8 Billion Slaves To Inner Poison

1:08Evil is also what's in your heart, what you wish on other people. If a person has jealousy in his heart, he is evil. If every time you see your friend succeed, you start eating your heart. You see he just got a new car, and you hate him for it. You see she just got a new house. You hate her for it. You see they just got a new house. You hate them for it. They just got a new job. You hate them for it. That's evil. That is the epitome of evil. Why? Why shouldn't they get it? Why shouldn't Hashem give them a new car and a new house and food? Why? Why not? Why don't you want them to have it? Why? Is it costing you anything? Why don't people want other people to succeed? I never understood that. The root of jealousy is completely like craziness.

2:13It's the ultimate selfishness of everything. To be jealous means that you literally believe the whole world revolves around you and no one else is allowed to enjoy anything until you enjoy it and you don't want it anymore. Meaning, not only do you not want to share the toy, or the candy bar, or anything else, but no one else is allowed to have their own toys until you've played with them. Who had an attitude like this? The Greeks. The Greeks made a rule: Not allowed to marry until one of the emperors has his way with the woman first, to try her out. He wants to try her out. No, but I'll marry her. She's a virgin. She's pure. Okay, you want to marry her, you have to try her out first.

3:14Crazy, you're sick, you're this. By the way, if you're jealous, you're no different than the Greek. If you're jealous, you're no different than the Greek. Okay, so you're not doing what the Greek did because no one gave you the ability to do it, not because you don't want to do it. It's not because you don't want to do it; it's because no one gave you the ability to do it. If you're jealous of your friend, of your colleague, and what he has and what she has, it is evil. And that's why the Torah Hakdosha says that someone who has jealousy in their heart and dies with jealousy in their heart, when Hashem eventually resurrects the dead, 40 years after Mashiach Tzidkeinu arrives, everyone who is righteous will come back to life, but those who have jealousy in their heart will come back, see everybody else, and then return to being dead again.

4:16Why wake them up and then bring them back? Measure for measure. You saw everybody else, and you hated them because of what you saw. Now we're going to give you even more reason to hate. You're going to see everybody get a share of the World to Come except you. You see it and then go back to the grave. Oh, that's evil. Exactly. That's you for being jealous. Measure for measure governs the world. That's a law that Hashem runs the world with. It's a principle. Oh, it's not nice. Okay, so stop being not nice. Stop being jealous. Rav Hirsch says that a person who is free of envy and jealousy is on the path to being free of hate both in his mind and his spirit, which is the ultimate freedom people always talk about. going to be free of hate both in his mind and his spirit, which is the ultimate freedom people always talk about. Oh, Am Yisrael used to be slaves; we're still slaves. Oh, African Americans used to be slaves; they're still slaves. Oh, this one used to be a slave; everybody's still slaves.

5:41all of humanity, almost 8 billion people, almost everybody is a slave. The only people that are not slaves are Bnei Torah. But it's not just anybody who learns Torah. It is someone who doesn't have jealousy in his heart. As long as you have jealousy in your heart, you are 100% a slave. A slave to your desires, a slave to your hatred, a slave to things that are controlling you and are simply poison. Poison is controlling your life every time you see somebody smiling, and what do you do? Yeah, yeah, you get annoyed. Why? Why are they being so happy? Why are you so upset they're happy? Why so upset they have good stuff? It's poison. You're a slave to this poison, a slave to this poison. It's a spiritual slavery if you need to get... newest iPhone every time it comes out, the newest car every time it comes out, the newest house—the man's nicest house, the biggest... It doesn't matter how much money you have in the bank if your life is constant materialism. Why? Because you're continually competing with everybody else and...

7:05Oh, he expanded his house, I'm gonna expand, I'm gonna get another house. Now I'm gonna expand my house, I'm gonna get another house. I'm gonna get two houses, put them together. He expanded his house, I'm gonna get two houses and put them together. Sometimes, you see, you go to certain neighborhoods, and you see the competition. For years, everybody was modest, with decent, normal houses. All of a sudden, one neighbor decides to expand, put a balcony, or something similar. Decides to put a balcony, decides to expand his yard, decides to add a floor, something. Miraculously, everybody else has the same idea. He expanded his garden, everybody else expanded. He put up a gate, everybody puts up a gate. He's adding a floor, everyone wants to add a floor all of a sudden. All of a sudden, everybody was, "Wow, you lived in this house for 25, 30 years, everything was good. So what happened now? You have to do all this stuff?" "Oh no, you know, it's the times." "What times? What? You saw your neighbor?" But you don't have any kids. It's two people with a dog. Why are you adding eight more rooms to the house? Sometimes you go, you walk around, you see some of these houses. Baruch Hashem, that you have a big house. But have people in it too.

8:20You see, sometimes people have absolutely nothing to do with their money. Absolutely nothing. Why do they expand the house? Why do they expand it? They expand the house when they least need it. When there's nobody home anymore because the kids are all married off. They're all in their own houses. They're all settled. But there are two old people with 87 rooms, and they have to have a little scooter to go from room to room. In reality, they live in the kitchen by themselves the whole time. No one sees the rooms except the cleaning people. Why do you have such things, for what purpose? Why do you possess it? Oh, you have it because your neighbor has it. You're a slave to these desires. You should call your neighbor your master. Master, master. Why? Because he's essentially your master. You're perpetually imitating him. Always trying. You are a slave. Jealousy is indeed a form of slavery.