Priceless Mitzvot Are Not Expensive (6 Minutes)
Full Shiur: MUSSAR Pirkei Avot (13) Testing Our Relationship With HaShem (New York) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qyov5mqes90 If you'd like to invite R' Yaron Reuven to give a lecture at your synagogue, home or office please call 917.468.2324 or email Yaron@BeEzratHaShem.org . Yaron Reuven is based out of Boca Raton, Florida, but travels around the world to give lectures to different groups. Visit us at www.BeEzratHaShem.org Click here https://soundcloud.com/yaronreuven/sets/daily-chidush To Listen to our very popular "Daily Chidush" short audio series. Join one of our interactive "Interesting Torah" Whatsapp groups to get daily messages of short Torah clips that can uplift your day by texting the number above. Please join our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/BeEzratHaShem/ and join our group https://www.facebook.com/groups/TorahLessons/ This Group is solely about publicizing HaShem's holy Torah from my lectures as well as great Rabbi's such as Rabbi Efraim Kachlon, Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi, Rabbi Zamir Cohen, Rabbi Pinto, and anyone else that is teaching interesting and relevant Torah. Also Watch the Shiurs at Torahanytime : https://www.torahanytime.com/#/speaker?l=827 The Torah is the only thing in the world that you can learn and have an outcome that makes you SMARTER, WISER, And a BETTER Human Being. If the Torah you're learning is no longer impacting your life in a positive way, than its time for a change. If you haven't learned Torah in a long time or ever, then its time to start friend. I guarantee you will enjoy the journey and life will never be the same, if you just give it a real chance. 00:00:00 Intoduction 00:01:32 Authenticity in Serving Hashem 00:02:32 Avoiding Hypocrisy and False Appearances 00:03:03 Removing Personal Agendas in Mitzvot 00:03:33 Kavod and Tax Benefits vs True Intentions 00:04:02 Ego and Control in Synagogue Donations 00:05:00 Excess of Sifrei Torah and Real Intentions 00:05:28 Donations for Recognition vs. Divine Purpose 00:05:57 Prioritizing Living Torah Over Material Objects
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1:32Everything you do has to be for Hashem. And everything you do has to be something that Hashem wants. In order to do that, you can't start picking and choosing which mitzvah you're going to do. You can't say, oh listen, Shabbat, makhmir, greatest Shabbat in the world, orchim, this, that, but the rest of the week you're a thief. Modesty, great, I'm going to put on the jacket, I'm going to put on the hat, I'm going to put on this, I'm going to put on that, but then he goes to the casino. It's a Chilul Hashem, because all the Chilonim say, "Oh look, I'm here because I don't believe in anything. Me and the giraffe are the same thing. But what are you doing here? With the shtreimel, playing Texas Hold'em with me? What are you doing here? At least take off the uniform. Take off the costume. Leave it at home."
2:32Why are you coming to the club with the hat? Or like those putting the Palestinian uniform on top of the tzitzit and tallit. For what? You want to be an Arab? Be an Arab. You want to be a terrorist? Go there. Move there. Don't be a faker. It's either you're 100% or it's nothing. In order to do that, you have to remove your opinion. There's no big mitzvah, there's no small mitzvah. You don't know the reward. Everyone wants to do the big mitzvah. What do you think the big mitzvah is? The big mitzvah is the one that's popular. I'm going to write a Sefer Torah. I'm going to open a Beit Knesset. I'm going to donate to a hospital. Why? Because my name goes on the building. So everyone's going to know, ah, sheikha, you built a building.
3:33What a tzaddik you are. He doesn't tell him, listen, yeah, but I also got a benefit tax-wise. And if I didn't have this donation, I would have to pay the money in IRS taxes anyway. He doesn't say that. So on top of the benefit he got from the IRS, he gets kavod from everyone. Oh, what a tzaddik, donated $100 million to a building. What would we do without you? He wants to donate to the Beit Knesset. Why? Because he wants to run the Beit Knesset. He doesn't want the rabbi to run the Beit Knesset. He became the rabbi. The guy is an am ha'aretz. He barely knows one Mishnah. But he wants to tell the rabbi, "No, no, rabbi. I don't think you're right." The rabbi learned Torah since the day he was born. He was born with a Sefer Torah in his hands. "No, no, rabbi. I don't think that's what Avraham Avinu meant." Do you even know how to spell Avraham Avinu? You're telling the rabbi how to run a shul. You learn Torah, b'chlal, you know anything. You tell the rabbi how to run the shul. Chutzpah. The rabbi, from the day he was born, learning Torah, learning everything, you tell him how to run the shul. What do you know? Why? Because you have money, you have a high IQ. But why? He wants to donate because he wants to run the shul. He wants to donate because he wants everyone to know, oh, that Sefer Torah, that one's mine. I wrote that Sefer Torah. Like, he wrote it himself. Like, he knows, b'chlal, how to write Hebrew.
5:00No, it's what happens. So, Baruch Hashem, Batei Knesset, especially in Brooklyn, have too many Sifrei Torah. It gets to a point that certain Batei Knesset have a place where they keep all the Sifrei Torah, but the halacha says you have to use it, open it at least once a year. This is a problem. There are only 52 weeks in a year. You get to a situation where you can't use some of these Sifrei Torah, so you have to lend them to other Batei Knesset. It becomes a hassle. But every week, they accept more. Why? Because everyone wants to say, "No, no, I donated a $60,000 Sefer Torah." Yeah, but I donated a $50,000 one. It's not that. I got a better deal. Yeah, but I donated a $100,000 one. That means I love Hashem more. Everyone wants to say, "No, no, but how come he's not using my Sefer?" Because he's using my Sefer, or my Sefer, or my Sefer, or my Sefer. Who did you perform the mitzvah for? For you, your honor, or for Hashem? Who's benefiting from this mitzvah, Bechler? The Beit Knesset has 300 Sifrei Torah. It doesn't need any more, thank you. But what about the living Sefer Torah? What about the one that's alive? The one that moves? The one that learns Torah from morning to night? That actually reads what the Sefer wrote? What about the Avreich?
