What Can We Learn From A Fish | BH KIDS
Everyone has choices to make in life, so when it comes to following HaShem people always pray that HaShem helps them make the right choice. What does a person need to do in order to have HaShem help them? To find out the answer, we can learn something very important that the Gemara says about fish. Yes, fish. In fact this is something so important that once you learn it, you will know something about fish, and something about how to get HaShem to help you with making the right decisions. Enjoy There's a special section on our website that has more amazing stuff for little tzadikim just like you. Check it out at https://www.beezrathashem.org/bh-kids We hope you're enjoying the videos and learning lots of Torah that you can use to become an even bigger tzadik or tzadika and tell your parents all about what you've learned with us at BH Kids. May HaShem Continue To Bless You BH Kids BeEzrat HaShem Inc #bhkids #kingdavid #mashiach
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0:06Hashem creates people, and He gives them their own brain, their own heart, and their own ability to choose between right and wrong. Most aspects of life are beyond one's own choice. It wasn't your choice to come into the world; Hashem decided for you to come into the world. It wasn't your choice to be male or female. God decided whether you were born. God will decide when a person will die. God decides if a person is sick or healthy. God decides if he is rich or poor. God decides all of these things. The only thing God doesn't decide is whether you will do right or wrong. That's your choice. That's what it means in the Torah that the sages teach, "Everything is from heaven except the fear of heaven." Meaning everything in the world comes from God, comes from HaKadosh Baruch Hu, except whether you fear Him or not. Meaning everything else is not up to you.
1:12So He gave you that freedom to choose. Some people choose to work on their character and become better quality people. Some people choose to allow themselves to do whatever they want, like an animal. So it all depends on the choice. The point is, Abotai, that HaKadosh Baruch Hu is never going to punish you for being ugly. He's never going to punish you for being good-looking either. He's going to punish you for how you use it. He's going to reward you for how you use it. Don't assume, "Oh no, no, I'm still young. I'm only 18, I'm only 20, I'm only 25, I'm only 35, I'm only 45. I've got time. I've got time to do teshuva." No, no, my friend. You have no idea how much time you have. But do something today. Do something tomorrow. Do something more the next day. Why? Because HaKadosh Baruch Hu is going to give you signs. But He also needs a sign. He needs a sign of life. that you're doing something about it. The Gemara in Masechet Ketubot says, how do you know if a fish is alive? You go to a river and there's a waterfall, a little river waterfall. You see there's some fish. How do you know which one is alive or not? Why? Because there's a stream of water that makes the fish go. So even if he's dead, he's still moving.
2:31How do you know this one is alive? How do you know? You look at everything. They're all moving—dead ones, alive ones. How do you know which one's alive? The one that's alive is swimming against the stream. If he's going with the stream, most likely, he's dead. He's going against the stream as a lifestyle. Why? Because you need life to go against the stream. You need life to go against the secular mentality. You need life to go against the goyish mentality. You need life to go against the Christian idolatry mentality. You need life to go against everything you've done for the last 3,000 years that brought you here. You need life to go against that. Why? Because that's what's going to give you eternal life, just like HaKadosh Baruch Hu said, "Follow my Torah so that you may have life." Let's say Baruch Hashem. One, two, three. Baruch Hashem. Baruch Hashem.
