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When you KNOW ABOUT CHABAD, THEY'LL TELL
YOU ONE OF THESE THINGS and most notably
they'll tell you, "Oh, you know, I like
the fact that the Chabad guy comes every
once in a while and he puts on tefillin
and on me."
Okay, great. Did the Chabad guy ever
tell you maybe you should get your own
tefillin?
No, not usually.
Or when he did, I told him, "No, I don't
feel like buying it. I don't want I
don't feel like spending a thousand
bucks." And he said, "Okay, no problem.
I'll just keep coming once a week."
And as if it was no big deal.
Why? Because every Jew is precious, he
said. Every Hashem understands
everybody. Hashem knows.
No.
That Chabadnik knows that there's an
obligation to put on tefillin. Hence the
reason why the Rebbe, the Lubavitcher
Rebbe alav hashalom, sent his soldiers
all over the world to go put on tefillin
on people.
So, they know that there's an halacha, a
Torah obligation for a Jew to put on
tefillin. Everybody knows this. The
religious Jew, the non-religious Jew.
Everyone knows there's an obligation to
put on tefillin. But yet, with all of
that knowledge and all of those soldiers
putting on tefillin,
nobody really knows the consequences
of not putting on tefillin.
NOT A SINGLE ONE of them.
Why?
Because
if somebody says, "I don't have
tefillin." So, okay, so well, I'll come
once in a while and I'll put a tefillin
on you.
Okay, great. So, what about the rest of
the week? Ah, no big deal. You know,
I'll come
whenever I get a chance. If you ever
want to get one, let me know. I'll sell
it to you.
So, that that in essence gives them the
license to just simply not do it until
you come. Meaning, they've transferred
the responsibility of putting on
tefillin on that messenger, on that
Hasid that comes to their office
or their street every so often.
What's the problem?
The problem is that the Gemara doesn't
agree with such a thing. Why? Because
the Gemara in Maseches Rosh Hashanah
in page 17A says that a Jew that doesn't
put on tefillin
is going to go to Gehenna and never come
out. He's one of those people that is
considered as if he is
completely disregarding Hashem in all
aspects to the extent where he's
desecrating Hashem's name on a regular
basis by not
putting on tefillin, and he's going to
get a permanent punishment until his
soul is destroyed.
Now, you will say, "Yeah, no, no, but he
did put on tefillin once a week, once a
month."
Okay, so you realize that he's going to
get a very, very severe punishment for
every time he didn't.
A punishment that will make the
Holocaust look like a child's play.
Do you know that? Do you know that every
time you miss tefillin, you're going to
get punished severely for it?
Oh, I thought it's just a good thing to
do. Yeah, it is a good thing to do, but
it's also terrible thing not to do.
And [snorts] unless you knew the musar
aspect of it, which is the ramifications
of not following the law, knowledge of
the law, meaning the fact that you need
to do it, and obligated to do it, was
not sufficient.
This is just a small, small example of
how knowing the law is not enough. Same
thing with Shabbat. Person could know, I
need to keep Shabbat, I need to keep Yom
Kippur, I need to keep Pesach,
but if
something, a delicious sin comes my way,
unless I know the price of that sin,
most likely the knowledge of that law is
not enough, not enough to keep me away
from sins.
So, that's why the Hahamim already say
in the Mishnah in Avot,
the same exact thing what the Hazon Ish
says, that if a person wants to have his
Hochma last, it has to be preceded by
fear of heaven.
>> [music]
>> You realize you're sick. You're
spiritually sick. Nothing wrong with
him. You're all spiritually sick.
>> [music]
>> There's nothing wrong with being
spiritually sick.
There's something wrong with denying
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