Can You Do Teshuva for Gambling and Stealing? (3 minutes)

Name: Can You Do Teshuva for Gambling and Stealing? (3 minutes)
Uploaded: 2016-08-08T12:00:02.000Z
Duration: 2 min 56 s

Rabbi Yaron Reuven

10 years ago

To See Full Shiur Torah #94 : HaShem Took Back His Million$ and Gave Me Emunah Instead!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxkBt3yD0uc If you'd like to invite R' Yaron Reuven to give a lecture at your synagogue, home or office please call 917.468.2324 or email Yaron@BeEzratHaShem.org . Yaron Reuven is based out of Boca Raton, Florida, but travels around the world to give lectures to different groups. Visit us at www.BeEzratHaShem.org Click here https://soundcloud.com/yaronreuven/sets/daily-chidush To Listen to our very popular "Daily Chidush" short audio series on soundcloud.com Join one of our interactive "Interesting Torah" Whatsapp groups to get daily messages of short Torah clips that can uplift your day by texting the number above. Please join our Facebook page Be'Ezrat HaShem page and join our group "Torah Lessons To Help Our Lives". This Group is solely about publicizing HaShem's holy Torah from my lectures as well as great Rabbi's such as Rabbi Efraim Kachlon, Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi, Rabbi Zamir Cohen, Rabbi Pinto, and anyone else that is teaching interesting and relevant Torah. We will also bring you some brand new lectures directly from a Kollel in Jerusalem you won't find anywhere else. Torah posts will be in Hebrew and English. There are plenty of places to find entertaining stories that sound great, but this group is about showing you Torah that can impact your life, hence the name Torah Lessons To Help Our Lives. If it's not impactul, then it won't fit in. I watch and read all that I personally post, so I promise to do my best to bring you only the best quality of Hashem's amazing Torah. The Torah is the only thing in the world that you can learn and have an outcome that makes you SMARTER, WISER, And a BETTER Human Being. If the Torah you're learning is no longer impacting your life in a positive way, than its time for a change. If you haven't learned Torah in a long time or ever, then its time to start friend. I guarantee you will enjoy the journey and life will never be the same, if you just give it a real chance. Kiruv and Kiddush Hashem is our #1 goal. So please feel free to contact me if you are interested in getting more FREE material. We would be have to send you Torach lecture DVDs, CD's and a Book for FREE to anyone that is serious about learning them. If you are far from Hashem and His Torah, our goal is to get help you get closer. Thank you for the opportunity and May Hashem bless you with a life full of Torah 00:00:00 Intoduction 00:00:02 Teshuva and Tzedakah 00:00:25 The Obligation of Tzedakah 00:00:53 Ma'aser: Giving 10 Percent 00:01:24 Investing Your Tzedakah Wisely 00:01:51 A Story of Misused Tzedakah 00:02:45 Teshuva and Suffering

Transcript

0:02Now, what do you do if you've already gambled or you've already stolen? You want to go to Gan Eden? You want to do teshuva? Chazal already knew this. So, what did they do? They implemented something from the Torah that all Jews are obligated to do. You have to give tzedakah. It's not a hobby. It's not something that you should do; it's recommended. Like, you know, the 9 out of 10 dentists recommend this toothpaste. It's not that. You have to give tzedakah. There are two forms of tzedakah. There's tzedakah that every person has to give, at least a perutah, something minimal. Obviously, if you have more, you should give more. And then there's ma'aser. Ma'aser is 10% of your net income after paying the main bills that you have. So, for example, if somebody makes $1,000... They have $900 in bills. You could just add a zero to those numbers if you live in New York. You have $100 left. You give $10 ma'aser. You can give it to this Beit Knesset. You can give it to a Talmid Chacham. You can give it for Kiruv. Give it for a righteous cause. Don't give it to just any guy that's wearing a uniform without knowing him. Make sure your ma'aser is an investment. Don't be a fool.

1:24Don't just give it to anyone. If it's a dollar, you don't have to research. But if you're really giving money, make sure your money is invested well. You don't want to be like this guy that I know, Hashem yishmor, he's actually a very, very close relative of mine. He's starting to do teshuva, but you know, when you start to do teshuva, you still have your past life with you. He actually had a card club. He had a card club. Very tough to leave that business. Especially when one day he sees a so-called religious guy show up. Black and white, beard can sweep the floor, like Rav Mizrachi says. The peyos, the Baal Shem Tov would be proud. Only problem is the Baal Shem Tov would probably throw him into Gehenom. Not just for entering the club. Not just for playing in the game. Not just for that. because what he was doing was taking out the checks of tzedakah that people gave him and buying chips. He has a penthouse in Gehinnom. No, he does. Hopefully, he does teshuva. I don't know how you can do teshuva for something like that.

2:45It's very, very difficult to do teshuva without suffering, serious suffering. Serious, serious suffering. You've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by TorahAnytime.com.