First Fear (Yirat Shamayim) Then Emunah
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1:24that qualify average people, us. He gave us everything we need to know. Once we know He's real, when we pay attention that He's in control of everything, we'll stop stealing, we'll stop violating, we'll start becoming more like human beings. We won't yell at people because we know that Hashem doesn't like anger. We start becoming better people. And then it says, after we fear Him, what happens next? After they saw His hand, after they finally recognized that He exists, they immediately became scared. Then you can say, yes, now they have Him, now they believe in Him. You can't have belief in something you don't even know. Once you have the fear, then you can start talking about emunah. And once you have the emunah, it says, "And they believed in Him and in Moshe, His servant." Why was it so significant for Hashem to have us believe in Moshe, His servant? Because another name for Moshe that everyone knows him by, including the goyim, is Moshe Rabbeinu. Once we notice the hand of God...
2:48Then we fear Him. Once we fear Him, then we can have emunah (faith) in Him at all times. Once we know that He's real and we have emunah in Him at all times, then we're going to start listening to the sages who gave us an explanation of what Hashem (God) said. We're going to start listening to our holy rabbis who actually tell us the truth, not the ones who just want to come. This is one of the most important parts that any Jew needs to know, and that's why it's inside our tefillah (prayer). Chazal knew that we need to learn this every day, not just once a year during Parashat HaShavua. So they put it in Tefillat Shacharit, the prayer that most Jews still do if they're observant. Because they know emunah is something you have to work on. When you have emunah, nothing else matters. To finalize my story, when Hashem wanted me to just focus on this, and focus on getting people to come back to Him. He wanted to make sure I have no distractions, so that little business I had left and the little fund I had, He took that too. He says, "Now, you're not going to just tell people about Emunah. Now you're going to live on Emunah." Miracle for miracle, month to month, you have no idea where Parnasah is coming from because we don't charge for lectures. We don't ask people for donations unless they choose to give out of their own volition, you know, by themselves.
4:14And you have nothing left except the debt and bankruptcy you just declared. You can't just teach people things; you have to live it. Why? Because we're at the end of days, and there's not that much time left. We all have to do teshuva. It's better for you that you listen to me from my story than for Hashem to talk to you directly. Because I have a sense of humor, but Hashem does not. Any questions? Baruch Adonai le'olam. Amen ve'amen.
