ty's father says television you watch television news games all that stuff in his days it was much better TV than today even in this day says watching regular news networks right regular TV you called watching television you're watching shows you watch Netflix you watch mov movies regular Bas this your life you watch sports Idol worshiper yeah but he goes to sh Rabbi okay so there's a lot of people that idol worship go so a person needs to understand in order to become the Jew that he's supposed to become in order for her to become the Jew that they're supposed to become the most important thing is to not allow the tum to enter your mind because if you allow the tum to enter your mind and enter your heart it doesn't matter how many it's what you do there're always going to be filt on them you can get the best piece of meat in the world but if they there's filth on it no one's going to eat it doesn't matter what the cow was it could be a red cow from the bet mikdash there's filth on it no one's going to eat it your n cannot get to its full potential if it has filth on it and if you allow this filth to constantly hit your system every day for an hour 2 hours 3 hours every day how are you expecting to arrive TOA how how exactly do you expect to learn to and understand anything [Music]