HaShem is NOT Your Friend, He Is Your God!!! (4 Minutes)
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Transcript
0:02There are two parshiyot in the Torah where Hashem tells us specifically what will happen if we violate Shabbat, if we waste seed, if we don't eat kosher. are blessings of good things that will happen if we do mitzvot. But they're all vague, meaning that they're open to interpretation. One blessing could mean 500 different rewards. And you have many, many blessings, but in the next 40 verses, we have only curses—punishments. And each punishment is worse than the other.
1:26And He gives us five levels of punishments. Every time He starts a new level, He always says: "And if you went with Me with casualness," meaning if you treated My mitzvot, My Torah, with a lack of seriousness and respect. My rules, my instructions. You treat it like it's casual. I could keep it, not keep it. Hashem knows. Hashem understands me. He understands I need to watch TV on Shabbat. He understands I have to marry a non-Jew. He understands this is who I love. He understands me. When I get up there, He knows already. Start treating things like this, He says, then for that, you'll get two punishments. One for the sin itself, and one for treating me like one of your friends from the bar, casually. Hi, hi, bye, bye. Like I'm one of your buddies. Now, everything that I'm going to read to you is actually in the Torah. You've probably heard it before, but most of Am Yisrael doesn't know it exists.
2:41Why? Because most of us hear it in the Beit Knesset, but we don't really understand what it means. Most of us don't speak the holy language. Even if we speak Hebrew, modern Hebrew is not necessarily the holy language. It's a little different. You can only understand it if you learn Torah. If you understand the grammar, and the nekudot, and in general how to... read the Hebrew language in its purest form. So that's why I always recommend, and it's actually halacha for anyone that wants to be righteous with Hashem, to read the parasha three times each week: twice with the text and once with the commentary. But when you read it with the text, you also have to read with understanding; you don't just read the words and make sounds. Monkeys also make sounds, and parrots also make sounds. Hashem didn't want to create a world full of monkeys and parrots. He created human beings because human beings can choose between good and bad. So He wanted you to read it in a language you understand. If it's Russian, read it in Russian. If it's Hebrew, then read it in modern Hebrew. If it's in English, then read it in English. Whatever language you understand exactly what it means. Because once you understand the Torah and exactly what it means, your comprehension will deepen.
4:04Every parashah becomes different, and your world changes completely. Because as soon as you actually read what this one parashah, that I'm about to read to you, says, your opinion about Hashem will change a little bit. For sure, you're not going to think that He's the guy that jokes around.
