Did God Ever Change His Mind?
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1:41But the chiddush on top of this is as follows, and I've told you this before, I believe. Rav Ovadia said that when people go against the Torah, obviously, it's a sin. Now, when people allow themselves to teach things that are against the Torah, obviously, they're machti harabim. When someone doesn't tell the truth, on the other hand, They're not necessarily causing people directly to sin. But still, the Torah Kedoshah says they bring a case against themselves. And we learn this from the Gemara, Masechet Shabbat, pages 54a, 54b, all the way to 56, which talks about it. And it says that Hashem Yitbarach, before He destroyed the Beit HaMikdash, He decided, He's going to put a tav, one of the angels said. He said, go write a tav. Inscribe a tav on the forehead of the tzadikim. Go scribe a tav on the head of the tzadikim. Why? So they're not harmed, so the Malach Hamavet doesn't kill them; it's for their protection. But the Malach Hamavet showed up, and Midat HaDin, oh Hashem.
3:04What are you doing? What are you doing? We're about to destroy everything. Why are you getting in the way? No, no. Tzadikim. I can testify. These are tzadikim. They follow the entire Torah. They follow the entire Torah. Tefillin, Rabbeinu Tam, Rashi, Mincha, they wake up, they eat kosher at home, outside, they check their mashgiach, everything's good. Tzadikim. Hashem says, I testify, they're tzadikim. Then the Malach HaMavet takes out the card, the one card that ends it all. He says, if they're Tzaddikim, why didn't they tell the Reshaim the truth? If they're such Tzaddikim and they knew the truth, they knew the truth. How come they didn't share it? How come they didn't fulfill the mitzvah of "You must rebuke your brother"? How can they be tzaddikim if they see that their brothers are running headfirst into the train because of chilul Shabbat, and engaging in acts like murder, and so forth? How can they be tzaddikim if they see their brothers and sisters sinning, yet they didn't say a word? They didn't say bad things, but they didn't say anything at all.
4:23For the first and last time in history, Hashem changed the decree. He said to take off the writing and destroy them first. The Gemara says this is the first and last time that Hashem turned, in essence, what was supposed to be a good decree into a bad one. Why? Because they didn't rebuke. So, Rabotai HaKedoshim... Sometimes, the rebuke is going to come from a gadol hador, one of the greatest rabbis of our generation. Sometimes, the rebuke is going to come directly from the Torah itself. Anyone who wants to understand why the Holocaust happened should look at Parashat Bechukotai and Parashat Ki Tavo. They explain exactly why it happened and exactly what transpired. No questions in the Torah—all of these questions of where was God during the Holocaust, and all of these questions are all answered in the Torah. Sometimes the questions are very literally answered in the Torah. Sometimes the rebuke comes directly, literally from the Torah. Sometimes it comes from the Gedol HaDor, the biggest rabbis in the world, from 2,000 years ago, from 500 years ago, from today. Sometimes it comes from an aton.
5:38Sometimes it comes from a donkey. Does it change the fact that it's still true? No. Whether it comes from the biggest rabbi in history or it comes from the donkey, if it's true, nothing changes. So this is why we need to learn from this Mishnah, specifically from the aton, from the donkey. He said the truth. That's what he meant. That's why he's remembered here. I When we tell people the truth, they always want to kill the messenger. Oh, this guy is this, this guy is that. What difference does it make about all these side things? It makes no difference. Is what I’m saying true or not? Is what I’m saying false or not? No, but I heard from such-and-such rabbi that he said this is okay. Did he provide you with sources, or did he say it from his own opinion? If he provided sources, let me see the sources. Maybe I got it wrong, but if it's just his opinion, his opinion is worth even less than a donkey. Less than a donkey? Why, the donkey is mentioned in the Torah. He's not. But if what I'm saying to you is true, you should focus on the message, not the messenger.
6:57It's a verse from the Torah. It's a verse from halakha. It's irrelevant what my history is, who I am, or what my name is, or any of those things, even if I were a donkey myself. Why? It's the truth. Stop focusing on the messenger. Focus on the message. That's what we learned when He opened the mouth of the donkey. Hashem opened the donkey's mouth to tell you: listen, is what's coming out true or not? Doesn't matter where it's coming out from. If he says it, that means it's coming from Hashem.
