Special Q & A for Teens & Young Professionals with Rabbi Yaakov Rahimi #4

welcome back good evening thank you for joining us for this amazing series which there's so many submitted questions there's there's there's too many to handle since we since we heard last time remember creamy about you uh you can't be embarrassed you have to ask your questions in order to to to learn in order to know in order to in order to find out what you don't know um and that is being presented by the khazak organization and tar anytime and i want you to tune in like you're doing right now every monday night at 8pm eastern standard time on tour anytime dot com slash kazakh2 at spell touringtime.com c-h-a-z-a-q the number two and and you should email us your questions to eventzakhazak.org and we will address your question right here email us at events at kazakh.org e-v-e-n-t-s at c-h-a-z-a-q dot o-r-g um to start us off um we're we're gonna talk about um a very important teaching what does it say it says that we should be careful about min so so so what this is what i heard from rabbi ali men's story so he said sorry man sorry explain he said he said the simple interpretation is well what's simple interpretation okay fine practical exam practically you have to be careful about minecraft because why because i can find chakras like i find whatever time you're supposed to get up get up a little bit earlier okay fine beautiful um and and go pray in the morning shakari chakras but what about and then mario could find end of your day okay when it's ten o'clock eleven o'clock whatever it is okay fine go down tomorrow what about smack in the middle of your day you have meetings you have classes whatever it is now we say go down now the obligation is what you're doing wow that's a practical example that's how i explained it he said but it was the deeper interpretation he said in in life you have you have you have a chakras of your life a minika of your life and a marv of your life um the chakras in your life is is when you're younger okay fine you go through um you're you're younger years and then what's what's the what's the marv of your life when you're older already so and what's what's the minimum your life when you're when you're involved in in in the world whatever you may call it let's say let's say um you're you're in business you have school or whatever it may be and you have you have you have family obligations you have you have to make a parnassa whether or maybe you're in college or you're in high school you have classes you have you have you have all these different studies because then we say be careful about medical meaning don't squander the main years of your life the minha of your life so maybe if you can give some physic to people some people they might say okay fine like okay the torah hashem i understand it's amazing it's beautiful but i just wanna i'm not involved i'm just in there okay fine when i retire when i get married or whatever maybe if you get much if you could uh touch upon this amazing point wow wow wow thank you for watching again i don't even know why you need me robbie should be questions answered with you beautiful shout out from a real man store okay so this topic oh my gosh this time back i go on for hours okay let's see something quick about it you know but that's the way life is robbie that's the truth that's the way life is no matter you know you can always try your best i'm talking to myself also you always try your best to remind yourself how not to waste time not to waste time but then you're not the test that we have in our generation really distracts us it really distracts especially the youth the teenagers like am i also a teenager i guess i'm just 10 30. young whatever it is there's a lot of distractions going on all over the place life is not boring as it used to be life is like you know it looks exciting it's a lie it's a line let me make the clear that's a lie all the phones instagram facebook youtube all that is one big live vacations that's all the yetzara's way to manipulate you thinking life is about that and eventually you lose that in the future that's all a lie but it's tough it's tough i'm aware it's tough and the rabbis are aware it's tough so bizarre we're going to try to say i'm going to try to say a parable to wake up as many as possible and bizarre shema shall wake myself up through this masha'allah get says a very very powerful parable powerful he says imagine you have two brothers one wealthy brother and one younger brother that's not so wealthy the younger brother tells his older brother you gotta bring me into your business a little bit i also want to make a lot of money i also want to start having a business i have to start making a living i have to start rolling i have to start thinking big as i said we go big these guys say right we go big they want a lot of money so the older brother tells them come with me to china back in the good old days come with me to china i have a factory i'll introduce to you i'll train you how to make the products when we come back to brooklyn you know you're going to come in the business and you'll grow just like i grew the younger brother who's married asked his wife for permission if he's allowed to go to china with his brother to go start a business his wife says yes but only for a short amount of time it's very hard for me that you here go they both go to china they land you know after off to play in the land they go to take a tax to the hotel and beijing over there the beautiful beijing they go to a very fancy hotel the older brother says okay we got to go to sleep no time for supper we got to go to sleep tomorrow we have to be up early very early we have a lot of business meetings the younger brother says i'm also going to go to sleep i just want to check out the casino downstairs the younger brother goes downstairs and he starts playing casino he starts rolling the dice and rolling the dice and it's getting later and later later he just landed from the plane he only comes back to the room at six o'clock in the morning he puts his head down his brother an hour later he says let's go let's go wake up we have business to do we have meetings after meetings and meetings after meetings let's go the younger brother tells his older brother the businessman leave me alone i'm tired leave me alone i just came back he's like you know what i'm going i'm not waiting for you i have meetings to do the older brother leaves the hotel and he has such a good day meaning after meaning business after business he comes back he doesn't see his younger brother in the hotel room what's going on ends up being this younger brother woke up at two o'clock in the afternoon and he went to the pool he's swimming at the pool the whole time and again he comes back late at night and the older brother tells him all we have is 10 days here how long are you going to waste your time with the casinos in the pool his brother tells him don't worry one more day and that's it one more day and that's it and a battalion goes another day the brother the older brother goes to the business meetings and another one another home run another home run more and more you move forward in business more more about meanwhile the younger brothers by the pool but the beach but the hotel by the casino by the i know where it was going all over the place playing ball watching movies netflix to netflix youtube to facebook facebook to instagram more and more and more and more and more and more uh yeah yeah i came the last day the older brother tells them that's it we got to go back home we're going back to brooklyn the younger brother tells them what we're going so fast the brooklyn that said that was only here for 10 days i didn't even do anything he's like i warned you every single day and i warned you and he told me don't worry about it i have time don't worry about it i have time it'll be a different time for the business meetings different time to accomplish things now i want to play with the dice and the cards and i want to watch movies they go back home the wife greets her husband knew how was china how many accomplishments how much business did you do how embarrassed is the husband what is he going to tell his wife she let him go for 10 days although it was hard for her and he comes back empty-handed what was he doing the whole time uh casino after casino movie after movie the beach after the beach vacation after vacation meanwhile you did not accomplish anything where you went for you went to china to go back with the goods to coming with the business deals and you're wasting your time how foolish is that person appetite how do we bring it home for the teens including myself life is very distracting right now the generation is a lot of distracting things we tell ourselves we know what's right but we have time we know what's right but we have time another movie in another movie another year goes to waste and all the year goes to waste another day goes to waste i know a person that goes to vacation way too many times i don't even know what the quantification is the whole point of vacation is because you need a break from something but if you always go on vacation you need a vacation with a vacation you have to get a break from vacations sometimes a person wastes his life he goes from one place to another place from one car to another car your car is fine why are you getting even a newer car what are you wasting your time for or a person unfortunately you know waste his time too much going on too many other attractions that's wasted his life more and more and more but meanwhile you were brought in this world hashem had a very hard time sending you in this world hashem wants you next to him in allamah your next to hashem that's what hashem wants you he said i'll bring you in this world i'll bring you down here i'll ship you here but there's a reason why you're here i need you to accomplish i need you to accomplish more tawa more mitzvoth more qasid more pray terror pray tara let's go build build build make sure you're not that person that says hashem i have time i'm only young i'm so young i'm 16 i'm 17. this is the life let's party this is the life you're never going to get that time back that whatever you're supposed to accomplish in that age you will never come back it's not like you can make it up later on it's not true that year whatever you're supposed to accomplish unfortunately you can never get back a person hashem gives you time hashem gives you every single day there's opportunities of that day and there's opportunities of that year do not mess up don't be like that younger brother who went to china and wasted his time and came back empty-handed shalom don't come back to hashem after 120 empty-handed please don't be that full learn terra and do mitzvahs besides that i want to disagree and i want to challenge any teenager or adult that wants to disagree with this sending the question if you want you can call me if you're looking to have fun you're making a mistake and i said this a million times you're making a mistake if you think having fun means partying all day and watching movies it's a foolish mistake hashem who created everything i already told you the greatest fun is learning tyre the greatest friend is getting close to him although you might not see it in the beginning but you have to trust hashem you have to trust the creator of the world how can you get up and say hashem forget it i don't want to learn i want to watch movies i think life is funner the other way how can a person do such a thing that makes no sense unless you don't believe in god which is not good if you don't but if you really believe in hashem that makes no sense if anybody wants to challenge me on that please send an email or call me because i just can't think otherwise how can a person say he wants to have fun and he's not religious he doesn't learn that makes no sense so a person has to accomplish an accomplishment accomplishment especially while you're a teenager while you're young that's when your mind is clear your learning is beautiful your learning is beautiful when you're getting older you're going to get married it gets harder to learn it gets very hard to learn when you get married now when you're young and you're a teenager these are the years grab that opportunity sin and learn i remember in yeshiva when we're teenagers we didn't even have cell phones you don't even understand how awesome life was how awesome there used to be weeks we did not leave the yeshiva building we just learned and learned and learned to learn those were the days the sweetest days ever is sinning and learning terror with no distractions whatsoever it's the most enjoyable thing in the world and not according to me according to the creator of the world and i'm going to end with this with abstinence i know it's a long answer someone went to abstinence because i get to some teenagers all the time someone went to abstinement it happens to be it's a person whose time i knew who unfortunately left the religion okay he left uh tawa mitzvot he went to europe's time and he told them simon do you like steak go to sizzling sizzling steak like the steak which time it tells them as a steak i don't know what you're talking about see it explains to what steak is it's like like you know you're sitting on the beach i know what you're talking about get to the point what's your question she tells them just like you don't like steak that's the teenager told them just like you don't like ice cream i don't like tara why do you keep on saying tara is the sweetest thing terra is the sweetest thing terra is the funnest keep on learning keep on learning understanding tells them i don't understand do we all agree the honey is sweet everybody can agree honey is sweet you might not like too much honey okay but everybody knows honey means sweet nothing to disagree on honey is a sweet mixture so too says abstinent god said terror is sweet now maybe you don't like too much tyrol just like you want too much honey maybe you're not in the mood of tyra just looking at the moon of honey but you can't erase facts the facts is turret is sweet who said that hashem said that if you can't taste it if you don't taste the sweetness and you try it then something is wrong with your tongue something is wrong with your taste buds not the item not the honey not the tara terra is sweet if you want to enjoy your life learn tarot don't fool yourself don't be lazy stop at the excuses don't waste time and pursue the truth that's learning tarot that was like a 20 minute speech okay everywhere was precious um but in in in um in your answer you mentioned that that some sometimes like like people they might have um like let's say you do believe but sometimes sometimes you have like these thoughts like i don't know like like like is there a hashem like like like so how do you how do you how do you come to the realization that that that there's that there's a that there's a crater in the world that does hashem is it do you have do you have to use you have to go through um you have to like go through a whole 20 hours science ex diving into science is it is it through how do you how do you find out that there's a shame in the world basically how has it created the world that was uh nathan okay and it says like this about that beautiful question beautiful question how do we know does it create it to the world the answer is like this don't ask kharaga secretary in the world ask proof to me there's no creator in the world the fact that hashem exists is common sense everything in the world everything in the world has a creator can you think of one thing give yourself two seconds three seconds can you mention in your mind one thing in the world that wasn't created by somebody or something that wasn't invented or manufactured there's not one thing in the world rabbit that wasn't created by someone whether it's the table whether it's the chairs or the camera or the walls or i don't know what the trees everything was created by something us human beings everything was created by something so why should a person assume that the world wasn't created by something by god by creator common sense tells us that joseph is a creator for everything in this world every item there's also a creator to the whole world if you want to tell me there is no god you're going against common sense you have to prove to me there's no god common sense tells us there is a creator to the world he is here and he created the world imagine i take you to one of the big buildings in manhattan very fancy buildings you walk in you see the windows are perfect perfectly shaped you know when you go to manhattan buildings you hope not to see one windows like this and windows like this architects and the developers whatever the builds never make those mistakes everything is calculated to the inches imagine to tell you oh this whole building you know what happened uh some uh pancake phone from the sky boom hit the earth and boom the building went up under what a whole huge building uh 50 floors you're going to start laughing in my face how could it be such a thing it's a pancake film from heaven hit earth in a whole building that's all perfectly fine that makes no sense you know it's not polluting stop making jokes like that but whoever claims is not created to the world and the world came from the bing bing what kind of fake news is this is seriously unbelievable nonsense it comes from laziness it comes a person unfortunately we know we have a lacha the inaudibles you know a famous thing yeah you know that bribes let's you have a rabbit that says that's a chauffet that's a judge if you give him a gift even shalom if you want to give him a gift as a friend if you ever want to go to his bed into his court cases he cannot be a judge in your case because you gave him one time you gave him a gift that's enough to make an effect in his heart to judge to have faith in your eyes and he's going to judge for you for your own benefit that's what the torah tells us gifts they're blind that's him they blind the rabbis unfortunately naturally it's every human being not only rabbits it blinds the person to love you more to like you more and eventually it's going to go off from the real judgment from the real halacha says if that's by big sadiq if big rabbis can shalom be bribed by a small gift although he didn't have the intention to do that they cannot be your judges how much more so our desires and i'm talking to myself our desires blind us for making the right judgment about life our desires blinded us for thinking straight the yetza is so strong our desires to do what we want is so strong that a person will even deny this are created to the world are you normal is that any common sense how can a person even think like that because you're blinded you're being bribed by your desires who tell you do what you want don't do what's right you want to live life with no creator you want to live life with no authority that's a horrible mindset but it's a mistake it's a mistake life is about serving hashem and there's no greater enjoyment than serving hashem how did i get to this how did i get to this all right so how is that created to the world the answer that question is beautiful question and my answer to you is i'm going to ask you the question prove to me there's no creator to the world common sense says is it created to the world besides do you feel hashem if you really about yourself you can feel hashem you can definitely definitely feel hashem one suggestion to really feel hashem i'll give you a suggestion if you're a boy learn for three hours or four hours straight close your phone no phone no distractions no coffee breaks go use the bathroom before learn for three hours straight i guarantee you the sense of feeling you're gonna have after three hours of learning tarot is something you can't explain you're gonna feel the creator that's automatic that's automatic and for other for girls that's that person that's not capable of learning try to go see sadiq really really top top rappers of the generation when you're next to them you're gonna have a certain sense of feeling of kedusha of holiness you're gonna feel the creator next to them that's just a tip but there's no question there's a creator to the world grab the opportunity hashem gave you life you're lucky that hashem put you in this world to serve him grant the opportunity no more time for nonsense is there god is an orgasm stop at that stop stop i'm going to end up with this and it tells anything all the time you're never gonna find a person that served hashem his whole life or was religious who captured about the learned terror and sneeze and kosher you're never gonna find that person who regrets serving hashem by his deathbed but you're gonna find many jews unfortunately many jews unfortunately that did not serve hashem the way they're supposed to then they keep shabbos so didn't enter where it's supposed to whether it's their fault or not doesn't make a difference at their deathbed they're going to have a certain feeling of regret what did i do my desires wasn't worth it enough with the shenanigans enough of wasting time what did i do with my life now what it's not worth it you're going to find many people who regret not being religious the last moment of their lives don't make that mistake be happy that you're serving hashem keep shabbos learn tara and know that hashem wants you to get close then the sherman's waiting for you to get close to him beautiful and i think i think we'll end up one last question for tonight um so um we um tonight so so so we know that the the the new year's new year's eve it just it just it just passed and i know that we don't go i'm saying that that's the secular year and we know the jewish year is roshana but maybe maybe um but we can maybe take a lesson from this because because as we know that that only if only a short few months ago was what was rosh hashanah and everyone had everyone was trying to be better and make commitments i'm gonna be better but maybe some people they they're just like they're like okay looking back like a few months in the past they're saying wait i'm just the same person i tried to be better okay i can't do it i guess maybe you can give some some uh some uh give us some uh some some wisdom about um um keep keeping at it that we can continue our commitments or maybe tweaking our commitments to maybe something more realistic from russia beautiful question my answer to that is first of all whoever asked the question be aware be aware that if you even tried making a commitment that's already an accomplishment it's not a small thing if you really wanted to make a commitment and you meant it by rosh hashanah even though probably didn't pull through if it didn't that's still a mitzvah and that's still very special in hashem's eyes if you read this farming document it's all over even wanting even the mahashava even the thought of wanting in ghost hashem is a tremendous accomplishment tremendous akash in the eyes of hashem in fact the gemalen kiddushin tells us that if a jew wants to do a mitzvah he had in mind to do a mitzvah but didn't happen it's as if he did the mitzvah now how does that work why does hashem do that why does this make it that although you didn't actually do the mitzvah with your hands didn't actually come to happen because you really wanted to admit as if you did it because hashem said it's all about the mindset it's all about the song the koosh the wanting to grow and going it goes to hashem so if you really made a commitment rosh hashanah if it didn't happen as of now it's still a great mitzvah they even had a mind to those who think it's so special in the eyes of hashem it's as if you did it now to make things practical to actually change the gedulim always warned us not to take something big upon yourself we know what did he take upon himself before rosh hashanah he said he took upon himself birkat amazon reading the breccata was on the prairie after bread of the meal from the siddul obviously you know paid by heart he took upon himself i want to say from the siddhu to have more kavanaugh that's another reason to have kavanaugh when you actually look at the city and look at the words that you read that's what the greatest leader at the time of shock said that's what i'm taking upon myself reading from asido inside brekata mazon he took a small thing upon himself oh let's say yosef one of his tamir told me that his stuff was took upon himself to have two watches instead of one watch one watch on the left one watch on the right why did he do that to remind himself doing it not to waste time so he had two watches oh he goes another second another second he learned that he learned and he learned he learned bc the gleam took upon himself small things small things because remember it's not about quantity it's about quality it's not about how much you take upon yourself and you say and you say it's about the quality of whatever you do take upon yourself take upon yourself a small thing i'll suggest one thing that kham kanyevsky wrote to kleisol this verse hashanah what to take upon yourself the assam what should we take upon ourselves what should we tell the public he says you know what you should take about yourself speak to god every single day speak to hashem that's you should take upon yourself although we dive in although we dive in which is beautiful and great besides that make yourself a special time every single day to have conversation with god hebrew english spanish french russian arab whatever you want have conversation with hashem speak to hashem talk to him and talk to him that will transform you you're going to get close to hashem you'll change so fast because you're going to feel god you're going to talk to him like they say the greatest psychologist is hashem he's free and he loves you and he always wants you to come to him thank you so much for listening okay powerful and um there's definitely some practical steps about uh staying strong staying kazak and keeping uh keeping strong during these times and uh with your commitments and i want to thank everyone for joining us and uh tune in next week as well as every monday night uh 8pm on tourneytime.com 2 attorney time.com cha caq number two and um email us your questions that's the whole purpose of this uh of this series of this platform to to the questions which you always wanted to ask to ask them right now so email us at events.org e-v-e-n-t-s at c-h-a-z-a-q dot org and we will see you next monday night right here