Rabbi Yaron Reuven Helps Yeshiva Students Wipe Out Amalek

0:03So, last night, I was in the shiur. We finished the shiur maybe at 12 o'clock, but I only left at 2. We finished the shiur at 12, but we left the Breslov Center at 2. Why? There were a couple of young, cute kids, yeshiva boys. They stayed after, and they both had some questions for me. I wish it was on tape; it was better than the shiur. They asked some good questions, and I was pleased to answer. One of the kids said, "Can you show it to me?" Now, it's 1 o'clock in the morning at this point. I just spoke for three hours. The kid's 15 or 16 years old, and he asked me a question about where it says that we have the Oral Torah. Oral Torah in the Torah, in the Written Torah. It's in multiple places, no less than a half a dozen places it says it. I told him it says it here. He goes, can you show it to me? Can you show it to me? And I really wanted to go home. It's 1 o'clock. I just spoke for three hours. I answered you guys for another hour. A few other people had some questions. I answered them. I'm tired. It's not such an easy day after all. I mean, I only sleep for a couple of hours. I'm not Superman. I didn't get the crown of Torah yet. I'm not, I don't look like a Kadosh. So I'm tired. And I really wanted to go. I'm thinking to myself, I'm going to...

1:22I'll show it to you next. I'm thinking to myself, I haven't answered the kid yet. This all happens. This entire thing happened in five seconds. I'm thinking to myself, I'm so tired right now. I want to go home. I know that a couple of the guys still want to talk to me for another few minutes. I really just want to go home, put the video online, send it to my guys who work on it. Again, I'll maybe learn a little Torah before I go to sleep if I have some energy and get some sleep for heaven's sake. I mean, I'm still human. Tired. I want to go. I'm thinking, I'm battling myself. I want to go. I want to go. I want to go. I want to go. And then, I look at the kid, and he's like 15, 16 years old. And I see in his eyes, he really wants to know the answer. Even though he goes to yeshiva, apparently he didn't learn this. They don't necessarily teach proofs in yeshivot. They teach laws, they teach things you need to do. They don't necessarily teach Torah proofs to show you that the Torah is a valid divine document. They don't show you that in yeshiva. That's something else. If you want to learn it, you learn it on your own. And I really saw that he had some doubts, even though he's been in yeshiva, religious his whole life. He had some doubts. He really wanted answers. And his friend also wanted some answers.

2:37I'm so tired. I'm thinking to myself, all of a sudden, I'm only thinking about how tired I am. I never really think about getting tired, but now the kid's asking me a question, and all I can think about is, all of a sudden, I'm the most tired person on planet Earth. I'm thinking about my bed. I don't even like to sleep that much. Once I'm sleeping, I want to sleep forever. But before I go to sleep, I don't ever want to go to sleep. I want to go till forever. But now all of a sudden I'm just thinking about my bed, my pillow—wow, it's fluffy—and I'm going to sleep, and I'm thinking I'm going to see my little kids before I go home. I'm like, wow, wow, I'm thinking about this whole thing for five seconds. The Yetzer Hara showed me a visual. The Yetzer Hara showed Am Yisrael the funeral of Moshe Rabbeinu in Har Sinai. He pretended like Moshe Rabbeinu died. To me, he showed me my bed. He showed me my bed. He showed me my bed. "You're going to go to sleep. Comfortable? Who cares about comfort? I don't care about comfort. I sleep a couple of hours. Why sleep?" All of a sudden, I'm thinking about my bed. I'm so tired when I see this kid. So I say to myself, "You know what? If I were him, if I were this 15-year-old kid, I really would want to know. And maybe this is the difference. Maybe this is the thing that's going to make this kid go right or left. Has v'shalom."

3:54Maybe this is the thing; he's either going to go right, he's going to be calm and say, "Oh, you know what? I know for sure the Torah is divine." Even though he's been to a bunch of my classes, maybe this is a question he's always had. Who knows? I know that the Torah is divine. Tomorrow he goes to school refreshed. He's got a new spirit in him. He's got a new revived neshama. He wants to be Moshe Rabbeinu. He wants to be Rav Chaim Kanievsky. He wants to be... Why? Because now he knows it's true. Or... I say I'm too tired. I'll show it to you next time. The kid, in his mind, says, "Ah, he doesn't know. He doesn't know. This rabbi, I asked this rabbi, I asked that rabbi, I asked that rav. All of them told me next time. So he's another guy that told me next time." Which really, in the kid's mind, the Yetzer Hara tells him, "Ah, no one knows. No one knows the truth. The truth probably is it doesn't say it." Doesn't say it's not real. Next thing you know, bumming on the kid, little yeshivah, he doesn't want to be there anymore. That's what you say. So I said to myself, "Hold on one second." I had already packed everything, and the bag was closed. Everything was packed in the car, everything. "Take the stuff out. Give me the books. Come, you, come sit down." We sit down for another hour and a half.

5:15Hour and a half I'm sitting with these two kids here. Parashat this, Parashat that. What other questions do you have? We sit for another hour and a half. We're sitting there. I'm showing them proof. Whatever you want. Until they have no more questions. They have no more questions. Okay, Laila Tov. Now, I'm going to go to sleep. Fine. Why? I know. You went home fine. You have your answers. Baruch Hashem. I did my job. Chas v'shalom, the guy gets to Shamayim and says, "How come you didn't keep mitzvot?" "I went to Yeshiva, and the rabbi didn't show me the answers. He was tired; he wanted to go to sleep." Hashem yerachem. They're going to show me, bring me up to Shamayim and say, "Oh, how was your bed? Did you have a nice sleep? This guy left Yeshiva because of you. Imagine." So now, Someone, so going back to this mitzvah, the mitzvah of shiluach haken, you can minimize it. It's a mitzvah where you have to shoo the bird away. You don't necessarily have to understand why Hashem commanded it. Now, some people try to minimize it, meaning they say, "Yeah, Hashem is trying to relay this entire mitzvah because He wants to teach us mercy."

6:32He wants to teach us mercy. He wants to teach us that after you shoo the bird away and take its babies or eggs, you'll feel bad about it. So, Hashem wants to teach you mercy. The Gemara says, if someone claims such a thing, we silence him. Why? Because he's minimizing the significance of the mitzvot. He thinks that Hashem needs to give us a reason for why He gave us the mitzvot. He's comparing Hashem to a king of flesh and blood. Hashem doesn't have to give you a reason why He gave you the mitzvot. So then the Ramban says in his commentary, he says, Hashem gave us this mitzvah not because of His compassion for these creatures to instill the trait of mercy in us, but, but, That's not the only thing we teach. What do we teach? You can't just finish there. What do we teach? We teach that the reason why Hashem placed all of these mitzvot on us is because of His own will, simply because He wanted to. It's His own logic. It's His own divine logic. And the fact that you don't understand it is irrelevant. You still have to do it. By you doing the mitzvah,

7:59without understanding it, shows you have Yirat Shamayim. Why? Because it shows you're submitting to Him, even though it doesn't make sense to you. That's Yirat Shamayim. That's Yirat Shamayim. If everything has to make sense to you and that's the only way you're going to do it, you're far, far away from Yirat Shamayim. You're far, far away from having fear of the Almighty. Why? Because if you really had fear of the Almighty, you wouldn't even ask why. You wouldn't ask why the Shabbat, kosher, why this, why that. You're... Maybe you ask why Donald Trump passed certain laws. Maybe you ask why they even voted for Obama. Maybe you ask how George Bush even graduated from college. That's flesh and blood. You don't ask "why" to the King of Kings. If you truly believe in the King of Kings, you don't ask why. So if you're asking why, that means you have no yirat shamayim. If you're doing without understanding, it shows you have yirat shamayim. It doesn't mean you don't have to understand. If you can understand, understand. But you still have to do regardless. You still have to do regardless. We are meant to be a light unto the nations, not to follow their misguided practices. Remember, every Jew has to remember

9:17...that he's a Jew and she's a Jew. We don't celebrate non-Jewish holidays, even if they seem harmless. It's a zilzul, disrespect to the Torah, and could lead to Chilul Hashem, desecration of God's name. Stick to our holy Torah and our own holidays. That's the path of a true Jew.