Scary List of Who Does God Hate? (11 Minutes)

0:41This is one of the sources for it because the Nephilim and all of the people that lived here in this generation knew the difference between right and wrong and still chose wrong. As we mentioned last week, and maybe one other time before, there is only one person in the entire Torah and Nevi'im Ketuvim (24 books) about whom Hashem says, "I hate him." There are plenty of evil people in every generation. Plenty of evil people in every generation. As a matter of fact, one of the original evil people in history is born during this parasha. His name is Nimrod. Nimrod, the name comes from someone that's Mored Ba'Hashem. Mored Ba'Hashem means he's an enemy of God. The name, the root of the name Nimrod is being an enemy of God. He's the original idol worshiper. He made himself into a god. He told everybody to pray to him. And he became the enemy of Avraham Avinu. Avraham Avinu jumped into the fire, which we'll learn about next week. But Nimrod is born in this parasha. In this parasha, he's born. Evil people. Hashem says evil, destroyed some of them. Let some of them live, punish some of them, but He never wrote that He hated anyone, even the generation of the Mabul. He didn't say, "hate them," He said they're a shame. But you hate them. It's one person in Tanach that says, "I hate him." One man is titled "I hate him." I hate; He names him by name. Who? Esav. Yaakov I loved but Esav I hate him. Why?

2:01Let some of them live, punish some of them, but he never wrote that he hated anyone. Even the generation of the Mabul, he didn't say he hated them, just that they're a shame. But hating them? It's one person in Tanach, who says, "I hate him." He names him by name: Esav. "Yaakov ahavti v'esav saneti" – Yaakov I loved, but Esav I hated. Why do I hate him? Why do I... Why I hate Esav. I had a chiddush today because we talked about this already. It is said because Esav knew the truth. He knew the truth about why his brother was the Gadol HaDor. He was the next big rabbi in the world. Yaakov, his father, was a bigger rabbi. Yitzchak Avinu, his grandfather, was the greatest rabbi that ever lived, Avraham Avinu. He knew. You know the truth said that the mabul (Flood) do to what the mabul do to what the mabul do to what the mabul going to next? The mabul definitely the mabul need koshr tomorrow. I'm gonna do all these different things. He didn't do it. So Hashem says about him, "I hate him," why? Because empty promises. So what was the chiddush (novelty) today? What makes Hashem upset? I mean, there are plenty of people that say they're gonna do it and don't do it. So Hashem hates all of them.

3:23Plenty of people say, "I'm gonna..." Everybody makes promises about what they're going to do on New Year's, whether it's the secular New Year or Rosh Hashanah, whichever New Year you have. Whatever excuse you have to make promises, we make promises all the time. Hashem hates all the people who break their promises. As it says in the Mishnah, whoever repaid punishment to the generation of the flood and the generation of the Tower of Babel, meaning God... He will issue punishment to someone who doesn't stand by their word. Hashem hates every single person that doesn't stand by their word. Just like He destroyed the generation of the Mabul of Noach, just like He destroyed the same parasha, the generation of the Tower of Bavel, He hates them as well. He hates everybody who breaks promises. That's it. Why? Why does He hate someone who breaks promises so much? The answer was in the chiddush today. It connects to one of the things we learned just a couple of weeks ago. We said in the Gemara that it talks about all different types of resha'im, all different types of tzaddikim. The beauty of it is that the more you learn about it, the more you realize how relevant it is to today, how relevant it is to yesterday, how relevant it is to every day, and...

4:51Didn't change anything; nothing changed, nothing new under the sun. Just like Hashem says, Shlomo (Solomon) says in the book of Kohelet (Ecclesiastes), he says nothing new under the sun. He mentions the sun, everything being under the sun, many, many times throughout the book of Kohelet. He says nothing new under the sun, nothing changed—his generation, previous generations, generation of Noah, generation of Adam, generation of Moshe Rabbeinu (Moses our teacher), any generation, nothing new, nothing changed, everything the same. Just like Hashem hated the people of the generation of Noah. Just like He hated the people of the generation of the Tower of Babel just 300 years later. Just like He hated Esav another couple hundred years later. Just like all the other nations, He hated them. Why? Why does He hate all of them? Because of this Gemara. Gemara Masechet Shabbat 119 says... A person that does something wrong but doesn't see anything wrong with it, Hashem hates him. Why? Because he sees wrong in everyone else except himself. Everyone else is wrong. "Oh, he's a rasha, he does this. He's a rasha, he does that. He's a rasha, he does something else." You tell him, "Yeah, but you know, by the way, you're not allowed to do..." and he responds, "Hey, hey, hey. I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm okay. You know what I do? You know what I do?"

6:14You know what I do? You know how much money I donate? You know how much I study Torah? You worry about yourself. What do you mean? You just told me, I am worried about myself. But I'm just letting you know. Don't let me know anything. I know. I'm okay. Et Eisav saneti. Him? I hate him. Why? He sees nothing wrong with what he's doing. He's making constant promises, breaks them, and doesn't think there's anything wrong with it. Honey, honey, I'll be there in 20 minutes. Shows up three hours later. Killed her day. Killed his day. Okay, you ready? What do you mean ready? You said you're going to be here in 20 minutes. You showed up three hours later. You killed my life. You killed my day. What do you mean are you ready? What's the big deal? Why are you so uptight? What do you mean? You made a promise. You gave your word. The check bounced. The check bounced. You sent me a check. It bounced. It was for $10. It was for $10. I lent you 10 million, check the balance. You will have no word. I hate you. Why? Because not only did you do something wrong, but you also don't see anything wrong with it. You're never going to do teshuva as long as you don't see anything wrong with it. You're never going to do teshuva. You, in essence, are signing up to be on the team of "I am going to be an enemy of Hashem forever."

7:42There's no hope for you. Brother was Gadol Hador, father was Gadol Hador, grandfather, he couldn't get a better family, better pedigree. Still Rasha. There's no hope for somebody like that. There's no hope. Why? Because he doesn't see anything wrong. He makes a promise to go to Beit Knesset. Tomorrow doesn't show up. Okay, I'll show up the next day. Hashem will wait for me. I do things at my own pace. I do things at my own pace. Take it easy. You worry about you. You worry about you. Don't worry about me. Yeah, the problem is you are affecting me. Why? You sin, I get punished too. One more day, the Mashiach is not here. One more day, there's a terrorist attack. One more day, there's an intermarriage. One more day, there's a disaster in Am Yisrael. Why? It's because of you. Violating Shabbat is probably violating all these things. What do you think? It's because of all the tumah (impurity). It happened because they didn't come. No, not because of the Shechinah (Divine Presence), but not as regular as the Shechinah. The Shechinah didn't want to dwell. That's the problem. That's the problem.