TeShuva NOW! (Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi and Rabbi Yaron Reuven)

1:25Why? Look at anyone that doesn't have a relationship with HaKadosh Baruch Hu. They have a miserable life anyway. What are you looking up to? What is there to look up to? Give me one person that's a happy person without God. One person. It doesn't exist. Trust me. I was in the business with clients who were billionaires. Each one was more miserable than the other. Without HaKadosh Baruch Hu, you simply have a miserable, purposeless life. And when a person does not understand this, he's torturing himself. Now, unfortunately, at times, a person thinks that he's already done enough. He's done enough teshuva.

2:26And he thinks to himself, he's like, "Oh listen, Rabbi, I'm okay now. I keep Shabbat, I learn a little bit in the morning, and I give tzedakah whenever I get a chance. I'm okay, Rabbi. Teshuvah is not for me, I'm done. I'm going to go to a higher level." When he thinks that there is a higher level than teshuvah, we already have a very serious reason why he needs to do teshuvah. Because he's wrong. If we would have done teshuva every day and gotten to a point where we're starting to think, how am I going to affect the world by my next click? If we don't think that way, our teshuva hasn't begun yet. The key is, rabotai, to understand that when a person is doing teshuva, he's going to analyze everything.

3:27And not just the obvious, but everything. Some of the speakers today, even here in America, when they are asked hard questions, immediately modify the Torah. As soon as it comes to their chair and their name, they sell Hashem immediately. I'll give you an example. There's this lunatic clown that I've been warning about all the time. So they ask him about the death penalty in the Torah. Right away, guess what he said? No, the Torah was not serious about it. Hashem has no intention to execute anyone.

4:30Three thousand three hundred years of executions non-stop, non-stop problems, non-stop diseases, Holocausts, and pogroms, and this fool comes and says, oh, I don't have to pay attention to it. There's really no death penalty. No one should ever be worried, not Mechalelei Shabbat, not gays. In one sentence, he destroys the whole Torah with his long beard. What do you think the wicked people think? Great! Why did Hashem put so many warnings in the Torah? He wants all the wicked people to live with fear! Because fear can help them do teshuva. They may not want to be religious initially, but out of fear they will start, and eventually it will lead to a path of love. However, this fool should have known that the Gemara already said, therefore… because fear can help them to do teshuva. They don't want to be religious, but out of fear they will start and eventually out of love. But this fool should have known that the Gemara already said, therefore, Formats of execution did not get canceled. Even though there's no Sanhedrin, God Himself replaced the four methods of execution with His own execution. Someone that deserves stoning, a tree falls on him, or he falls from a ladder. And someone that deserves choking, drowns in a lake.

5:59And someone who deserves burning is burned in a specific manner. And someone who deserves the sword is executed by the sword; in our days, it's a gunshot or various other methods. Meaning, yes, there's no Sanhedrin and no formal execution, but Hashem knows who deserves punishment, and when the time is right, He administers justice exactly as they deserve. Baraita from Rabbi Shimon ben Elazar. And he says the following: Woe to us from the day of judgment. Woe to us from the day of punishment. This is a rebuke from HaKadosh Baruch Hu when we go up to Shamayim. And He Himself will come to you. And He Himself will tell you, why did you do it? Why did you go against Me? As it's written in the book of Tehillim (Psalms), Psalm 50, verse 21: "These things have you done, and I kept silent. You thought that I was like you."

7:20What does it mean, you thought I was like you? You thought just because I'm not punishing you, I agree that you're violating Shabbat. Just because I'm not punishing you, I agree with your actions. You thought I was just like you, I was a sinner like you. But I will now punish you and lay clearly before your eyes. Meaning I'll show you every single sin right before I punish you. And then the next verse, Rabotai, says this. Understand this now. You who have forgotten God, lest I tear you into pieces and there be none to rescue you. This is Tehillim, Rabotai. This is not some Midrash. This is not mystical. This is literal. If you haven't read it, Baruch Hashem, it's time you have. Hashem Himself is telling us. He's telling us it's not a joke. He's telling us it's not a game. He's telling us you sinned and you thought that it was okay because I didn't punish you. You drove on Shabbat, you went to this, you did this, you did that, and you thought it was okay. It's not okay.

8:35The only thing that's going to get people to change their life is a few things. Number one, to understand that they're running out of time to change. Number two, that they're obligated to change because if they don't change, there is no other hope, there is no other chance, there is no Gan Eden. There's no Gan Eden for the reshaim. That's the one thing that people don't understand. People think there's a Gan Eden for the tzadikim and there's a Gan Eden for the reshaim. The reshaim don't go to Gan Eden. And it's important for people to know that. And that's why it's critical that each person understands that no matter how many times you've been here, all of us were present at Har Sinai. All the Jewish nation was present at Har Sinai, which means that all of us have been here multiple times. We've all messed up at different things. Sometimes you messed up in this, sometimes you messed up in that, but this year now is the last hurrah. It's everybody's last chance. The Steipler Gaon already, 67 years ago, said that there are no more Gilgulim, no more reincarnations. Meaning everyone's getting their last chance. If we have Emunah, it will never break us.

9:47When you have Emunah, you know this world is a blink of an eye. My job is to focus, to gain as much as I can. Anyway, soon I'm moving on, and nothing will break me. The problem is when you don't learn Torah, you don't listen to strong Mussar talks, you don't read the right books, and you don't have the right rabbi. Then what happens? Your ideology becomes crooked. Your lifestyle becomes crooked. Your friends are not what the Torah wants you to have. You give your children the wrong education. Everything in your house is 50-50. Nothing is exactly the way the Torah wants. No wonder how everything collapses sometimes. But if you have Emunah (faith), Anyone who has read this week's parashah even once, along with the commentary by Rashi, already understands that the magefa we have right now is no surprise. Why are you acting surprised? Why are you acting surprised? What's so surprising? It’s surprising it didn’t come sooner. It is HaKadosh Baruch Hu’s mercy that it didn’t come sooner. But at the same token...

11:07HaKadosh Baruch Hu loves us and therefore He waits and waits and waits, but every so often, He has to wake us up to show us we're running out of time. We're simply living in this world with the wrong mentality, thinking that this world is just for making money and buying toilet paper. This world is a world where we can just go for another house, another apartment, another vacation, another stock portfolio, another real estate account. So what does HaKadosh Baruch Hu do? HaKadosh Baruch Hu brings something that scares everyone. So much so, He literally shows us His glory with the smallest of His creations. Rabbotai Yikarim, HaKadosh Baruch Hu says to us, you can do it. You can do it. You can try your best. That's what teshuva is. Teshuva is trying your utmost. Trying your best to do every single mitzvah. If a person tries his best, he can change tzara to complete health. If he tries his best, he can turn around the entire situation in a matter of 24 hours.

12:27Stage four cancer, you can turn it around to completely healthy. If you try your utmost, you can make a significant impact on your situation. However, it is important to remember that ultimately, HaKadosh Baruch Hu decides the outcome. Your effort is what counts. If you don't try your utmost, what are you complaining about? But if you tried your utmost and still didn't succeed, don't be upset. Your reward is going to be 100%. You did your job. You tried your best. And if it's not possible, it's not possible. HaKadosh Baruch Hu decided what the outcome is. The outcome is not in your hands. The outcome is HaKadosh Baruch Hu's. What's in your hands is to try your best. The whole goal of every single session that we learn together is to try our best. That's the goal. That's teshuva. Try your best. You know what your best is. And of course, Hashem knows what your best is. And that's what He judges us on. He doesn't judge us on what we can't do. He judges us on what we can do and we don't. You just got to try your best. Every day a little more. Every day a little more. If you're trying your best, you have no reason whatsoever to be worried. You have no reason whatsoever to be anxious. You have no reason whatsoever to have any doubts. Why? Because you're trying your best and the outcome is in the hands of Hashem. This is the key to teshuva. on what we can't do. He judges us on what we can do and we don't. You just got to try your best. Every day a little more. Every day a little more. If you're trying your best, you have no reason whatsoever to be worried. You have no reason whatsoever to be anxious. You have no reason whatsoever to have any doubts. Why? Because you're trying your best, and the outcome is in the hands of Hashem. This is the key to teshuva.

13:48In the entire Tanakh, all the prophets spoke about the days of Mashiach. What will happen in the next world, nobody knows exactly besides Hashem. It's a very big mystery. We only know that all the pleasures that you can imagine, everything you can imagine of all the people, of all the generations combined, will not be equal to the pleasure of one Jewish tzaddik in the next world. will not be equal to the pleasure of one Jewish tzaddik in the next world. Your success, Rabotai Ikarim, has nothing to do with your skills. Your failure doesn't either. The success, destination, that's only determined by the Creator Himself. You are responsible for the effort. Use those tools that Hashem gave you in order to serve them to the best you possibly can according to His instructions and not yours. If you do that, I promise you that the destination will be much better than you can get yourself on. Be'ezrat Hashem, this will get us even closer.

14:49That's only determined by the Creator Himself. You are responsible for the effort. Use those tools that Hashem gave you in order to serve Him to the best you possibly can according to His instructions and not yours. If you do that, I promise you that the destination will be much better than you can get yourself to. B'ezrat Hashem, this will get us even closer. to the right ideology, to the right destination, to guide us, our people, our friends, our family, and all of Klal Yisrael and the rest of the world that seeks to know God, to the right destination that Hakadosh Baruch Hu has designated for each and every single one of us. Baruch Adonai Le'olam. Amen ve'amen.

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