The Illusion Of Worldly Pleasures - MUSSAR Iggeret HaRAMBAN (38)

[Music] we um back in a Tuesday night aventur almost finished almost completed with thean series um tonight the sh will be for for our dear friend Ben Abraham also for Shmo Ben Rifka Leana Batar David benri Doris Bora Mercedes esora sah Sarah and all of and also for and give him a so continues where in the last several months we've reviewed a letter that is nearly a thousand years old somewhere around 850 years old and I've learned a little bit about life and how much of a misconception we have about some things that uh sometimes we don't think are a big deal whether it's getting overly angry being anxious arrogant all types of bad character traits or even just a simple thought process that people have that life ends with death you know the U number one reason that uh people make the mistake the permanent mistake of committing suicide is because they believe that their problems will end once they die uh but Torah tells us otherwise Torah tells us that your life only begins only begins after you die but not the same type of life rather an eternal life a permanent life this life is temporary everyone knows it you don't have to be very smart or religious to understand that this life is permanent this life is temporary you know the older you get the more people you know the die it's uh not exactly a uh pleasurable experience or a thing that you want to experience but the older you get the more people you're going to know they're going to leave the world before you and one day we will join them the question that every smart person but not smart with IQ smart with enough a wisdom a is going to be a question that is the question of all questions which is what happens after you die what where do you go then a person that commits suicide is a person that has already arrived at the conclusion a wrong one but nonetheless a conclusion that life ends and he will then turn into dust and then you know people walk over him and forget that he ever existed or maybe they will remember if he existed he himself will not be party to it she herself is not going to be party to it and therefore the problems that she's leaving she's leaving behind the problems that he has are going to go away whether it be a financial hardship or sickness or heartbreak or whatever it is but Torah tells us very very different very different uh answer and the answer is is that the only thing that changes after a person's dies in this world is his clothing that's the only thing that changes right now you have to go to a store to go buy clothes every so often you have to go buy a jacket or shirt or pants and if you're woman a dress I'm hopefully a modest one every so often you have to buy something new sometimes because you want something new sometimes because you gained weight sometimes because you lost weight and so on and so forth init there's no clothes you are your clothes your is your clothes now the Styles over there are also different there's no brand names there's no Nike and donaren and Versace and Gucci you know that there's the sins and the MIT that the person made that's the style if you made certain sins your will have certain marks on it for everyone to see you yourself especially if you made certain your will have certain things in it and a person walking around today e could look like a million bucks wear a nice suit bought from some Custom Tailor looks like a million bucks has a nice hair do got uh got himself groomed got nice shoes maybe a loaf first for 4 500 bucks you know he got some colorful socks to make sure that everybody knows that he he has style his belt another few hundred the suit another couple thousand doll the guy looks like and if he puts a keep onad this and if he has a beard wow Shalom says don't make such a big deal out of giving people titles he says in this generation if someone if they say that just means the guys keep Shabbat all means a guy writes a kid a children's book that has to do a Torah everybody starts giving him C like he's M today a person walks around puts a nice suit on he's groomed wow ah let me shake his hand you asked the guy to give you a speech an hour of nothing you have no idea what he said but you know it sounded good why he's a good speaker but you have no idea what he said how it's useful for your life all you got out of it is that you don't want to do what he's doing because it sounds really boring but he speaks good though he speaks good speaks well now init don't work like that why there's no clothes everyone sees you for what you are you're sadik you don't have to say a word you're you also don't have to say a word you walk around with your sins and your MIT on your clothing on yourish now imagine this imagine that there was a gathering let's call it a school reunion cuz everybody went to school at some point not everybody worked but everybody went to school now let's say there's a school reunion 500,000 2,000 students from several classes all gathered together to honor you the whole thing is about you now you're going to walk around what are you going to do you're going to go to the Custom Tailor three months before to get the suit made this the shirt no no I don't want the color this way I want the color that way and no no the buttons I don't want the regular ones that are like I want the ones from bone and I want this one and I want that one and I want the color and the inside it's got to be red but not the typical red and you have a whole list why as if anybody cares about your jacket and anyway you have yourself all set up you're you're done you're going in there you're going to kill it when they say break col leg no I already broke two buddy don't worry you're going there you're going to give them a speech they've never heard before now imagine you arrive at this place everyone says wow what a beard wow wow what a suit look you see his suit that's at least $2 $3,000 wow everybody's clapping clapping and then all of a sudden they stop clapping as you get closer to them and then they're not clapping at all and then they're all getting visibly upset and you have no idea why and they're looking at you and they're upset and you're hearing some voice of someone saying awful things in the background you're not really show what's going on then you see dropping names oh this guy's the worst and this guy's this you see her she's fat oh and she's ugly and she's this and all the thing like where's this and you turn around and there's a screen of you sharing your thoughts about everybody in the crowd you look at her oh she gained weight and she just heard you say that oh look at him he's got a he's got he's got a pimple on his forehead and he just heard that oh look at him I hated that guy always hated him a he's saying hi to me yeah yeah hi buddy and all of your thoughts about everyone is on a big hundred inch screen and everyone can hear it and everyone can watch it and there's nowhere to run and it just keeps going and then once the you stop thinking the producer is very clever he's not going to let the show end over there what does he do to you he starts bringing all of the other thoughts you've had when you knew these people and how you broke her heart and how you cheated him and how you were the guy that stole it but you blamed it on somebody else and you did this and you did that it's all on a screen and now instead of everyone starts asking why why' you do this to me why' you do this to me why and you start seeing people's hearts break in front of you that's all about but that's the arrival not the sentence show up the arrival you show up the arrival before bet before bet you have yourself abob M Davido all of the righteous sages in all of history your great grandparents they're willing to dive just to do one mitvah your grandfather that took his wife to the mikve that's not a mik like today three four $500,000 with the SAA and everything no he took it to a frozen lake at midnight just to fulfill the Mitzvah your grandmother that was willing to go work in some field just she can make a a Ruble why so she can make some Kal for Shabbat and that's the only food they ate and then everybody says look at all we did for him to be Jewish for her to be Jewish and this is what they did they desecrated Shabbat like it was a Monday they ate tar and enjoyed it they stole money and thought as it acted as if it belonged to them they cheated and lied as if it's a mitvah they pretended to be righteous when they knew very well they were Wicked and that's just walking down the aisle to the better the ran told us so far life does not end with our body leaving all that changes is our clothing but the beauty is if you prepare your outfit now and continue for the rest of your life this will not be your movie you'll actually have abov Moshe Aon David schl and all the righteous sages and all of your great grandparents and everybody that all of even the people you didn't even know you were connected to clapping for you look at the sadik look at the sadik's wife look at them look what they did look how much they're bringing with them like abah and abah left and he brought all the that they made what they made all the people I helped them do chv everybody claps everybody cheers as if you're something why because you became something when a person understands that just simple logic their actions today have a different value now although we all heard this although we all easily understood this come later today tomorrow next week sin will appear at our desk and the sin looks delicious we want to do it we want to eat it we want to take it we want to look at it we want to do something with this sin how come how come we still after we know the reality that the sin is expensive we still fall at times or at even least consider falling but not falling a little bit Breaking the Bank going all out knowing that it's not allowed I'm not allowed to be with this guy he's not even Jewish I'm not allowed to be with this girl she she she she's married I'm not allowed to take that money that belongs to him I'm not allowed to go there it's full of you know but you consider it and sometimes we do it how come we know the reality we just found out if we didn't know we just found out we go to the beginning of this series The ran tells us about what is what happens the second you die before even what I just said happens when the malim show up at the grave and start beating the the body until the comes out we know this we learn this but we still consider it how come because the is the master of all Illusions gives you the illusion that worldly pleasure is real that if you take one bite you're going to enjoy it and it's not going to go bad that if you go to this place that you're not allowed to go to it's not going to be so bad like the Rabbi says and if you go hang out with this girl that one time I'm not marrying her just one time Rabbi you know nobody's perfect isn't there a verse in a Torah it says that nobody's perfect and became a scholar he has the verse for it too it's not so bad if he watches this movie or he watches this pornography or he goes here or he goes there or she goes here or she goes there it's not going to be so bad you're so graphic Rabbi no you should go with the Hollywood it's not going to be so bad the yet tells you it's not going to be so bad and he tells you the sin is actually going to be better than you thought now we fall because we believe the yet instead of believing hasem Hashem said if you sin you'll get punished he says it clearly countless times he says it directly and indirectly through sages if you sin you'll get punished in fact it is so important to understand that all those who sin will get punished it became one of the 13 principles of Fai that the rambam said and you can see the details of the 13 principles of fith inim which is part of the ramb the m after his commentary on and he says that there are 13 principles of Faith first one there's one and only god he has no partners he has no helpers he's one he has no past he has no present he has no future he has no thoughts he has no brain he has no arms no legs he's one by saying means that he he and all of his thoughts and all of his realities and all of the past present and future are all one a concept that a human being cannot understand because we are Parts you are not a single thing you Parts you're made up of Parts you have a skin you have a brain you have a heart you have different organs different veins different things that travel through your body you could be separate from your thoughts your actions could be the opposite of your thoughts and beliefs and so on and so forth Hashem does not have such a thing his thoughts and his reality is the same so when we understand the first principles of Faith completely we understand that we can never say that AEM has a brain or has something separate or he changes his mind we cannot say such things unless we have permission directly from the Torah to say such a thing and those are few and far between where he say himself that the outcome should have been this but he had to decide otherwise because because there was a violation of the law like what it says in the when it came to the destruction of the bet mikash he originally wanted to save the people that were religious he fought for them but the is also and he came to him with a case a strong case that they did not rebuke they did not rebuke the rest of the nation and that's the reason why they should not be saved and hasem says you're right so although hasem fought for them he cannot fight against his T the rules of the Torah are for him himself as well that he instilled on himself and that's just the beginning the the a microcosm of understanding the first principle of faith when you start fast forward you r at a principle of faith that says Hashem rewards the righteous and punishes the wicked and the ramban says the rambam says that a person that does not believe any one of these 13 not the whole 13 it's obvious if it's the whole 13 but anyone that contradicts or teaches the opposite or he himself does not believe or agree with one of those 13 cannot be considered as part of am he's considered as part of the wicked among the nation a heretic a person that cannot be counted in the minan a person that in the eyes of a is worse than a murderer that's how bad so reward and punishment is a very very big deal in hashem's eyes not because he wants to punish us but because he knows that the creation that he made needs to know about the consequence of their actions in order for them to evaluate their actions correctly because had I known that each one of my actions would have such a heavy consequence surely I would not do it but if I think that there is no consequence for my actions why shouldn't I do it now there is this concept in Judaism that's very very important which is called Li on which is to look at the better side of look for the good in them a very critical and important mitvah to fulfill but unfortunately one of the most mistaught topics that exist today people think that liut means that you view the wicked as righteous even in front of them when we see that the that the that all of the sages spoke very very much against such a thing so much so that the ramban writes in his sh that a person that minimizes punishment or says that gome is less than what it really is he's considered a as if he violated the 13 princip principles of Faith So today we're going to learn about these two topics one is the optical illusion that we have of thinking that there's pleasures of this world but yet at the same time understand what it actually means to do because if you don't do it surely you're going to be Wicked if you only view the negative of don't think for a second you're going to heaven on the on the other hand if you only say they're good you also have a problem and the reason why this topic is is very important so the ramban writes in his letter that after you have reviewed all of these different things in regards to your character traits of anger and and and and uh um arrogance and you've developed and you gave respect to everyone no matter where they stand and you make sure that you study Torah every day and apply to yourself he didn't tell tells us so that you may succeed in your ways all of this that what we've done in the last six or so months the ran says if you do all of this it's why why should you do it so that you may succeed in your ways and Merit the world to come the the LI is hidden for the righteous Not For The Wicked not for theat not for the thief not for the comic not for the good-looking but rather for the righteous now first we see that the ramban highlights the fact that you have to considera in your life as a number one priority so much so that he's saying that a person must simply say to himself if he wants to overcome the obstacles of day-to-day life the Obstacle of the illusion of sin he has to say to himself and she must say to herself instead of I can't wait until he looks at me I can't wait until the guys Mak some whistles at me like a m do I can't wait until everyone pays attention to me instead of that she must say to herself and he must say to himself a person must simply say I will reserve my enjoyment for the world to come all of these things that I'm chasing to get pleasure are going to be to no avail nothing good will come out of it rather in order for me to overcome it I not only have to understand and be fully aware that they're forbidden but that does not mean the joy is forbidden rather the ultimate joy that I'm missing out or at least I think I'm missing out in this situation it's not it's not missing I'm not losing it I'm just reserving it for another time I'm not going to enjoy now in order to enjoy much more later why because this world is not conducive to real pleasure it's a life of change a life of work a life of toil a life of hardship a life of ups and downs that's what life is but a K wants us to experience a part of the payment of what we're going to get Ina which is Shabbat Shabbat is a small amount of if you really experience Shabbat and not just sleep all day or just eat all day if you actually experience Shabbat like you're supposed to connect to enjoy the family enjoy the beauty of it enjoy the opposite of what the rest of the week is cut away from the world Shabbat will actually give you a feeling of are you gonna say no you know last week two weeks ago three weeks ago four weeks ago for to be honest with you RAB I've been keeping shabab three years not a single time that I feel what does that mean you haven't gotten there yet there still a little work that your Shabbat needs in order to get to that level but surely you can sometimes people will do it once in a while where you have one Shabbat it's amazing the food was delicious the company was great the learning just was fluid and you didn't want Shabbat to be over sometimes it's not quite that someone argued someone didn't feel good you know that you forgot to turn on the plot that's all the food was cold you know all types of things happen and uh your Shabbat wasn't exactly you're hoping it's going to stay in this it's not going to come with you over there it happens the idea is to try to make as many as possible feel like because that is supposed to be a glimpse of the world to come just like the page 22A teaches today is the time for their Commandments performance tomorrow is the time for their payment the F payment is the essential mental attitude of theik whereas instant gratification is not only for the wicked but also for the miserable because people that seek instant gratification all of them ultimately arrive at the same conclusion which is that even after they got it or they didn't get it they still feel empty It's never enough the instant gratification eventually you realize it's not as good as it was in your imagination you thought it was going to be good it looked really good it smelled really good but two bites into it not so good you thought it was going to be fun it looked like fun it it sounded like fun 5 seconds into it I can't wait for it to be over you thought is going to be the one she's the one he's the one I can't believe I found the one oh yes so so what when I marri the one all types of things that I want and eventually you're alone and one and miserable why she wasn't the one he wasn't the one but now you're violated one now you just gave a piece of your body to some stranger which is one of the most ludicrous things that women do today they give themselves to strangers thinking no I love him I love him I love him six months later I hate him I hate him I hate him yeah but you just gave yourself to him for six months he's now not even a stranger he's less than a stranger he's like a scary stranger you don't want to be next to this stranger but for the rest of your life this stranger is going to be part of it no what do you mean I broke up with him no no no he's part of it why once you guys were intimate once your unfortunately it's going to take a little while for it to separate a lot of work a lot of spirituality work you have to remove the spiritual connection from each other I made a mistake okay mistakes cost mistakes have a price page 39b teaches that that the reward of the is not to be found in this world now this you could also find as a teaching that was made by antigonos who said in the beginning of first chapter he says don't serve the master for reward serve him as if there's no reward and then make sure you have now a couple of his students didn't allow the rabbi to elaborate in fact they didn't even ask him any questions they just arrived to the conclusion oh there's no reward in this world that means there's no reward period so what did they do they started new religions the Sadducees and the baches they were of antigonos one of the greatest sages we ever had meaning that the misunderstanding of this principle in our has been Mis misunderstood for over 2,500 years people have made a mistake about this for thousands of years already with because they looked at theate M plainly oh there's no reward for in this world oh so that means I'm just going to be miserable ah might as well enjoy life there's no reward oh okay this might as well I'm going for it no that's not what we're saying we're not saying there's no joy in this world there's no fun in this world in fact it's the opposite the says that if you will toiled in order to make this world extra beautiful extra delicious made you different colors you could made everything gray imagine everything is gray no colors no one has colors there's no blacks there's no white there's no uh burgundy nothing there just gray everything is gray or whatever color you want everything is just one color and imagine everything is just one taste everything tastes like apples everything's gray and it tastes like apples how boring would life be now you wouldn't know that it could be better because that's the only thing you know but had you known oh one day you have everything available to you and the next day everything is gray you become depressed in a week everything starts tasting like apples you're going on a diet suicidal one but that's the misunderstanding the misunderstanding is is that Hashem wants you to live a life that's all gray with no taste that's not what we're saying in fact says to us and it says in thear that he created this world with many different types of joy and Pleasures in order for you to enjoy it in fact the person that does not enjoy the world Pleasures that Hashem gives him will be rebuked for it does that mean you can go to Every Club no does that mean you can eat everything no so here you see there's a sugya there's a complication now although many of theim when they mention the Naz the na in the Tor is a person that does not drink wine doesn't cut his hair trying to be extra righteous one says he's not righteous he's wicked why he's not taking advantage of the worldly pleasures it's not that he's wicked for not taking advantage of the worldly pleasure but is that he's not fulfilling the mission of a person which will give us the answer on one hand you can't enjoy everything because that will Le lead too much of everything will lead to emptiness enjoying everything will lead to nothing and in fact a negative not enjoying everything not the role we're not Angels We Have we have to eat and we can't eat the same thing every single day for 500 years we have to see colors we have to see joy we have feelings and so on so where is the where is where is want us where is the Divine will the Divine will is for us to enjoy the worldly pleasures in a permissible way in a kosher way you are allowed to enjoy the world but you must take AEM into consideration before your joy first you need to know what he wants then you see what's available to you which is clearly what is what is in front of you and you see if that matches what he wants if this burger that looks really delicious is kosher it's allowed for you to eat if you're hungry enjoy but if it's not Kosher but it's really really it's even more delicious than the kosher one still not allowed if she is your wife and she's to went to the mikow not your wife or even if it's your wife but didn't go to mik not allowed the point is for us to understand is that it's not our role to become Angels if Hashem wanted Angels he would create more Angels our role is not to become robots and pretend like we're something that we're not but rather in the same token our world is not to be animals either that live on Instinct we see it we eat it we see it we touch it our role is to understand that all of this that's available in the world is for us not just to enjoy but to also first before enjoying it to decipher whether we're allowed to enjoy it and how we're allowed to enjoy it just because it's kosher doesn't mean you should go eat it why because if it's kosher but it's being served in a non- kosher Place such as a non- kosher wedding full of mixed dancing with men and women not only you're not allowed to eat this meal you're not even allowed to attend the place yeah but I'm hungry eat some cheese in your house meaning that even if something looks good and permissible it's not always permissible now DAV Shalom he himself learned a lot about this but on through his own suffering there's a mitvah t where it says that if you are in battle and after you beat the enemy they have women and children and if there's a woman a woman a beautiful woman in the enemy after you go through a procedure of first of all making our ugly first shaving our head letting her grow her nails letting her mourn over her dead family but after that you convert her and you can marry her you're allowed now this is not so relevant in today's world but nonetheless this was relevant in those days something tells me I'll become relevant at some point again now David went to Wars unlike his son that never fought a battle David fought many battles battles forem he fought against the fought against the uh the enemy and one of the cases there was a beautiful woman in battle and David married her but the son that he had was abshalom and abshalom grew up to become the worst son in history who wanted to kill his father and take over the kinghood so when saw how AB Shalom was growing he didn't understand how could this be he puts on he makes sure everybody learns T he does the woman converted in a koser it's not like one of these uh conservadox types of places that they just convert you just because they like you you know it's everything's good why did I have the son I followed the law the prophet told him it's because of his mother what do you mean but his mom is I follow the lord it's a Mitzvah says a Mitzvah I'm allowed to marry her the prophet tells David in the name of a David pay attention to the verses there's no two verses next to each other for no reason there's no two words next to each other for no reason there's no extra word or extra letter in the Torah if you look at the verse of the that talk about this this this that's going to convert you're going to marry as battle and so on what's right after it the whole story of having a wayward child a wayward son that goes against his parents and you're allowed to kill him before he's B mitvah even because he's such a rotten kid and some of the sages said this never actually happen some of the say if it's written it had to happen point being there's aah there says what do you think they're next to each other these two stories these two issues these two mitv the next for no reason no they're here to teach you David they're here to teach you that even though it's allowed it doesn't mean it's recommended it's allowed to marry that woman but it doesn't mean it's recommended so why' you make it allow in the first place here we learn another principle I understands his creation and understands that we are weak and he knew that if he did not make this woman allowed many of the soldiers will end up becoming Sinners against theem and becoming he said might as well make it allowed they'll suffer consequences but at least they won't go to G they'll have a little Gom in this world with such a son so sometimes something is allowed but not recommended so a person needs to know that sometimes there are Pleasures in the world that are completely forbidden and even if they look delicious don't do it not allowed sometimes the comes to you in the form of a mitvah looks good still not recommended how would you know you should or you shouldn't do it I say make yourself a rabbi I had a guy sent me messages yesterday two 3 o' in the morning critical questions about to start a business am I allowed to start this business go start a business what a uh entrepreneur hotline why is he calling me because he wants to know the ramifications of selling a specific product if he is allowed to sell it or not allowed to sell it can you sell it can you not sell it can I have people sell it for me and so and so forth or another guy last week sent me a question very serious question took a few days to answer wants to start a place to uh serve uh the the medical world problem is that this business has to be open on Shabbat can I do it can do I do I have to shut it down do I have to give the business to the G what do I do these types of questions there's no one size fits all answer you can't just say no this is allowed this Allowed by by default but if you don't and ask these questions and find a legitimate you have a very very serious problem why you enjoyed something that was forbidden yeah but I was just doing business and I gave M yes but the came from money so it's not aah or better yet yeah you did this business and although the business is okay here it's not okay here and it created mitvah here here so a person needs to have a r that they ask him questions where they know that not only this R knows what he's talking about but more importantly this R will give him the emit the unbiased emit which means that this rub is going to take into consideration that the reward for the mitv the real reward is not in this world meaning that I'm going to have to sometimes give you answers that are going to make you feel as if you're not allowed to have fun but in reality that's not what I'm I'm telling you what I'm telling you is is that what you think is fun is really a disaster in the making you may not see it but the Torah does I'm just simply trying to save you from it now the other aspect of this not having reward in this world is that we have to understand what reward word really is in this world so the rambam elaborates on this point and the V 5 600 years later says something similar where he says that there is nothing in this world that's adequate enough to serve as a fair payment for any mitzvah which means if you actually delve into this sentence imagine all of the good that you have already had in your life remove all the bad and then all of the good you want to have which is probably a lot more than what you've had everybody wants more good makes you normal if you don't want good there's something wrong with you so not only the good that you've had but all the good that you want to have that all that good that you've had and want to have is not even enough as a small down payment for any mitvah you've ever done we're not talking about the biggest mitv small we're not even allowed to measure the mitv but any mitvah whether it be or Shabbat eating Kos or seeing a aah a Biblical mitvah doesn't make a difference the is simply telling us here the reason why there's no real reward in this world for the mitv is because there's not enough material in this world there's not enough M cash in this world to pay you for any mitvah that's how much you get for the MIT but yet you see the Satan confuses what does he confuse us with next the illusion that there is a reward why he just got a brand new Lamborghini she just got a brand new house they just got married they found each other out of nowhere in the internet look he just started a bottle company look he just sold the bottle company made $100 million these people are living life he's expanding his house it looks like a building now she has a car car that's so big it looks like a 18wheeler all these things look at that look look look look look the Satan is saying to you look here look at here look look look look it looks like everybody else fun except you little religious you you little B Chua you little convert you little FR bir from birth you that's the only one that's really really serious everyone looks like they having fun except you wrong Satan wants you to think that Satan wants you to think but all of them are getting rewarded for their MIT wrong when you see people get material uh rewards in this world there are two possible options on the negative side these people could be such that the in applies to them where who says that he pays cash to his haters in order to eliminate them where has simply decided this person I hate him so I'm going to pay him all the reward for the few mitv that he or she did in their life now in this world now since there's not enough cash to pay on one time for the MIT that he did what I'm going to do I'm GNA pay him for 20 years straight I'm going to get him to become a millionaire billionaire he's going to become famous anchor on TV he's going to become a famous athlete he's going to become an entrepreneur that builds houses in a new way he's going to have a bunch of stuff over the next 20 30 40 years for what for the few he did around his why I hate him because he constantly desecrates my name now can that person do CH absolutely but many times you see when those people do chuva what happens has says I love you thank you for coming back I can't wait to give you a big kiss but before I give you a big kiss I got to take back all the stuff what do you mean Rabbi every since I did Chu I start losing money you should say why it shows that Hashem is accepting your chuva he's starting to take back that reward that he gave you for the mitv barem thank you hasem thank you thank you for accepting me back is really what should be our attitude you have to be at a very high level to say such thing but nonetheless you have to do that that's what the says we have to thank AEM for good and for bad the same way you won the lotto you lost the lotto say not like no no like like you just won the ladle not a homeless very famous RAB probably one of the funniest people alive couple years ago shimmo his son drowned sound drowned went to dip in a uh in the ocean for mikve a whirlwind happened in the the the ocean the guy died now for over 25 30 years that LLY helped a lot of people do chuva get closer to Hashem and in his own unique style but no one understood how much of a sadik he is until his son died you know why he did something none of us I know for me no chance in the world that I'm at that level what did he do his son died he went to the cot with his entire family and started celebrating after the Shiva was over he went to the cot and start celebrating why we're going to celebrate the 21 years that gave us the son why we going to celebrate his death why we going to cry over his death Hashem gave us a gift 20 years he decided to get back I'm going to see Along by anyway it's not gone it's not over he just left he went over there he's going to get already died in the middle of what am I going to cry about okay we're allowed to cry for a few days three days okay finished after that I'm going to celebrate his life some of the biggest rabbis in the country in the world heard about this and went specifically to to the giant rabbis went to him and said please give us a give us a please give us a you give us why you're a different level you understand the truth you understand you fulfill the Mitzvah of blessing AEM the same way for good the how much fun did you have when you had how much fun you have when the kid was born right you celebrated his death the same way what that become a why because people understood that's Torah that's Torah life for get the beard the high the forget all that stuff that's Torah how many people in the world can do such a thing very few why not everybody has it doesn't make them bad just you see that there is levels but sometimes there are wicked people says I can't send you I'm paying you right now so you see them buying a Lamborghini you see them buying a brand new house you see them selling businesses being on Forbes magazine being on CNBC they're cashing it in they're printing money everything looks good he's got eight girlfriends she's got six boyfriends and a dog and everything else everything looks like fun in reality you should be crying for them if they're Sinners if they're going against hem you should be crying for them but what about when you see people that are decent people they do their best to follow hashem's will they keep Shabbat they keep they keep K they keep but they also have some money they also have some good stuff does that mean hasm hates them too obviously not so the rambam explains there says since there's no reward in this world sufficient enough to pay for a mitvah so our sages tell us in the rewards you for your mitvah with something else that's priceless what is it the opportunity to do another Mitzvah how does this work as an example you decided to give Saka but you gave it with a full heart no regrets because you want to do good because you want to fulfill hashem's will Hashem says I like you kid I like you lady you did good you gave staka to the right place that helps people do cha you gave staka to the right place that helps people eat you gave staka to the right place that help people serve hem guess what I'm gonna give you more money why so you can make morea make more MIT you were supposed to make 50,000 last year this sh increased to 55 without you even noticing you thought it's because you're good at your job has nothing to do with it you thought it's because you you've served your tenure you're there for 10 years why you got a $20,000 raise has nothing to do with it it's because you gave my decided I'm going to give you another 10 another 20 another 30 another 100,000 why want to fillah kept his bre she reserved herself till marriage in a few months of marriage pregnant why no why I'm 20 years old I'm supposed to get pregnant no who said who said I got a dear friend of mine very dear friend of mine everything good in two weeks they're G to have a kid you know how long they're waiting for it 14 years 14 years I promise you they tried 14 years going to rabbis 14 years praying and crying 14 years doing everything possible a person that you'll get better than that 14 years they're waiting for a kid or you think you had a kid because you say you're 20 years old because supposed to work wrong says you did a mitvah you cared about my children I'll give you children you reserved yourself I'll make sure that when you use it the appropriate way it'll work you made sacrifices you left The Forbidden I'll make sure that you enjoy the allowed people have problems with you know why this specific issue they don't Reserve themselves they don't protect their bleed they don't protect their modesty says I can't give you the same reward as I gave I gave her a kid six months into marriage I can't give give you the same thing unless I hate you now I don't hate you I just want you to reality is we see a lot of the things that we get in the world as if they're owed to us but the truth is hasem is giving us good things in the world not because that's the payment for the good that we did but rather it's the payment to enable us to do even more good you got more money after you gave takaka not because the more money is the reward for the money you gave but rather the more money that you got is in order to enable you to give even more money again and make it a cycle a domino effect you continue giving you pass the test hasem keeps giving you give again pass the test gives again and it keeps working he promised it now we're not allowed to question hasem you can't say why is this happening to me as a public outcry why you can't do that why are you doing this you can't do that you know what you can do though you can test with one mitvah himself tells us you are allowed to test me on this Mitzvah you give I promise you you'll be rich now what do you think if you just give 10% three four five six times it works automatically your bank account automatically has 18 digits it don't work like that M itself is a test you give the 10% not off the net after you deducted every single expense for you your neighbor and your cousin and your what you have left is $5 you g 50 Hashem big me 50 cents no I love you Hashem I love you I love you Hashem 50 cents you know I rounded it to a whole dollar I have change no my is from the gross what do you mean if I give from the G RAB I'm not going to be able to afford my bills that's the test that's the test what do you mean doesn't add up that's the test can I give it to my no that's not a test what do you mean go from one pocket to the other that's the test now you do it once times are good twice three times four times a year straight two years straight Corona virus happened you're not getting an income now you're only getting unemployment checks barely making ends meat but you still got a little money still got to give why that's the test that's the test and then you start seeing little trickles of reward once in a while you see a flourish a reward you have no idea where the money showed up but all of a sudden your insurance company decided they like you they lowered your premium they decide to give you a refund for some mistake they made five years ago they send you a check for 5,000 you think it's because you're an honest citizen no it's just hasem using them as a tool to pay you all of a sudden your father calls you listen son uh thought about you you got something in the mail did you get it yet I'm getting it now dad why what happened no look there's a letter for me you opened the letter you got a check for1 $20,000 what's this AB about why why I don't know I just thought about you I figured it's going to help you out you think it's because you've been such a good son for 30 years has nothing to do with it nothing to do with it paying you all of a sudden you show up to work your boss says no no this not your office anymore why you firing me no no no we're not firing you come come with me takes you down a long hallway yeah yeah listen you know we really appreciate you starts giving you a whole like uh bio about yourself watch she walking down you're like is he firing me is he killing me what is he doing with me next thing you know you see this giant thing you think it's a CEO's office it's your new office what I'm only 27 years old how do I get this office listen we like you we want you to stay and by the way this your new salary we just tripled it what do you think it's because you're good has nothing to do with it nothing to do with it it has to do with has to do give him a little bit more if you pay attention to the details you're going to say first and foremost you don't pay attention to the details you call Honey I told you I was the best they just gave me a raise where we going out for dinner instead of thinking how GNA have than AEM you're thinking let's go spend this money we haven't even made yet why we forgot AEM so it's important to know that yes there is joy in this world but again there is Joy that's forbidden there's joy that's allowed and there's joy that is allowed but not recommended and then there's joy that is part of hashem's Arsenal of tools to give you a opportunity to do more MIT now the sages were very very conscious of this world and very scared of benefiting from it so much so there's a endless amount of stories about the poverty that they chose to live in has a section of several that talk about the life of was one of the greatest sages that we ever had where came from sh says that the whole world is eating thanks to the merits of r but what dides he survive on carobs go try to eat that for breakfast tomorrow your dentist is going to love you breakfast lunch and dinner carobs now one time did not have any food for Shabbat even nothing now he's used to having very little but here nothing so his wife told him we don't have anything we don't have bread we don't have Kal we have nothing we don't have a uh candy nothing zero go speak to your you know go speak to your boss tell him to give you something to eat for Shabbat who so goes to the field starts pouring his heart out to thear says a leg of a table made of of gold came out from sh solid gold came out from sh here you go $20 million takes it now you can't sell this a Friday uh morning right now go evaluate it takes a long time he says listen he goes to the guy he says here you go the guy says what what the king just gave you this goes yeah the king gave it to me uh just give me a few thousand we'll figure out how much it's worth later you'll sell it for me and everything but give me a few few dollars so I could buy something for Shabbat the guy takes out everything out of his he goes take take take take there's not even a down payment so goes to the stores gets a bunch of food arrives to the house baskets of food SE the food wow but it's a lot thought maybe we'll get some kala maybe little bit of cheese an egg maybe you have uh like with the Kings where does this come from no don't worry don't worry let's go what do you mean don't worry where'd you get the money I got it I got it no let's just do K no no no no I'm not eating until you tell me where you got the money now what is's wife she's questioning her husband what he robbed the bank wa she's question him if he just uh just stole from somebody no it's not that she's too concerned about worldly pleasures why is it one of the Forbidden Joys or permissible Joys is it the joy that's permissible but not recommended she refuses to eat they've been fasting for a few days already until tells her the story he says I went to my boss I went to Hashem I said Hashem I need some money sent me a leg of a table full of gold so I went I got a down payment for it and I got the groceries you ready to do K I'm not doing K why not what's wrong now I'm not doing K I'm not going to eat a crumb out of this kala and any of the food that you got until you promise me thatat what say Shabbat comes you're going back to the guy and he taking back you g the money back to him and you give this back to hm why why you have to give it back to hem says don't you understand don't you understand that if this leg is here it's missing from our if this leg of the table is here that means they took it out OFA so now what do do what does a couple do when they have an argument if they're secular they continue have an argument until they get divorced if they're smart religious people they go to Rabbi so went to the middle of the night 12:00 they haven't even done K almost 11 o'clock at night rebi yes what happened uh we have a little complication schom issues I can't wait for but tomorrow no no no right now we we need to K what K tells him the whole story okay tell your dear sadika wife not to worry if you're missing anything in I'll give it to you I'll give you for my share happy biggest Rabbi in the world just promised me to give him what a better promise than that he comes he's hopping over back home I need to worry everything's okay RAB promised us that if anything's missing it's going to come for sadik say let's go talk to Rabbi why well she's questioning the rebi now they go to the rabbi 11:30 at night rabie I'm sorry he's embarrassed my my wife she wants to talk to you rabie yes yes yes yes how can I help you Rabbi I don't understand you're you're big Rabbi you're I just don't understand how can you promise something you can't give what I can't why I keep Shabbat re you your whole life serve the in a fantastic way but nothing was ever missing you're from the family of ran gel you're from the family of David you never missed a dollar you always had money my husband my dear husband has been serving his whole life AEM from poverty you cannot compare a person that serves hem from wealth versus a person that serves AEM from poverty and suffering how could you compare your ganss you're right your wife is right she better than both of us go return it thear says it was a bigger miracle that sham took back this gold than it was to give it because usually sham doesn't take back this shows usai that the sages were very very conscious very careful in their wives the sadikot were very very careful and very conscious of joy in this world the midash on verse 218 chapter 21 verse 18 talks about people that look for pleasure in this world in the name of rabid doai it says I was once invited to a big party hosted by some prominent and prosperous and prosperous Idol worshipper who demanded that every single person in our city attend this enormous lavish Feast that he has prepared with unsurpassed grander there elegant tables Laden with every possible food and delic see in the world the host was beaming with pride as he boasted that there was absolutely nothing missing from the tables all of a sudden someone discovered that there's a certain type of seed certain type of nut actually that he saw in some other country that's not here oh you guys remember that that cashew we had in Turkey yeah yeah you don't have you don't have that here the rich guy hosting the party heard this his face mutated he got so fuming he got so angry he started yelling and screaming at the top of his lungs took all of the tables and flipped them all over destroyed the whole Hall in front of everyone anger that no one's ever seen before after he calmed down says to him why did you get so angry I mean I understand okay this is something missing and this guy noticed one thing that's missing there's 500 different types of cashews he remembers one that exists in turkey that it's not here it's a little annoying you know you made a three-hour video with all types of Graphics but the guy's complaining about the volume of the music and he didn't say one word yeah yeah you put all this toy worked on this video for two years but he's complaining about one word yeah it's annoying but why did you get so angry the idol worshipper tells Rai rebi it's from your teaching you teach and I believe what you teach you teach that this world this world is reserved for usim for us Idol worshippers the joy in this world is for us whereas you the Jews will have the world to come when he noticed that there's something missing I realized that even this world we don't have it's all fake it's all an illusion it all looks like fun it all looks like it's good but when you dig deep down inside the heart of one of those people that looks for instant gratification that's materialistic only cares about worldly pleasures you'll find that he's the emptiest person you've ever seen a woman that looks at herself 5,000 times in the mirror and she looks good and she looks like something that came from a different planet and she's constantly fixing this and she's constantly fixing that and you know what she is suicidal that's what she is why if a whole a whole life depends on her physique on her looks one second one second after somebody destroys that there's no life anymore which means she's already suffering because she knows that day is going to come because everybody ages everybody gains weight and loses weight and gets a pimple and gets a this and gets a that she's already suicidal now she already starts looking at our face as if it's already distorted they already look at their face and everyone else thinks she's beautiful but she looks at her face as if she has four eyes she cries at night because she thinks she's ugly the people that are so consumed with the material the physicality of this world you'll find them to be the emptiest people in the world and this found out in his party after spending $5 million hosting it he realized it's all for nothing now here we see that worldly pleasures for people that have had them are very very different than worldly pleasures for the for the people that didn't have them why cuz the people that had them they could already tell you outright like had all the worldly pleasures that's allowed he had all the money in the world he had Cities of Gold not some gold he had Cities of Gold where the floor was gold that's how much money had one king one foreign King gave him some wood so you can build a bet mikdash wood he need special wood to build the BET mikdash what was the payment he said yeah you could take that city the whole city is full of gold not that there's gold inside the buildings the floor is gold the buildings are gold everything is gold the guy ended up hating that City though because everybody was so rich that no one wanted to listen to him everybody felt like the king but that's how much money schl had and schl writes in Ecclesiastes all of it is nothing all of it is garbage all of it is an illusion it's all an illusion now the guy that didn't have it the girl that didn't have this pleasure why they still Chase it even even though schl says it means nothing even though if you read all the books of all the rich people that have lived life not the newly Rich the 25 year olds talk about the guys the veterans they've been here they've been Rich already for 20 30 years they've already grew fell grew fell addicted not addicted rehab all they've already gone through life they got some money but they went through life too you ask them what do you think of money you read their books their bios interviews all of them nothing if anything sometimes it's a curse having so much money I could tell you used to have a lot of money people have a complete misconception of what money is I used to tell my employees money will never save your problems but you only work it because to make money but just know it's not going to save your problems so what you going to do it's going to allow you to arrive to your problems with limo that's what it's going to do money is a tool no different than a hammer you never pray for Hammer don't start going crazy over money either but if you're going to work make money no problem there's no problem with making money don't worship it problem is people worship it who worships it the people that don't have it because they still have the illusion that they're different now when I'm rich I'm going to do something different when I have it I'm gonna do something different you know how many people like this I I used to have a few clients that were athletes worst clients in the world why guaranteed to become broke why because they're brand new kids 18 19 20 21 22 somebody just gave them a boatload of money 20 30 40 $4 million the guy doesn't even know algebra he doesn't even know how to write checks first day of contracts buys five Range Rovers he doesn't even know why he doesn't even know how to drive five Range Rovers why because he got a bunch of money guess what within four years complete bankruptcy I wrote an article about this years ago how the overwhelming majority of athletes go bankrupt within 2 to four years after their career is over no matter how much money they made go on the internet you'll see an endless amount of stories about athletes that are completely broke I'm not meaning broke like they're not rich anymore but they still have a few hundred thousand no no I mean broke like they live with Mommy they live with Mommy they live you know Mommy that works at Walmart supports them two years ago the guy had $100 million he he's eating bread and cheese cuz that's what mommy mean and if he says something he'll get a slap too yeah but I'm 35 years old okay you get SLA 35 years what happened acted like a kid people think they're going to be different no I'm going to do different I'm going to be smart with my money I'm going to invest it they invested it too now I'm not I'm be be you know very frugal yeah sure good luck with that one you ask people that have had money for a while not the newly Rich the people that have had it for a while and they're going to tell you it's all it's all fake so fake yeah it's nice to have money it's surely it's easier to have money than not to have money at least it looks that way but it's definitely not what people think it is and what people make it out to be now when a person understands this part and he looks at the seph in chapter 12 he'll start understanding why the sages are talking in such a way where it says that okay so if you grew up in this world you thought that pleasure of the world was money intimacy food colors all this stuff and now you found out that in reality it's all an illusion so what is this like where did the sages discuss this SES say in that a person that's in this world without Torah will not understand what what good is because everything that you think is good is forbidden everything that you picture is good you're not allowed to have which means it cannot be good why Hashem is not going to create something that's good but not for you now which means that if this burger it looks good to you but it's forbidden hasem says I promise you it's not good yeah but I ate it one time and it tasted good it may taste good but it's still not good why there's an outcome for tasting it and when you find out what the outcome is and the special that is going to designate to show you what happens when you eat a non kosher burger and they're going to become your dentist without any type of anesthesia you're going to see what a bad Burger it was so is it good or no it may have tasted good but it definitely wasn't good showing us that we only think things are good because we only have part of the picture now what is this like seph says the following says imagine people that live inside of a cave and never leave that cave they never know there is an outside they're already a few Generations in they live inside this cave that's so big and so wide it seems like it never ends so in the morning it's the night the night is the morning there's no light there's no nothing they're always inside this mountain everything always looks the same they eat they drink whatever they can find inside there whatever Creeps in there but one day one of them decides to take a walk and as you would have it he discovers that there's an opening and he goes outside and he sees the sun he sees the Blue Sky just a few clouds to make it really pretty and he sees trees and the trees are full of fruits and there h huge amount of animals and all types of beauty and he calls everybody in excitement to show them this amazing thing and everyone's like wow we've been living here for 40 50 years we never imagined such a beautiful world existed all we ever saw is Darkness everything was black he says that's a person in this world and then a person arriving at the next World when a person leaves this world he thinks he's leaving a world oh there's you know it's it's it's good it's bad it's this it's that but once you see what's the real world looks like you see how much of a nothing this world is in comparison to what you can have hence the reason of why it's worthed for each and every one of us to follow what the ran says and Reserve our joy for the next World now what to do with is that's addicted to the sin we're not allowed to hate them we're allowed to hate their sin hate the sin and not the sinner the wife of taught him this in the so how do we bring them close close if they're so addicted to the sin to the delicious non kosher Burger to the non-jewish spouse to the non non kosher business and so on and so forth they're addicted to it now if you tell them listen you come you do CH and hasem is gonna every Shabbat you give hasem is gonna help you make more money you say you know what I like money I'm going to take you on that I'm going to keep Shabbat and he keeps 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 nine shabbats in a row nine months of Shabbat in a row and instead of seeing his business go up nothing maybe even the opposite business went down what just happened is desire to do cha [Music] zero it was very little to begin with you gave him a little carrot he finally got there realized the plastic car didn't pay didn't give the money he kept Shabbat he kep shabat he didn't get any money why did this happen because you're a liar not because hm's a liar says he gives you a reward for keeping Shabbat never say he's going to give it to you in this world and even if he said he give it to you in this world he didn't say right away he didn't say after seven months he didn't say when you want it he said I'll give you a reward for giving and I'll make you rich he didn't say when it could be in a week it could be in a month it could be six months it could be six years he didn't give you time he doesn't owe you the time he's the king you are maybe a servant so once you lie to a person tell them if you keep mitv you're going to get material reward you have now changed the Torah and that's a problem why it's bound to fail it's bound to fail and if you do not get this person to start loving Judaism and loving the Torah just for the sake of what it is and that in order to get some material reward it's only a matter of time before this person goes back to even a worst level than he was to begin with and that happens an endless amount of times many people that come to me tell me listen Rabbi don't think that I never kept Shabbat before don't think that I never did this I used to I kept it for a year I kept it for six months but then I saw it's not doing anything good for me my wife did my husband this my business this I said who told who who promised you these things oh the the rabbi told me that if I do this then business is going to do that I said I Rabbi made new Torah some didn't tell you six months something's going to happen it could hopefully it's no promise no guarantee so how do you make people do cha they're Sinners they're going against hem they're going against your father in Heaven but the same token you have to tell them the truth so the businessmen Among Us what do they do they try to sell Judaism you tell them listen if you do this Hashem will give you this and that doesn't work and if it works it's only temporary and it's bound to fail and all it does is even if the person continues he's keeping Judaism for the wrong reason and they become bitter followers of Hashem like yeah I'm keeping it but I don't know I don't even know if I'm I really want to do it anymore 10 years I'm doing it I just to do it anymore why cuz the rabbi said that this is this is going to happen to me but I never did now these businessmen sometimes they call they called rabbis and they're making a very big mistake but they think they're doing K this is not K this is setting people up with a trap by doring the Tora and clearly says from a thing of Lies You must stay away from on the other hand there are other people that are worse than them who are worse than them people that only talk about the bad things of ah they're the worst people they're all Sinners this the worst you know this guy's not even keeping she's not even keeping ah only bad only bad all the time they never cry about they never beg for to do they don't help to do they don't help anything they just talk about bad stuff all day all day yeah yeah they're all gonna go to Gom oh they're all going to oh anything good about them yeah if they do cha no no if they don't do cha is there anything good about them I don't know RAB I thought you said that if they're Sinners they're not good no I said the sin's not good he doesn't know that he's sinning here he he's he's he's confused he thinks that the joy that's forbidden is good just like you used to so people that are just constantly criticizing am well that's worse why people don't do cha that way so what do you do there's a critical teaching that I wish we would have learned it years ago but we're learning it today called is one of the important things that a person needs to know because it'll show him the balance because today you have false teachers like the ones we've mentioned in the past that pretend to be righteous righteous you know people where they say no I'm Israel they're all good they sadik they don't need to do anything they could stay the same and hem will accept them that's 100% heresy now if they said I'm says they're all bad that is wickedness not heresy but wickedness both a bad but the public that doesn't know the difference they think that if somebody says am is is sinning automatically they're a bad person they're full of hatred they're full of evil they're they're they're they're they want to kill people and the one that says that everyone's okay everyone's sikim everyone's perfect ah he's such a lover of am he's so wonderful look and his nice beard no doesn't work that way look but you learn has nothing to do what does b and hisim say bov had a several big one of them he said to him I want you to be the sa of is I want you to be a grandfather of am is you love am is so much you fight for them so much you are going to be called the Sabah his name was sabadish now sabadish miship was also friends with RAB so these are the Giants among once asked what do you uh learn from the verse in the Tor that says says I'm gonna hide my face most scariest verse in the says from there I learn that AEM hides himself where does he hide himself inside theim why is he inside because it says I will hide my face so Hashem says if you hide your true greatness your true greatness in t your true greatness in your true and how great you really are but you look like you're just an average guy say oh listen how many times you keep you Fe you complete the sh me the sh oh how how many you give I don't know you call you give I heard you did a big uh thing you gave millions of dollars inaka me millions of dollars wrong guy wrong guy hide you're doing a lot of big things hide it hem is with that person just like he is hiding his glory his greatness who hides his glory his greatness he looks like nature hm is with him so the scary verse we learned something beautiful here that's shows us different aspects of the Torah that are sometimes scary sometimes truly beautiful but nonetheless emit today people call anything that sounds nice but it's not always the case and I'll show you a few examples that I learned with now that a person is supposed to do talking about is one of the things that Sab Bishi would constantly do so much so that he was heard saying things that if he wasn't the gor if he wasn't the biggest Rabbi in the world we wouldn't even be able to say it like how could somebody talk to Hashem this way and if you only hear this one story about him you could easily confuse the not only him and his righteousness and zealousness but all of JW them all together this is why when you learn about or about sikim in general you can't just learn one story about them you have to learn a bunch you you have to learn the whole book why cuz you'll see their whole life not just this one story that makes them feel like you know they're they change Judaism one time says to they heard him pray to in tears he says hem I think it's your fault that am is is sinning you and me say this I think we're going to die in a second some of should probably scream to I think it's your fault that is sinning look what you did all of the desires The Good The Joy you drew it up you made it easy to feel you look here you enjoy you taste here you enjoy you touchy you enjoy you look at a book and the Torah it says all the things that are forbidden it looks like Joy but punishment you hate it what do we have you got to go find it and understand it and figure out what's going to happen to G so easy to feel the joy but the punishment you hid unless somebody told us to go find it I promise you hasem that if you did the opposite Joy was hidden but it was clear what punishment we would get not a single Jew with sin this is speaking to hem telling them they have the potential to be on the other hand a person comes to and says to them re have a problem there's a guy in this a uh Community real serious r that's targeting me every time I start a business he starts a business right next door to me every time I make try to make some contracts he goes and steals the contracts I Tred to go to the city to get something he goes to the city and beats it's constantly chasing me it's like he's not doing nothing else but targeting me please help me for the love my kids are hungry I don't have anything to eat no problem they bring the rash to the house of saip he says to him why are you doing it because I can do whatever I want no care in the world doesn't think about it twice I do whatever I want who are you to tell me says but you know it's forbidden from the T to do what you're doing forbidden not forbidden do whatever I want you finished Rabbi you're finished the rabbi looks at him he says listen to me if you don't do chva I'm going to say an what if you don't do chva I'm going to say an what do you want go go go I think you're old already go go go at that moment says means me I believe with full faith that is the one and only God there is no other God he has no image he has no body or no likeness of a body and he goes on and he starts repeating the 13 principles of faith and then he gets to I believe with full faith that will reward the righteous and punish the wicked then he says to the heretic now you can go the guy leaves the first step outside of the sub police house gets a heart attack and dies everyone s so on one end you have one story that says AEM it's your fault could be it's because you didn't put the punishment another end you the guy just died it's not a rebuke oh no no no it's I wish I can do the same thing by the way sounds cool but then we may have some bodies what's the here you have a serious situation here on one end you tellem hasem there all can beim if it wasn't for something it is on another end rebuke the person didn't listen pray to Hashem the guy died what is this like imagine a kid runs in the middle of the street a truck comes two seconds two cm from hitting him stops doesn't hit him the driver of the truck big guy runs out of the truck and he is fuming he said you kid you stupid kid I almost killed you and then he sees the father like he wants to hit this kid because the kid almost he almost killed him might as well hit him but then he sees the father screaming oh oh thank you thank you thank you sadik thank you so much you know my son he doesn't know he doesn't know anything he's silly kid he's just a kid he doesn't think he doesn't think I always tell him son think think he doesn't think as we runs to the street thank you so much thank you thank you so much for you're such a careful driver the guy want to beat him up anymore no why he sees this now the father takes the kid home after the thank yous are over they get in the car he sits in the car as soon as the kid sits in the car he thinks it's over oh right thank you I'm such a good kid I just didn't think second he sits in the car he's comfortable the father closes the car closes the window P next time look what happened what happened did you just say I'm such a good kid and and thank God that the guy was careful and he's a good driver and I'm a good kid I just didn't think what what happened what happened the realid the real Judaism the teaching of on works as follows when you are talking to aad you pray for is and you tell ABA you tell ABA you tell ABA ABA they're foolish little kids please please give them another chance they're just stupid kids they don't know better they think that the good is bad stuff and the bad is good stuff they don't know what they're talking about they don't know your Torah give them another chance take Corona away take the depression away take the heresy away give them another chance but when you see the people themselves you have to tell them if you don't do ch's going to rip you in half you have to change why because a is not your body and he's not a truck driver either very clearly if you do not do CH he will bring punishment that's how the works it works when you pray to when you talk to when you talk to the public even [Applause] about glorify them but we talk to you F the you fulfill the mitvah you must rebuke your brother why because if you don't they're going to keep running in the street they're going to keep running in the street and one day the truck driver is not going to stop even if he wants to the reality is when people tell the public no no matter what they do they're always good what does that do it does the work of the Satan because the Satan tries to keep us away from chuva he's the resistance when someone with a beard tells the public no no matter what hasem accepts them then the people that were even thinking about chuva or just starting out with chuva what do they do says oh if going to accept me anyway meaning I continue running in moving traffic look like fun I'm going to go back I'm back to sinning why Rabbi just said I'm going to be okay the realid rebukes much much harsher than I could ever do it one of the great in the previous generation unfortunately his books that I know about are only in Hebrew but he writes extensively about git one of the greatest sources about the whole issue ofit comes from him wrote several each one holier than the next was KES but of course the holy people always have enemies clowns try to make fun try to cool people off which is a so a certain heretic that was working for the the newspaper tried to put himself inside the re's house on Shabbat to look for things to make fun of him about in the paper so he pretended to be Aid and he went inside and he stayed the whole Shabbat so the rebi look for different Expressions that he does different things that he says and all time the rebi didn't even look at him nothing no one noticed him because he was like everybody else lots of people thereat they have a have a Tish all the look forward to getting a little taste of what the rebi ate getting a little taste of the kadha that he touched so this guy is having a ball why this crazy these people 500 people all fighting on a piece of bread yeah this is going to be the cover of the paper before it all starts look straight into this journalist face he says come the guy he's not sure did he catch me he knows who I am maybe I'm going to eat the bread he doesn't know what's going on the whole Shabbat he look at him even so he goes there's nothing do there 500 people there what is he say no so he goes to the rebi the Reb doesn't say word to him just gives him his hand to shake his hand he shakes his hand within a matter of seconds the guy starts screaming hysterically screaming hysterically like someone is cutting him up to Pieces after the rebi lets him go he starts running like a crazy person saying ah I gotta do chuva please please please help me do chuva I gotta do it I got to do it please he's screaming people hold him down take him down P him down the guy lost his mind maybe and hurt himself they Ed to the chair what happened what happened to you after they gave some cold water they timed to the chairs just tell us what happened to you he says the whole Shabbat I'm sitting here planning a new article about going to make fun of him and I thought that the rebi didn't even notice me there's so many people here but then he called me and he shook my hand and the second he shook my hand he showed me the gome that's waiting for me and all of the things that are going to happen to me in Gom and how they're going to rip me up to pieces for all the things that I'm going to do I saw it with my eyes I was in it that's that's when we did our sh about Gom the first one it included sources from the tah of different sages whether it was the different stages around the uh over the years but then we did a follow-up sh about G based on and not sh what most people don't know is that over 1,400 sources were reviewed in order to bring just a small tidy portion of what we brought in that where anyone that learns the realid whether it be the T or bre or even the students of the bov will see that the realid that existed back then and even exist right now is very very different than theid that's being portrayed to the public in many places it's critical to pray for it's critical to speak positively about am but it's forbidden to light to them about Chua to light to them about Sin to light to them about all of the punishments forbidden why aside from the fact that it doesn't work and actually has the opposite effect it's distorting and recreating a new Torah and that's one of the biggest problems that people don't understand when it comes to these that Miss teach the stories of the sages by only telling you one aspect of it they'll only tell you the first story of of the saip of how he talked to Hashem and hasem it's your fault G to tell you that part but they're not gonna tell you the second part they're not going to tell you the second part now if people truly understood how important rebuking is in the eyes of hem and his sages did understand that when it's written in the T the beginning of wisdom is fear of hem this is not a suggestion this is a factual statement you only start having wisdom once you have basic level fear of hem you don't have any basic level fear of hem whatever you think you know is not considered wisdom it's no different than your mathematical knowledge or your historical knowledge or your cooking knowledge if your servitude of hem is not founded on top of it's not wisdom it's not nothing why that's says Shalom comes everybody celebrates why does get such Honor doesn't get such honor his Rabbi every year there's a big holiday in his name disclosed a lot of secrets to us secrets that no other Sage had the Merit to do on one end page 34 says that in his Merit he can absolve all of is from their sin but then another when he comes out of the cave he comes out of the cave him and his son after being there for 12 years and he sees people working permissible jobs they're not stealing they're not killing people they're working they're not working on Shabbat they working he sees them working and not learning Tor because of his K these people went on fire they went on fire so wait a minute on one end you said that you your righteousness and everything else you can absolve all of am from Dean from punishment everybody's going to go to heaven another end you look at a few people doing working instead of learning to they're burning they're dying what's going on here understand the when he says that my Merit I can absolve is from their sin is talking to AEM hem you have a case against am is they didn't do good they didn't keep Shabbat 100% the business is not so great their Torah is not the greater this missing stuff don't worry take my I got extra I got extra take for me take for me don't punish them take for me give us some more time to help them do Chua but he comes out of the cave and he sees people they're not doing chuva they're just working in the world like slaves rebuke we talk to hasem he talk to to the masses about am good fight for them but you talk to them you have to rebuke them why it's the only way they're going to do CH but if you only compliment them to Hashem and you compliment them to themselves guess what no change will happen Hashem will take your compliments and throw them in the garbage says you're a liar you don't believe what you're saying and that's what the sages have taught us time and time again when a person reads what the sages truly said with their own eyes and sees what the reward is for following this sometimes that reward is not enough so made sure that we have Clarity on what punishment is the beauty of the Torah is that it's endless if you toil in it and toil in it you will find it the is trying to tell us here that yes sometimes there's going to be a time where the reward is going to be distant from you this it's going to be distant from you you got to plan everything for G all types of Worlds all types of Joy that's what he's saying here this whole thing that you're doing is for that's where you're doing all of it but notice that he only said this at the end of the letter the one before last verse why because by now you should have already arrived at the conclusion that the sin is not worth it we already talked about the consequence of anger we already talked about the consequence of arrogance we already talked about the consequence of stinginess we already talked about the consequence of sin for already for the last six months he's saying to you so now that you understand the consequence of of of the punishment and the sin is no longer as delicious now remember that the what is that for don't worry about payment here the big payment is over there it's over there that's how you're supposed to learn that's how you're supposed to teach and most importantly that's how you're supposed to live you get a reward in this world that's a saying I like what you're doing I want you to do more but don't think for a second that's the real reward that's just me enabling you to do more I'm investing more in you to do more of the good that you're doing but if you're not doing good and you get a reward it's not a reward it's actually a punishment and it's very important for each one of us to know this because when we serve AEM because we know that's what we're supposed to do guess what you get an extra reward just for that too you get an extra reward just for that too why that's the highest level of serving hem you're not serving hem because you want him to give you a new Bentley you're not serving hm because you want to give you anything hem I want to do this because it's for you you said I'm supposed to do it that's why I want to do it I want to help do I don't care if you give me any reward at all in fact don't give me any reward but I know that if I get another thousand people another 10,000 people another million people another five million people to say kados kados kados every single day that's going to bring you that's worth it I don't care if I get anything for it imagine you go to a minan of five million Jews saying kadosh kados you really need a reward after that does does the car the house anything else matter after that you got five million Jews saying what if it's all 20 million what if it's also the hidden couple of hundred million all saying kados kados you really need a reward in this world after you hear such a thing so you serve AEM because you're supposed to because it's good for you and guess what you'll get rewarded even extra for that but if you serve for stuff for stuff for stuff you're bound to fail you're bound to fail why you're putting the carriage in front of yourself and if for Rabbi taught you that he's wrong just like he's wrong for telling you there's no punishment and that everyone is perfect it's the same level of magnitude that's what the raan is trying to teach us today tomorrow we'll have a sh about questions and answers hopefully you'll have some questions there's some more stories about saip that we could talk about and many many other things but until then amen amen [Music]