Why Is Teaching To Keep Mitzvot For Reward A Mistake!!!

[Music] but the point is is that many people that go to scho these days they don't learn the truth they learn something that's soothing they learn a reward system they learn a Tora that tells them that you're supposed to do the MIT because you're going to get something good when now the guy tells you no you should keep Shabbat because it's going to give you you should keep because that's going to make your marriage good you should givea so hasem can pay you a hundred times more one young guy came to me he says listen I'm in serious debt I said for who to who he says to the uh K over there I said you're in debt to a k that's unusual says why you in De to a he said I don't last year they had this party they invited me and I was doing okay financially and I said listen I want to donate a few dollars what so the Rabbi says how much you want to donate said I don't know I mean you have any anything specific I should donate because how much do you want a 100 times of says $100,000 you because you want1 times $100,000 you can still donate $100,000 he say I don't have $100,000 because yeah but if you donate $100,000 and you commit to giving the $100,000 hm is going to give you 100 times that he signed a paper he says I'm going to donate $100,000 to this col you know what he has right now dead of $100,000 cuz he couldn't pay it but he feels bad about himself and it distance him from the tah why because now he's embarrassed to go to that Cola why because he feels like I only paid a part of the balance because I didn't really have the money ASM really didn't give me the 100 times the $100,000 I only got 3,000 not 100,000 I'm missing 97 times 100 this rewards in this world based teachings is a disaster it's a disaster because it's only a matter of time before it fails now where do we know this is a failure from the beginning we have our has y was originally started by Shalom and then was completed by his son the current now in the section about laws of honoring father and mother he has an essay a m essay where he talks about teaching learning doing mitv and he says is there if does a person need to know the reasons behind doing the MIT and he brings up thear that says not only does a person not need the reasons to do mitv but to learn the reasons and think that's why you're doing the mitv is bound to fail it's a mistake and he says the following one must understand that one of the fundamental principles of the tah that the main purpose for fulfilling the mitv is that God is decreed so and not because we understand the reasons behind them as it says in page 21b says why were the reasons for the reasons for the mitv not revealed meaning how come we really don't know why we're doing the MIT there's no real reason doesn't say keep Shabbat because you're going to get P doesn't say that in the torm says keep Shabbat doesn't say put on soem does this no he says put on it doesn't say a reason for the none of them except two so says how come we didn't get the reason so answers says since two of the MIT had their reasons revealed in the Torah a great man stumbled on them what is this great man the smartest man that ever lived in the book of Deuteronomy chapter 17 verse 17 it says that a king should not have many wives why don't have mitvah if you're a king you're allowed 18 wives but don't have more than this that's theah says oh why not because T says don't have many wives because those wives will lead you astray from hasem lead you away from hasem and the second thing is another mitvah mitvah is don't have if you're a king don't have many horses why don't have many horses it says that you shouldn't have many horses because that will end up leading you to return to Egypt what does having horses have to do with Egypt why does many women mean that you're going to be away from God if I got a five six seven 8,000 women they all going to do stuff I'm going to be close to God I'm learn all day they can call they could clean they could build businesses they could do K be in some cave leave me alone right no says if the reason for not having W many wives is because AEM is saying oh that's going to lead you away from me no no no then that's not that doesn't apply to me doesn't apply to me why because I'm the smartest man that ever lived Hashem gave me special wisdom I already know that Hashem is the best of the best I'm never going to leave him alone I'm never going to be away from hasem so this MIT applies to other people it play to everybody else not me why I already know if that's the reason to go away from hm I know that hasm is real he's the one that gave me this he's the one that gave me the kinghood he's the one that gave me everything I'm never going to leave a if the reason to not have many horses is because not to bring everybody to Egypt who wants to go to Egypt anyway who wants to go it's hot over there Terrible Weather there's no no gas stations who wants to go there so I'm going to have many horses why because I already know I'm not going back to Egypt anyway says he failed on both tasks the book of Kings says that schl in chapter 10 verse 29 says the schl when he got old in sh they said that his uh his wives inclined his heart meaning that his wives did get him slightly further from Hashem a couple of his wives weren't exactly he made a bad decision having them one of the wives was the daughter of parh was very upset about this wife when he married her the says that sentel to hit the ocean he hit the ocean the sand came up from the uh from the from the ground and created an island that Island became Rome Rome is the one that destroyed the bet mikdash that built now the key is says don't do it because you're going to go away from me says No but I'm not going to go away from you but it ends up going away from him why because the real reason was not because the wives were going to lead you away that's just the T that's just the taste that's just one of the reasons not the entire reason if let's say your parents tell you honey why don't you come and have dinner with us you look hungry the fact fact that you're hungry the fact that you're hungry yeah that's a reason for them to have you come sit down with them but that's not the real reason they're inviting you if it was just about feeding you hungry they just throw a burger on you hey son eat go eat why are they inviting you there's other reasons they want to have you spend some time with them they want to see what you're thinking where you're heading what's going on with your life get a little closer to you figure out what's going on see if you're in trouble see if you need any help develop a relationship with you there's much more to this dinner than just feeding you if it was just feeding you just throw a piece of meat and you his son go like like like a like an animal the point is sit down with us so we can spend some time together there's more reasons to it maybe they want to tell you something point is when gave us the reasons for these two that wasn't the real reason and that was the mistake of the smartest man that ever lived that we are not even monkeys next to him we are monkey to the monkey power next to scham that's how far we are from and he made this mistake unfortunately we make that mistake all the time why we think that we could do mitv based on understanding them and if we don't understand them then we're not going to do it and that's why says a person that does such a thing it's just a matter of time before everything fails why does everything fail he says that a person that does the Mitzvah only based on his understanding of the decree of what's going on where if you tell them listen if you keep Shabbat you're going to have good panasa if you have this you're gonna get this says over here he says one day that person is gonna say you know what what if I'm gonna get if I'm gonna get Shabbat I'm gonna get pal you know what I don't want pal I have enough why if I'm gonna if I'm GNA do this I'm gonna find a z you know what I'm happy single I'm happy single I don't want to be happy you take the reward one time I told a young kid I went toet but I saw one young kid told him listen I'm having a sh Sunny Isles you should come aventor you should come you know some of the kids get 15 bucks for the Sho he goes no Rabbi you know what give my $15 to somebody else it's okay give my give my50 already it's already his give my $15 somebody else I it's okay I don't need the money like he thinks to come to the sh for the money that was my mistake though it wasn't his mistake he's used to it he's used to everybody trying to buy him with reward that's the problem if you teach a rewards based Judaism it's bound to fail at some point someone's going to tell you you know what take your reward and go back to where you came from I don't want the reward you think it's a reward I don't I don't want it or it's not worth it for me and that's the mistake when we think that the only reason why we're doing the mitv is in order to get a reward it's only a matter of time before it fails one of the reasons is because there's always going to be somebody that says I don't want the reward the other reason is sometimes the reward doesn't happen you tell the guy listen you keep Shabbat you're going to get money the guy break you know declares bankruptcy a year later why because hashem's timing is different than your timing he expected to make money the next year Hashem says no if he keep Shabbat for 10 years straight and he gives M and he learns to and he does all these different things I'm gonna make him Filthy Rich so much money he's going to walk on money but no no he wanted it in a year he wanted it in n and a half years he wanted in 9.9 years hasem says no no 10 years 11 years 15 years or never he doesn't want to give it to you why because he knows if he gives you money going to ruin you so when you sell people Judaism you're selling a different religion Judaism is not about a reward the rambam wres anyone that thinks that whatever they get that's good in this world is really their reward is a fool all it is whatever good you got is for whatever mitvah that you did hem is giving you the ability to make another Mitzvah now you gave you gave a $100 Hashem is going to give you more money not because the $1,000 that you got after you gave the hundred is really the reward for the hundred no it's that since you gave a hundred Hashem says oh you gave a 100 you like to give I'll give you a th000 why so now you can give a th now you give a th000 some going to give you 10,000 why so she give 10,000 or whatever it is but more why that's the point so what about the reward for all these mitvah that we're doing here the ram says there's not enough good in the entire world to pay you the reward that you will get in for the smallest mitvah you've ever done meaning the eventual reward that you will get is enormous there's not enough good in this world to give you that here whatever you're getting get getting here is just to enable you to do more good so to sell people a rewards based system where you're thinking you're going to get money here and that's your reward it's bound to fail you may not want it it may not be worth it to you in your own mind you may be uh simply just don't care for it or perhaps you don't get it why Hashem says no or Hashem has different timing than you Hashem wants you to do something for 5 10 15 years before he reward you you want in 5 10 15 minutes Hashem doesn't work for you doesn't dance to your music when you tell people that's how they it's going to happen you do this you get this guess what bad things happen when says no if the reason why hasem says don't marry Mar any women is because I'm going to go away from hm no no I'm not going to do it I'm going to stay close to has he failed he says no no he says don't have many horses because I'm going to go back to Egypt send everybody to Egypt no I'm never going back to Egypt you know what happened he sent a bunch of his people to Egypt why to go buy more horses because the best horses apparently were in Egypt so he did make the mistake he did send a bunch of people to Egypt but he didn't think what sending the people to Egypt is not a mistake I'm just getting buying some horses no that's a mistake that's a mistake it's also a mistake to teach people that you're going to get rewarded in this world yes there are certain rewards in this world but anything that you get in this world is in essence to enable you to do more mitv now [Music]