Torah Basics Explained: No Suffering Without Sin (35 Minutes)

[Music] n now this also has to do with this Mish that we got to in Mish 27 don't worry I didn't understand it either H is telling us again he's the one that's been telling us the last few Mish of something that happened in his life but what happened here seems like a simple event but it could easily change your life if we just pay attention to the details he also saw a skull floating on the water and he said to it he spoke to the [Applause] skull because you drowned others they drowned you and eventually those who drowned you will be drowned he here is talking to a skull this doesn't sound like something a genius would do a holy person would do but nonetheless it's exactly what they would do because here he's teaching us one of the foundation 13 principles of faith that if you do not believe in it you cannot consider yourself 100% Jewish if you do not believe in it and you went into a front of a bed like some of my students that want to convert they won't convert you if you don't believe in it you have no share of the world to come it's a pretty big belief and the belief is yes there's a judge that that judges us and he judges us for the righteous there's a reward for the wicked there's a punishment if a person does not believe in reward and Punishment they're not believing in one of the foundational principles of the Torah and H is telling us here he sees this Gul this uh skull floating in the water he says a skull doesn't float in the water by itself it got here somewhere if this person was a decent human being Hashem wouldn't give him such a horrible ending not just a horrible ending as far as the fact that he died but a horrible ending in a sense that he didn't even get the honorable type of burial now of course we know this was one of them and we know that they all got horrendous deaths this does not mean that they were Wicked This was a sacrifice for things that happened in previous generations but nonetheless they still got many of them still got the honor of being buried it's rare for someone not to get the honor of buried some of them didn't unfortunately but that's a different story on a general perspective most people regardless of how they pass have the honor of getting buried have the honor of getting respect but this gulet this skull did not and he says it's because it's something it did the skull belonged to somebody and it's not some M it's not some coincidence or some accident Hashem didn't miss out Shem didn't make a mistake there's no such things as hasem making mistakes if hasem was able to make mistakes he wouldn't be AEM he would be human so El is telling us here that first and foremost you have to know that everything we do has a consequence in it gives us this principle directly from the Torah raami said There Is No Death without a transgression and there's no suffering without sin so this is a pretty short statement but it's huge first he's telling you there's no such thing as someone dying without they making a sin with the exception of four people Shabbat same page just uh a little further on uh 55 says there's four people throughout history that died without making a sin and the only reason Hashem killed him is because of the sin of Adam the original sin other than that they didn't make any sense who are those four people one of them is Moses's father another one is King David's father another one it's Benyamin jakob's uh uh son and a third and the fourth one is one of David's Sons so we have uh was his name so we have four people throughout history that are noted in the page 55b saying there's only four people in history that didn't sin and they died for an original sin they died for a previous generation sin many many many years before but the rest of us the only reason someone ever dies is because of some type of sin they made in their life but then it says something else it says and there's no suffering without sin so wait a minute first you die because of the sin then you suffer because of the sins which one is it so here we see that there's a significant difference in the words for sin in Hebrew is a sin that was accidental you didn't know it was a sin you didn't mean to you accidentally ran into the light switch on Shabbat and turned it in not not on purpose accidentally you ran into it in the days of San days of the mikdash you have to bring aan you turn on the light on Shabbat you have to bring aan by accident if you did it on purpose and there was two witnesses they kill you there's no chuva you turn on the light on purpose oh it's funny yeah it's fine you're bringing Corban you become the Corban now why do you have to bring a Corban you learn it by you you lit it by accident come on Hashem relax I didn't mean to turn on the light why do I have to bring a Coran it's not a cheap it's a whole cow $10,000 $220,000 for one light no relax let me be like the poor people bring a little bird one light have to spend $20,000 you really need this Coan you really need this C there's 15 million other people bringing kban every Shabbat why you have to bring Myan because in reality hasem is trying to tell you something that accident you made it should have never happened if you had had the proper amount of of if you had the proper amount of fear of hem you wouldn't have even dared to make an accidental sin and theban is just a reminder that in reality you're supposed to be theban in reality you're the one that's supposed to die right now but I have mercy because if I judge that strictly the whole nation wouldn't survive a week but that's accidental sin on purpose in there's no CH no cha where we learn it from we're going to read about in a few months it's the first violator of Shabbat in history this is in the Torah this is not kazal this is not Rashi this is not mid this is actually a story in the Torah a person by the name of who a week after we got the Torah meaning we've only had the Torah for two weeks he violated Shabbat they arrested him and Moses came to Hashem and he said to him Hashem what do I do with him what do you mean what you do with him he knows the Torah mhe Moshe was already in Mount Si he knew the Torah he doesn't know what to do the question is not what to do with him whether I should judge him and kill him or not the question was what kind of death penalty is he going to get the worst kind or the second worst and Hashem says the worst kind kill him with stoning in front of the entire nation so for anyone who still wondering whether Shabbat is important or not or has family who's wondering whether Shabbat is important or not they should know they should read the Tor to learn about a person by name of who violated Shabbat only one week after we got the Tor meaning that if there was ever leniency from shamim say you know what you only had the toah for a week you didn't read the whole book come on it takes us a year to read it and we're dedicated a week you're going to read the whole toah you didn't read the whole book relax hem no no relax I gave you Shaban you have to keep it so if he didn't have an excuse we definitely don't have an excuse cuz we're 3,330 years later we had enough time to read the and this is why also says that someone who makes a sin as a result of lack of knowledge if the lack of knowledge is just because he studied but just didn't get to it then it's shog then it's accidental but it's of lack of knowledge because he just didn't study period he chose not to study then that sin becomes intentional becomes M no one shows up to shamim with shog sins with a millions of shic sins if he study T it's either mid it's either on purpose well there's no sin or very few accidentally you haven't gone to because you didn't complete the whole tah so here the mishna is telling us that is an accidental sin a is on purpose SOI here in the is telling us one of the foundational things that is going to explain to us this mishna and actually a controversial issue called reincarnation Gul he's saying here if someone made an accidental sin then they're going to get suffering because in reality you're supposed to get death penalty but I'm going to give you suffering just because I'm going to give you another chance the suffering is actually a reward the suffering is called karat a just like the karat that I had on the way here getting to accident probably made some type of sin it doesn't happen for no reason or you think I'm aik I make sins also so I did something I don't know what I did I have to do some when I get home I have to do some see what's going on what I do I have to figure out what did I do to get a car into a car accident on the way to a lecture okay one end I could explain it in a nice way say it's the Satan's fault but Satan doesn't have rule over the world I have to sign off on something I have to do something to influence him to give him permission so suffering is anyone who did not hear my personal story my personal Chua story it's in the CDs it's the first track in the black one it's a very popular lecture people from all over the world have been influenced by it it involves millions of dollars Fame Fortune a medical mystery a medical disaster and 7 years of fighting for my life until I found the truth it's interesting story I'm not going to go into it now but nonetheless as the Prophet Jeremiah starts the third chapter of AA the book of Lamentations he says I know suffering that's how he starts the book I know suffering he saw the he saw a river of blood of he knows suffering in my little level I know suffering too not like him but I know suffering so when this when this tells me here you made a sin you're going to get suffering I have an answer I got some suffering but then it says Aon you get death penalty when someone makes an intentional sin and Hashem pretty much says your time's clocked out we ran out of time that's what we get a death penalty for so then the Mish continue or the continues it says there is no death without a transgression without an accidental sin and he uses Ezekiel 18:20 as a source the soul that sins it will die the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father no shall nor shall the father bear the iniquity of the son the righteousness of the righteous shall be one shall be upon him and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him so here we see that he explains the mishna in a very simple way telling us that if you're suffering for any reason whatsoever there's a reason for it if you if someone dies with it's early late there's a reason for it if this gulit if this uh skull is here there's a reason for it now many people like to go after RAB mrai because of some things that he said and taught about reincarnation about autistic children about children that die young age but people that get diseases people that are born with different M different types of disabilities but in reality anyone that actually studied a little bit of tah would know that everything he says has a source this being one of them this is the this it also comes from the Z comes from cabala comes from comes from there's countless sources that back everything that he says why does everybody still don't like to hear it number one because they're ignorant and they don't think there's an actual source and number two because it's not politically correct to say that someone that came to this world with a disease of some kind or someone that died early it's his fault doesn't sound nice but Hashem told you it does Hashem told you it is his fault doesn't necessarily make him a bad person doesn't make you better but if we don't take responsibility for our actions how are we going to do CH so first and foremost anyone that wants to learn a little bit about G about reincarnations everything that we really know as far as understanding from reincarnation and all of the mystical parts of the Torah most of it came from the zor we got from the Aral who his student wrote a book on his behalf called shim the Gate of reincarnation and from there we have a lot of different Secrets now most people myself included in the past thought that reincarnation is cool it's great I get another chance so finally do Chua now I'll do cha next time so I do chat if I'm not going to keep Shabbat now's going to return these telling me that I'm going to come back again some say we're going to come back three times some say more do says that three times you come back and people think oh I only have three chances so obviously from here this maybe my last chance maybe not it's a 50/50 shot so to explain that it's not three chances it could be many many chances it's just three chances as a human being three chances in a row as a human being after that it's a after that it's an animal after that it could be a plant and after that it could be a domain a rock there is different proof scientific proofs of that too anyone that wants to look at it there's actually rocks that move in the desert different places in the desert in the United States in the Middle East and different places around the world that have deserts there are actually rocks that move and obviously they don't move like us they don't go to the you know to the store in five minutes but if they actually took cameras and they left them there for an extended period of time and they saw that the actual rocks moved across the desert and they made streaks on the ground just like the car behind me that was right before it smashed into me made some streaks the Rocks also make some streaks there's also a PUK in the Tora where it says the rocks that scream what do you mean rocks that scream why is a rock screaming so there's a part of a soul there so that's one so it's not three times and we're out it's three times as a human being now obviously an animal can't do the ultimate cha like a human being can so in essence the animal's goal would be if there is a soul in it not every animal has a soul some are just animals some have a human soul in them which is a huge level of suffering by the way for the wrong soul to be in the wrong you know the right soul to be in the wrong body but in essence this is a topic that a lot of people don't feel comfortable with with because when you really understand a Gil when you really understand a reincarnation you understand that in general all reincarnations all of them are a form of punishment it's not a good thing it's a good thing because it's a form of hm's Mercy not to give us you know Eternal punishment Shalom but it is a punishment because once the soul leaves this world it gets an opportunity to see the real world and once it sees the real world it sees that there geden eternal good Eternal greatness Eternal pleasure and then it's being told Hey listen you got to go back you got to go back what is it like the sages explain that this is like someone who had some Financial issues and told his family listen I'm going to go away to a far away place to go make some money and I'll come back in a few years not like today where you go on a Plane 3 hours later you're in a different country back then you had to travel you have to travel on a boat something times just the trip will take six seven months so he went six seven months on a boat now he went six months on a boat he's not going to stay there for a month he worked there for a few years two three four years after that same trip back he's already gone for five years sends a letter before he got back so make sure that the family waits for him at the where he's going to land finally he gets there he's about to give his family a big hug and a kiss and the board for the uh the Port Patrol stops him and says oh we have description of someone that looks exactly like you and it says here that we're not allowed to let you in and says why what did I do so you borrowed $10 $10 from some guy named schi in the place that you were in and you have to return it because you know how long it took me to get here took me six months to get here and I've been gone for four years and a six months I was gone for 5 years you want me to go back all the way over there for $10 listen I'll give you ,000 give you $1,000 what's $10 go back there for $10 I'll give you $1,000 you'll send it to him and keep the other 900 for yourself sorry sir we're honest people we don't do such service only way is for you to go back pay the $10 and then come back this is what a give G is this is what a reincarnation is someone that borrowed $10 from a friend someone that borrowed $1100 from a family member and did not return it in their life unless that person said meaning I forgive you which most people don't really think about that unless that debt was forgiven it's considered stealing it's considered gazel you stole it and no one that has gazel on his hands can go into ganeden meaning you can be you can have likeu you get to ganeden the gate sorry sir you still owe $10 toika back in Israel you have to go back they have to put you into another body and this they say kazal says is a higher level of suffering than some parts of G because here you saw it was right there was within your reach I made all my I did CH I kept Shabbat I kept this I kept that $ I have to go back to this life of suffering and who says that I'm going to survive I'm going to do chai again I'm going to keep me this time I'm not going to fall for the girl I'm not going to fall for the guy I'm not going to do this I'm not going to do that who knows G is not exactly something we should rely on you have a chance you have a chance to do chuva now you have a chance to do do good now now sometimes we have a person that came to this world and what looks to us like an unfortunate situation autistic brain damage all types of disabilities and people have a very very hard time talking about this because they think that they're misim they think that they're poor people over the last probably 25 to 30 years maybe even longer we've had technology that allows us to communicate with some of them not all of them but some of them many of them and in many cases we found out a lot of different secrets of what they really feel and what they really think and there's actually proof the scientific proofs that some of these people have told us that they still have knowledge and memory of their previous life one of them made there's a few of them that have made videos you can watch online one of them I remember watching One time they communicate with him through a computer and they ask him all different types of questions and he keeps telling them that they have to do chuva they have to do chuva and it's like okay but why are you here aren't you suffering isn't it bad for you says I made a really big sin that's why it came back so you say really big sin what are he thinking automatically you're thinking you're thinking Shabbat you're thinking wasting seed you're thinking he married Aya married you know you're thinking the worst possible thing in the world so I made a really big sin he had a very hard time admitting what the sin was finally he admits he says I said I said that's why it came back as a brain damaged person in this world is any one of us here finish a DAT without saying forget a lifetime we go to B to say or to at least gather some ammunition so we can say after have something to talk about make the day interesting so now automatically people sayin he's suffering so much they asked him this he says you should feel bad for you he says I'm a sadik he says I'm almost done with my tun and then I'm going to ganeden you have a long way to go he tells them these calm down and autistic children brain damaged people their knowledge they feel bad for us they feel bad for us because they already know the truth we feel bad for them because we don't know the truth what are the sins that they made I'm not God I don't know what everybody's sins are what I do know is is is that tells us the measure for measure punishment did not cease to exist from the world after the BET mikdash was destroyed there are certain in that are no longer applicable we can't make we don't have a better mdash even though one of my students keeps asking about making a Corban I keep telling we can't make a Corban I'd like to join him to do it but we can't makeban once the BET mdash was built no more once the BET mdash was destroyed no more onlyb that's allowed is in a sacrifice is allowed in the bet mikdash so that is an enormous mitvah if you look at the 613 MIT that we have biblical MIT that we have you'll see that many of them a large percentage of them have to do with with sacrifice which means that a large part of these MIT that we got from hem we can't do so this is missing but it's not up to us Hashem made this rule so some things are no longer valid some things are no longer applicable until the bet mdash the third one is built but hasem is specifically telling us here but my measure for measure the way I calculate punishment and reward measure for measure with or without the bet mikdash is valid with or Without You agreeing with it is valid with or without you liking it it's valid and this is something that's the reason why the ramban put it as one of the 13 principles of Faith whether we like it don't like it believe it don't believe it doesn't make a difference why because it has countless sources in the so each time one of these Souls comes here obviously it's very difficult for the family around them may hasem have mercy on them each time we see it from the outside perspective it looks even worse we don't know how they deal with you know one day but in reality kazal is telling us everyone that's in that situation there's a reason for it now to think otherwise when people are trying to be politically correct and they're saying oh you're saying this guy watched pornography and that's why he's blind you're saying that this guy said and that's why he can't speak you're saying that this guy stole that's why he can't move his arms you know all types of things that it makes logical sense if you stole then you wouldn't have arms if you violate make violated the to through your eyes you wouldn't be able to see it makes logical sense it's not a one-size fitall it's not that every single blind person watch pornography but it's a logical explanation it's a hypothetical example but to think any anything else meaning to think that that person is blind and he's purely a misar it's just like poor guy he didn't do no he's a sadik he's a good guy to think that is actually to think that he doesn't deserve that punishment is against theem because in essence what you're saying is that hem made a mistake Hashem shouldn't have given him blindness Hashem shouldn't have given him poverty Hashem shouldn't have given him disability to say that hasem should do something or not is a problem so actually the best explanation the most correct explanation is the one that we have from there's no suffering without sin now even though a lot of people don't like to hear it and a lot of people don't like to talk about it this is something that's very very important because it's something that's repeated constantly every time someone wants to go against a rabbi that rebukes or Rabbi that helps people do chat through what the Torah says through the instructions that the Tora says and he mentions things like this the first thing they mention is like oh he talks about autistic people oh he talks about blind people he talks about this and he talks about that yeah the Torah talks about it too and this is the mishna this exact mishna is telling which we learned from previous M just to know how big a teacher is first you need to know the students because sometimes you don't know how good the teacher is it says says a student will take 40 years to understand what his Rabbi really said what do you mean I came to I listened to the rabbi after that I had a meeting with him I understood what he said perfectly cu no to really understand what the rabbi really meant if the rabbi knew you if it's personal advice the rabbi knows you to really understand what he means take you 40 years just like took 40 years to finally understand the so he led said his top student was jonatan Ben uzel his worst student wasan benel was so holy that whenever he would study to it would create a spiritual fire that if a bird flew over him it would go on fire I study nothing happens bird flies Birds doesn't fly doesn't even look at me sometimes he studies fire Bird Goes On Fire I think about fire was the least of his students what did know he knew the entire by heart all the all the all the all the all the all of the um meaning what happened before this world all of what happens Beyond this World also if that's not enough he also knew the language of the shim shim would come he would talk to them demons come you talk to them we see a demon run away we get a heart attack he would talk to them come they talk to him also he knew the language if that wasn't enough once in a while he talk to trees and birds he knows that you know the language of the trees and birds we barely know how to spell bird but do you know how to talk to them this is the least of's students and this is H that's saying this this is the H that's talking about this skull and he's saying you skull you're only a skull floating over here because you made a sin you killed somebody and that's why somebody killed you you made somebody's skull float in the middle of the river and not have a proper burial and that's why hasm did it to you and the people that did it to you will also get the same thing somebody like that you should listen to [Music]