I am "FINE"

1:14I'm smarter than him. I'm better than him. Who are you? When you limit God, you humanize Him. He has limited God since day one. He said He's only in the Beit HaMikdash. He's only in the ocean. He's only powerful here. He's only here. He limited God constantly. When you start taking mitzvot and picking and choosing what you want to do, you're limiting God. You're limiting God, and that's why the punishment is severe. I learned about this punishment. Hashem is with you. It's not scary by the words, but it's scary by the Maaseh. In Parashat Va'etchanan, listen Rabotai, in chapter 7 verse 9 of the book of Deuteronomy, one of the scariest things in the entire Torah is written.

2:16Hashem says, Hashem pays his haters to their face to destroy them. All this time, for years, I've learned this verse many times, Baruch Hashem. But only this week did I get this chidush. Rabbi Fein taught me this chidush. I'm telling you, this is the scariest thing, in my opinion, I've ever heard. For five years, I don't know how many years, I've been learning this verse. I've said this verse in lectures. I don't know how many times Rav Mizrachi has said this in lectures. I don't know how many times. It's a very, very famous verse to scare the living lights out of you because it says he pays his lovers for thousands of generations and his haters he gives them cash to their face and... Gives them cash to their face to destroy them. So this shows people that Hashem has lovers and haters. You do His mitzvot, He calls you, "My lovers." Who are they? They keep mitzvot. My haters, obviously the opposite. They don't keep mitzvot. So this whole time I'm thinking, what did I say the whole time? The pshat, the pshat of this pasuk is, someone that keeps mitzvot, someone that drives his Ferrari on Shabbat,

3:30It looks like his life is grand. That's someone that Hashem hates, and Hashem is paying him for the Ferrari now because He hates him and He's punishing him. So, that was the basic pshat. I learned an additional chidush on it. The Ramban in Hilchot Teshuva says there are four people that make such sins that Hashem will not allow them to do teshuva. One of them is someone that's a makhti et harabim, meaning someone who causes other people to sin. This includes someone who is a missionary or a false rabbi. It also includes someone who does not rebuke his own child, students, or surroundings. They don't rebuke them. As a result, Hashem will not let this person do teshuva. Why? Because you're effectively killing them spiritually. You know the truth, yet you're not telling them.

4:31I've always asked, what does he mean? What does he mean he's not going to let them do teshuva? They want to do teshuva, and he's not going to let them do teshuva? The guy says "chatanu avinu pashanu," and he's not going to let them do teshuva. But it seems that this contradicts the Torah, because it says teshuva is always open. Teshuva is always open. So here we have Rambam saying, halacha, halacha, this is actual halacha, Moshe miSinai, that certain people, Hashem does not allow them to do teshuva. And Rambam says this is the worst punishment in this world. Hashem closes the door; you cannot do teshuva. Parshat Va'etchanan says that Hashem pays His haters to their face. Avraham Feinstein explains this is what it all means. Sometimes you're going to have people that feel perfectly comfortable. Meaning, I don't have to anymore. I already keep Shabbat. I already keep kosher. I learn a lot of Torah. I'm fine. I read a half a parasha. Even though I don't keep Shabbat, I'm fine. I steal only a little bit. I'm fine. I cheat on my husband only once in a while. I'm fine. I'm only cheating on WhatsApp. I'm fine. This "I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine" mentality...

5:44That, rabotai yikarim, ze meshalem el sonav el panav la'avido. That sense of "I'm fine and I don't have to do teshuva," that's a punishment. That is the worst punishment in the entire Torah. "I'm fine. I don't have to do teshuva. I'm fine. I don't have to do teshuva." That's the worst punishment. Why? You're not going to do teshuva. Why? You feel fine. Why would you do teshuva if you feel fine? Why would you do teshuva if you feel fine? You feel fine? It's not like Hashem sends a fire from the sky in the shape of a lion, like the one that used to consume the korban in the Beit HaMikdash. The fire that came down from Shamayim was in the shape of a lion. So it's not like a fire in the shape of a lion appears, and Hashem says, "Hey you, Hashem hates you, you're done." Nothing like that happens. It's not like every Michalel Shabbat gets in a car accident and Hashem says, "I hate him. That's why I killed him." It's not like every guy that has a fake beard on and really harms kids on the side, Hashem kills them on the spot. He lets these people live. Why? I'm gonna let him live so he can make more sins. Why make more sins? Because I hate him. And he's never gonna do teshuva. Why? Because he feels fine.

7:07He feels fine. And as long as he feels fine and she feels fine with a miniskirt and a tank top and no kisui rosh, or with the wig that's the size of the equator— all those things— she feels fine, you don't have to do teshuva. You don't do teshuva, halach lecha. You're finished. Worst punishment in the entire Torah. We have a generation of people like this. No. Kol Yisrael areivim zeh la zeh. All of Israel is responsible for each other, which means one of the people that suffer such a potential, not guaranteed, potential punishment. Don't think that just because you feel fine, you're punished right now. It just means that you're clueless. But what's the risk of not doing something about it? We have a generation of people that feel fine. Religious, not religious. Plenty of people feel like they're perfectly fine. Instead of stadiums full of people coming to learn Torah and Emit, you can barely get a minyan. You tell them, listen, it's free.

8:33Listen, I'll pay you. Listen, I'll come to your house. I'll come to your house. Wherever you want. It's difficult to gather people. Why? It's hard to get. Hard to get buyers.