What Is HaShem's Treasure? (Must Watch)

1:08Jews, some are non-Jews, some are old, some are young, some were religious, some were not religious and became religious. But no matter who watches the movie, if they're watching it with an unbiased eye and they watch the whole thing, generally, at the end of it, they're very, very inspired. Now, which part do you think they're motivated by the most? No one wants to volunteer an answer. No? Joshua is doing me a favor by raising his hand. No? Why? Joshua says the physical suffering that I went through, Baruch Hashem, and the monetary loss. Now, your answer is right. The question is why? Why do they care about that? Why can't everybody relate to it? No, give me the final answer. You're all right, but you have to know why you're right. You can't just, it's not a lotto. Now, if I tell you now, if I had my first shiur, and I told you a story, I gave the shiur of Ge'enom. Pirkei Avot number 84, Ge'enom. Now, I know everybody that showed up to that lecture was scared permanently. To this day, they still have a little bit of nightmares. It's good.

2:36Tens of thousands of people have watched that shiur, and every single one of them, I believe, has done teshuva. But if that was the shiur, if every shiur was about gehinom, would it be more successful or less successful? Now, from some of our videos, it looks like every shiur is about gehinom. It's not true, though. If you actually watch the whole shiur, it's not about Gehinom the whole time. There are just a few clips in it that may scare you guys. The rest of it is not. But if every shiur was just about Gehinom, every shiur, just Gehinom, Gehinom, Gehinom, Gehinom, Gehinom. Would that be more successful or less successful? Less successful. Why? Okay, so now we're going to combine both answers. What is more scary for people? Gehinom or a toothache? A toothache. Why? Gehinom is scary. It's far away. But if you don't constantly think about it, and you don't constantly delve over it, it eventually becomes a distant memory. Toothache, I can relate to right now. I've had toothaches. I don't want a toothache. I actually had a toothache earlier, just a few days ago. Toothaches are not fun.

3:51Toothache is not fun. Nobody wants a toothache. Everybody knows that once you have a toothache, it doesn't matter how much money you have. It doesn't matter what's, say, your shoe size. It doesn't matter if you're black or white. It doesn't matter if you're rich or poor. It doesn't matter if you're Jewish or not Jewish. With a toothache, you can't function. Can't function. One guy said, no, listen, this tooth is not going to take over. I'm going to beat this tooth. I'm not going to submit. I'm not going to the dentist. I'm going to continue. Guess what? He passed out from pain. There's no way to beat it other than going to the dentist. People are more scared of toothaches than of becoming numb. Why are they more scared of toothaches than of the numbness? Because they can relate to it. They can relate to it in their life. They've seen it. They have felt it. So, when people see that someone suffered physical pain in different uncomfortable body parts, they understand it profoundly.

4:53that is unlike anything that they've heard other than stories from the Holocaust, and they understand that this can happen to anyone because it wasn't like I was living in some third-world country, underfed and abused, or I was in some Holocaust camp. It was the opposite. And the reality is, it shows how much of a nothing I am, how much of a nothing people are in comparison to just this tiny little thing that HaKadosh Baruch Hu sent you. A tiny little thing. One cell doesn't work. One nerve doesn't work. One nerve works too much, and so on and so forth. Everyone can relate to it. Of course, they can also relate to money loss. Everybody's scared to lose their money. They work so hard for it. They're scared to lose their money. Now this, rabotai, is a very, very important thing to know, but it's also mentioned in our Torah. Where? In the movie that we watched today. Anyone that hasn't watched it, you should watch it. Rav Efraim says, notice the chidush of this baraita by Avot de-Rabbi Natan, which is also referred to in the movie.

6:13A movie is called Yetzer HaTov versus Yetzer HaRa, and it references a Beraita where it says that the Yetzer HaRa, the evil inclination, exists from birth. The person becomes accustomed to violating Shabbat and committing various sins. The Yetzer HaRa does not challenge them, as it is pleased with their actions. Meanwhile, the Yetzer HaTov, the good inclination, does not emerge until age 13 for boys and age 12 for girls. Hence, the Yetzer HaRa is considered to have a 13-year lead over the Yetzer HaTov. And it talks about how for the first 13 years, the person does different things. He gets accustomed to violating Shabbat, and he gets accustomed to doing all types of sins. The Yetzer Hara doesn't bother him, obviously, because the Yetzer Hara likes that he's engaged in all these sins. The Yetzer HaTov, the good inclination, is not even present yet. It's not born until he's 13 years old for a boy, or 12 for a girl. But once that age is reached... It gets to that age and the Yetzer HaTov is born. The Yetzer HaTov says, empty one! What are you doing? You're violating Shabbat. Don't you know that HaKadosh Baruch Hu says that someone who violates Shabbat, He is going to kill him.

7:33He says, "Empty one, what are you doing? Committing immorality? Don't you know that HaKadosh Baruch Hu said that spilling seed and committing immorality will result in Him spilling your blood?" Rabbi Ephraim says, look at the chidush here. What is the Yetzer HaTov telling this person that's sinning? Is he telling them about gehinom? Is he telling them Kaf HaKela? Is he telling them, listen, Hashem's going to swing you from one end to the other? No. What is he telling them? He tells them, listen, you idiot. He's going to kill you. You fool. He's going to spill your blood. You fool. You're going to sin. You're going to have physical pain. Physical pain. You want pain? You want pain? No, no, no. Okay, do teshuva. Okay. This is, Rabotai, what the Yetzer Hara constantly tells us. We need to understand a lot of things in a way that we can relate to. But at the same token, the Chachamim come and tell us many, many different aspects of the supernatural, of the mystical, of the things that are in the afterlife. Why? A balance of both.

8:56to know about heaven, to know about gehinnom, to know about cancer, to know about AIDS, to know about all the different things, because the balance of all these things, if a person learns about them and develops the right foundation of fear, he can start building a better quality of fear. Once you have a good foundation of fear of Hashem, you're afraid to lose, you're afraid to get hurt, you're afraid to get to a bad place. Now you can build a relationship with Hashem to get to a better quality of fear. What's the better quality of fear? A fear of hurting your relationship between you and Hashem, just like a fear of hurting your relationship between you and your spouse. You're not afraid that your spouse is going to hit you physically. If you are in a normal healthy relationship, that's not the concern. Instead, you are concerned about the emotional and spiritual connection. The fear is about doing something that might cause damage to the bond and understanding you have cultivated. Similarly, in a relationship with Hashem, it is the quality and care in the relationship that should be the focus, ensuring that it is nurtured and protected. not afraid of that. What are you afraid of? If you try to have a good relationship, you're afraid of hurting each other emotionally—yelling, screaming, cursing—all sorts of things that people do to each other when they don't pay attention. So, a person needs to make sure that they don't hurt each other in a relationship. Needless to say, if a person has a good foundation of fear...

10:09Losing in this world and the next, he can now reach a higher level of fear, which is fear of damaging the connection between him and Hashem, or her and Hashem. But you can't reach the second level without first attaining the first level. This is why the Yetzer Tov at 13 years old tells them, "Listen, you go against Hashem, He's going to harm you physically. He's going to give you pain in the most uncomfortable part of your body, and you'll curse the day you were born." And you can't just stop it. Oh, stop it, Hashem. I'll do teshuva. It doesn't work that way. Hashem doesn't dance to your tune. Once you force Hashem's hand, that's it. You're lucky if it ever stops. So that's why, rabotai, HaKadosh Baruch Hu sends different chachamim, different nevi'im, and different people with various skills to help Am Yisrael do teshuva. But the most successful way has always been what Yetzer Hatov is doing, which is scaring people. Why? That is, rabotai, the number one motivator for human beings. In fact, the number one motivator for all beings, all living beings, is fear.

11:29You go to the woods, and you start seeing a bunch of animals running, but they're not about to eat you. They've gone past you. They're scared of something. What could it be? An animal, a predator, a fire. That's what's motivating them to care less about you, with or without your gun, and they're running past you. Why? Because they're scared of something much worse than you. You start seeing people run into the store, care less, start taking things. They're scared of something much more than the police—scared of starvation, scared of something else. Fear plays a significant role in our lives and can drive people to act in unexpected ways. You start seeing people lock themselves up in a house for two months. They're scared of something much more than they're scared of each other's company. Fear is a very critical tool that HaKadosh Baruch Hu has instilled in every one of His beings. And to instill fear in people is important, but only if it's the right fear.

12:30Because the Gemara says, someone who instills fear in people just for his own sake, for them to be scared of him, for them to be scared of her, it doesn't matter if it's a man or a woman, and it doesn't even matter if it's for the public or even for your own family. A mother just makes her kids scared for no reason. A father makes the kids and the wife scared just for no reason. The wife makes the husband scared just for no reason. She wants him to respect her. Why? Because she comes from such and such family. He'll respect me because I do this, this, and that. He'll show respect because I'm the man. One of these Arab mentality people, HaKadosh Baruch Hu says, I hate you. That's what the Gemara says. It's one of the few people in the world that HaKadosh Baruch Hu says, if somebody instills fear into the people for no reason, for his own sake, Hashem hates him. Why? You're misusing my number one tool. How do we know it's his number-one tool? The fear of Hashem, that's his treasure. It's his treasure. That's his number-one tool, fear. So, anyone that comes to you and tells you, "No, you're just instilling fear in people. This Mussar, Mussar is instilling fear in people." Where do you live? On planet Mars? What do they use on Mars over there? What do they use? Gummy bears? How do you live?

13:53Why did you eat today? I was hungry. So what? Don't eat. Show the hunger that you can beat it. You're stronger than the hunger. Don't eat. No, no, I have to eat. Why? I'm scared I'm going to die. Oh, you're scared. Fear does work, doesn't it? Hold your breath for 10 minutes. No, why? I'm afraid I'm going to die. Oh, you are scared. I thought fear is bad. No, no, it's not that type of fear. What do you mean? Why are you picking and choosing? Fear is fear. Fear is a tool that HaKadosh Baruch Hu (The Holy One, Blessed Be He) uses. But if you misuse it, Hashem yishmor v'yatzil (God should protect and save).

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