Doing Teshuva Is A Mitzvah

0:10Hashem did not put you in this world to fail. And Hashem knows exactly what you can do. So He gives you the answer for anyone who says it's hard for them to do teshuva. He says this. Chapter 30, verse 11. For this commandment that I command you today, the commandment of doing teshuva, teshuva is actually an actual commandment, it's an actual mitzvah. This commandment that I command you today, it is not hidden from you, and it's not distant, it's not so far from you, it's not such a big deal like you're saying, and it continues. Lo bashamayim hi le'emor mi ya'aleh lanu hashamayim veyikacheh otah lanu veyashmi'enu otah v'na'asenah. It says, it's not in heaven for you to say, "Who can ascend to heaven for us and take it for us, so that we can listen to it and perform it?" It says, it's not so far that you have to go climb to heaven or send somebody over there. It says, "Go get it for us, and then we'll listen." No, no, it's not there. Nor is it across the sea for you to say, "Who can cross to the other side of the sea for us?"

1:28to take it for us, so that we can listen and perform it. It's not also, you don't have to cross the ocean, you don't have to go to Eretz Yisrael to go learn Torah. It's also at home, it's also on your tablet, it's also on your phone, it's also on WhatsApp, it's also in the 20 groups that we have, baruch Hashem. It's also on TorahAnytime.com, it's also on BeEzratHashem.org, it's also on DivineInformation.com, it's also everywhere. You don't have to go across the ocean. You don't have to go find a Gadol HaDor and only learn from him. Hashem made it very, very easy. It's on your phone. Just like you're texting your girlfriend and your boyfriend and looking at ESPN, you have Torah on your phone also. It's not so far from you. You don't have to cross the ocean. Rather, the matter is very near to you, in your mouth and in your heart, to perform it. So what does it mean that it's really close to you? Number one, what we just said. But he says it's in your mouth and in your heart to perform it. So the pshat is, you pray with kavanah. You have a much easier time being Jewish. You have a much easier time keeping mitzvot.

2:46But a little more deeply, Hashem is telling you, not only is it not far from you, not only is it not difficult, it's actually doing teshuva, it's the easiest thing in the world for you to do. The easiest thing in the world for you to do is to do teshuva. The easiest thing in the world for you to do is to pray to Hashem, to learn Torah. to connect to me. Why? Because that's the only reason you were created. That's your function. That's your point. That's the only reason you exist. The phone's only purpose really was to make a phone call. Now it does a bunch of things. But in reality, It's only called a phone because it makes phone calls. It's not called a phone because it goes on the internet. There are plenty of other things that go on the internet. What distinguishes this from a computer? The fact that it can call, even though a computer can also make calls these days, but it's different. It's still not called a phone. Your computer will never be called a phone. The whole function of a phone is to make phone calls. It's easy for a phone to make phone calls. It's the point of the phone.

4:08The point of a Jew is to connect to Hashem by following the instructions from the Manufacturer, not his own instructions. So when you're telling me it's hard for you to keep this mitzvah and keep that mitzvah, it's nonsense. Why is it nonsense? Because Hashem said so, not because I said so. Don't blame me. Hashem said it. I created you for this. Think that I created you and I'm giving you something you can't do. It's the worst feeling in the world. So, what I gave you, I put you in this world just to fail? Just so I could destroy you and torture you? Why? What's the inyan (meaning)? What's the point? Why would I do that? If I wanted to torture you, I'd just put you in Gehinnom (purgatory) and have fun. I... You, Muhammad, JC, Hitler, all of you guys, hang out at the 7th door. If I want to destroy you, have fun. I put you in this world to torture you? How can you believe such a thing? This is the point, my friends, and we'll finish with this point. You have to understand, Hashem put you into this world to sanctify His Name.

5:33But how important it is for you to sanctify His Name. How important is it for you to say even one word of Kedusha a day. Chazal say it was enough of a reason for Hashem to create the world. With all the stars and all of the universe and all the planets and all the rules of gravity and all types of other rules that we have, oxygen and so on, things that we have in nature, all of it is for one Jew, one Jew, one time to say Amen. I'm sorry, it's the first time to say Baruch Hu U'Varuch Shemo. And a thousand Baruch Hu U'Varuch Shemo, a thousand Baruch Hu U'Varuch Shemo, meaning blessing Hashem's name, is equal to one amen. You go to the Beit Knesset, Tefillat Shacharit, you start the prayer, it says Baruch Hashem Mevorach.

6:59Say Baruch Baruch Shalom. Right? For that, just say that one time. It was worth it for Hashem to create the world. For you. Not for the whole community. Just for you. Just for you. Just for you. Baruch Baruch Shalom one time. Worth it for him. But you say amen, you say amen. So I say, today I said, what did you guys say? Amen. For that, each one of you, it was worth it for Hashem to create the world a thousand times. A thousand times. A thousand amen, a thousand amen, is the equivalent of one "Amen Yehei Shmei Rabbah." Say Kaddish. Somebody says Kaddish. In the middle of Kaddish, everybody answers. One of those. You can only say it in a minyan. You can't say it in Tefilat Yachid. You go to the Beit Knesset, you have a minyan, a kosher minyan. Not kofrim, you have at least ten Shomrei Shabbat. You say, that's the equivalent of a thousand Amen. A thousand Amen.

8:12If you scream it, you cancel 70 years of gezeirot, right? A thousand "Amen Yehei Shmei Rabbah." A thousand "Amen Yehei Shmei Rabbah" is equal to one word of Torah. One word. You read. Right now I read "Amitzvah." Top right of page, first word of chapter 30, verse 11. A mitzvah. That's the word. A mitzvah. That is the equivalent of a thousand amen yehei shmei rabba. Ha-mitzvah ha-zot asher anokhi metzavecha hayom. Lo nifleit hi mimcha v'lo rechokah. Look how many times we created the world here just by reading one verse of Torah. One verse of Torah. If someone wants to just listen to this though. So now that you know the value of one word of Torah. One word of Torah is worth more than all of this. But, someone decides to make their own rules. He says, listen, you know what? I'm going to take advantage of this. One word of Torah, one word of Torah is worth all of this. What am I going to do? I'm going to learn 24 hours of Torah.

9:4324 hours in Torah on Shabbat. Learning Torah on Shabbat is worth a thousand times more than learning Torah during the week. It's worth a lot more. But I need to turn on the light in a shinui. For example, if you turn on the light, obviously you know it's an outright sin. But if you do it in a different manner... way that's different. For example, if you, there are certain things that you're allowed to do, but you have to do them differently. Like, for example, clapping. Clapping. The Gemara says, I believe it's in Masechet Beitzah, that you're not allowed to clap on Shabbat. You're not allowed to clap. The Ashkenazim are more lenient. When it comes to it, they clap. Some of them, they clap a lot. But the Sephardim, they don't clap. And the ones that clap, they say you're allowed to clap on Shabbat with a shinui. So you clap, instead of clapping like regular, you clap, you change the hand, you clap it in an odd way. Then it's allowed. Shinui. So the guy says, I'm going to learn Torah for 24 hours on Shabbat, the best day of the week, the best day of existence. 24 hours, and I just need to turn on the light with a shinui.

11:09Not turning on the light right away, like with my elbow, which is not even an Issur De'oraita. It's not even a sin from the Torah. It's an Issur DeRabbanan. It's a rabbinical prohibition. It's not a biblical sin. It's a rabbinical prohibition. Or, if I don't turn on the light, I cancel out 24 hours of Torah. I can't learn Torah. It's dark. It's either I'm going to turn on the light and make a small, tiny rabbinic prohibition. A bunch of rabbis, right? Rabbis. A small, little prohibition on Shabbat. Or I cancel out 24 hours of Torah. I have power right now. I have energy drinks. I have this. I have that. To say Torah for 24 hours, you just said one word of Torah, which is 10,000 amens, which is 100,000. I'm going to learn 24 hours of Torah. Not many words I can read in 24 hours. Millions of amens. Millions and billions of amens.

12:25For one tiny little sin with a shinui, it's not really that much of a sin. Not worth it. Don't do it. Not allowed. Cancel the entire 24 hours of Torah and don't make a sin, the rabbinical sin of violating Shabbat with a shinui even. Cancel out the reason for your existence, the reason for this world's existence a hundred million times. And don't violate Shabbat even once. That's how important Shabbat is, but that's also how important you are. So you have to understand, when Hashem tells you, "I have instructions for you," He's not only telling you this because of the reward, because of how important you are. He's also telling you because if you don't do it, you're going to break it. You break it, you buy it.