What Is Poisonous To Your Heart? | TORAH FOUNDATION (25)

Thank you very much. Yeah, the songs on chuba music is the most recent release. again. Who sh We're back here on our Sunday night Torah foundations where after some you guys should be inspired. We will all be inspired. We all serve Hashem better. Tonight's show is going to be for the and all of AmI and all the righteous Noah that continue to support the organization, continue to donate their time, their efforts, their resources, and anyone that wants to join us and help us continue doing the amazing things that we're doing and be part of the amazing news that is coming extremely soon. You could donate at bzatashem.org org or bhour.org or of course you could donate on YouTube, you could donate on Facebook, you could uh send checks uh via mail, via WhatsApp, lots of different ways to uh to support. So, tonight's you is another installment of the introduction and this is going to be called what is poisonous to your heart. Confusion has become widespread and common in every community. Yet few people choose to narrow down the reason as a secret. The reason is mashka. What does that mean? Is what we're going to talk about. While the average person allows themselves to listen to any voice that calls for their attention, and there are many today, few people realize how much this voice will end up impacting them in their daily lives and even their eternity. goes deeper into the purpose behind our actions and reminds us of the don't follow what's in your heart. What does it actually mean to us today? I promise you after tonight, you're going to realize it means a whole lot more than you think. The summed up the last section by telling us how it became clear to him that an act that is performed for God's sake is in essence made up of two things. Purity of heart and purity of mind. and any corruption of the inner intent renders the good act unacceptable even if performed many times and on a regular basis. So the is in essence telling us even though you mean well with all of your acts, with your comments, with your missionizing, with your uh different things that you do, you mean well. The reality is different than your meaning. Because if your heart is corrupt, if the intention is against the Torah, this so-called good act will end up bringing punishment onto you. It won't bring you reward. Now, one of the things that the tries to bring to us with every one of his statements is a proof from the Torah. And here he brings us a couple of verses. One of them being from the prophet Isaiah. The prophet Isaiah speaks in language that is not always very easily understandable. Hence the reason why we need the oral Torah and why we need the sages to explain to us what is actually meant. Unfortunately, there are billions of people that read the Tanakh like it's a book, a novel, and they end up becoming missionaries for different religions. But here the verse that the brings us is something that could be understood by anybody. And the prophet says this in the name of God. Even if you offer many prayers, I will not listen to you. Your hands are full of blood. Wash yourselves. Make yourselves clean. Remove the evil deeds from your sight, from my sight, and cease to do evil. So we see here that tells us through the prophet that even if you come and pray to Hashem, if what's in your heart is evil, if the ultimate agenda that you have is against the holy Torah, he will not listen to you. Now the is trying to tell us what the 500 years later in 60 that require they require intent. You can't just pray while looking at your phone or playing with a computer or singing some tune that you heard on the radio. When you're praying to Hashem, the ultimate purpose of the prayer is the prayer. It's not just doing it. It's not what happened before it and it's not what happens after it, but rather the prayer itself. The same concept goes for every mitzvah. Now, for those that need a little bit of extra explanation, let's see what our holy Talmud that the missionaries hate because they never read it. Aside from the anti-semitic excerpts that they take out, the Talmud says in about someone that is leading the prayer but not with it says if one who g who says who's leading the prayer and he's saying we give thanks. We give thanks. That's what Modi means. This is part of our prayer. The part where you bow down towards the end of Amida. But he says this twice. In all cases, we silence him. Stop being the Kazan. Stop being the caner. Why? He just said we thank Hashem twice. Isn't that a good thing? Aren't you showing even greater gratitude to by saying we thank him twice? Further says one who says like the but instead of saying he either saysma is like here here Israel oh Israel or he says the whole verse twice. He is just like the guy that says modim twice and should be silenced. But the sages came and challenged him. If somebody reads the schma and repeats it, it's disgraceful. Apparently, it's merely disgraceful, but it's not blasphemy. So, we don't silence him. Says, "No, no, no. You're not understanding. Here we're talking about a situation where this person does not have kavana says to what is disgraceful about repeating these words twice perhaps initially he didn't have the proper kavana the proper concentration and subsequently he now has the proper concentration so that's why he's repeating eating it. So isn't that a good thing? Abaya answers him and says that itself is disgraceful. After all, may a person act towards heaven with familiarity. Meaning treat Hashem as if he's his friend where he could just talk to him the way he wants where he could just speak to him like he's buddies. If he did not concentrate at all out of the gate, out of the outset, we strike him with the smith's hammer until he does concentrate. Meaning, we rebuke this person harshly. How dare you pray to a without kavana? And of course the Smith's hammer is a exaggeration to show you the seriousness of what's happening here. Now the tells us if you want to serve a you want to serve the one and only God the first and foremost thing that you have to do is remove the evil deeds from his sight. Meaning the first step of doing chuva is stop the sin. Stop watching bad things. Whether that is pornography or that is even something as simple as watching YouTube kids that's full of filth of boys and girls kissing at 5 years old. Whatever you're watching that's not in accordance to the Torah, stop it. THAT'S THE FIRST STEP. DON'T EVEN TALK TO ME. Don't pray to me. Don't even consider yourself even remotely righteous so long as you are doing bad things. First thing, stop. If you are in a unethical business that's hurting other people, your prayer is not even getting to the ceiling, needless to say, to heaven. Why? You are hurting society. You're stealing from people. You're hurting them. So, when somebody in your family gets cancer, when somebody in your family gets in a car accident and they don't know if he's going to live OR DIE, DON'T EVEN BOTHER PRAYING TO HASHEM. WHY? YOU have blood on your hands. Go find somebody else to pray for you. So the first thing is remove the evil deeds from my sight. Hashem says and then the bring another verse that tells us the words of Hashem from another prophet, the prophet Yel. The prophet Yel in chapter 2 verse number 13 tells us what we're supposed to be doing not just on yum kipool when Jewish people fast but every day. Rend your hearts and not your garments and return to Hashem your God for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and of great kindness and he relents of evil. So here the prophet Yel in essence continues what Isaiah said remove the evil from his sight and Hashem will forgive you. The first step of chuva as the Rambam says the first step is stop the bad actions. You know what's bad and if you don't you'll learn along the way if you really mean it. But there are certain things that you know you're not supposed to do. A Jewish man is not allowed to listen to women sing. A child is not allowed to simply be allowed to do whatever they want. A parent is not allowed to be a hypocrite. You're not allowed to steal. It doesn't matter whether it's from Jews or Gentiles. All types of things that common sense tells you is wrong. This is also why explained to us that the reason why Gentiles get punished for not following the seven nohide laws is because for these types of laws that are the nohide laws, you didn't need to receive the Torah like is got it at Mount Si. Those seven nohide laws are common sense that a kadosh bahu instilled into mankind and by you going against them every punishment that comes your way is welld deserved. So now Isaiah tells us remove the evil deeds from your sight. Yel tells you, "Don't worry about rending your garments, ripping your garments, and looking like as if you a righteous person that's repenting. Stop with the show of, "Oh, I'm so in harm. Oh, I'm crying over." Listen, Khabibi, start doing chuva. Go learn some more. Start doing chuva on all the things that you're doing wrong. And then it's enough. You don't need to make the show. No need for the show. There's no need for you to tell the world, "OH, MY HEART HURTS of what's going on in the world. How do we fix it? Enough with the nonsense." Chuva does not need to be a public statement. You can do it. ENOUGH WITH THE SHOW. EVERYBODY IS ALL OF A sudden in show business. Everybody's becoming show business. Everybody tells her, "Oh yeah, now I'm doing this. Enough. Enough. You know what you're doing wrong. Fix it." First step, stop. Second step, make yourself offense not to return to the bad acts again. Whatever those bad acts were, whether it was drugs or it was women or was men or was stealing or it was manipulating, lying, watching things you're not supposed to, taking things you're not supposed to, WHATEVER IT IS, STOP it and don't go back. SIMPLE IS NOT asking you to reinvent the wheel here. He's not asking you to reinvent the wheel, climb a mountain, reach the heavens, start looking like you came out of some different planet. ALL HE'S ASKING YOU IS STOP BEING A BAD PERSON. SIMPLE. After that, if you do it for long enough, you will reach the third step, which is remorse. I'm sorry for what I did. Why is remorse the third step? Because until you've distanced yourself from the filth of sin for a long enough time, you don't even know that it's wrong. You don't even realize how many lives you've hurt from your unethical business practices until you've distanced yourself further and further from that sin to the point where you started looking at how much damage you caused. Until you've distanced yourself from adultery and all the horrible things you've done, you don't even realize there's anything wrong with it. You're just thinking, I'm having a good time. So, the third step is remorse. And the fourth step is when you get tested again, which you will pass the test. And the show business, you can keep that for Hollywood. They're good at it. Now, The expands further in the name of the sages. He says our sages have expounded on this last verse where says, "My son, give me your heart and your eyes. Let them keep to my ways. What does it mean? In chapter one number five says, "If you give me your heart and your eyes, then I will know that you are truly mine." In so many words, what a kadesh is telling us here, if your heart is dedicated to Hashem, he knows you're his. But if your heart is dedicated to your lusts, if your heart is dedicated to some man-made god with long hair and a mustache or a beard, if your heart is dedicated to chasing all types of desires you have, if your heart is dedicated to chasing money, then certainly there's no room for God. There's no room for God. But if you really want to show Hashem that you're his, all he asks you for is your heart and your eyes. Why your eyes though your heart I understand your heart is okay. I believe in Hashem and I'm going to do my best with doing mitzvot. I'm going to be kind. I'm going to give charity. I'm going to pray properly with kavana. I'm going to uh do the mitzvot. I'll shake the lul. I'll build a suka. I'll fast when I need to fast. Fine. But why the eyes? Hashem says, "I want your eyes." Why your eyes though? In one of the sources that the says, "We have a mitzvah inv 39. This is the book of numbers in English commands us. Do not stray after your heart and eyes. What does it mean to stray with your eyes? For most people that means looking at things that are inappropriate. You're looking at somebody else's wife. You're looking at somebody else's merchandise, his wealth. You're looking at something that is not yours. And you're jealous. And you have all types of doubts of why Hashem gave him this and why Hashem gave you less. That's what it means to most people. But the sages say in the in section 115 when the Torah says, "Do not stray after your heart and your eyes." It is referring to minute because mash what is this min? What is this mashim is thoughts of heresy where every second that a person allows themsself to think about this heresy, he then allows the roots of that heresy into their heart instead of kicking it out. Instead of kicking out that heresy out of his mind, out of her mind, they delve into it. They let it stay there. They watch another video by the heretic. They watch another missionary. They watch another idol worshipper. They watch another filthy excuse for a human being that is saying things against Hashem. And every second that they do it is now considered a sin against Hashem of how bad is heresy in the eyes of Yes. Again, we go to the Talmud. The oral Torah teaches us something profound. We know that at the time of Mosherenu in the time of the Saned throughout the whole time that we had the beta mikdash, the power of executing the law was in the hands of Mosherenu and the son. During the time of Mosheren, who was Mosheren? Who was the chief? He was the king. During the time of Shaul, during the time of David, they were the kings and therefore heads of the Senadine. But after we had the san the was comprised of prophets and blees were not just regular people and there were certain times that people made sins that despite being warned despite being notified that they'll get punished severely for that and specifically what the punishment was They still chose to murder. They still chose to violate Shabbat. They still chose to do whatever it is they chose to do against the Torah. And therefore, there would be a death penalty. Now, what happens if the person that warned the sinner comes to the and tells him, "Ah, I saw him. I warned him. I did all this. Me and my buddy over here. We both warned him. Who's the sinner? It's uh Joe Smith. Okay. Well, we're going to find out if you guys are legitimate witnesses. We're going to verify everything happened. And if that's the case, you will get a death penalty or whatever the other penalty would be. Could be Malcot, could be whips. And if there is a death penalty, you're the ones that going to actually execute him. You're the ones that stone him. You're the ones that do all that. You are the witnesses. But what happens if the witness is the son, the son of the father? Just imagine you have Yosh and he saw Joseph violating Shabbat. Now he warns him and he comes to the Senate. He says, "Oh, listen. My father violated Shabbat. My father committed adultery. What do I do?" Oh, if we if you're right and you have there's another witness that says the same thing, we have to do a death penalty. Okay, but listen, I understand death penalty, but I'm going to kill my own father. What does the sayunah says? It was taught in the Beta of the Academy of Rael. If a man was sentenced for any sin, the law is that the man's son may not be appointed to be an agent of the court to punish his father, meaning to strike him or to curse him, except for one who is a me who instigates others to engage in idolatry. meaning the son of such a person may be appointed by the court to carry out the execution even of his own father. For the Torah says regarding the instigator, regarding the meat, you shall not be compassionate nor conceal him. Here we see the seriousness of the crime of being an instigator to idolatry, an instigator to heresy, an instigator to things that are against the Torah. So much so that while every other sinner will at least have the mercy of the court which complies with the Torah in every word that even if they're a sinner their own son cannot be the one that actually is appointed to punish them. But if he is a missionary, if to idolatry, to heresy, there's no mercy on such a person. Meaning they'll even use his son. Why? Because the Torah specifically says, "Have no mercy upon the instigator." Now, this is the word of God. This is not the words of the senadrine. They didn't make this stuff up. But why why is it this bad? As we've done many times over the years, in order to understand a mitzvah, we have to go 700 years back to Seph who explains to us every single one of the 613 mitzvot in the most understandable possible way. mitzvah number 387 of the prohibition to stray after one's thoughts or eyes. This is a mitzvah. This is not just a statement you're saying. This is an actual mitzvah. It's one of the 613 mitzvot. The says as follows. We're commanded not to explore untoward thoughts that might enter our mind or sights that our eyes might see. As it says in the book of numbers inbal chapter 15:39, you shall not explore after your heart and after your eyes after which you stray. The meaning of this mitzvah prohibition is that we're pro forbidden from focusing our minds on contemplating views that run counter to the principles upon which the Torah is based in so many words heresy. And this what he says as it's possible as a result of these sites to arrive at heresy through such contemplation. Rather, if an urge enters one's heart to contemplate such evil thoughts, he shall cut short his thoughts on these matters and switch to pondering the true and good ways of a Torah. See here we see already the explaining to us don't follow your heart and your eyes is not just don't look at things that are not modest or things that are not yours in jealousy in uh envy. No, no, no. This is most particular when it comes to don't even allow your eyes to see or hear any words of heresy whatsoever and allow them into your heart without spending your effort to remove it. Because every moment you allow this heretic and his false statements to stay in your mind without being interrupted, without being removed, it starts growing roots and those roots start going around your heart and start strangling the truth out of your heart. Little by little, you start having confusions. You start having doubts about God. You start having standard thoughts of heresy. Further says the similarly the mitzvah teaches that a person should not pursue the temptations that his eyes see. This includes that one should not chase after the various indulgences of his world. for their end result is bad with much disgrace and wrath. You're spending a lot of time watching the millionaires and the billionaires of the world and you're jealous that they have a Lamborghini. You're jealous that they have a private jet. You like to see how he built his 15th house already. And you're watching all of this kitchens that are cost more than your entire house. This is not good for you. Why? The end will be disgrace. Now, of course, a person that hears this for the first time says, "How could watch how could watching millionaires and billionaires and their stuff and their their their toys, their multi-million dollar toys, HOW COULD THAT BE BAD for me?" The fact that you're asking that question already shows that the roots of heresy have already entered your heart without being interrupted. This is as the sages of blessed memory stated in the when the verse says you shall not explore after your hearts. This is a reference to thoughts of heresy. When the verse continues and says after your eyes, this is reference to immorality. As it says in the book of Judges chapter 14:3, Samson said to his father, "Take her for me, for she is fitting in my eyes." Already Samson was making a mistake from the beginning. He was judging the woman based on what she looked like. Unfortunately, this has become a standard in the world of today, which is also the reason why it seems like there's so many girls and so many boys, but nobody wants to marry anybody. People have made it a standard to go on 50, 100, 200 dates, speed dating. We've become like the nations. Nobody knows what they want. And even if you give them what they want, they're not sure if they want it now. They want it to be like on a menu. And if you cannot afford to buy her a $50,000 bag and take her on $150,000 vacation every few months, she doesn't want to marry you. Why? because she is comparing ourselves to the rich and the famous that she sees on YouTube and television and all types of billboards. Heresy is already choking her heart even if she went to a Jewish seminary and got the best grades in class. Further says the the underlying purpose of this mitzvah is obvious as through this a person is protected from sinning against Hashem his entire life. Indeed, this mitzvah is a key foundation of our faith. For the evil thoughts are fathers, meaning they're sources of all impurities, and the acts of sin are the children of these thoughts, their product. In other words, all sinful acts begin with an improper thought. Now, with regards to the actual fathers and children, we know that if a man dies and has not yet begotten children, there will not be a hint of children. Likewise, if one eliminates his improper thoughts before they give birth to sin, he is guaranteed that he will not come to sin. This prohibition is thus root from which all good emerges. Here the the is telling us to look at something for a moment that's enticing that's triggering your lust that you want that is getting your attention. That's part of the world. That's not a sin. What's a sin is continuing after that first look. after that first look where you saw something that shouldn't be you heard something that shouldn't be said you did something that SHOULDN'T BE DONE THAT first inclination that's human nature but if you continue after that means you're allowing the roots of heresy you're allowing the roots of immorality to start growing around your heart if you kick it out before that you saw something and you looked way. You thought something and you changed the thought. YOU SAID you did something to remove that filth from your mind. You're saved from sin. You're not going to think about it again. It's not going to come up at the most inappropriate times. It's gone and you won't sin because of it. So what happens if you sin? That's because you let it in. That's because you let your mind think that there may be a possibility that there's a human God. Three billion people believe that God could be a human being. As stupid as that sounds, three billion people believe that. Now this all started with a thought with a vision that they allowed to convince them. The further develops this and says know my son the following principle and let it be a regular refrain in your mouth namely that which the sages of blessed memory said in chapter 4 verse uh Mishna number two where one sin begets another sin and one mitzvah begets another mitzvah. The phrase one sin begets another sin means that if you set your mind to satisfy your sinful craving once, you will be drawn to it many times. And on the other hand, if you merit to be mighty in that land and suppress your evil inclination and shut your eyes from seeing evil even once, it'll be easier for you to do so many times in the future. See here the is giving us a legitimate strategy that you can see with your own eyes that it works. He says if you have an inclination to believe in all types of things that are against the Torah, that's because you've allowed it to seep into your mind and into your heart and it feels like it's at home. If you see something, you see a show, you see immodesty, you see something that is against the Torah and you look away. If you hear heresy and you shut it off right away, then the says you'll be saved. Why? The guy that is inclined to do something that's against the Torah. The girl that is constantly inclined to question Hashem, to complain to Hashem as if he owes us something. That's because they've allowed themselves to think thoughts of heresy, as if God needs you, AS IF GOD IS dependent on you in some way. You've humanized God. No different than the Christians and the Catholics and all the other people that have man gods. you've humanized him and therefore he needs you in some way or another. So the thoughts of heresy feel at home and therefore every time there's NEW HERESY THAT COMES OUT, YOU'RE THE FIRST ONE TO HEAR IT. YOU'RE the first one to start thinking about it. Maybe this makes sense, maybe that makes sense. Everything makes sense. Doesn't matter who the talking head is. IT ALWAYS MAKES sense to you when it comes to heresy. But if you want to stop, all you got to do is press stop. Next time you hear something, press stop. You can hear it again, press stop again. You can hear again, press stop again. And you'll see how it becomes easier and easier to not hear that stuff at all, to not watch that stuff at all. That's what the Torah promises us. And he even gives us an example as if he wrote it for our generation today where he tells us think of it as if you would think about a drunk. says, "A desire draws the physical nature of a person in the same way that wine draws those who excessively drink it. For it's well known that people that are drunkards never feel satisfied with the wine that they've drank. Rather, they constantly crave more and more of it with greater desire. In fact, the degree that they habituate themselves to drinking, their addiction actually intensifies. Now, if only they would resist that craving of wine once and instead drink a cup of water, the burning fire of the craving for wine would start going lower and life would become sweet to them. And the same is true in regards to this manner of sinful cravings in general. Any person that accustoms themselves to give in to this cravings and regularly indulges in those cravings, the evil inclination will intensify and hold her over him day by day. He will helplessly succumb to cravings every time only to be revisited later on even more intensely. This is the meaning of the phrase in the Mishna that one sin brings on another. On the other hand, a person that overcomes their impulses and refrains from indulging their cravings, they will continuously rejoice with their lot all the time because he will have been freed from the shackles of desire. You will then come to see that indeed said in Cohel in chapter 7 verse 29, Hashem made man straight but they sought many intrigu intrigues without any benefit whatsoever to be gained from these intrigues intrigues in so many words. What the is telling us is every time you submit and succumb to the desires, whether it's immorality or it's lust for money or it's other materialism or other things that are out there, false beliefs, humanizing God, idolatry, all the different things that people believe. Every time you succumb to it, every time you fall for it, you now become more inclined to do it again. And worse, when we first started exposing the heretic who calls himself the most famous rabbi on YouTube, Manis Freedman, he is the leading most poisonous person on planet Earth today, more than any Christian missionary because he has humanized God in such a fashion that most people don't even realize it happened. At least with the Christians, you know, they humanize God. They literally made a human. They decided to some human is actually God. This anyone with a brain realized this cannot be. The Torah says exactly opposite. But here you have people like Manis Freedman who actually humanized God. But he didn't do it all once. He started with philosophical hints. God needs your mitzvot. needs. No sage in the history of AmI is ever said God needs anything. But this Joe Schmo that calls himself a says God needs. Fast forward, everyone ignores our warnings for years. Manis continues to build on. He gets other rabbis to piggy back on his popularity and say the same thing. All of them from Kabad usually some outside of Kabad. And now he goes further. Not only he needs in his essence he needs. Meaning he cannot exist without it. No one screams foul except rabbis from Badashem. What happens? He goes further. God has an arm. God has a mouth. He has a body. Not like your body, but he has a body. He is his real body. And little by little, he has humanized God. And by default, he has completely negated any type of punishment whatsoever for sinners. Everyone is righteous. Now, the ultimate goal of this world is to bring the physical God that he believes in to this physical lowly world. And guess what? You have Christianity 2.0. This is Manis Freedman. And the people that followed him off the cliff, down they go with him without even realizing they're going off the cliff of heresy in the highest and most obnoxious, disgusting way we've seen in 2,000 years. This all started with dropping a drop of heresy and nobody says anything and they allowed it more and more in the same way started with Christianity. Well, you had a guy that went against the sages and all of a sudden he got people to follow him that were illiterate, that were ignorant of what the Torah said and little by little he would tell them he is above the Shabbat, one of the ten commandments. Meaning, you don't need to keep Shabbat anymore. He violated Shabbat himself. But thisai was all one step after another. That's how the venom of heresy works. And therefore the says all of those people that fall prey to their desires, their lusts, their heresies will eventually realize that they will have no benefit whatsoever from any of it. and those that overcome it will see only good. The laws of this mitzvah are brief. He says the mitzvah applies in every location and in all times for both men and women. So anyone who thought that this mitzvah maybe is not relevant to our generation in some way or another the says otherwise. And one who transgresses this pro prohibition and focuses his thoughts or her thoughts on these matters that we have mentioned such as philosophical discussions that are against the Torah and its principles. In so many words, he's talking about manis freedman and anything else that's contrary to the Torah, which lead a person to stray from the path of the wholesome and pure perspectives of the Torah, and to instead embrace the views of the senseless heretics, which is an evil and bitter plight. And likewise, one who strays after his eyes, that's to say that he chases after the various indulgences of this world. For example, he constantly preoccupies his mind with providing himself an abundance of great worldly delights without intending at all that they be for good purpose. Meaning that he does not do so in order to remain healthy so that he exert himself in the service of his creator, but only to satiate himself with worldly delights. Anyone who follows this path transgresses this prohibition continually whenever he engages in the pursuits we have just described. See here the is telling us something that is really shocking. What he's saying is that every time you engage in these philosophical discussions about a human god, about heresy, and you are on the side of believing that maybe there's a truth to it or there is a truth to it, you're sinning with every single second this is in your mind. This is not just if you say it then you sin. The fact that you're thinking it is a sin. Every second is a sin. A person will arrive at the bed of Shamim with literally an infinite amount of sins they did not even realize existed then what you going to do? You think Menace the Santa Claus is going to help you? You think the rest of the heretics that say things against the Torah, like Palanov and the other morons we've exposed over the years are going to help you then here the is telling us a mitzvah that we as Jewish people repeat to ourselves every single day when we say the Israel. Every day a Jew is supposed to say multiple times. Men have to do it once in the morning, once at night, once before you go to sleep. When you say the during twice, during two of those times, you're also saying the part where it says, "Don't follow your heart and your eyes because that will lead you to sin." This is repeated day after day. Every six-year-old Jewish kid knows this mitzvah because he reads it, but he doesn't know the meaning. A person could be from their entire life and not know what this actually means. Most people think that this is only relevant to seeing things that are inappropriate, seeing pornography, seeing modesty. No, it's not just that. In fact, what we see from the is there's a higher emphasis on warning against heresy entering your mind and heart than even immorality. People think that when said things like don't look at things that are immodest, even if it's a cartoon. They were just being a little bit exaggerating, a little bit controlling. Let's see what the Talmud says. One of the greatest sages that ever lived is bin henos. He was the rabbi of the page 16b tells a story of what happened after was arrested. for heresy against the Roman Empire. They brought him up to the tiered court building to be judged and the Roman official in charge said to him accusingly, "A wise man such as yourself should engage in these idol matters." Meaning, why are you wasting your time learning Torah? that now we're going to have to kill you for it responds to him. The judge is trusted by me. Meaning, I trusted Hashem, the judge of everything. He's going to rule in my favor. I'm learning his Torah after all. But the Roman judge misunderstood it. He thought that Rab Yez was speaking of him, that he's the judge. But in reality, was speaking about Hashem. But since the official misunderstood, he was happy about it. So he said to Rabel Yezel, "Since you have made me trusted by you, I swear to the Deus, one of their idols, that you are acquitted, released in the name of his false god." When Rabzer returned to his house, his students came to console him. But he was so sad about the fact that there could be a judgment that he benefited from idolatry in some way. Even though it wasn't his fault, it was the judge's fault for misunderstanding. He didn't tell him that he believes in his false god and his nonsense, but he still freed him based on that. So when the students came to console the rabbi he would he was hysterical. He would not accept any consolation. And then of course came top student and said to him my teacher permit me to say one thing from what you have taught me yourself. said, "Speak." And says to yel, "Rabbi, perhaps this happened because some teachings of heresy came to your hands." Meaning it was repeated to you and you didn't do anything about IT IN THE PAST AND THEREFORE MADE IT HAPPEN AGAIN. When thought about it, it pleased him. He thought, "Yeah, maybe you're on to something." Says, "Yeah, on account of that, that's why it happened because we know one mitzvah leads to another. One sin leads to another." And then thought, "Oh, you've reminded me. Once he says, I was walking in the upper market in Tipoli." This was one of the towns and I encountered one particular heretic. This guy named Yakov who was from this heretic always said stupid things was part of his heresy. And he said to me, you know, I wasn't responding to him, but he was talking. He was walking next to me talking and he says, you know, it's written in the Torah that you shall not bring a harlot's hire. In regards to that verse, what's the law concerning making from a harlot's hire a lavatory for the cogul? So I said to him in a reply, what it is, but the heretic said, ah, this is not what my master taught me. You know what I learned about this? Now he wants to tell me his heresy. He says that the scripture says for they were collected as harlots hire and they will revert to harlots hire. And from there we understand the heretic said they came from filth and they'll return to filth. And you know what I found what he said even though I rejected it. Obviously, that's not what the Torah says. I found it funny because I found it pleasing. Meaning that he's mocking the her he's mocking the the harlot, the sinners. I found it funny. I laughed at the heretic's joke. I therefore now assume that on this account, the incident that happened to me with the Romans is why it happened. I was seized because I was coerced coerced into heresy. And it specifically says that I transgressed that which is written in the Torah because the Torah says distance your way from her. Who is this her? Minute heresy. And do not come near the door of her house. This is in reference to authorities. People that are after money. People that all they do is push their weight because of their financial control. So much so that the sages started expounding on this. Okay. Well, it says stay away from heresy. How much should you stay away from heresy? says if there's a heretic you're not allowed to be within four of that person what's four am 6 to 8 ft not even allowed to stand next to him and says that this heresy this minute is not something that you could easily get rid where our scripture says Aluka has two daughters that say have have give give. Who is this Aluka? Aluka is one of the names of gay and it says give givea says this is referring to the voice of the two daughters who cry out from gay and who in this world say bring me bring me and who are these daughters heresy and the authorities. Meaning that these things that people think are not a big deal have special connection to gay, special connection to destruction of special connection to destruction of lives. So much so that the sages continue to expand upon this in the says that what is mashka? If a person allows themselves to listen and accept heresy as truth so much so that it builds roots around their heart. their only tikun will begin at death. Hence the reason why throughout history the says there were certain people that were missionaries to idolatry and then out of a spark of holiness entered them and they realized they have to abandon it. They abandoned it and died quickly after. Why their knew this is the tikun there's a new called it's the second volume it's by shalom in page 152 is a f extraordinary ary story just something that is out of this world. says he heard directly from David who was the ra of the who has a mas a tradition for this story and his family for hundreds of years that this is exactly what happened nearly 400 years ago the Jewish world had someone even worse than Yoski was at his time. A guy by the name of Shabitzvi. And what made Shapes worse was that in his foundation, Shabitvi was an extraordinary Torah scholar. He knew an immense amount of Torah and his helper Natana Zati also was an extraordinary Torah scholar. This brought many different insights, miracles, changing nature, doing all types of things that were unbelievable to people. Wasn't just a miracle worker per se. He could speak about every part of the Torah fluently because before he became a false messiah, a heretic, he was a Torah scholar. And the same goes for his students. But he got followers to believe him that he's Messiah. And in those days, it was very very difficult to tell if it's true or false. It's not like today where anyone that knows even a little bit of Torah. Even someone that has read the weekly Torah portion from beginning to end for an entire with commentary by Rashi knows that somebody like Palvinov or Manis Friedman is a heretic. There's no question about that. It's very Anyone that has actually read the Torah with commentary just to understand what they're actually reading knows that what they're saying is against the Torah. This is not hard. It's only hard for people that don't learn Tawa and therefore allow the roots of heresy so deep into their heart that even after they read the Torah, it's almost impossible to undo. In those days of it was very hard for people to decipher the truth from falsehood because on one end you could speak to him about every part of the Torah and he knows more than you. Doesn't matter if you're bringing a Shabbat or you bringing. It didn't make a difference if you're speaking or Kabala. He was extremely well-versed in the Torah in addition to the miracles, in addition to all the different things that he would do. And he was a very very impressionable uh impressive personality. And Jungai says during that time many many people fell for him. Although he was in Turkey, many people from the Ashkenazi world fell for the trap of Shapesi for some time. But there were obviously there was also some safaris. But the point is that there were some big rabbis that went against him, but there were also some big ones that went for him because the truth was so blurry. During that time, there was a sadik that went against saying he's wicked, he's against the Torah. We see it from his actions where he's now making him and his students follow a new Torah where instead of the blessing that we say every morning that Hashem gets us out of being a prisoner of our own sleep that we can't move, can't do anything. Now he's freed us would say meaning he allows all the forbidden especially the decrees by the sages like the the all types of which is he would eat he would eat but he would do it in a way where he would show you how this is now all of a sudden allowed because now he's Msiah and therefore there's no more sinning there's no more prohibitions So initially this sadik which is unnamed and they intentionally left him unnamed was against found out about this and he sent his student he said go to him go to this and convince him to become my now this of of of Shabvi was also a genius. Sort of like today you have a bunch of fake Msiahs. Every other day there's a new fake Mashiach. Some of them have actual real around them. Some have where they have literally thousands of people going to see them every day, see them play the music, see them give all types of uh fake miracles, all types of nonsense that people fall for. And believe it or not, one of the most disturbing things is that some of the people that are partners to the crime are actually real Torah scholars that have fallen for the trap. But like anything else, everything will eventually be exposed. The truth will be will come out. Even if you cover it with all of the dirt in the world, it'll come out eventually. But in the time of it seemed like it would never happen. And when this Talmid came of came to this Sadik, he didn't tell him he was a Telmid of he told him that he needs somebody to host him. So of course the Sadik said, "Sure, you can stay with us. Do you know any Torah?" He said, "Yeah, sure. We can start talking." And then they start talking to and Sadi sees that this guest is a genius. And for three days and three nights they're discussing all parts of the Torah. He says to him, "Who are you?" He says to him, "I am the smallest of the ofenu." At that moment, the sadik says, "What? I did not know that your rabbi is so great that he has such talim. Now I will become his and he continued learning with this guest. But now he realized he has to tell his ka his community that he made a mistake. And he goes and he tells his community as the rabbi of the community he made a mistake about by saying he's really a sadik. And of course the rabbi says the people follow but now since this oft follows the ways of he's also he's also eating non-cooser. He's also looking at things he's not supposed to. He's also not following the Torah. He has a lot of knowledge, but he's a wicked person. And now the Sadik is following in his footsteps. In the meantime, the Sadik's wife watches our husband start going down spiritually. All of a sudden, all of a sudden, there's no separation. All of a sudden different things coming out and she's crying hysterical. And of course sages teach us that a woman. She has better senses of who the guests are than the husband. If somebody comes to visit your house and your wife says this is not a good person, listen to her. She knows better than you do. Why? They have a keen sense for who the guests are coming into their house. But in the beginning, she was just crying to herself as she saw her husband deteriorate worse and worse. Months have passed and she couldn't take it anymore. And she starts hysterical crying to A HUSBAND. WHAT HAPPENED to you, my dear husband? You used to be a sadik. You used to be kadosh. LOOK AT YOU. WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU? All of a sudden, you're not listening to the sages here. You're not doing this. You're not doing that. And at that shocking moment, this Sadik realized, "She's right." He says to her, "You're right. Ever since this guest came to our house, I've been on a downward spiral." Immediately he kicked him out and he realized that the tum from is above and beyond anybody else's comprehension how it could literally take control of your heart. But now he has to tell his community. How is he going to tell his community? Who's going to listen to him? First he was against him. Then he said he's a sadik. Now you're going to tell him he's again. What are you gonna do? Says the rabbi sent invitations to everyone in the community that he's having a huge event with food and festivities, something that costs a lot of money where there's a special speech, special announcement. Of course, the whole community came to this big event and the rabbi stands in front of everyone and says to all of them, I have made a mistake about chapa. He is a heretic. He's a false mashiach. Of course, commotion. First the rabbi said this. Then the rabbi said this. Rabbi said I know what you're saying. First I said he was and go against. Then I said I made a mistake and now I'm SAYING THE OPPOSITE AGAIN. WHY SHOULD YOU LISTEN TO ME? where our says in Abu in page 17A, anyone that goes after heresy, their tikun is to die. And you will see that as soon as I finish my speech since I know that my tikun and will only begin with death, you will see that I will die as soon as I finish speaking. And as soon as he finished speaking, he died right in front of everyone. Here we see number one how much of a sadik he really was because a person can say whatever they want. Who says that in shamim they're going to decree the same thing you did? But the second thing we see is what the sages have said. If a person allows the minute allows the heresy deep into their heart it's not only something that could ruin your eternity. It's not only something that could ruin your day-to-day life. It's something that is very, very hard to fix because of how much damage you've allowed it to make. The sages have taught us that we have to stay away from heresy. Not just by telling us outright stay away from heresy, but also by showing us how implanted this into our daily prayer every single day. And if a person does not have kavana, does not have the proper intentions when they're praying, they could literally read this verse 500,000 times during their life without ever understanding what it means. You can't just allow every talking head with a voice into your mind and heart. It doesn't matter what they're talking about because whether you agree or you disagree, it'll affect you. One of the things that people don't think is a big deal is if they watch shows about news or sports or even kids watching all types of cartoons. If you're watching things that are immodest, even if it's a cartoon, it'll affect you. You think, "No, but I'm just it's not a big deal. It's just kids. It's just cartoons." No, it'll affect you. It'll poison your mind. All of a sudden, you'll start thinking things that are against the Torah. And all of a sudden, you start rationalizing them and thinking that maybe it is allowed. Maybe it's okay. If you start watching all types of things that are against the Torah, little by little, you start thinking differently than you did before you started watching it. Why? See, heresy becomes like a spiritual addiction. So much so it's mush it's pulls the person backwards over and over again every time he tries to come out at the time of the balto one of his was a kadosh named pin of kit and he came to the bento crying for help says rebi rebi please help me The Satan got me. The palto says to his what did he do? He says thoughts of heresy entered my mind. What kind of heresy? Says the Rebi knows that the city was recently destroyed. Part of the city was destroyed by a tsunami. And I started thinking about it. It makes sense that the waves of the ocean destroyed part of the city because the city was close to the ocean. And that thought of heresy entered my mind and I have to get IT OUT BECAUSE OF course we all know that the only reason why the ocean destroy the city is because Hashem decreed that will be and every time the water of the ocean only reaches the coast and does not destroy any city that's because Hashem decreed. It's not because it's not close to it. It's not because there's no wind. It's not because of the moon. It's not because of the sun. It's not because of anything other than the will of Hashem. And the Satan has momentarily convinced me that the reason why the city was destroyed was because it was too close to the water. Please rabbi help me remove this from my mind. If only we only had such thoughts of heresy as the worst of heresy. But these would literally glued themselves to Hashem, glued themselves to Hashem and the BM told them go pray the power of can remove these thoughts from your mind. Today the thoughts that a person could use as something equivalent to what thought is why did the missiles attack in Israel again? Why did somebody die of some type of accident? Why did you lose money? Why did you make money? All the different things that people have questions about of why did something happen that's against their will. Don't think for a moment it's because of bad luck. Don't think for a moment it's because somebody got over you. Don't think for a moment it's because of anti-semitism or all types of things that people say in the media. The reason why everything happens is because the will of Hashem in order to fix the world in order to send us a message. If we would stop minding his business and start focusing on our business, which is to remove the heresy from our hearts, everything will be much better in our lives, in your lives, and in the world we live in because it'll come to a point where Kadosh can bring a Messiah, a real Messiah that could bring the salvation to those that glued themselves to Hashem and his truth and ran away from all heresy, whether it's man-made heresy of humanizing God from 2,000 years ago or today. Heresy is minute. And minute is much more dangerous than you can possibly imagine because it goes in with your permission and it only comes out if you kick it out. But it's not Hashem. We will all have lots of success kicking out any form of heresy from our hearts, from our minds and never let it once again. Call to anyone that wants to support can donate on our website.org and of course anyone that has not downloaded the app AI rabbi from our website aireabi.org to ask questions. You're missing out. 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