TODAY'S CURE To Sinat Chinam

1:31Gas here is good. He goes, "The gas is good." Fine. I'm not interested. "Where's the next gas station?" "The next gas station is 10 miles away." He goes, "Okay, so I'll walk there." He says, "What's wrong with our gas?" He goes, "It's not the gas. I just don't want to buy gas here. I'm going to go over there." He goes, "Yeah, but it's the desert. You're going to walk 10 miles in the desert?" He said, "Yes." "Why?" He said, "You're not going to understand." He goes, listen, maybe you have a beard and a kippah and I don't, but I'm not stupid. Tell me, what's the problem? You're not gonna understand. No, no, tell me, tell me, no, come on. Okay, I'll tell you. Let's say somebody decides to go get a billboard in New York, quarter million dollars a month. And instead of putting CNBC's next show, he posts all types of curses against your father. He says, "Your father's this, your father's that," all types of things against your father. Are you going to do business with him? He responds, "Do business with him? Where does he live? I'll find him right now." The other person replies, "Okay sir, that's my point."

2:49He says, "What are you talking about? I don't even know your father." He responds, "Maybe you don't think you know my father, but you have a sign over here that says that you do business 24 hours a day, seven days a week. That means that you are not only violating Shabbat, but you're advertising it to the public that you are going against my Father in Heaven, and you want me to do business with you?" It's very easy to give everybody a compliment, all of the rich people and all of those people and all of the other people. But Rabbi Wasserman and Rabbi Shalom Schwadron wrote in one of his answers in a letter that if you are complimenting the wicked, you're wicked too. His source was not only Shaarei Teshuva but also Shlomo HaMelech himself. The point is that it's not about trying to bring people closer by complimenting them. You have to bring people closer by telling them what HaKadosh Baruch Hu said, and how they decide what they're gonna do. Once they have that information, that's not your business.

4:12It's not your business whether they're turned on or turned off or turned neutral, or maybe they're going to revert. It doesn't matter. It's not your business. Your business is to simply deliver the Torah to them on a silver platter. Now, if they're really close to you, I recommend you don't tell them one thing. Don't talk. Why? You'll ruin it. What do you do? You let us talk. You give them a CD. You give them a link. Why? If they know you, they're not going to listen to you. If they're your father, your mother, your brother, your sister, or your workmate, they're not going to listen to you. Why? They know you since you were in diapers. How are they going to listen to you now? Because you have a beard now? Okay, so you have a beard with diapers. They know you from a long time ago. They know you when you used to go out with a Goya. They know you when you used to go to bars. They know you when you used to be a promoter in clubs. Hashem yerachem on those people. They know you from when you used to sell clothes to women that weren't exactly Bat Yisrael. They know you had the store for those women who work in those places. Wow, you made a lot of money. They remember you from back then, before the beard. The beard comes for free; even a goat has one. But the point is, Rabotai, they know. He said, they're not going to listen to you. So what are they going to do? They're going to listen to a stranger. Why? Because that’s the only version of them that they know.

5:41So you give him a CD, you give him a link, you press share. Right or left finger, same price. The point is you try to be mezakeh ha-rabim—try to help the public by bringing them the truth. Not your version of the truth, not what you think is too hard or too weak or too this or too that. Just the truth, uncensored truth. What did Hashem say? Share. That's it. Nothing else. If you have more than just a finger, you work for a living, you make a few shekels above your bills, which is rare in this day, but you actually do, you can actually use money too for that. Not just to buy stock, believe it or not. Money is not just for buying stocks. You can actually do other stuff with it. It's not even buying houses too. You can do other stuff with it. Like Kiruv. Like helping Am Yisrael do teshuva. The point is, rabbotai, that you could all become little messengers of HaKadosh Baruch Hu by simply taking a little bit of time out of your day to publicize Torah. Now, the Mishnah in Pirkei Avot says that kol ha-mezakeh et ha-rabim ein chet ba al yado.

7:01Someone that encourages the public to get closer to HaKadosh Baruch Hu has special treatment from Hashem when it comes to giving him different tests. He also says to the prophet Yirmiyahu, if you bring someone who used to be a criminal, someone who used to drive on Shabbat, someone who engaged in various other sins... And you get this person close to Hashem, you get him to start praying every day, put on tefillin, listen to Torah, learn Torah, real teshuva, not fake teshuva like when he did a few mitzvot but he's still going out with the goyim. Real teshuva. He changed his life. Not that he's going to pray all day but that he goes to clubs on weekends. Somebody that changed his life. Somebody that's honest to Hashem, not the fakers. There's plenty of those. They put on tefillin before the pork sandwich. No, Rabbi, it wasn't pork. Where was it? Where did you get it from? It was a Subway tuna sandwich. Oh, Subway's kosher now? Well, no, not really. Okay, so it's pork. What do you mean? Well, the bread. You know what's in the bread? Oh, I didn't check. It's pork. Yeah, but it's a tuna sandwich. Yeah, the tuna is fine. The tuna's a fish. Until they put pork on it.

8:30but it's salad only, okay? So the salad is worse than pork. Why? It has worms, not all the worms that are on it. So there's plenty of those, but those people, they give it, they come for me once in a while. There's plenty of people doing mitzvot. We don't need people doing mitzvot only. We need people doing teshuva. Teshuva means to change your life. Change your ideology. Put the screw that's missing back in. That's what teshuva means. Change your life. Now, changing your life takes time. But it takes a second to decide. One second to decide. Am I going to change my life or not? Am I going to try my best to do what Hashem wants or not? One second. The process could take years, but it could also be a decision made in one second. Each person could be that catalyst, that catalyst that causes someone to change their ways. That's what you can achieve in a million different ways, for free, for money, through efforts, or with skills. There are plenty of different ways.

9:44Plenty of different ways to do it. Each person can do it. But in order to do such a thing, you have to understand what it's going to take. Well, first we need to know the reward. HaKadosh Baruch Hu says, if you do it and you get people to do teshuva, you're gonna be like My mouth. If you bring the criminal and you make him something precious, you make him a baal teshuva, you're gonna be like My mouth. What does it mean to be like Hashem's mouth? To be like Hashem's mouth means, you pray, Hashem says, check. You ask for something, Hashem says, no problem. You need something, check. Why? you're gonna be like My mouth. If you bring the criminal and you make him something precious, you make him a Baal Teshuva, you're gonna be like My mouth. What does it mean to be like Hashem's mouth? To be like Hashem's mouth means, you pray, Hashem says, check. You ask for something, Hashem says, no problem. You need something, check. Why? That's how we live. All three of our lives are living miracles. I don't know the financial situation of everybody. All I know is that it has to be a miracle. Why? We're here. We're all supposed to be in businesses, running a bank, running a company, running this, running that. But no, we're doing this. For what? For free. For free.

10:56How? How do you pay for the mortgage? How do you pay for the rent? How do you pay for the car? How did you pay $52 for, heaven's sake, gas just to get here? I don't know. Hashem sent it. What? Did you punch in a clock somewhere? No. Did you collect it? Did you do something? Did you charge for a lecture yesterday? No. So how did you do it? I don't know. Hashem paid. Hashem paid. There are plenty of people who charge for lectures, but that's also why they don't necessarily tell you the same thing. Why? Because if you pay, you can also make the decision of what they say. So you see, rabotai yekarim, HaKadosh Baruch Hu says, if you help people do teshuva, you ask for something, HaKadosh Baruch Hu is simply going to fulfill it. You don't need to be a speaker. All you need is to have ratzon—just the will to help other Jews do teshuva. That's all you need. But in order to do that, in order to have success at doing kiruv, at helping Am Yisrael do teshuva, you cannot just have willpower by simply exercising your arms by giving CDs away. You cannot have willpower just by pressing the button on the internet for your PayPal to press, "Yeah, send money, send money, send money." That's not enough. You have to have merit.

12:17You have to have merit, meaning HaKadosh Baruch Hu needs to want your kiruv. And the only way to get that is with Torah. It's by learning and fulfilling the Torah yourself.