THE ABSOLUTE WORST PUNISHMENT

[Music] there's only one punishment that the rambam says that's in this world that's worse when Hashem removes a free choice meaning that a person no longer has free choice right now you have free choice you can do whatever you want you could do mitv you don't have to do MIT if you do them you get rewarded if you don't do them you get punished if you keep Shabbat you get rewarded if you don't keep Shabbat you get punished but most of the time most of us don't realize that the punishment that we get in our life is really for this so most of the punishment and most of the reward comes after this world but said there's another punishment in this world that you could actually see if you're paying attention close enough which is when someone has no longer has the ability to make free choice decision meaning he no longer has any desire whatsoever to do Chua like there's not even an ounce of him that's interested in listening to Tor he becomes anti tah he hears a Raba he wants to throw rocks at him like he's an Arab he hears them Rabbi say the truth he makes a website against them people like that very well could be the ones that are who says you I don't want you to do chuva why I want to punish you fully that's the worst punishment it's not vicious at least that's the way it looks like us he's not going to eat his kids he's not going to starve to death he's not going to go broke but what's the punishment is actually letting such a person live in order to make more sins so the real punishment when it comes becomes an eternal punishment so for all of those people say well this sounds like a very vicious punishment it is it's a very very heavy punishment and the point is is that you are here today not by luck not because you got $15 not because you're uh you called our youth director M to uh to because you you like the uh YouTube video not because of that you are here because is trying to give you a chance trying to give you a chance to get eternity of good you take the opportunity you take the Mitzvah you take that ticket you use it you're never going to regret it in fact your life is going to be better than anybody else you know you don't take it will give you another chance tomorrow and if you don't take that one hopefully it gives you another chance on Sunday and if you don't take it hopefully on Tuesday and then Wednesday and I'll give you chances but I have a cousin who's a little probably a little older than some of you he was 23 or 26 years old his parents had no less than $100 million very very wealthy had all types of gas stations and businesses and this kid was as cute as can be smart kid good-looking kid had the whole world mus the whole world was in his hands he was in computers all type of tech technology his family didn't exactly keep instead of going to the they were taking a tour of the world they were in Israel they were in different places so he didn't learn T nothing so instead of going to the besset he decided to go on a scooter on a scooter to go hang out with his friends do what he's got to do scooter what's the big deal of a scooter right in front of his house right in front of his house huge mansion right in front of his house he got a scooter fell fell by himself nobody touched him nobody hit him nothing he just fell fell off the scooter hit his head passed out the neighbor happened to come see it saw the kids passed down on the floor called 911 911 came took him to the hospital they know who he is they know his family I think that the family even donated some money to the hospital and uh they checked them they did all types of wonderful tests after a few hours they said said you're perfectly fine go home take some rest no big deal well that's what he did doctors said everything's okay so everything's okay he went home he went went to sleep only promise he never woke up he died now do you think that this 23y old 26 year old cousin of mine that lived in Philadelphia do you think that in his Wildest Dreams he actually ever thought that he's going to go to sleep at 23 years old after the doctor said that everything's okay and the parents said that everything's okay and everything in his world said everything's okay you thought for a second that with a $100 million bank account you could die 23 $100 million Bank you should be able to buy life twice but you can't Steve Jobs you guys heard of Steve Jobs you probably have his phone Steve Jobs you know how much money he had before he died almost 10 billion but with all of every single penny of the 101 billion he couldn't buy himself a new liver and he died died an atheist died a loser why because the money stayed here so whoever has it is the winner now until they die so every single person assumes especially when you're young you're going to be here tomorrow you're going to be here next week you're going to be here next month you're going to be here for 120 years somebody has a happy birthday you give him a kick until 120 who says it's going to be until tomorrow who guaranteed you tomorrow who guaranteed me tomorrow nobody meaning that if put you here today that means that wants you to listen to this today today not tomorrow not next week now it doesn't mean that you have to become a rabbi tomorrow doesn't mean that you have to be a Rabani tomorrow but there's a few things that you could learn here there's a few things that you know start doing them start taking a I brought some for anyone that wants to take a take aah accept all that is the king of kings put on a from now on free CDs to learn anyone that learns these CDs you can become a rabbi if you want you watch these CDs each CD has 40 hours of you have eight CDs here each pack is two by the time you finish both CDs both uh both packs you have uh 160 hours of CD you could be a rabbi I'm serious in this generation you could beor even why because this Torah is not a it's not a simple T it's to that actually gets people to change their life similar to what you're hearing right now you can learn Tor for free you can get mitv for free everything you can do to save your eternity you could do it for free meaning that a is giving you an opportunity for eternity for free for free which means if we choose right we're the biggest winners in history if we choose wrong we're the biggest losers in history why you had eternity given to you for free on a silver platter but you still chose the wrong direction why for what what did you gain out of it show me one person that doesn't live a life full of Tor that's actually happy one person one person in the world doesn't exist they can tell you they're happy until you get to know them how do I know this I was in a business I was on Wall Street for 16 years and on Wall Street what I did is I dealt with Millionaires and billionaires so all the people that people admire athletes entrepreneurs businessmen all types of fancy schmancy people they were my friends they were my clients had hundreds of them one after another is more depressed than the next one after another wants to commit suicide one after another is is divorced on his third marriage Ford marriage fifth marriage looking for happiness looking for this looking for that not a single person not a single person in my entire life and I met thousands of people not a single person was happy why you cannot get happiness for money you could buy stuff with money that maybe will make you laugh maybe will give you some joy for a few minutes or even a few hours but happiness you cannot get why cuz happiness is a spiritual thing it's a spirit spiritual feeling you can't buy happiness you can attain happiness how do you attain Happiness by attaining spirituality by attaining what said fulfilling his is the only way to live a life of happiness [Music]