Judgement Day Secret from King Solomon

0:14And that's why Shlomo HaMelech says, there are many, many machshavot; there are many ideas that a person has, many ways that he thinks he's going to get himself out, get himself out of his trouble. He's going to commit certain sins, but he's going to have an excuse. When he gets up to Shamayim,

1:38Because a person is going to go up to Shamayim, and HaKadosh Baruch Hu is going to ask him, how come you didn't learn Torah? You knew everything about the sports teams; you knew the salary caps, and you knew what coach they had every year that they won the championship. You knew how many people they could fit in the stadium when they played at home versus when they played somewhere else. You know all types of useless information. But My Torah, someone asked you, am I allowed or not allowed to do such and such on Shabbat? You didn't know. How come? No, Hashem, listen, I was so poor, I was always working, and you know, when you're working, you're not going to be able to learn Torah. Oh, you're poor. Hillel HaZaken had enough money every day to go give food, half a coin, one lira, to give to his family so they could eat and not starve to death, and the other half to give to the Beit Midrash so he could learn Torah. That's all he had. And when he didn't have that, he climbed on the roof of the Beit Midrash of Shemaiah and Avtalion, just to listen, because he couldn't enter. They wouldn't let him in. So he listened through the glass roof of the Beit Midrash to hear his rabbis teach the Torah and put his life in danger, and he actually...

2:49froze until Shmaya and Avtalyon saw him on the roof the next morning, covered by snow, and they violated Shabbat to bring him back to life. They violated Shabbat, they lit a fire, they violated Shabbat to bring him back to life. Were you poorer than Hillel HaZaken? Oh, not so much. You're making 500 bucks a week, you're making 1,000 a week. You weren't that poor then. Business wasn't that. No, another guy's going to say, "Yeah, but Hashem, come on. How could I not sin? How could I not sin? I had so much money. I had so much money. You know, I had to take care of the houses. And You gave me, You blessed me, Hashem. It's not my fault You blessed me. I had all these houses. I had, you know, real estate. I had my company. I sold it. And this guy bought it, and then he failed, so I bought it back for him. All this stuff takes a lot of time, Hashem. I couldn't learn Torah." Kaddosh Baruch Hu says, were you richer than Rabbi Elazar ben Charsom, whose father was so rich he left him an inheritance of a thousand cities? A thousand cities was his inheritance. Cities. We're not talking about a thousand shuls. A thousand cities. Were you richer than him? In a scenario like that, even Bill Gates wouldn't have enough to compare to him. Or he wasn't so rich. But he still became a Talmid Chacham, the essence of a Talmid Chacham.

4:11He's mentioned, which means he was so wise and so holy that he was able to revive the dead. You weren't on his level. But he had more money than you, though. Then somebody will say, yeah, but Hashem, listen, I get it. I didn't study that much, but I did enough. I did enough, but... This thing about wasting seed, this thing about girls, boyfriends — it's not for me, it's not for this generation, right? Hashem says, "Yeah, it's a different generation; you have a different section for you." Hold on a second, let me finish with the guy with the Torah. He comes to HaKadosh Baruch Hu who says, "But Hashem, how come? How come in this generation, the girls are walking around practically naked in the streets? How could I not sin? I was such a handsome boy. Every girl wanted to give me her number." Without any commitment. Hashem, it's not my fault. HaKadosh Baruch Hu is going to tell you, were you more handsome than Yosef HaTzadik? Yosef HaTzadik was so beautiful that his skin was shining. Shining. Now, we're not going to have any kind of understanding of what that means. But you will have an understanding of this.

5:24When Potiphar's wife, who was one of the four most beautiful women that ever lived, by the way, tried to get Yosef to be with her, and he rejected her, she became depressed. Her friends noticed her depression and asked, "Why are you so upset?" She replied, "Yosef doesn't want to be with me." Some slave doesn't want to be with you, and you're upset? You get whatever you want. You're a beautiful woman. If you saw Yosef, you wouldn't say the same thing. You don't want to see Yosef. Okay, come to my house. Come to my house, and come to the kitchen. Pretend like, you know, obviously, we can't tell everybody. Come to the kitchen. Be with me in the kitchen, and I'll show you Yosef. So all the girlfriends came over. They had a challah party. I'm kidding.

6:25My jokes are not that good, though. Only some people get them. Anyway, they were cutting the lemons. Each one was cutting lemons and oranges. You know, making salad, all types of things. Whatever you do with lemons, I don't know a lot. I don't know salads, guys. So, it's a different section. I haven't gotten to it yet. So they were cutting lemons, they were cutting oranges, and Potiphar's wife says, "Okay, Yosef! The master's wife calls, you have to come! Right? You're not going to be with her, but she calls, you have to come! You can't disobey in front of people." So Yosef passes by the room. The women saw Yosef, they were so enamored by his beauty, they continued cutting as he's passing by. When he left, they realized they cut off their own fingers, off completely. That's how beautiful he was. His beauty numbed their pain. That's how beautiful he was. You more beautiful than that? I think he got more numbers than you. But he didn't sin. He didn't sin. They were so enamored by his beauty, they continued cutting as he passed by. When he left, they realized they had cut off their own fingers, completely. His beauty numbed their pain. That's how beautiful he was. Are you more beautiful than that? I think he got more numbers than you, but he didn't sin. He didn't sin.

7:41That's the secret that we see from Shlomo HaMelech and our sages. Where all of these ideas and excuses that a person has about why he can fool the system, it's not relevant to this generation, and all this other nonsense, there are already verses in the Torah that tell us otherwise. There's nothing new under the sun, whether the generation has iPhones and internet or otherwise. Continuing with the teachings and the insights we have been discussing in this shiur, we remember the profound lessons conveyed in the Gemara, specifically in Mesechet Bava Metzia. As we analyze the words of the Chafetz Chaim, Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan, it becomes clear how important it is to approach each mitzvah with sincerity. Furthermore, when we study the Rambam's Mishneh Torah, particularly Hilchot Talmud Torah, we see the emphasis on learning Torah l’shma, for its own sake, which is a fundamental principle in Judaism. Let's delve deeper into these concepts and explore how they can be applied in our daily avodat Hashem.

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