Emunah Exercise: The Ten Remembrances in Judaism by Rabbi Yaron Reuven

[Music] is actually a mitvah in our 630 mitv not to forget God as a matter of fact there's an obligation it's an obligation that you're supposed to do it every day in the morning all the guys that go to pray in the morning and women should do it every day at some point to do something called 10 remembrances 10 things that you're supposed to remember 10 things 10 10 there's 10 remance there's six things there's six things you're talking about something else it's similar but it's not the same right there six things but this is 10 remembrances two different things it's they're similar though but the 10 remembrances are as such you must remember Egypt why remember where you came from remember you used to be a slave you were nothing they were beating you up they were killing babies they were taking their blood making a bath out of it remember all that stuff destroyed the biggest civilization in the world the ones that you thought were your friends initially because he said was the leader he made them Rich they loved them they this they worshiped him they made him into a god remember you made that's the America of their day you made them rich and then what they made you into a slave so remember Egypt you remember that stuff they made you a slave okay remember don't trust any Adam don't trust any man no one why tomorrow may not be here that's why in a couple of weeks we're going to see it says and now a was born who didn't remember YF what do you mean didn't remember what you forgot remember remind them this 500 million people in uh in in Egypt 500 million people one of them remembers why he just died last week hey you remember the pictures all over the wall everybody every house has a picture sadik why he made us rich we were nothing he made us rich you sadik remember him what do you mean you woke up and they don't remember him says you don't remember on purpose why him out of my face why I don't like him anymore why he's dead I don't have to pay him any honor I don't have to pay him any honor he's some Jew he did nothing it's not really him our it's it was our money that made the money it was always them that made them we just gave him a job we gave him an opportunity look he took advantage took all of our money he took all of our jobs he took all of our careers he turned the whole story upside down so the America of their day Egypt hasem says You must remember it why you like today everything is fine they said oh capital of Israel is thank you thank you for giving us permission to have y as the capital for you everyone's sending letters wow look at this amazing thank you very much for telling us what we knew for already 3,000 years thank you so much kavod so many articles written so many things what is this a joke this me first number one it says remember not just the slavery part what happened before two Shabbat Shabbat you got the mitvah of Shabbat before you even got to mount sa why that's the deal breaker you keep Shabbat you have a share in the world to come you don't nothing you can do is going to save you you can keep 612 out of the 613 mitv somehow some way you're woman you're a man you're everything you found a way you found a loophole to keep all of the except shabat doesn't make a difference goes to the garbage why you get paid in this world you have no remember Shabbat it's a big deal that's number two man remember the man what's remember the man I don't have any M you have any m in the house I'm telling you I study Tor I try all night all day I sleep I wake any I tried all the time no man coming down no man coming what you remember the man I don't remember the man always I remember the man remember that is the one that pays the bills is from sh the same way that the man came from sh same way that the man came from sham 3,300 years ago your from so whether you work until 11:00 at night or 11 o'clock in the afternoon or you work six days or seven days or 9 days or two days or one day your par regardless is coming from mind if you don't believe it you are a if you think you're making your money you're you have a problem you have a serious problem it's not a issue it's a problem with your foundational beliefs in in Judaism why because is from sh you think the comes from your from your things you have a problem that's two that's three four what's amalik was created to destroy you amik and the word sa which means doubt have the same numerical value in gatria the same numerical value in gatria now is Alive and Well in body like the Nazis but also in words sometimes you can have a and you're learning you're there an hour two hours if you're my three hours everything is good everything is fantastic amazing you just saw live you did chva everything is great everything you leave the Shi you leave five seconds of the shoe or you see a comment on the internet from one of these uh keyboard Warriors or somebody didn't come to the shoe oh you went to what it yon yon that guy get oh really I heard you know what I heard I heard you start making up things I heard start making up things all of a sudden what happens oh wait a minute if what he says is true then maybe everything else is not true maybe this what he put just one poisonous seed in your mind one po you didn't have to say a whole shield for three hours to go against the three hours one second hey thanks for listening bye that's it it say nothing oh you went to him h oh okay that oh that guy made you didn't say nothing he said that's where the the says this is a from to ever say anything anything other than a compliment about someone that teaches Torah even if all you have is negative things even if he came taught T and nothing came out of his mouth all all nonsense it wasn't against the Torah but nothing entertaining nothing really of intellect nothing really uh of nothing M he came there he said to you guys hasem took us out of Egypt for 5 hours in a row that's it that's all he said hem took us out of Egypt you are not allowed say for you to go to say somebody else hey by the way boring sh five hours he says took us out of Egypt what's what does it mean what does it mean it's not allowed in t ra says why you destroyed someone that maybe got a out of that shoe or maybe will get auk from it last week or next week now you just ruined all of it why you would put a little poison it doesn't have to be a lot of poison to be amalik you can have you know like those huge barrels they have like they put water in different cities and so on as Giants giant barrels somebody's put just a little bit tiny not even 1% 1% of 1% of poison in that water the whole water is gone everything anyone drinks it dies that's it that's amalik that's you don't have to say much you ruin everything next one M mad is the fifth one he says remember mad why I need to remember mad why have to remember Mount saai cuz you were there you may not remember it but you you were right next to me you're pushing me I remember you were there what does it mean you were there your was there so why my was there that means when you get up to Sham you can't say I didn't know what do you mean didn't know you think AEM the creator of all creation the King of Kings a that loves you is going to put you into a world and you don't know anything nothing you're like a Golem nothing you're a little little Play-Doh just your piece of play you know nothing you never had an opportunity to do chva you never had an opportunity to ask ask yourself what's the truth what's fake what why did I come to this world nothing you just Golem nothing said you were not siai you were Mount sa of course you knew you may not remember the day you were Mount sa because it was 3,000 years ago it's a long time ago but your remembers at some points during your life you're going to constantly be reminded there's going to be doubts am I doing right am I doing wrong should I marry this woman should I marry this guy should I do this should I do that should I Ste you're always asking yourself why do you think you're asking yourself no one taught you in great school about marriage no one taught you in great school whether to waste seed or not but if you go to a Jewish crowd doesn't matter if there're soldiers in the Army doesn't matter it's in the kib booots doesn't matter it's in America doesn't matter it's in Guam doesn't matter it's in Africa you tell people ladies and gentlemen what do you know about wasting seed everyone knows it's a they don't know why it's a you go to go you go to non-jews ladies and gentlemen what do you know about wasting seed everyone knows it's ass they don't know why they never read anything about it as a matter of fact this is the first time in their life they actually heard the term but they automatically know what it means no one in their right mind thinks that wasting seed is taking a bunch of seeds for for sesame seeds and throwing them on the ground no one thinks that no one thinks it's say take little pistachios and and throwing it in the air or something no one thinks that no one thinks it's watermelon seeds no one thinks like that everyone knows exactly what I mean when I say what do you think of wasting seed why you were Mount sa you were Mount you cannot deny it next that our holy fathers despite having Miracles after Miracles after Miracle after Miracle after Miracle day and night there was not a day that passed without a miracle but I talk about Miracle like we see Miracles Miracle you didn't have a flat tire Miracle you got on time to the appointment even though you an hour behind miracle that your wife still likes you miracle that your husband wanted to marry you miracle that the kids are still home allp I'm not talking about like that talking about miracles and Sham you're seeing crazy things Miracles despite all of that am still went against the still had a golden calf what is what is this reminder reminder is miracles for all of those people that say why doesn't Hashem just show himself why doesn't Hashem just show himself to all of us and eliminate all doubt why does show us Sky just write something write God everyone knows where it came from or just say something scar us to death say I am God that's it finished everyone's going to believe in God there's not going to be an atheist in the world says not possible why look the ones that saw Miracles nonstop still at some point the Miracles did not help them do chuva why because the continues to work unless the works wins unless you continue learning tah continue getting glued to hem continue working on yourself on your midot your character traits and everything else it's all going to fall apart all the Miracles you had are going to become a distant memory how many of you have books notebooks that you wrote down all the Miracles that happened in your life I want to embarrass you and ask you to raise your hands how many of you have a memory just a memory of all the Miracles that you ever had in your life I'm not going to ask you to raise your hand how many you remember how many miracles you had today not yesterday not last week not your whole life just today even that you have to think about why Miracles don't help people people do CH just open the door come in son come in daughter come come what keeps you in to so stop asking the silly question of why doesn't hasem appear next that there were always going to be some leaders out there that are going to go against the nation but only we can beat ourselves a Rasha was a prophet that had one power that even mosu didn't have he knew the moment the that hem would punish the world the moment is a some of the say this is one out of 15, of a second that's the whatever it is in a couple of places in you know that gave him power that if he utilized that moment that he'd ask do whatever he wants he do it he tried cursing during that moment said no Bak had cash he said bam you cursed them you destroy them I'll pay you anything you want billion no problem where do you want to make Tech payable to cash no problem with diamonds too whatever you want to have cash Donald Trump was like an employee for him but got a lot of money said I'll pay whatever you want just destroy these people but what really destroyed us what really destroyed what nearly destroyed the entire nation you go to par balak at the end after all of the trials that balak and Bam tried cursing us several times three times nothing worked what nearly destroyed us immodesty IM modesty vam told him listen the curse is not working why God of Israel is he runs the show doesn't matter what I do he wants the curse he curses he's not like a genie he wants the curse he curse doesn't want to curse the curse what do you think he's like us he changes his mind he said he's blessing them he's blessing them but I do know something about him what do I know their God hates immodesty you sent your immodest girls to them they go with them he'll destroy them without you asking why he it's disgusting to him an immodest Act is disgusting to Hashem why because it eliminates the separation between man and animal what's the difference between man and animal you can't tell me it's the the fact that you're able to speak maybe the cow can speak you just don't understand you can't tell me it's because I could pray maybe the cow is praying and you don't know as a matter of fact the says they do pray every day what do you think the frogs are in this world not not praying to hm every day they quack quack quack they quacking to Hashem says several stories about how they praying to hem what what are you saying they're not praying what are he's saying because what you have a mortgage need a mortgage they can live anywhere they want they live better than you they have no stress you have stress all the time what is it because you get married they get married to as many people as they want as many animals as they want every day is a new wife every day new husband what they what do you what separates you what makes you better what makes you better than an animal than a par one of these animals we going to make kosher Stakes out of what What Makes You Different why are we putting you there chopping you up into little kosher Stakes why what's the difference difference difference is you have free choice they work off of instinct they work off of instinct you have free choice what's the free choice you don't have free choice of whether you're tall or short you don't have free choice of whether you live or die you don't have free choice of whether you're born black white yellow green or any other color in between what's your free choice your free choice is whether you're going to fear God or not your free choice is whether you're going to obey what God Said or not so now God said there's a few things that I am disgusted by one of them is immodesty promiscuity whether it's with the same sex opposite sex irrelevant point is it's disgusting in the eyes of hem anything connected to it anything around it to such an extent that even the Rasha Prophet The Wicked Prophet be had the opportunity to curse us it didn't work what worked he sent a bunch of prostitutes to us SED with them and Hashem started killing us by the second 24,000 died in a matter of seconds not weeks not months not days not even hours seconds seconds what the say was to such an extent that had Pinas not done what had done within a few more seconds all of am would have died there would be not us no conversion no chva no nothing zero no mosu nothing not like the where we sit with the golden calf and he came to mosu MOS listen let me just destroy them and I start a new nation from you no he didn't see this he didn't even warn us that's how much he hates immodesty that's how much she hates promiscuity that's how much he hates into marriage that's how much you ask how much that's how much you have to remember this every day it's number seven number eight was a prophet was a prophet the sister of mosu not like the foolish Arabs in the Quran they write that was the mother of JC Penny lived a thousand years before the guy was a prophetes as a matter of fact there's a story in the about that make you understand how important it is to listen to rebuke regardless of where it comes from mam was six years old five years old actually at the time five years old she see she Sayes her father Ames Howes how holy is he says only four people lived and died with never sinning what never sinning never sinning like big things never never ate n kosher never no no no never sinning period ever nothing on the way here I think some of us sinned just under the way here one second yeah four people yes he allowed he was allowed this is before and that's why after one of the best proofs of the Tor is that M's parents and had to get divorced they had to get divorced that's one of the best proofs that the Torah is authentic why if M wrote it out of his own free will out of his own mind why in his right mind would he go up to the mountain come down from the mountain hey ABA IMA hey by the way I love you guys we have to get divorced at at the very least you say abaa since I'm the one that wrote the Tora your grandfather then don't have you don't have to do anything don't worry about it say first thing they have to do you have to get divorced not the issue not the not the issue of marrying your aunt that only came after mat we also learn this from y who married two sisters y married two sisters he's allowed at the time to marri two sisters because at the time we don't have mat even though they kept the laws they kept them as noahides and they kept them as far as what their limitations were they didn't keep him like am kept them after mat didn't become official now comes to and he tells them listen this he's killing us every boy that's born he's killing us every boy McAn what the boy do he just born he didn't even do anything he didn't even like curse him out nothing he didn't have a chance to do anything yet already killing them so why are we going to bother having kids carry the baby n mons M and then you know the say that one of the Miracles that made am greater than Egypt that made the Egyptians decide to only kill the boys but not the girls if they want to destroy us kill the girls too says no no no we want to keep the girls why keep the girls CU every birth with six kids so he said look the Jewish women the Israelites they're great let's let's keep the women for ourselves we can grow every time we're with them six Egyptians six muhammads six Mustafa we're going to become two billion within a couple of uh Generations China or or mustaf today so now what happens they start killing us but they kill the boys only so says what are we going to have this for for what we're going to be carry the babies just to kill them for what divor five years old little Piccolo tiny ABA ABA you're a uh worse than PA what excuse me you're worse than my daughter's only two and a half at 5 years old she tell me wor I'm not giving her another chance not say let me see why her a chance why why why why am I worse than po says's decree was to kill only the boys your decree to divorce the wives to not have any more you know any more kids is killing the boys and the girls why because you're you got divorced to Ima you're not gonna have any more kids now everyone's going to follow you everyone's going to divorce their wives so no kids at all so no boys and no girls your decree is worse than par your decree is worse than par why is it worse than paros is is wicked meaning that maybe what he says happens maybe he doesn't because doesn't have to fulfill his will you're if you say hasem does why you're says it a few places so now imagine giant of giants never sinned in his life look at a five year-old just rebuke them and she's right between you and me you listen I don't listen I I I I I pretend like it didn't happen I'm telling you personally I'm tell I pretend like it doesn't happen five what she know five years old next week I'll find something else I'll find new excuse so I'll pretend like it's my idea 5 years old I'm going tell the whole world this now SL I made a mistake my 5-year-old just rebuked me that's what he did that's what he did why that's isit that's a isit that's why so had the intuition had the had the prophecy see that this had to happen at 5 years old and because of her and because of how am responded mosu was born he married she she was she got $10,000 $110,000 ABA IMA nice to meet each other get married all over again mosu is born a year later she's six years old she has little mosenu little she does everyone know this little mosenu is going to become big mosenu the prophet of all prophets why listen to rebuke of a 5 years old so this very same she sees everything she leaves with us Egypt she's in a desert with us there's a whole river of fresh water following am for 40 years due to her Merit she dies the river dies it says what's what what do we have to remember he says the one time she sinned what she s she just saved yes she sinned once what she sin what' she do you remember it says that she said something not so appropriate about mosu her brother she said Moshe she was talking to Aon she talking to one the guy you know she talking to her brother one or the other not talking to the rest of the people she's not making an announcement she's talking to Aron someone stands another leader our brother Moshe he left his wife why why is he think he's better maybe he's a little gaan maybe he's uh thinks of himself now because God speaks to him why we're prophets also oh he's a prophet were prophets also in her level that was considered in her level was considered distasteful speech against the G and hasem came out from the heaven and a b call came out and says no he's not a prophet like you you're a prophet yes but not like M and he punished her with Sarat Sarat is both a spiritual and a physical disease only cure is God doesn't matter what medicine you have and when you have it you have to one of the cures is to do chuva the main thing you have to do is chuva how do you do chuva bring embarrassment to s someone you have to you have to they first of all they throw you out of the camp because you're going to infect other people they throw you out of the camp so everyone knows you spoke about somebody else in a negative way to make others distance themselves from him or from her so the the the actual punishment is for everyone to distance themselves from you so first of all everyone knows you are you are a guy speaks bad bad bad things about other people everyone knows you have a tongue doesn't stop get out that's first thing that's first thing second second thing is that when you're outside of the camp no one's allowed to be next to you and if someone doesn't know you have it don't have it they come you know they're on their horse they're on their camel they're on their donkey they're coming down and you're over there in your little Camp outside of the camp you're in your little Hut over there and someone comes down the street you have to come out and start screaming no meaning I have you have to tell people I have you have to tell people hey I have it's like someone say I have AIDS AIDS AIDS who wants to do that you have to bring embarrassment to yourself so Shabbat page 66 says but that's only one if you sitat once we understand you're bringing embarrassment to yourself why you saying tat twice turn twice say if it's once for if it's for embarrassment say it once why is he saying it twice he says the second time is to make them feel bad for you why you make other people feel bad for you they pray for you they pray for you they have more merits than you second time make other people feel bad for you why they pray for you they pray for you that's where we get one of the sources where you guys always see oh you know so and so something happened pray for them this that's the source and say oh why do we pray for people why you pray for people why you're now technically if something happened in some house or some place you're not allowed to announce it to the world if somebody just uh ruined their car they're a bad driver you start telling hey by the way Joe over there is a terrible driver no it but if you say Joe got into an accident pray for him why you make up the people feel bad for him they pray for him so gotat as holy as she was she got Sarat why she said one thing one thing a little doubt she had a little saf about mosenu so if Miram can getat such a horrible horrible disease that mosu was the only one that was able to cure he prayed for one time five words finished but the whole nation prayed for nothing happened mosu said five words finished cured why doesn't matter how holy you are garbage comes out of your mouth you have a sore mouth there will be an outcome a really bad one next one which is the reason why we set this whole list for to remember Hashem your God to remember Hashem your God this is a Mitzvah in the Tor out of the 63 MIT from the Torah seven from raban 620 total one of those MIT from the Tor says remember God why remember God because he's the one who gives you power to acquire wealth he's the one that gives you power to do anything if you think about it logically it's not logical to not remember God it's illogical not to remember God why where do you think it came from what' you come from nothing you have to come from somewhere the money just appear what you just came up with the idea on your own who created your brain who gave you eyes who gave you ears who gave everything it's illogical to forget God but nonetheless we do it all the time nonetheless we do it all the time and the reason why is because we turn ourselves into our own Gods we give ourselves the credit I'm the one that thought of this new invention I'm the one that picked this investment I'm the one that decided to work at this time at this time at this place and such and such me me me constantly giving ourselves the credit hasem says remember me what is it like a King only has one daughter and he says to the daughter give you anything you want the husband that you going to marry one day I'll give him anything you wants okay one day she grows up she gets married and the this guy just comes in he says listen I'll give you guys whatever you want oh really sure we want a house no problem where do you want the house how big you want the house I want the house in this place at this time da da $10 million house no problem I want a car on Monday a different car on Tuesday a different car on Wednesday and a chopper and a plane and a food and a servants and this and that anything you want to give you okay what's the condition is a price for this or no it's free nothing's free in life he says there's only one small thing that I want the king says only one small thing where you go you have this vacation house you have the other house you have the car Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday and Saturday you have all these different things that I'm giving you I'm paying for it just make sure to give me a little bit of room just one tiny little room doesn't have to be a big room you have a house 20,000 Square F feet give me a room no big than a small bathroom something small tiny but just give it to me don't give it to anyone else just a room for me sounds logical come on you're not going to give it to him he just paid for the house you should take the whole house you should have the little room what happens one day the king shows up hello hello I I I need a place to sleep I need a place to pray I need a place to eat I need a place to rest oh I'm sorry we're busy come back next week unfortunately that's us when we forget about God he gave us everything he gave us Z he gave us panasa he gave us kids he gave us everything we have we forget to give him a little room every day that's why there's a mitvah in a t hasem says I know I created you I created you that way because you had to work on this mitvah in order to fulfill it you have to constantly proactively remember for me that's why you have to say it at the end of your it's not part of your it's at the end why it's an extra effort it's not part of it's the end because the which we'll talk about now is the part you could easily become used to and become robotic the last mitvah that you are obligated to remember in it says remember y remember that the days of the mashia are going to come and Y is going to be rebuilt and will be great again but right before that he tells you about remember God why the only chance you'll be able to survive to see the last one the only chance you'll have to see this you fill the first nine [Music] [Applause] [Music] he [Music]