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So when it says here is
first telling you make sure you're not
one of these people that cut yourself
out of the nation by making one of these
big sins on a regular basis. Listen,
somebody makes a sin one time. Somebody
makes a shalom. Somebody shaves with a
razor. Somebody goes with a non-Jew.
Somebody uh you know eats not kosher.
Somebody makes all of these big sins.
Okay, you made a sin. You do chuva
bashem. Hashem created chuva also. He
knew he had to create chuva before he
created the world.
But if you're doing it on a regular
basis, doesn't matter. Even if it's the
smallest sin,
you are on a regular basis going to
McDonald's. Once a week, you go to
McDonald's. Now, eating non-coosher,
eating non-coosher is not it's not you
don't get cut off from the nation for
for eating non-cos. It's not good.
you're it's going to be very very
difficult virtually impossible for you
to learn Torah and actually understand
what's going on
but it's not but if you're doing it on a
regular basis you're violating the on a
regular basis where it's become part of
your life where you're accepting this
this is okay this cuts you off from the
nation
so yes you are allowed to make sins
you're in essence expected to make sins
it says in the uh in the Torah there's
no such thing as a righteous person who
doesn't sin
tells us.
But don't ever think it's okay.
Don't ever say, "Oh, you know, I made a
sin. I uh went with a non-Jewish man
only tonight."
It's okay. It's only tonight and
tomorrow it's the same thing and next
week it's the same thing. If you say
it's okay once, why isn't it okay again?
This is the reason why the
shita the strategy that unfortunately
many rabbis use in today's world of
telling people that it's okay to drive
to shul
in a beginning until you eventually do
chuva. This is why it doesn't work, by
the way. Because if you look at it from
a secular mindset, if you look at it
from someone who wasn't born in a
religious family, now someone like that
is going to think about it pure human
logic. He's not going to look at it with
Torah logic. He's going to look at it
with pure human logic. So human logic
says if it's okay for me to drive to
shul today you're saying it's okay for
me to drive to sh today on Shabbat
saying it's okay just just make sure to
come to shul even if you have to drive
you're saying it's okay why isn't it
okay tomorrow why isn't it okay a year
from now why isn't it okay 5 years from
now if the rabbi answers no no in the
beginning I told you it's okay to drive
on Shabbat because I knew that if you
don't drive on Shabbat, you're not going
to come.
But now you already been coming for a
year.
It's time for you to to go up. So the
secular mind says, why why do I need to
go up?
No, you've already learned. You've
already learned some Torah.
You you prayed with us.
So then the secular mindset is going to
say, "Yeah, but I'm not ready to go up."
You may be ready for me to go up a
level, but I'm not ready to go up a
level. I'm ready to stay exactly where I
am. I still feel like I'm I'm new.
I'm new. I'm only a year old.
So what's the rabbi going to say?
Okay. So he drives for another year.
So now after two years of driving to
shul the rabbi as okay no you going to
stop driving cuz why should I stop
driving? It was okay for the first year.
Yes it was okay for the first year. You
said it was okay for the first year. And
technically you agreed with me that it
was okay for two years.
Can't say no. You agreed that it was
okay for two years. If it was okay for
the first year it was okay for two
years. So if it's okay for two years
then it's going to be okay for another
two years. I'll talk to you in two years
from now.
And so the story continues
and the whole human logic beats the
Torah here. Why? Because you're not
using the Torah from day one. You're
saying it's okay to sin. It's never okay
to sin. It's never okay to drive to sh.
You're going to drive to sh. It's your
problem. I'm still not going to tell you
it's okay.
You want to drive to sh drive to shul.
You want to eat pork, eat pork. You do
whatever you want. It's your life. It's
your destiny. But I can never give you a
sign off and say by the way it's okay
for you to drive to shabbat. Can't
just come to sh. There's no such thing.
There's no mitzvah
in the ten commandments that's listed in
the ten commandments. You must go to sh.
There's no such thing. Ten commandments
does not include going to sh. It does
include keep shabbat though.
So when someone from the secular mindset
looks at the religion and he and he sees
that a someone that's supposed to know
giving the okay to sin then immediately
that person looks at the Torah as a
complete joke
as something that's variable something
that can change. It's no longer divine.
It's no longer from God because if it
was from God it's never going to be okay
to sin. If it was from God, it can never
change.
It was from God,
there's no exceptions
unless that person gives the Ra, right?
So if the if the guy gives the Ra some
money and the rabbi sells sells Hashem
out for money, then both of them will
have a nice place and gum. But the key
is to understand that you cannot make
exceptions. Can't make exceptions. You
have to tell people, listen, I would
love for you to come to stay home. Okay.
The only way that I come to shul is if I
drive.
What do you what's the proper answer?
Somebody tells you, listen, the only way
I come to sh is drive. Now, if you know
that that person has a closer sh, you
tell them, listen, go to a closer sh.
Don't come to my sh go somewhere else.
If not, tell them, listen, come stay at
my house. Exactly. Come stay at my
house. We'll walk to sh together.
Option three, don't come pray at home.
Yeah, but I don't know how to pray.
Find a way to come. Don't drive.
Yeah, but the only way I can do it is
drive. Listen, I'm telling you, you
should come to so I can teach you, but
it's never going to be okay for you to
drive.
You have at some point or another, you
have to have some type of amuna that
Hashem runs the world. If the rabbi is
saying, "No, no, listen. We're just
trying to get him in and tell him it's
okay for now, but later we're going to
change him." How many of those things
cases actually worked?
How many of those people they told them
it's okay to drive to on Shabbat, it's
actually worked and they stopped driving
on Shabbat? Very few. I'm sure some
exist. I'm going to give him the benefit
of the doubt that they exist, but it's
definitely not many.
So here the Mishna starts with first off
make sure you realize you cannot cut
yourself out of the nation if you want
to be part of this share of the world to
come.
That's number one. Number two
that's teaching us here
is a says there are three things
that will get you to this
that everybody's waiting for
I'm sorry there's a um several things
you need to do in order to get to which
obviously you have to look at this first
Mishna.
But before we even get to that point of
actually getting to this,
we have to realize why is it being told
to us in the beginning before the Mishna
even starts. Tell us listen, you can
have you could have is to give us hope.
It's to give us hope. Give us
encouragement. Hey listen, even you get
can get a share of the world to come.
Just don't screw up.
Don't get yourself cut off.
That's number one. That's rule number
one. Rule number two.
The says there are three things that you
can get
but not without
not without sacrifice. Self-sacrifice.
Number one, learning to you want to be a
you want to know a lot of Torah, it
requires self-sacrifice. If you want to
learn Torah while you're eating cookies
and chips and and a little cup of tea,
it's great. Enjoy.
You could learn Torah as much as you
want with tea and cookies and with your
legs up on the couch, you know, from
5:00 p.m. till 8:00 p.m. right before
your show starts. You could learn to no
problem. But you're not going to be at
You'll know Torah. You'll know the
basics. You'll know how to, you know,
you'll know that Mushenu existed. You
know, Mount S. You may even know a few.
You'll know some. Yeah, you'll know.
You'll know some things. No questions
asked. But to be a
never going to happen. Why? Because in
order for you to become a
you have to understand the value of
Torah.
In order for you to understand the
value, once you understand the value of
Torah, you're not going to be able to
leave it. Meaning that you're going to
eliminate the material world. The more
you learn Torah, the more you eliminate
the material world. The more you
disconnect from the wafers and the chips
and the Gatorades and the shows on TV
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