How The Satan Quietly Enters Your Children's Minds?

1:33Money is important. He told me money is important. You know how many parents tell their kids that money is important? They make their little kids into businessmen already at 3, 4, 5, or 6 years old. Then, the kid drops something. I see this all the time, unfortunately. A kid drops a siddur or a sefer in a beit knesset; no one says anything. A kid drops a siddur or sefer on the floor, just by accident. falls on the floor. No one says anything. Everyone's very lethargic. They wait for him to pick it up. Sometimes he doesn't pick it up. Sometimes he picks it up and just puts it back on the table, even though it broke or whatever. But, chas v'shalom, he dropped Abba's phone on the floor. "Hey, what are you doing? You have to be careful. It's Abba's phone. It's $800." Sefer Torah was dropped on the floor. You didn't say a word. Siddur says Shem HaShem in it. Shem HaShem is in it. You didn't say a word. Nothing you didn't say. The phone, the iPhone. The iPhone fell on the floor. You wanted to take the kid's head off. Are we Greek, or are we Greek? And you expect your kid to be what? Video games or iPhones? What's he going to be?

2:57You're ruining him. Why are you making him think that the iPhone is more important than a Sefer Torah? When you teach a kid Torah, it's like engraving something into his neshamah. When you teach it to an adult, it's like writing. Engraving becomes part of whatever you wrote it on. Writing is always something you can ruin, and eventually, it wears off. And that's the other thing that Elisha ben Avuyah says. He says you know who the child is, you know who the child's parents are by how he speaks in the market. Gemara Masechet Sukkah. page 56 says we know who the parents are, what kind of parents they are, not who they are by name or by face, but we know what kind of parents a person has just by seeing their kids talking in the market. Why in the market? That's when people talk freely. So when parents are actually educating their kid, the number one most important thing that they realize...

4:23is I want to make sure that the kid never has to do teshuva. He lives a life of teshuva. He never has to do teshuva. Every day he does teshuva because teshuva is part of Judaism. It's one of the mitzvot of the Torah. If you want to be a righteous Jew, want Hashem to save you, and want all the blessings, you have to do teshuva every day. Because there's no such thing as a Jew who doesn't sin or a person who doesn't sin in general. Even if they acknowledge it, it doesn't make a difference. Everyone sins to some extent; you have to do teshuva every day. But to do teshuva versus live teshuva are two different things. Doing teshuva is like one day you woke up and you realized you were wrong. Living a life of teshuva, living a life of teshuva, is different, different. That means you have Hashem in your mind at all times. So Elisha ben Avuya says, to live a life of teshuva, you have to make sure that you make the Torah part of you. Now, the problem is that sometimes, you don't wake up until you're late, like us.

5:29You're 30 years old, you're 20 years old, you're 50 years old, you're 60 years old, like Israel or Jerry on Sunday, 65 years old, Baruch Hashem, you're starting to do teshuva, 65. It's never too late. But it's a different Torah. The same Torah, but it's a different Torah. Why? Because now it's a little more difficult. Now Elisha ben Avuyah says, what's the Torah of studying of an old man? It's like ink being written on smudged paper. meaning that first and foremost, in order for you to accept the Torah you have to remove and erase what's already on it—all the incorrect teachings or misconceptions you may have accumulated over 20, 30, 40, 50, or even 65 years. You have to erase it first. You can't put the purity of Torah on top of previous falsehoods or misconceptions and expect it to remain pure. What is it like? Let's say, for example, you want to put a new countertop on a kitchen. I think I would tell you, "Listen, remove the old countertop, clean the surface, and then put the new top on, whether it's granite or Formica, whatever it is. Clean the surface, put the new top, finished." Now, if you do it without cleaning...

6:54You remove it, and you put the new top on. A short period later, what's going to happen? It's going to fall and break. But you say, why? I put it on top. I did half the job. What's the big deal? It won't stick. It won't stick unless you clean the surface first. The Torah won't stick unless you clean all the garbage first. You must remove the kefirah—all the heresy from your mind. You can't continue learning from the New Testament and go through conversion. You can't continue to learn about things that go against Hashem and say, I'm doing teshuva. You can't watch sports every night and say, no, I want to go to shiur Torah on Tuesday. It's not going to help you. This process requires complete dedication and purification of the mind and heart to truly internalize the teachings of the Torah. Unless you remove all the kefirah, all the heresy out of your mind, you can't continue learning from problematic sources and go through conversion. You can't continue to learn about things that go against Hashem and say, "I'm doing teshuva." You can't watch sports every night and then claim, "I want to go to shiur Torah on Tuesday." It's not going to help you. Why? Because that one day, that one shiur, it's going to give you fire for another day, for another two days, for even another week. But as soon as you turn on stuff that's against Hashem on TV, it ruins everything. Five minutes later, five minutes after the shiur, you went to the shiur Torah for three hours.

7:58You come home, you turn on the TV, and you put on sports or some inappropriate movie filled with nudity and other objectionable content. Just five minutes ago, you returned from a Shiur Torah, a gathering filled with holiness, guided by the hand of Hashem Yitbarach, where you attended the Shiur Torah. But then you go home and watch an inappropriate movie, ruining the effect of the Shiur Torah. Everything you gained is lost, and it becomes meaningless. It would have been better if you hadn't attended the Shiur Torah at all. Why? Because perhaps you would have been asleep by now, and you wouldn't have watched that inappropriate movie. So, a person needs to understand that when they are older, it is much more difficult to learn Torah. By that point, you already have a lot of distractions and life experiences that can make it challenging.