The REWARD of HEAVEN (In This World & Next)

1:16person's life. Now, let's say this person lived a hundred years. Out of the hundred years, the reality is, even if he was rich, successful, married with kids, and even had some traumatizing life experiences, the whole hundred years are not completely joyful. If he lived like a regular human being, most likely 25 to 35 percent of his life, he's sleeping. So, out of a hundred years, you're already down to about 70 years or so. Seventy years left out of the other seven years. He's also spending some time going to the bathroom. Then he's also spending some time working, and work is not always fun. And he's also spending some time dealing with problems. And he's eating and drinking. Meaning, out of the whole 100 years, maybe, if you're lucky, you got a good solid 10, 15, maybe, maybe 17 years of actual fun. Let's say. I mean, I'm talking about a multi-billionaire for whom money is never a problem. I'm talking about the best-case scenario. Maybe you got 17% fun. Good. In reality, it's more like 5%. But let's be generous here. Okay, so we got 17. Now, if you take all that fun he'd had in 17 years and you spread it out over 100 years, that's a life, right? But if you take all 17 years and you just inject that fun into him in one shot...

2:26Okay, so we've got 17 years. Now, if you take all that enjoyment he had in those 17 years and spread it out over 100 years, that's a lifetime, right? But if you take all 17 years and you inject that enjoyment into him in one shot... all the pleasure he ever had in his entire life, in one second, all the pleasure he had from food, all the pleasure he had from money, all the pleasure he had from his wife, all the pleasure he had from whatever he did, in one shot, it's a lot of pleasure, right? Okay. Now, you take all of that fun, that 17 years' worth of fun, you put it in a little box. Then you do the same exact thing for every single person, from the beginning of the world until the time of Mashiach. He takes all of their fun that they all had. ever lived from the beginning of the world until the time of Mashiach. Take all of the fun that they all had. Right now, you've got almost eight billion people, the previous generation about six and a half billion, the generation before about six billion, the one before about five billion, and so on and so forth. You're talking about billions and billions and billions of people and...

3:41All of their fun, and let's say some had only one year of fun, some had 20 years of fun, some had more or less. But the point is, it's just the fun part, not the bad part. Take everything that they had, put it in the same box, turn it into liquid, and give someone an injection of that fun. That's a lot of fun, right? That's a lot of good, right? That is not even considered the down payment. That's not even considered the down payment. It's not even considered a moment of fun of enjoying the Ziv HaShechinah. Of enjoying the joy that you would get for protecting your brit. not even a moment of the reward that you will get for being a modest woman. not even a moment of it. not even a moment of the reward that you're going to get for keeping kosher, for being kosher, for keeping shabbat. it's not even a moment of it. needless to say, all of the mitzvot that you did. so that's a lot of joy. now hakadosh baruch hu says,

4:59you're supposed to feel parts of this in this world, too. How can you get to that? By serious, serious toiling in Torah, getting yourself to become a holy person where you sanctify your body. I can't explain to you how that feels in a way that you would fully understand, but I can give you some type of illustration. I hope none of you have ever done drugs, but I'm assuming everybody here knows somebody that did drugs at some point in their life. Now when people do drugs, baruch Hashem, I never did drugs, but I had medicine in my system at some points in my life when I was going through all the fun surgeries. Now drugs, what do they do? They make you feel a bunch of things that you really are not supposed to feel. All of a sudden, you feel great even though nothing good's happening. Buzzing all types of things like this, people do drugs because they want to live in that permanent state of pretty much illusion, and their body buzzing and doing all types of things, and a certain elevated mind, a certain lightness to the brain, all types of things that are...

6:20Feel like you're in a different world. People do get addicted to drugs because of this, what they call a "high." If a person seriously toils in Torah, and I don't mean toils in Torah for one day, or just an hour a day for 20 years—I'm talking about serious toil in Torah—HaKadosh Baruch Hu can give him some of this in this world, where you could feel it for an extended amount of time. Could be a minute. It could be a few hours. It could be every day; it depends. The person can simply feel everything I just explained that all the drug addicts do, times a million, just by existing. Now, the Chazon Ish writes... that a really serious Talmid Chacham, a really serious holy person, could be a woman also. There are women in recent history, 40, 50, 60 years ago, who had Ruach HaKodesh. We're not talking about a thousand years ago; we're talking about recent generations, grandparents, who had Ruach HaKodesh. They felt like this on a regular basis. And Mechazoni says that these people look like men, these people look like women, who are among us.

7:42But in reality, they're angels among men. They're angels not just by the way Shamayim, Heaven, perceives them, but also in the way they perceive themselves and feel. The way they feel is sanctified, so a person can elevate their body to the point of having physical pleasure from their mitzvot. Physical pleasure from their mitzvot: they drink a little juice, they say a bracha, and they start to feel all types of things that you cannot explain with words. Even if I wrote a book about it, you still wouldn't understand. It's like trying to explain to a blind person what the color blue is. He's never seen blue; how's he going to know? You talk about it being like green, but he doesn't know what green is either. That's how much joy a person can have from a simple mitzvah of drinking water, of eating something, or whatever it is. They can have that much joy, and that's just a small sample of the real joy they will get when they arrive at the real world that's eternal. But that's based on the assumption that the person has sanctified themselves, not by their own opinion.

8:59But by Shamayim, by HaKadosh Baruch Hu testifying, she is holy, he is holy. There are many people doing mitzvot; not many are becoming holy. Holy means you have to be very, very protective of modesty, morality, and things of that nature.

10:03Thank you.