The Problem of This Generation!

0:06I learned this today from my Rav, and it's one of those things where it's... if you understand what I'm going to say, good, but it's not going to make you feel so happy. If you don't understand... You're in trouble. The world today is full of people that are trying to get away with the minimum of the minimum. Like, I don't want to necessarily be anti-God, atheist, lefty liberal, mechalel Shabbat. No. I want to be religious. I want to have my kippah, and I want to have my kisui rosh, and have my dress on and everything. But I want to modernize it a little bit. And this is modernization that's happening everywhere. It's not just Modern Orthodox. I don't think I'm just picking on Modern Orthodox.

1:18I know people in the Hasidic world, which is supposed to be the most frum, in the Hasidic world who are mechalel Shabbat. In the Hasidic world who are doing things that even secular people don't do. Hashem yishmor. I don't want to tell you the details of how gross that is. The problems are everywhere. Baruch Hashem, we have tzadikim everywhere. And we have not so much everywhere. It's a reality. That's why I always tell people, everyone needs chizuk, everyone needs teshuva. Myself included first. The problem is everywhere. One of the biggest issues is that we're constantly thinking like, or at least we're operating our life as if we're doing God a favor. Our mitzvot, like I'm learning, God, you should pay me for that. I'm doing, you should pay me for that, like as if He needs us, because we have speakers in the world that have long beards and stupid words come out of their mouths, telling people that God needs us. So we have a society at large that thinks that God needs us, and therefore we live in a world where we're just doing the basic minimum to get away with it. Our mitzvot, like I'm learning, God, you should pay me for that, I'm doing, you should pay me for that, as if He needs us. Because we have speakers in the world that have long beards and foolish words come out of their mouths, telling people that God needs us. So, we have a society at large that thinks that God needs us, and therefore we live in a world where we're just doing the basic minimum to get away with it.

2:29Now, with this world, with this world, with this mentality, with this generation of just getting through things, I'll wear a dress, but it'll be technically no different than the secular women look because it's gonna be short enough where you're gonna pretty much see most of my leg. So she thinks that it's kosher because of the dress, not realizing that it was actually better off if she wore pants or a sack or just stayed at home than wear that short dress. People, for some reason, think that just anything that's a dress or a skirt is kosher by default. No. If it does not cover two-thirds of your leg, it's not kosher. And even if it does cover your entire leg, but it's tight to the point where we can see the measurements of your body, the shape of your body, it's not kosher. You are supposed to be modest, meaning leave everything to the imagination. The only one that should know is your husband. Not married? Good. Make sure nobody knows that. Easier, you don't have to change your clothes inside out, so it should be the same. But that's the problem; so many people, they have, you know, part of the equipment, but not all of it. Same thing with guys. Guys say, "No, no, I keep Shabbat." Okay, when you learn Torah on Shabbat, what about the other six days? "No, I'm working during the six days," like they say. Just because they're learning a lot on Shabbat or they're keeping Shabbat, they think it's enough.

3:52you don't learn Torah every single day, there's no chance in the world you're going to be righteous. Why? You're not going to know enough. You're not going to know enough in order to get to Gan Eden. But people think we're just going to get away with this and make up for different things. So, this is the generation we live in today, with that type of generation we have now. Something that's never happened before. We just had a Yom Kippur where more or less, no Beit Knesset was normal around the world. Where more or less, no beit knesset was normal around the world. Everywhere in the world was either shut down or was such a small minyan of 10 or 20 people that you couldn't even tell it was Yom Kippur. Countless people, myself included, prayed alone at home. Never in history has such a thing happened, even during the Holocaust. Even during the Holocaust, even during the Holocaust, Am Yisrael found ways to pray. But now, HaKadosh Baruch Hu decreed the situation to be such that whether you say it's a conspiracy or not a conspiracy, it's a real virus, not a real virus, it doesn't make a difference. The effects are very much real on the Jewish world.

5:16where we cannot operate and function normally. And if we want to blame the government, want to blame Bibi Netanyahu and Donald Trump and whoever else, good luck with that. Good luck smashing your head against the wall with that one. It's not going to get you anywhere. You have to blame yourself. I have to blame myself. Why? Because that's the reason it's happening. HaKadosh Baruch Hu did something to us right now that if you don't understand what's happening, you are in deeper trouble than you actually are. We're very excited to offer you the new Be'ezrat Hashem app 3.0. It's a newer, faster app, full of Torah, and lots of Kedusha through the shiurim that we do. Myself, Rabbi Efraim, Rabbi Chaim. where you'll have also newer features where you'll be able to use the app while using other applications on your phone. You'll be able to share the shiurim directly from the app. You'll be able to donate online and support our kehillah and our Torah work that we're doing.

6:18And the most exciting feature is that you'll be able to actually ask questions directly on the app and get answers from the rabbis directly through the app. This is something unprecedented, and Baruch Hashem, we will be able to offer it. Thank you again for all of your support. Check it out. Make sure you have the Kosher Torah that will re-energize your neshama each and every single day. Kol tuv b'hatzlacha.