Akiva Hated Rabbi Akiva!

0:03Aside from the obvious, that they had to go chase their manna, they didn't like the fact that Moshe Rabbeinu and the rest of the tzaddikim didn't have to go anywhere; the manna arrived at their door. They don't like to see the religious people that commit their lives to HaKadosh Baruch Hu succeed. They don't like to see the religious people have blessings. It bothers them. In fact, even the people who are trying to be religious or trying to do teshuva, trying to... It also bothers them. All of a sudden, they care about why you wear a kippah. When you wore a baseball hat, they never asked you a question. When you wore absolutely nothing in the street, they never asked you a question. When you brought some goy boyfriend or girlfriend to the house, nobody asked you a question about who you're going to marry and what you're going to marry. All of a sudden, you want to do teshuva, you want to marry a bat Yisrael, you want to marry an avrech, you want to do teshuva, you want to keep Shabbat, you want to cover your hair, you want to cover your body, and all of a sudden they're interested in your business; they're interested in your life. Why are you going to shul?

1:07Who died? Why are you wearing those clothes? It's hot. Why are you eating that? Why don't you come eat at McDonald's? Why this? Why do you care about my life? Because the reshaim can't stand the tzadikim. Cannot stand the tzadikim. Why? It reminds them. that they are reshaim, and it reminds them that they don't have an excuse to be a rasha because if you can do it, they can do it. If you can do teshuva, they can do teshuva, and in essence, it obligates them. So what do they do? Misery likes company—they want you to be a rasha with them. When you are a rasha, when you are acting like a rashaite, when you are looking like a zonah, when you are looking like some apikores, when you are doing all these different things, nobody asks you who you're going to marry, what you're going to eat, what you're going to do, and how you make your money. All of a sudden you start to put a kippah on, all of a sudden you have a kisui rosh, all of a sudden you're religious, Everybody wants to know your business and how you're doing it, why you're doing it, and they have an opinion about everything that you do. All of a sudden, they're the expert psychologist, psychiatrist, doctor, lawyer—whatever you want, they know everything. And they feel like you should know and hear them out. Oh, how come you don't listen to me? I'm trying to help you out. Why don't you help yourself out, buddy? Why don't you help yourself out?

2:26You're in the process of a divorce for the third time. You are declaring bankruptcy. You're stealing from your customers. You're engaging in all types of wrongdoing. Go help yourself, Habibi. Why do you need to help me? I'm religious. I'm trying to be religious. I'm trying to serve HaKadosh Baruch Hu. Leave me alone. I want to go to Shul. I don't want to go to a club with you. I want to marry this Bat Yisrael, this Tzedakah. I don't need to look somewhere else. But the Resha'im can't stand it. And don't think this is a new innovation. This is actually in the Gemara. The Gemara Masechet Pesachim says that the Resha'im hate Talmidei Chachamim even more than Esav hates them. And their wives hate Talmidei Chachamim even more. Why? These wicked people are worse than Esav. They're worse than the Arabs. They're worse than everybody else. This Doberman—that's Lieberman, Doberman, a dog over there to the Israeli government. How much hatred does he express towards religious people? He says you should throw them into the garbage. If you would say such a thing about the Arabs, if any religious person or rabbi would say to throw the Arab terrorists into the garbage, or to throw the non-Jews into the garbage, they would literally be put in jail.

3:44but this is in the government and the rest of his clown friends, including the prime minister, who is practically not a Jew, and most likely not a Jew, because they say that his mom converted with a fake conversion. The point is, these people hate religious people; why? Not because of them per se, but rather because it's in them. The further you are from the Torah, the more you hate the Torah, and the more you hate the people who comply with the Torah. This is something that everyone goes through, and they have to overcome it. Many times people hear the story about Rabbi Akiva. Rabbi Akiva, before he did teshuva, before he became the Gadol Hador, before he became the greatest Rabbi in the world with 24,000 students. Rabbi Akiva says that before he became religious, he hated Talmidei Chachamim so much that he wanted to bite them like a donkey so he could break their bones with his teeth. That's how much he hated them. Everybody heard this story, but what perhaps not everyone has heard is that there are countless people out there that have the potential to be a Rabbi Akiva of their community, a Rabbi Akiva of their class, a Rabbi Akiva of their entire city, a Rabbi Akiva of the generation, but they won't allow themselves to be the second part of the Rabbi Akiva.

4:52The text should be corrected as follows: is that there are countless people out there who have the potential to become a Rabbi Akiva of their community, a Rabbi Akiva of their class, a Rabbi Akiva of their entire city, a Rabbi Akiva of the generation, but they won't allow themselves to be the second part of Rabbi Akiva. They only want to hate the religious people. They have the potential, they have the neshama to be a tzaddik, to be a gadol hador. But they won't overcome that hatred. Why? Because they're listening to all types of heretics, all types of apikorsim that tell them that the Torah is not good for you. And unfortunately, there's a lot of people like that. There's a lot of hatred out there. But this is something that's supposed to strengthen you, your ability, and your desire to help those people who are far away from the Torah. Don't bring them hatred and think that's going to solve the problem. Surely, if somebody is an enemy of the Torah, like someone obstinate over there, that's one thing. But if somebody is simply clueless, you should be the one to say, listen, Habibi, look, this is what the Torah says. This is Hashem, who loves you. He gave you eyes, gave you ears, gave you a wife, gave you kids, gave you this. This is Hashem. What is He asking for? He gave you 24 hours. What is He asking for? For an hour a day. What is He asking for?

6:11Does He ask you to kill yourself? No, He asked you to learn His Torah and to do mitzvot. He asks that your children are modest, your wife is modest. He asks you to eat kosher food. What does He ask you for? You would show these people a little bit, a little bit of Torah, and you could see that some of these people can turn into a Rabbi Akiva.