Who Wants to be Religious? - R. Yehoshua Zitron - TorahAnytime.com

and then you think about okay but listen it's a big life-changing thing to become religious a big life-changing thing what are you changing already now like granted if you're coming from completely secular to completely religious thing you do have to make some changes right kosher and that but when you break it down like what is it so you can't have a cheeseburger anymore oh no so you're gonna live a little bit longer you're not gonna have a heart attack earlier i'm so sorry all right don't worry about we'll give you some fried food we'll fix that um the what what what already that you're dealing what ready is it that you can oh so you can't text on shabbat you can watch a movie on shabbat what is going to be with that oh my god 25 hours without tv oh my god how could there be a god in the world what am i supposed to do with my life am i supposed to have my old thoughts god forbid and you know no one wants to deal with himself so you think about it you break everything down in religion that makes you religious what is already changing how much is already changing so you got to pray three times a day all right so you're taking you know 45 minutes for another 50 minutes from another 50 minutes for our feet you have an hour and 15 minutes a day praying you got to learn a little bit you enjoy it come on learning is fun no you guys enjoy it when you come over here right it's good stuff i think so huh i hope so so uh you go it's you go and you start enjoying it shabbat dinner so you have family meal time you have good food oh god forbid that i should hurt you with some good food here's some good chicken soup oh i'm so sorry please forgive me from you know some potato cocoa right here's some kami here's some oh what is so bad already about it how much do you have to change so you have to dress modestly okay so guys are not gonna be staring at you okay you know what if you really break it down if you really break it down now again it's it's changing in the beginning it's difficult it is difficult i'm not going to say it's not right you have to wait to eat oh my god you know sweating in the summer i know it's different it's one of the hardest me supposed to do um you have a kippah what do you do if it's windy and you want to you know obviously you know life-changing altering you know things but that's a joke i'm being sarcastic so um the when you when you really when you really break things down your life is not changing that much your life is not changing them up in the in the negative aspect but positive aspect i guarantee you i've asked this to every single person that became religious now i'm not telling people that we're like you know dabbling in the waters yeah i'll keep kosher when i'm outside or home or whatever it is that they decide well i'll keep shut out when people look at me you know i'm talking about somebody that actually went and became religious a hundred percent of the time i asked them are you happier now or are you happier than one before not once not once and i have access to every single almost every single person i met are you happy i think i've asked a few people around over here on there on the table are you happier now or are you are you are you less happier now and i've never ever ever received a response i don't know you know it's kind of difficult i'm thinking about going back the other way no you ask them are you happier are you better off right now he's like 100 i feel better that might be difficult i might slip sometimes i might mess up but with my decision right now i'm definitely a happier a happier person in this world i'm not talking about the next world right here right now you're already enjoying it so you think about religion and you think about oh wow it's so difficult so much you have to do really is it break it down for a second in your mind stop and think about a second i guarantee your benefits are going to be much greater in this world and it's going to be in the next world besides the fact that you're going to have you know your relationships are going to be more solidified you're going to have a stronger understanding of of you know peace with internal peace you're going to have different you know you're going to instead of going and watching nonsense non-stop at home you're going to be you know stimulating your brain you can make yourself smarter and be able to be better in business you'll be able to be better at relationship you need to be a better person everything you're going to be a happier person better people are happier people people that do for others are happier [Music] you