SIN AND IDOLATRY

[Music] now the midash is by Ki is one of the more popular midashim that uses in every mid anywhere between 500 to 1500 sources it's unbelievable how many sources you have in every single one of the books and anyone who doesn't know Ki was one of the 300 years ago and when he was writing the mid he would fast for a week straight he would fast for a week straight learn write the book write everything the whole week no eating no drinking nothing not like he's only fasting for a few hours you know in between meals Like Us in between meals he's having a diet you know some people say you're on a diet yeah yeah in between meals what was the last meal an hour ago I had a burger so so when's the diet till till the next Burger no he stopped eating M Shabbat not eating until Shabbat again for a all week and the whole time he's learning wrote this book withes now he brings different sources from across from from the from the from the from the Giants he says the following he says there are certain we got in we got the Ten Commandments one of The Commandments is idolatry do not become an idol worshipper do not make an image don't go by a Buddha statue and put it in your house don't worship a rabbi don't worship some uh athlete don't buy any statues don't donate to you know to churches and so on and so forth he says but idolatry also has taint of idolatry meaning that when a person makes a obvious sin he doesn't need much help from a to to explain to them this is no good so T the oral T is there to explain to us that sometimes we can make sins where we don't even realize it's a sin or even if we know it's a sin we don't realize how grave it is so he says the following what's taint of idolatry he says a person must teach his children the correct way and make sure that they obtain good Torah education and keep the Norms of Judaism from their childhood one must make sure that by the time the child becomes older he knows how to live as a Jew and will respect God and his teachings but if a parent spoils his children and doesn't give them a good Torah education meaning sends them to public school or sends them to one of these fake where there's boys and girls or sends them to one of these yes that 30% of the students are which by the way there are many here in Florida they call themselves Yesa but 30% of the students and I know this with my own eyes 30% of the students are not even Jewish if a parent spoils their kids gives them whatever they want he sends them to Yesa because his friends go there yeah but his friend is Mustafa yeah but he goes to Yesa Mustafa yeah Mustafa is an Arab yeah but he goes to he learns yeah he can learn all he once but he's still an Arab you cannot go to school with Mustafa you cannot go to school with Chris you can't why you're a Jew he's not what happens if my parents send me there he says if a parent sends his kids and doesn't give them a good educ and they're not going to learn how to keep the Commandments this parent is in constant violation of idol worshiping is a constant violation of do not make a carved image where kadh says in the Ten Commandments don't make a carved image yeah but what is what does one thing have to do with the other he says raising a child that's not not going to happen have proper Jewish Education is making a carved image making a pesel because the child will grow up to become a rebel and will dishonor his parents will dishonor God in the end he's probably going to seek out other religions he's going to want to find out what does Christianity have to offer what does Mustafa have to offer what does Buddha have to offer what is India that worships the cow and the Rat and the uh motorcycle and everything that moves and doesn't move what do they have to offer he wants to go to hu he wants to go to India after the Army this child will seek out other religions and everything except Judaism the child is apt to commit all sorts of sexual offenses from the toah and even commit murder If the child is not educated in his religious Roots he can commit all sorts of crimes because a child without firm religious value system is susceptible to all banful influences Source Z page 93 further it says a person also has to be careful when he's expressing Torah ideas if he's giving a why if the K that he says some insight that he says from the Torah is not falling within the rules of the Torah it just comes and makes sense to him that's also a form of idolatry so you have to be very care careful if you're bringing a new insight from the that's just out of your own common sense because fake is equal to a Tain of a and a punishment for a person like that is that his soul will never Ascend to will never get to a good place in because he changed the to same thing goes with fake rabbis he says that when a uh rabbis are uh make far-fetched interpretation the Tora just to fit their contemporary themes you know these politically correct sermons in order to please their congregants they're not aware of the tremendous damage that their their words are causing and as a result of their false interpretations their souls are also cut off and are not allowed to ascend to the Heavenly Chambers and this also falls under AAR now there are many other aspects of AAR but the point is is that a person knows that sometimes the sin is clear not allowed to do this not allowed to light fire on Shabbat not allowed to eat pig not allowed to desecrate aem's name certain things are obvious but to is here to tell us that sometimes it's not so obvious sometimes you don't think it's a big deal to go to public school sometimes you don't think it's a big deal to go see a movie a PG-13 movie or a rated R movie a g no movie you you don't think it's a big deal Tora says it's a big deal why it starts with one thing and leads to many other things if a person is connected to his roots connected to his mother he could overcome this but if his mother herself is sending him to this stuff then guess what not only will you be punished she'll get punished even worse than him [Music]