STEALING FROM HASHEM

[Music] you're going to deal with sometimes with people that are spineless uh just uh recently there was some person that uh decided that 4 months after he donated $1,500 to help us do good things in the world feed poor people and so on he decided that he doesn't want to donate so what does he do he sends a message to his credit card no no I didn't mean to donate $1,500 now if you bought something and you didn't like it after a few months but you pretended like you just you know you cheating the store the store or whatever or the store has a policy that you allowed to return it it's doubtful if that's permissible or not permissible generally speaking it's most likely not permissible according to the tah but if you ever donated money and then you decided that you want to undon in Ence you want to refund from it if you donated that money to a petting zoo yeah most you know it's possible that it's allowed for you to take it because you're wasting your money anyway the pending Zoo but if you donated your money to Torah and even if you wanted the money back a week later forget about uh 3 4 months later a week later uh you're making a very big mistake why because once that money according to the Torah once the money was donated to Torah it's like it was donated to the BET mikdash meaning it was donated to AEM if it's a legitimate organization uh which we're working very very hard on being uh that legitimate organization that everything goes towards of helping people and so on so what ends up happening is that a person now wanted to do a Mitzvah he donated money donated $1,000 donated $100 donated whatever he donated and then he decid showed up got into his head took over the steering wheel and said no no you know what why don't you just call the credit card company and dispute this charge you'll have an easy ,000 $2,000 back in your account you know let's just get it over with you know it's it's much easier than going to work it's much easier get the money back by simply disputing the charge now he thinks that oh what's the big deal I donated now I donate what's the big deal it's just like uh sometimes you buy a product sometimes you return it wrong why at that moment that he disputed the charge he not only lost that mitvah that he originally did but now he got a sin what sin giz stealing but not just any type of gazel the worst type what type gazel from God officially is considered as if somebody that stole from God and that's a very very serious problem why because God knows where you live God knows where you are God knows who give you the money which is him and unfortunately such a person is not only a person that shows himself to be SP L uh but uh to the people that he's hurting and so on but also he's putting a curse on himself he's putting a curse on himself which is a curse of because now he's considered somebody that stole from the T like stole from the BET mikash and it's sad it's a sad situ situation you feel bad for that person because there's nothing you could do all you can do is you could uh uh you know pray that they do you up but believe me this has happened more times than you can imagine this that time I right just recently somebody did that I'm telling you a story that is happening but this not the first time last time I went to New York or maybe two times ago I went to New York we had a couple of events uh had a bunch of people in the events and one of the events you know usually events uh the way I am you know I know that uh the way you know other speakers are most other speakers are they charge a fee for uh for going uh to speak somewhere 3 5 10 20,000 whatever they want to charge plus you have to pay for room and board and all those different things you know we uh I've been doing it the way my ra has told us to do it which is don't charge anything uh if they could pay for a flight good but many times they don't and you still go but you tell them listen if you could please donate some money that would help but you have an understanding that it's a uh it's not like if you could donate $100 like if you could you know raise some money for us so it's actually worth it for us that it's equivalent to something substantial like you would pay some no you know other speaker that charges anyway uh you're go you're going to do the lecture whether they pay you or they don't pay you why because you're doing it for for the sake of T but you're hoping that there is you know people actually donate you could do continue to do this because if you keep paying for your own lectures and your own travel and your own everything else you're not going to survive so anyway so I had this guy was chasing me to do a lecture at his place for months months finally I told him listen fine I'm going to you know I'm coming to New York if you can commit to bring in a few hundred people at least you know 150 250 people I think it was 150 or 250 whatever the number was at the time I'll come uh yeah yeah yeah he talked my assistant yeah we'll raise some money we'll do this we'll do that whatever long story short we went to New York and um we did the lecture the turnout wasn't as good as I hoped it was but it was okay but it was not nowhere near as much as what it should have been he didn't Market it as good as you should and so on and so forth but whatever we did the lecture it was a decent lecture I think the people that were there enjoyed it and um after the lecture usually what ends up happening is that the people give me the money and I and I leave after the after I meet with everybody and I talk to everybody and deal with personal issues and so on the guy that's you know that held the lecture or different people individually give me some money and I Le off to that in this particular event the guy uh you know sees me outside after I finish I think by the time we finish it was maybe like uh I don't know 2 o' in the morning uh and uh maybe even later anyway the guy sees me go oh yeah listen we love the lecture it was great well amazing this that okay great well and it says and he's in his car and he's like listen I'm going to put all I got all the money from everybody I'm going to put everything I'm just going to Simply send you a check this is unusual unusual what do you need to send me a check for if people gave you money and you got some money and so on just give me the money what happened you guessed it it nothing he never gave us the money zero nothing not for travel not for food not for board not for nothing and on top of it he stole all the money that everybody else gave him for me now for the sake not of money for the sake of his n because there's no cha from this there's no cha from something like this he'd have to come back in a g in order to fix something like this there's no cha for the sake of his own I had two different assistants that I have call him almost every week for months just to tell him send the money because it's not your money you're stealing money here whatever he doesn't want to donate don't donate but the money that other people donate send that money he wouldn't answer the phone he dodged them he'd hang up this that eventually we just gave up now this guy he thinks he's 100% religious when I talked to him when he came to Florida to visit and so on and so before this whole Fiasco happen yeah zealous forem all those different thing garbage garbage why when it came push came to shove when it came to money the person simply became spineless and unfortunately there are many many people like this we deal with them all the time we deal with them all the time this is why I always tell people I don't like to talk about money with people like if you want to donate just donate don't talk to me about it don't convince me about it don't have me want to I don't want to do it why it's just not worth it if I wanted to talk about money I'd go to Wall Street I go you know talk about big money and things like that but that's just it's just not worth it I trust me we need to raise a lot of money and I have this inner battle right now of whether I have to start calling people to ask them for money because we need to raise a lot of money and it's a lot more than what we're doing now but it's a problem it's a very serious problem because people unfortunately um are not uh don't stand up for their word and what ends up happening is that there's a mish it's m say that uh to show how much doesn't like people that don't have a word he says the people that don't have a word that don't that say something and don't hold to it Hashem will destroy them just like he destroyed the generation of the flood that's said we're very excited to offer you the newm app 3.0 it's a newer faster app full of Torah lots of K by the shim that we do myself ra raim uh where you'll have also newer features where you're able to use the app uh while you're using other applications on your phone you'll be able to share the uh the lectures directly from the app 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