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Stay Away From Danger!!

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Rabbi Yaron Reuven

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[Music] is is it allowed to go skydiving and you said yourself I know you're endangering your life but I want to hear your answer which means that you know the answer you're not allowed to endanger your life especially when there's no purpose for it other than just simply getting a rush if you are a uh parachuter in an army then you're doing it for the sake of protecting the people fighting for the country and so on and so forth but to Simply jump out of a plane or a mountain and endanger your life and increase your statistics of uh of of of death uh is is forbidden because now at this point you've put yourself in a position where you are depending on a miracle you're depending on a miracle and you're not allowed to depend on Miracles the second thing is thear says I believe it's in says that the Mal one time came to one of the yeshu he said you want me to show you what I do says sure so tells the guy tell one tells one of his soldiers go do me a favor go bring Miriam the haircut the hairdresser bring me her so the the employee of the the Satan goes and brings a of a Miriam but it wasn't Miriam the hairdresser it was Miriam the baker so Satan says to him ah no I didn't ask for Miriam the baker I said Miriam the hairdresser okay she's here anyway fine we'll take her too so yes say hey satan what are you doing how dare you who gave you permission to take her you said you're going to take the hairdresser so apparently was they you had permission from to take the hairdresser what are you taking this poor Baker's for you just killed it that's it you didn't get permission he goes no no don't worry I got permission he goes how he says listen this Miriam the baker she wasn't careful with the way she bakes every time she would take out the bread and the cakes from the oven in those days the ovens would like entire rooms she would enter her entire body into the room and endanger her body endanger her life once you endanger your life I got all rights on you I got all rights to take you once you endanger your life you don't care about your own life I have a right to take you so yeshu he says wait a minute so what about all these extra if she didn't endanger her life she didn't endanger her life what if she just lived a regular life she didn't endanger her life she watch her life like she's supposed to which you must protect your you must protect your body what if you protect it that means she would have lived another x amount of years 20 30 40 50 years he says yeah he goes so where do all those extra years go you just killed her she's 25 30 years old she was allotted 70 years in the world meaning that there's 40 years more that she was supposed to live what happens to those years says don't worry those 40 years we give it to a sadik we give it to a sadik he goes yeah but this sadik he benefits he was supposed to live 40 years now he's going to live 80 years but what about this Miriam she was supposed to live another 40 years 40 Years of mitv she's now missing out on reward too Ah that's why we give it to a sadik we give it to a sadik why because now because we gave him her years everyone of his mitv count towards her also so yes she lost life because she's not careful but she doesn't lose any reward but still who wants to die early point is you're not allowed to endanger your life how do you like that follow up so follow up shouldn't smoking cigarettes also be like baned it gives you a rush but it kills you I feel like it's worse than skyd because you're going to get some something wrong with you you're going to get like cancer you're going to have like your teeth Fallout I feel like it should be banned like why isn't cigarettes at sever skydiving why isn't cigarettes as bad as skydiving well first of all cigarettes are forbidden for anyone who doesn't smoke you have that says You must protect your body you must protect your soul and when you smoke a cigarette or you jump out of planes or you put your life in danger in any way you're violating the Torah so if someone is a non-smoker it's forbidden under all conditions for them to begin but even if they continue smoking because they're addicted it's still definitely not a Mitzvah but there are some leniencies to people that are addicted to it in a sense that it's not considered the same level of sin as one that is a uh starting out from scratch knowing that he's not allowed needless to say it's not a mitvah needless to say it's not it's not the will of hem which is the reason why after over 20 years of smoking I stopped smoking even though I didn't want to stop smoking I liked smoking but once I found out this is not the will of hem I had to stop the point is that it is forbidden it is not allowed but why is it not completely banned and completely forbidden like skydiving which is the third question the reason why is because even though smoking is bad for you it's not an immediate effect you're going to smoke a cigarette it is extremely unlikely to the point of impossibility that the person is going to get cancer after one cigarette but it is very likely that the parachute will not work after one time or 100 times or 20 times doesn't matter how many times you jump out of a plane or some Mountain the likelihood of the parachute not working or the wind being too strong and in essence your life being in danger is just as great no matter how many times you jump out of a plane whereas the cigarette is a gradual effect so it's not as bad it's terrible it's awful it's also disgusting to to everybody that's around you you smell terrible when you smoke cigarettes I never knew how smelly I was until I stopped smoking but the point is is that it's not the same level of sin why cuz one is immediate risk one is gradual risk next question even if the gradual risk it's still not good is higher than the immediate risk because I I've asked a rabbi before about skydiving and he said since the chances of actually dying like I'm not saying wing suit just like regular skydiving since the chances of dying from like a shoot failure are actually so small it's not even considered a risk like it is a risk but it's just not big enough to be like wouldn't swimming then be like against the Torah because like you like swimming in the beach cuz you could get stuck in a rip current and like no but again it's it's it the the uh the first of all I don't know where that Rabbi got that the statistics are very small of failure of of skydivers I mean it's a it's uh that's not exactly accurate um it's not exactly accurate but uh put it this way if skydiving was the only problem that am is had I wouldn't even mention anything about it I wouldn't mention anything about it I tell all you guys you know what guys let's go skydiving why I'm not I'm never going to skydive I'm scared of heights but I'll tell you let's go skydiving if that was the only problem am had I tell you let's go stying why we'll take a risk but the reality is is this is the smallest problem we have why am I mentioning all this elaborate stuff because you have to know that there's a rule there's a value of a life and you're not allowed to endanger it for nonsense just to get a rush you're not allowed to endanger it for no reason why because the biggest rush that you're supposed to have in your life is when you're learning tah you're not supposed to get a rush from something external such as jumping off of mountains you know doing wheelies on on bicycles and bikes and so on it's good you can have a good time you can go climb a mountain you can go uh rafting you can do all that stuff have fun but don't do something that's outright dangerous and literally depends on a miracle value your life a little bit more than that value it as if you have three four five six kids waiting for you at home because technically you have a lot more even though you none of you have kids here at least the young ones none of you have hopefully you don't you have kids um none of you have kids that you know about yet but anyway point is you don't have any kids right but you have to worry about as if you have 50 kids at home why cuz one day you're going to get married right you all planning get married or you're going to be uh single for the rest of your life you single okay so everybody accept him you get married one day okay one day you GNA get married there other you GNA get married you going to have more than just a dog you're going to have kids right two three four five 17 kids you're gonna have something right now those kids are GNA have kids those kids you have they're going to also have kids they're going want the same is you if AB had three four five kids then the kids are going to want three four five kids so that those three kids they're going to turn into nine kids those nine kids 27 kids those 27 kids to 90 kids and so on and so forth guess what you have 500 kids you go up to all the of all those 500 kids all all the depending on how you led them depending on how you influence them they'll count for you so you have to think about wait a minute am I willing to risk the mitv of 500 people that're going to follow me would I do it if I knew I have 500 little kids waiting for me at home no okay so why should you do now that's in essence the mindset of somebody that is trying to stick to what wants from you yes yes if you could give [Music]