Influence of your Actions - R. Zecharia Wallerstein - TorahAnytime.com

last thing this person has to think about when he does something you have to think about what the reaction to other people so when a person does a sin noise when you do something wrong when you talk your friend to go with you to ac and it's very innocent or you took your friend to go you to a bar and have a drink and it's very innocent and then 10 years later you find out that the guy's an alcoholic and his first drink was with you or you find out the guy's gambling he lost his house and he's now getting divorced from his wife because the first time you showed him how to play poker on a computer was on your computer and the first time you gave him a weed right and now he's doing heroin and cocaine and he's dying and his liver is swollen was because you thought it was funny to show him how to smoke a stokey and have a big deal let's roll one it was a big joke to you but you didn't realize that you're leaving your blinkers on the george washington bridge and that reaction of taking it for his first drink or how many guys take guys to somewhere and then you don't have the problem you're not the alcoholic let's go for a drink and the guy that you're taking becomes an alcoholic because he never drank before and it's wow well you take him in to meet a girl he was never with a girl before and now the guy who becomes a mushroom and becomes destroyed and you get married and life is great and then you come to shamaya and they say remember that guy you gave that drink look what you did to his life and you watch this guy in alcoholics he lost his kids he lost his wife you lost everybody committed suicide he jumped off somewhere because you have to take them to have fun oh let me let me buy you your first drink let me roll you your first joint let me introduce you to your first girl let me take you to your first club let me take you to ac meanwhile he never went to ac and he won and now he won again he won again and he's lost and he's totally lost all his money and everything 15 years later you didn't even know him anymore the person has to think about the reaction of what he's doing not just what you're doing but how does he react to somebody else the kid that you're that you're that you that's looking up to you what are you showing him what are you teaching him i always scream at these rabbis who bring these kids to their house to shabbos and drink with them they think it's a joke they think it's fun you know but you don't know rabbi what's gonna happen on wednesday night this kid never drank before on wednesday night he's like let's go out and have another drink and he's in a car and he goes off the highway somewhere because you have to give him a drink on chavez because you want to be his friend were you thinking where that drink is going to go or what are you thinking just about right now you