The 3 cardinal sins in this generation (9 minutes)

0:02The Churban Beit HaMikdash HaRishon and HaSheni were different. The first Beit HaMikdash was destroyed for three major sins: Avodah Zarah, Shefichat Damim, and Gilui Arayot—idol worship, murder, and sexual immorality. That's the basic pshat. In reality, There's a little bit more to the details. The Beit HaMikdash HaSheni was destroyed because of Sinat Chinam, baseless hatred. And again, in reality, there are more details. And we'll go over some of those details. The Avodah Zarah that we talk about that happened in the Beit HaMikdash was that they actually worshipped idols. It's hard to explain how people that are seeing miracles every minute are worshipping an idol until you read the Midrash and you see that these idols actually had powers. Hashem actually gave these idols powers. That was the test of the generation. So when they prayed to these idols, it wasn't like the idol you buy from Chinatown for $15.

1:28These idols were able to speak, walk, and actually fulfill their prayers. When Rava asked Menashe, when he had a dream about Menashe, "If you know so much Torah, how did you worship idols?" He said, "If you were in my generation, you'd chase the idols even worse than I did." Aside from the desire that the generation had, similar to the one we have today, about money and about sex, that was the generation over there that had this issue with idol worship. But in today's generation, we think that we don't have this problem anyway. We think that Abu Dazzara is gone.

2:29Unfortunately, Avodah Zarah has a new face. It's called money. If any one of you ever looked at a dollar bill, you see on a dollar bill it says a nice sentence on the bottom, "In God We Trust." And most people take the sentence literally and think that they're talking about the dollar being God. This is the reason why most people spend their life chasing money. Spend 15, 16, 17 hours a day working. They want to be the next Bill Gates. They want to be the next Warren Buffett. They want to make a lot of money because they have to compete with their neighbor's big house. And since their neighbor got a brand new car, they can't live with themselves. They're eating themselves up. How could he have a new car, and I still have my little tzust-tyust over here? So they work extra hard. And they start taking unnecessary risks. They borrow money they can't return. The borrowed money they start gambling. All the while, there's a Churban Beit HaMikdash at home. They haven't seen their kids in months. The wife doesn't even remember their names. Torah is like a foreign word in the house.

4:00And they forgot who Hashem is. They forgot who is the one that gives them parnassah. They made themselves a new god called Money. Shefichat Damim is not just murder, because unfortunately, we still have that problem in the world, Baruch Hashem, not to the same extent as we had in Beit HaMikdash. But it's actually worse because it's combined with gilui arayot. In today's generation, there's a new type of murder, but it's not one person at a time—it's 300 million. Every teenager that goes home, sometimes even from a yeshiva, and the yeshiva did not teach him... some mussar, some yirat Shamayim, and the details of the significance of wasting seed. He goes home and he wants to relax. He wants 30 seconds of pleasure. And since he's not married, he helps himself to destroy 300 million souls. Scientists have

5:27Done some serious analysis and they say that an average ejaculation is 300 million seeds. Which means that every time a teenager wastes seed, they just killed America. You do it five times a week, you destroy China. By the end of the month, you've killed an entire planet. Good luck in Gehinnom. But unfortunately, it's not the teenager's fault that he doesn't know that it's that bad. He never heard it in yeshiva. Out of all the English on the internet, and trust me, I've done the research, there's only three shiurim about the topic. One by one of the tzaddikim of the generation, one by Rabbi Ilona Nava, and one by me. One of the tzaddikim of the generation. One by Rabbi Ilan Nava. And one by me. I'm not telling you that I made a shiur Torah on wasting seed to give myself any respect, honor, or anything. I'm explaining to you this is a shame. That there are thousands of rabbis that know more Torah than I could ever know. They've been studying Torah for 20, 30, 40, 50 years.

6:54And yet, you have a Baal Teshuva from a few years ago who is the only one that has four hours' worth of Torah specifically talking about the subject. All the information that you have on the internet in English is a total of about five and a half hours. It's very sad. So, of course, the teenager is going to go home and think it's not a big deal. How can you expect anything else from him? He's not learning it in yeshiva. He's not learning it in public school. The opposite. Yeah, go relax, go relax. If he watches TV, he even hears medical opinions. But it's good for you. If you really want to know the truth about it, you should watch one of these shiurim that I have, especially the one that was made in New York a few months ago for three hours. Explains how someone that wastes seed is destroying themselves not only in the next world, but actually in this world. There's a book that was written 180 years ago showing scientific evidence of how someone is slowly but surely destroying their body medically.

8:17So, if we thought that we solved the problem of Shfichut Damim and Giluy Arayot of the Churban Beit HaMikdash HaRishon, we now find out that we actually have a bigger problem. Back then, at least they were killing one at a time. Most teenagers today have killed at least 7 or 8 billion people. And this wasting seed is connected to both Shefichut Damim and Arayot. It's a serious transgression. And people wonder why the reproductive organs of males and females are afflicted with cancer in our generation. We didn't have this 150 years ago. You've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by TorahAnytime.com.