Everything Has A Price

1:32Now, obviously, rocks don't move like us. They don't go to the store in five minutes. However, if cameras were set up and left there for an extended period of time, they observed that the rocks actually moved across the desert, leaving streaks on the ground. Just like the car behind me, which left streaks on the ground right before it smashed into me, the rocks also leave similar streaks. There's also a pasuk in the Torah where it says that the rocks will cry out. What does it mean that rocks will cry out? Why would a rock cry out? The explanation is that there's a part of a soul there. So that's one aspect. So it's not three times and we're out. It's three times as a human being. Now, obviously, an animal can't do the ultimate Teshuvah like a human being can. So in essence, the animal's goal would be if there is a soul in it. Not every animal has a soul. Some are just animals. Some have a human soul in them, which is a huge level of suffering, by the way, for the right soul to be in the wrong body. But in essence, this is...

2:36A topic that a lot of people don't feel comfortable with because when you really understand a gilgul, when you really understand reincarnation, you understand that, in general, all reincarnations, all of them, are a form of punishment. It's not a good thing. It's a good thing because it's a form of Hashem's mercy not to give us, you know, eternal punishment, chas v'shalom, but it is a punishment. Because once the soul leaves this world, it gets an opportunity to see the real world. And once it sees the real world, it sees that there's Gan Eden, eternal good, eternal greatness, eternal pleasure. And then it's being told, "Hey, listen, you've got to go back. You've got to go back." What is it like? The sages explain that this is like someone who had some financial issues and told his family, "Listen, I'm going to go away to a faraway place to make some money, and I'll come back in a few years." It's not like today, where you go on a plane, and three hours later you're in a different country. Back then, you had to travel on a boat. Sometimes just the trip would take six or seven months. So, he went six or seven months on a boat. Now, if he went six months on a boat, he's not going to stay there for a month. He worked there for a few years, two, three, or four years. After that, he made the same trip back, meaning he's already gone for five years." to a faraway place to make some money, and I'll come back in a few years. Not like today where you go on a plane and three hours later you're in a different country. Back then, you had to travel by boat. Sometimes just the trip would take six or seven months. So, he traveled for six or seven months on a boat. Now, if it took him six months to get there, he wouldn't just stay for a month. He worked there for a few years, maybe two, three, or four years. After that, it was the same trip back, and he was already gone for five years.

3:55sends a letter before he got back, so make sure that the family waits for him at the airport, where he's gonna land. Finally, he gets there, and he's about to give his family a big hug and a kiss, and the border patrol stops him and says, "Oh, we have a description of someone that looks exactly like you, and it says here that we're not allowed to let you in." He says, "Why, what did I do?" He says, "Oh, you borrowed $10." $10 from some guy named Shmooly and the place that you are in, and you have to return it. Because you know how long it took me to get here; it took me six months to get here, and I've been gone for four years. It's six months; I wasn't gone for five years. You're gonna go back all the way over there for ten dollars? Listen, I'll give you a thousand. Give me a thousand dollars. What's ten dollars? Go back there for ten dollars. I'll give you a thousand dollars. You'll send it to him and keep the other nine hundred for yourself. Sorry, sir. We're honest people. We don't do such a service. The only way is for you to go back, pay the $10, and then come back. This is what a gilgul is. This is what reincarnation is. Someone that borrowed $10 from a friend, someone that borrowed $100 from a family member, and did not return it in their lifetime, unless that person said, meaning I forgive you, which most people don't really think about unless that debt was forgiven, it's considered stealing. It's considered gezel. You stole it. And no one that has gezel on his hands can go into Gan Eden. Meaning you can be Rabbi Akiva, you can have mitzvot like Moshe Rabbeinu.

5:21and did not return it in their life, unless that person said, meaning "I forgive you," which most people don't really think about. Unless that debt was forgiven, it's considered stealing; it's considered gezel, you stole it. And no one that has gezel on his hands can go into Gan Eden. Meaning you can be Rabbi Akiva, you can have mitzvot like Moshe Rabbeinu. You get to Gan Eden, the gate, sorry sir, you still owe $10 to Tzvika back in Israel. You have to go back. They have to put you into another body, and this, they say, Chazal says, is a higher level of suffering than some parts of Gehenom. Because here you saw, it was right there, it was within your reach. I made all my mitzvot, I did teshuva, I kept Shabbat, I kept this, I kept that. $10. I have to go back to this life of suffering. And who says that I'm gonna survive? I'm gonna do teshuva again. This time, I'll keep mitzvot. I'm not gonna fall for the girl; I'm not gonna fall for the guy. I'm not gonna do this; I'm not gonna do that. Who knows? A gilgul is not exactly something we should rely on. You have a chance. You have a chance to do teshuva now. You have a chance to do good now.