Wake up dear Jews (8 minutes)

0:28Even the donkey knows that he has a Baal HaBayit; he has an owner. Everyone knows there has to be something. Even if you want to believe in the whole theory of evolution, you still can't explain where the first cell came from. So, if it came from somewhere, obviously, there has to be a Creator. So, if the Creator was able to create one cell, why are you limiting Him to just one cell? Why couldn't He create a whole world? So, once you know that there's a Creator, you see that, okay, I have to do certain things. Once you realize that for Him to fulfill all of your desires... And you see that, okay, I have to do certain things. Once you realize that for Hashem to fulfill all of your desires, whether it's parnassah, or it's refuah shlemah, or it's a zivug, or it's anything, for you to just be able to breathe is a miracle. It's a 100% miracle for you to be able to breathe. It's actually a 100% miracle that you're even here.

1:54I'll give you a small example scientifically. Each one of you was told by some doctor at some point, or at least on some commercial, that you should eat a lot of protein. That's why they feed you so much meat. You should eat protein, right? They say protein is healthy. So, that means that your body is full of trillions and trillions and trillions of proteins. Now, each one of these proteins has to fold, a process known as protein folding. And it has to fold in a precise way, an exact way. Not like a man folds his t-shirts, but it must fold in a precise way. And what happens if it doesn't fold in a precise way? If one out of all of the trillions and trillions and trillions of proteins you have in your body folds a little off, five degrees off to the right, five degrees off to the left, it’s not like “bad,” it’s just a little bit off. But that slight deviation can cause significant issues. We rely on Hashem's wisdom to ensure the proper folding, just as He created the heavens and the earth. This understanding should instill a fear and awe of the Creator. lose vision, you lose the ability to breathe, you can't walk, you can't live. All sicknesses start there. One protein, not 10 or 50 million — just one. The very same One that created the heaven and the earth is also responsible for folding these proteins. Once we realize that the same One is responsible for these proteins folding the right way, how could you not be scared?

3:19How could you not be scared when you realize how much He's responsible for? So the beginning of wisdom is fear of the Almighty. A healthy Jew has to have a certain level of fear. The reason why is because Chazal tell us, there's a connection to Hashem, and there are two types of connections to Hashem. There's Ahava and there's Yirah. There's love of Hashem and there's fear of Hashem. We're obligated by the 613 mitzvot to do both of them. But if you look at the Torah, the entire Torah, and you compare the ratio of how often it talks about fear of Hashem versus loving Hashem, the ratio is 100 to 1, if not more. Meaning, to fear Hashem is mentioned at least 100 times or more for every one time it mentions loving Hashem. Reason being is because Chazal says that if your connection to Hashem is only based on fear, it's only based on fear, then it's an incomplete connection. It's a connection, but it's incomplete. A complete connection will be both fear and love. But if it's a connection that's just based on love and no fear, then it's no connection at all. Meaning it cannot happen. It cannot exist. It cannot be. Because you can't love something if you don't know what it is. And if you knew what it is, of course you would fear it. So someone can't say, listen, I love this woman. Who? I don't know. How can you love it then?

4:37then it's no connection at all. Meaning it cannot happen. It cannot exist. It cannot be. Because you can't love something if you don't know what it is. And if you knew what it is, of course, you would fear it. So, someone can't say, listen, I love this woman. Who? I don't know. How can you love her then? You understand? So it's the same thing with Hashem. Once you know, even a small 1% of what we can comprehend, once we learn just about this miraculous protein we talked about, or the fact that the name of Hashem is encoded within your DNA, or the fact that Hashem is orchestrating every single move that you make, anything and everything for which Hashem is accountable, once you perceive even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of how much you depend on Hashem, of course, you're going to fear Him. And to have this fear is necessary because Hashem specifically came to us at Mount Sinai and gave us the Ten Commandments. Before He gave us the rest of the Torah, He gave us the Ten Commandments. Now, if you notice, when we got the Ten Commandments, at some point the Jewish people said, "Please tell them to stop or else we'll die. Please tell them to stop talking, or else we're going to die." Hashem is talking, you want Him to stop talking? No one ever heard, no other people in history experienced such a direct revelation. This was a unique moment in our history.

5:55Religion never started the same way as Judaism. It's the only religion in history, the only people in history that, as a group, were able to listen to Hashem speak; it was just the Jewish people. So now that they finally heard Him in public, why would they want Him to stop? And to such an extent that they're saying, "Stop, or else we're going to die"? It sounds a little extreme. So why are they saying it? Because Hashem's voice was so holy and so awe-inspiring. that they all died when they heard the first commandment, and Hashem brought them back to life. Then they heard the second commandment, and they all died again. And He brought them back to life. Then they said, please stop Him from talking, or else we'll die because they had already died twice. They felt the pain of death. go up to the mountain, listen to whatever he says yourself, then tell Moses, we will do and then we will listen. Meaning, you tell us what to do and then we'll hear it, for whatever he says. But we can't, we don't want to feel the pain of death anymore. So what does Moses answer them? Hashem is only scaring you so you don't make sins. Meaning, the scare tactic, the Gehinnom, the

7:17Punishment, the scary stuff. It's not my strategy. It's not unique to me. It's Hashem's strategy. He gave you all of these things, and He wrote it in the Torah in many, many places. Nearly half the Torah talks about punishment. Most people don't teach it because it's not politically correct to scare people. But this is why 80% of Am Yisrael does not even know what Shabbat is. So it doesn't work, this nice tactic. But Hashem is reminding us. So wake up!