Baruch Chaim Teasley - Rabbi Yaron Reuven Changed My Life

0:03Shalom Aleichem. I just want to tell you I was inspired. Last night was a really good inspiration. Rabbi Aharon Reuven hit everything on the dot yet again. I don't see how anybody would want to spend their lives living in such nonsense. We live by so many things that are false, so many fake ideas.

1:12To fill the real void in life is to have them met. Truth hurts because we are so used to lies. A Rabbi is not going to waste his time lying. I have cried in several shiurim, many shiurim of his, because he's telling the truth and it hurts. But I have to have it because it fixes you. After a while, pretty soon the truth becomes like candy. It becomes such a wonderful thing. It's like a nutrition to you. Bitterness is hard because you have to realize that you're wrong, and that's what you fight against. Rabbi Yaron Reuven and Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi, these guys, I have to say, they work so hard. I mean, someone to work so hard to try to help anybody but me... to help me has been huge. I mean, I've always tried to be what people wanted me to be, even though I couldn't do it. And I always failed miserably because I can't deny what I truly am. You can't deny it. You have to be who you really are. And I've always tried to do that. I've tried to fit in with every aspect of it. And then I failed miserably over and over and over. Only a few people in my entire life have ever really known who I am.

2:22to really know it because they take the time to see it. Most people don't want to take the time to see it because you're either, okay, what are you doing? Are you fitting the criteria of their life? If you're not, then they move on. It's like a fast-flowing river. But when you have someone who's telling you the straight-up truth, and every time they tell you something, you find it in the Torah. Because, I mean, I go into the Gemara and I can find what Rabbi Akiva says. I can find it. He's not making this stuff up. And when he tells you, it's like, oh my goodness, this man, Baruch Hashem, is sacrificing so much. And he's having to battle with the garbage out there. People are constantly against him. They're against him because they get tired of being uncomfortable. I thank you, everybody, because you, my friends, are like lifesavers to me. I've been so shaken up to the point where I know now I have to stand on both feet. I can't just hop around on one foot. And that's what we do in life. We hop around on one foot because we're always trying to change according to everybody else's ideas. And then they don't even have sources. It's a philosophy of life that has poisoned us. We live by philosophy. What we think, what we feel, and our emotions are not the truth that the Torah says. The Torah is truth. It's not a philosophy. It's Hashem's truth.

3:40We got to fix it. He didn't create us to become garbage. He created us to become jewels and prizes. We are supposed to come before Him with truckloads of mitzvot and truckloads of gifts to the King of the universe because one day we're going to face Him. We don't come to Him with a pocket full of pennies. That's what we are. When we sin and live our lives, we become nothing because when we come up before Him, it's going to be such a disaster. I'm scared because I don't know. I'm probably going to be embarrassed more than I can imagine. But I got to try. I got to work hard to try to make full teshuva. Rabbi Yaron Reuven is the one that I have to say is fighting. And he's fighting. Listen to him. Just give him a chance. If anybody's out there, if this is one person, if anyone out there has not listened to this shiur, he's got one coming up on Sundays. On Sundays, 9 p.m. Tuesdays at 9 p.m. Wednesdays at 9 p.m. He's all the time on Facebook. I post stuff on Facebook. Other wonderful Tzadikim are always posting stuff on Facebook. It's on YouTube. He's all over the place. Just listen to him and let him feed you. Because he's taking the Torah and he's passing it on. Really know how great Moshe Rabbeinu is. You have to learn the Torah. If you don't know the Torah, you think he's just another story. Moshe is beyond scope. We can't even imagine how great he is. And he got it all from HaShem through Moshe Rabbeinu.

5:06Even your local rabbi, if he's a real rabbi, can be amazing to listen to and can be an amazing one to learn from. But Rabbi Yaron Reuven is straightforward with the truth. This lightning bolt hits you; he's not going to hold back. You need somebody like that, you need to hear someone like that constantly. You need someone to tell you where you're at. Every time you think about stepping off to the left, he kicks you back into it if you let him. Listen to what he says. Don't argue against it and constantly have problems with it. If you have questions, fine, but don't try to knock him off because he's doing his part. It only proves that you're wrong when you have to fight against him. So if you can find it in you before Shabbat, keep Shabbat if you're not doing it, keep it because you're missing the paradise of paradises in this world. But at the same time, get ready for Sunday night at 9 p.m. He's got a shiur coming up. Listen to him. He will change your entire life because of me. I probably would be dead if I hadn't changed myself years ago. But at the same time, Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi got me here. He got me started. He helped me see what life is really about. I started studying more and more, discovering who I truly am, which was quite embarrassing. Rabbi Yaron Reuven says, now it's time for you to take leadership in your life. It's time for you to step up and become exactly what Hashem wants you to be. Quit messing around with it. You could be dead tomorrow.

6:31You don't have any time. If you're awake and the sun's shining, do teshuva. Work on it now. Fix it. Everyone needs someone strong enough to tell them the truth. I've been very, very fortunate to have a great mother, Baruch Hashem. She's been amazing to me, and she's doing teshuva. She's doing teshuva at this part of her life. She's making huge amounts of teshuva in her life, Baruch Hashem. People like Rabbi Yaron Reuven and Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi are the ones to whom, I gotta say, all credit goes. And may Hashem continue to bless them for all the challenges they constantly face. But, Baruch Hashem. Hashem is amazing. It's tough, but He's amazing. He's worth it. I hope it helps you. If it can influence even one person, then perhaps someone will see the truth. Look in the mirror and say, "This is not it." Eventually, you stop looking in the mirror because you realize that you don't need it anymore. You understand that the Torah is your mirror.

7:36Be the light. It's like white and black, the colors of clothing if you look at it. White reflects light. Moshe's face was white when he came off the mountain. He was shining bright light. He was piercing. And then the darkness, it absorbs everything. It takes everything in and it doesn't reflect anything. It's like a hallway. There's nothing there. And that's what happens when we become, we want stuff for ourselves, we become holes. And we suck everything in because we want this kavod. We want this; we don't want to feel something for ourselves, the credit and recognition. But if we want to be like Moshe, which Moshe is the highest level, no one will ever reach Moshe's level. Moshe became the reflection of the light. That's why he was shining so much. He was reflecting Hashem. It wasn't him. It was Hashem he was reflecting. We have to become this. Absorb. Everything becomes nothing. No one can see it, but you become the light. You become a reflection of the Torah. People don't see you anymore. They see what the Torah really is, which is infinite light.

8:41Knowledge is but a drop from the bucket that Hashem gave us in this world, which will be even more grand and spectacular in the world to come. Olam Habah, the World to Come, will be amazing, but we have to get there first. We have to fight in this world to achieve that. Let's fight together, I'm saying. Let's make our way towards true Teshuva. Let's fight together, I'm saying. Let's all make teshuva. Let's start keeping Shabbat. Let's start listening to our rabbis. Rabbi Yaron Reuven, listen to him. Watch his shiurim. Stop wasting time. Bring people. Make people watch it. You're wasting your lives not watching him and learning. So you can make teshuva. Stop wasting your life on this world. This world, trust me, I've already experienced a lot of it. It does not bring satisfaction because it's like a drug. You've got to have more and more and more. It's a waste. The Torah, if you want more and more and more, it constantly gives more and more and more than you can handle. My cup overflows. We have to make true of our folks. And I feel selfish if I don't say something. I feel like I'm being selfish if I don't tell you about Rabbi Yaron Reuven. I have to tell you about him because he's done so much for me. I have to spread it and help as many people hear what I've heard. It's like going to Har Sinai and passing it up. I'll return later. I'll go down that road when I'm ready. You may not have everybody ready. You may not even have a chance to breathe it. You may be dead the next day. You may be dead now. You don't know. It's coming. Every one of us is going to be in the dirt. Rabbi Mazzocchi says we're all going to be eaten by the snakes. We'll all become dirt. What does the worm do? It eats dirt and it recycles it.

9:51It's like going to Har Sinai and passing it up. I'll return later. I'll go down that road when I'm ready. You may not have everybody ready. You may not even have a chance to breathe it. You may be dead the next day. You may be dead now. You don't know. It's coming. Every one of us is going to be in the afar. Rabbi Mazoz says we're all going to be eaten by the tolaim. We'll all become afar. What does the tola do? It eats afar and it recycles it. The worms eat us. We are recycled back into the dirt. We become the dirt that we once were. We are no good without the divine soul that's within us. Stop being animals. It's time to start being humans, and then start being what Hashem wants us to be—His people. Baruch Hashem. Shabbat Shalom to everyone. I hope this helps you, because it has changed my life. Baruch Hashem.