Doing TeShuva by Fighting the Sheker (Rabbi Yaron Reuven & Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi)
Rabbi Yaron Reuven explains that making Teshuva (repentance) is a continuous process. It's not a one-time event. He emphasizes that HaShem provides opportunities for Teshuva, giving us a chance to see the truth and escape the prison of our sins. He stresses that a life without HaShem is miserable, regardless of material wealth. There is no higher level than Teshuva. He critiques individuals who claim to have achieved a higher level of spirituality while neglecting their commitment to Teshuva, suggesting that their Teshuva hasn't truly begun. Rabbi Reuven cautions against distorting Torah to suit personal comfort or gain. He uses the example of a speaker who dismisses the Torah's teaching on capital punishment, ultimately undermining the importance of HaShem's warnings. He emphasizes that even without a Sanhedrin, HaShem remains the ultimate judge, carrying out punishments for those who deserve them. The shiur concludes with the story of Rav Wasserman during the Holocaust. He encouraged his fellow Jews to make Teshuva, emphasizing that their deaths would be a Kiddush HaShem (sanctification of HaShem's name). Rabbi Reuven uses this story to illustrate the constant battle against falsehoods (Sheker) that those who seek truth must face. BREAKING JEWISH NEWS: The World's FIRST TIKKUN HaBRIT & TeShuva Movies CD/DVD Combo in ENGLISH. Join The Campain for Your Personal Ticket To Olam HaBa!!! https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/NjY5MTE= To Support our KIRUV and Torah Teachings work please DONATE at www.BeEzratHaShem.org If you'd like to invite Rabbi Yaron Reuven to give a lecture at your synagogue, home or office please email Info@BeEzratHaShem.org Rabbi Reuven is based out of Florida but travels to give lectures to different groups. Join one of our interactive "Interesting Torah" Whatsapp groups to get daily updates and short Torah clips that can uplift your day by texting 1.917.468.2324 or +91 93236 69880 Available on Apple iTunes Store, Amazon App Store and Android Play Store https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.beezrathashem GOOGLE App https://apps.apple.com/us/app/beezrat-hashem/id1279094981?uo=4 APPLE App https://www.amazon.com/Hosttec-Solutions-BeEzrat-HaShem/dp/B07QST1294/ AMAZON App Click here https://soundcloud.com/yaronreuven/se... To Listen to our very popular "Daily Chidush" short audio series on SOUNDCLOUD or the Podcast Channel at https://beezrathashem.jewishpodcasts.... Born in Netanya, Israel, Rabbi Yaron Reuven began his American Dream as a little boy, when his family immigrated to the United States. He went from a newspaper boy at the age of 10, to a well-known self-made Wall Street multimillionaire by the age of 23. During his time in Wall Street, he owned his own private brokerage firm, a hedge fund, and an international insurance agency. He was featured on CNBC, Bloomberg and Chinese NDTV due to his success in the financial industry. At age 26 he faced a 7-year battle for his life when a simple surgery went wrong. From that moment his life would never be the same. This moment marked the start of a series of miraculous events and an exciting pursuit of truth, ultimately resulting in Rabbi Reuven renouncing his lofty position and success in Wall Street, after 16 years, to become a full-time KIRUV rabbi. His Teshuva story is sure to catch the heart of every listener. Rabbi Reuven’s shiurim are in English and Hebrew. His classes are focused on spreading the truth and divinity of the Torah through MUSSAR, scientific proofs, and many other methods to reach each individual listener. Rabbi Reuven is the leading educator on the topic of wasting seed in the English language with over 30 hrs of content published online. Rabbi Yaron Reuven is a proud member of the Igud HaRabbonim (The Rabbinical Alliance of America), a national rabbinic organization founded in 1942. Today, our 900+ members are congregational leaders, religious teachers, chaplains, heads of Jewish organizations and communal leaders united in their commitment to traditional Orthodox Judaism. For more information please visit: https://rabbinicalalliance.org/ #Judaism #Jewish #RabbiYaronReuven #Torah #Jews #Movies #Movie #jewishmovie #KIRUV 00:00:00 Intoduction 00:00:13 Time for Repentance 00:01:08 Happiness Without God 00:01:40 The Importance of Teshuva 00:02:41 Analyzing Everything in Teshuva 00:03:33 Modifying Torah for Popularity 00:04:55 Divine Justice and Execution 00:06:11 Sanctifying God's Name 00:07:43 Atoning for Jewry 00:08:39 The Mitzvah of Kiddush Hashem 00:09:09 The World of Lies
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0:13The reality is that these excuses are not going to work in Shamayim. Hashem is going to give you a certain amount of time in this world: 40, 50, 70, 100 years, whatever it is. During that time He allotted you, He's going to give you a number of opportunities to see the truth and do teshuva. To see that there's an opening to that jail cell and you can get out even though you're really a criminal that deserves the death penalty. You don't take advantage of it? Rabbi Avraham Azulai says you have no idea. You have no idea how heavy the judgment is. You have no idea how painful the judgment is going to be. You have no idea what you're doing to yourself. Why? Why would you do that to yourself? Don't you at least love yourself somewhat? You don't even have to like fall in love with yourself just a little bit. Why? Look at anyone that doesn't. They have a miserable life anyway. What are you looking up to? What is there to look up to? Give me one person that's a happy person without God. One person. It doesn't exist. Trust me. I was in the business with clients that were billionaires. One after another is more miserable than the other.
1:40Without HaKadosh Baruch Hu, you simply have a miserable, purposeless life. And when a person does not understand this, he's torturing himself. Now, unfortunately, at times, a person thinks that he's already done enough. He's done enough teshuva. And he thinks to himself, he's like, "Oh, listen, Rabbi, I'm okay now. I keep Shabbat, I learn a little bit in the morning. I give tzedakah whenever I get a chance. I'm okay, Rabbi. Teshuvah is not for me, I'm done. I'm gonna go to a higher level." When he thinks that there is a higher level than teshuvah, we already have a very serious reason why he needs to do teshuvah. Because he's wrong.
2:41If we would have done teshuva every day and get to a point where we're starting to think, how am I going to affect the world by my next click? If we don't think that way, our teshuva hasn't begun yet. The key is, Rabbotai, to understand that when a person is doing teshuva, he's going to analyze everything. and not just the obvious, but everything. Some of the speakers today, even in America, when they ask them hard questions, right away they modify the Torah. Some of the speakers today, even in America, when they ask them hard questions, right away they modify the Torah. As soon as it comes to their chair and their name, they sell Hashem immediately. I'll give you an example. There's this lunatic clown that I've been warning about all the time. So they ask him about the death penalty of the Torah.
3:48As soon as it comes to their chair and their name, they sell Hashem immediately. I'll give you an example. There's this lunatic clown that I've been warning about all the time. So they ask him about the death penalty in the Torah. Right away, guess what he said? No, the Torah was not serious about it. Hashem has no intention to execute anyone. 3,300 years of executions, non-stop problems, non-stop diseases. Holocaust and pogroms, and this fool comes and says, "I don't have to pay attention to it." There's really no death penalty. No one ever should be worried, not Mechalelei Shabbat, not gays. In one sentence, he destroys the whole Torah with his long beard. What do you think the wicked people think? Great. Why did Hashem put so many warnings in the Torah? He wants all the wicked people to live with fear.
4:55because fear can help them to do teshuva. They don't want to be religious, but out of fear, they will start, and eventually out of love. But this fool should have known that the Gemara already said, therefore Formats of execution did not get canceled. Even though there's no Sanhedrin, God Himself replaced the four methods of execution with His own execution. Someone that deserves stoning, a tree falls on him, or he falls from a ladder. And someone that deserves choking, drowns in a lake. And someone that deserves burning, gets burned in a specific way. And someone that deserves a sword, gets stabbed by a sword. In our days, it's a gunshot or all kinds of other things. Meaning, yes, there's no Sanhedrin, there's no execution. But Hashem sees who deserves execution. And when the time comes, He executes the people exactly like what they deserve.
6:11The Rashaim Arurim decided to break into the house of the Lithuanian Nazis. They busted into the house, shot some shots into the air to get everybody's attention, scared everybody to death, and started laughing. saying, "We know that you were trying to organize a rebellion and go to Palestine, meaning go to Eretz Yisrael. But we caught you and you won't get away with it." And they asked all the men to line up, one giant after another, one tzaddik after another. They put them at the head. Now, as they're laughing and enjoying themselves, these resha'im arurim,
7:13The Rav Wasserman starts, turns around without skipping a beat, without being scared, without thinking of anyone being next to the other, different than the other. His own son was there. He didn't even say goodbye to him. But he knew this was the last time he was going to be able to talk to people. And he says the following. Heaven apparently considers us tzaddikim, righteous people. For it wants us to atone with our bodies for Jewry as a whole. So we must do teshuva now, on the spot. Time is short. The Ninth Fort is near. We must make up our minds that we truly wish to sanctify HaKadosh Baruch Hu's name. Tzaddikim, righteous people. For it wants us to atone with our bodies for Jewry as a whole. So we must do teshuva now, on the spot. Time is short. The Ninth Fort is near. We must make up our minds that we truly wish to sanctify HaKadosh Baruch Hu's name. If we do teshuvah, we will thereby save the remaining Jews, our brothers and sisters, so that they will be able to carry on as the remnant of Jewry. Let us walk with our heads held high. Let no one think a thought that would disqualify his sacrifice.
8:39We're about to fulfill the greatest mitzvah, the mitzvah of Kiddush Hashem. The fire that consumes our body is the fire that will rebuild the Jewish people. He was talking about all of the Jews because he, his son, and the other group of giant Chachamim are now chosen by HaKadosh Baruch Hu to become the korban. If a person knows the emet, lives for the emet, only cares about the emet, naturally he's going to have a fight constantly with the sheker, with the lies. Why? Because it's everywhere. Hence the reason why the Chachamim call this entire world Alma de'Shikra.
