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You Can't Fool HaShem

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Rabbi Yaron Reuven

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firstborn. But yet, many houses of the Egyptians that had many kids, they had five kids, 10 kids, 20 kids, didn't have only one firstborn die. Rather, they had several of them. How could it be? How could one woman have more than one firstborn? Her husband didn't know, says Hashem. Her husband didn't know. He thought that all of the 10 kids were his kids. He didn't know that his wife cheated on him. Not once or twice, but with 10 different people. And therefore, each one of the kids was a firstborn to a different husband that SHE HAD. SO, SHE didn't know. In fact, she herself didn't even know from who and what where, but I did. And just like I punished her, just like I killed all of those firstborns, because I knew what people didn't realize I knew. I also know all of these different tricks that you're going to try to do when it comes to lending money with interest. You're going to say, "Listen, I'm not going to lend money with interest. I'm Jewish, but I have a partner who's not Jewish. So, he is the one that's lending to this Jew the money to charge him interest." Hashem says, "I know your tricks. I'm going to punish you for it. What you think because your partner, you you have this little feneagle, feneagling, that that's how you're going to make money by by having a partner that's not Jewish, or you're going to have I don't work on Shabbat, but we have a business and my partner is not Jewish and he's the one that runs the company on Shabbat. We just end up splitting the profits." So, in essence, what you're doing? You're making money on Shabbat. And you're trying to use an excuse. Hashem says, "I'm Hashem your God. You think I didn't know your excuse? You didn't You think I You fooled me? Maybe you fooled your accountant. You fooled the IRS, the government, the FBI. You fooled your wife. You fooled your husband. You fooled your kids. You fooled everyone. But you can't fool Hashem. You can't fool Hashem. All of these strategies that people use to try to fool Hashem like they have a tick