What is Meserut Nefesh and how does it get me to Ha'Olam Haba (6 minutes)
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0:28You didn't come to enjoy this world. I'm not saying you came here to be miserable. I'm not saying you're supposed to suffer in some corner as a homeless person. I'm not saying that. But what I am saying is that you are supposed to get used to making yourself uncomfortable for the sake of Hashem. So if it's easy for you to learn 15 minutes a day, then that means it's not enough. You have to start learning for a half hour. That's your Torah. It's easy for you to listen to lectures. It's time to open a book, my friend. You can't just listen to lectures your whole life. Yes, we make it easy for you, Baruch Hashem. Rabbis who work hard to arrange these lectures make it easy for people to learn. It's good, it's important. You should continue to listen to lectures, but there are levels of Torah.
1:52Lectures are one level, but learning Gemara yourself, from the sefarim themselves, is a higher level, of course. It's more difficult. You're going to have to do the hard work of figuring out what it says. If it's easy for you to learn from Me'am Loez, let's say, or easy for you to learn from some book that one of the tzaddikim wrote, great, it's time to learn Gemara. If it's easy for you to learn Gemara, it's time to learn Gemara with Tosafot. And it keeps going and going and going and going. But now, the ultimate purpose of all of this learning is not for you guys to turn into encyclopedias and start teaching me. It's for you to apply all of it. Start applying everything you've learned. When you see in Masechet Berachot, which is usually the first Gemara that people read, it says that if a man has a woman as a customer and he needs to give her change, he must do so promptly. He's taking his time giving her the change.
3:16One, two, three, four, five, six. He's taking her time, giving her a chance. So the Gemara says there's no way for him not to go to Gehenom for that. Why is he going to Gehenom? He's scared. He just gave her a chance because he's only taking his time, according to the Gemara, to look her up. Just like you said, chazak u'baruch. To look at our hands, not to look at our bodies. To look at our hands. So now, if a person is going to go to Gehinom, bar minan, for looking at a woman's hand that's not his wife, what do you think he's going to get for looking at her body? What do you think he's going to get for looking to see how the skirt fits her? or how the shirt is cut off, and how she's not modest, or modest, or this, or that. What do you think he's going to get for that? Is he going to get Gan Eden for that? Where does it say in the Torah that he gets Gan Eden for that? It doesn't say that. It says the opposite. So, learning all of this Torah, shiurim, Gemara, all of these things that we just talked about, you have to apply it. You have to make sure that these eyes that you have,
4:38These eyes are the best camera in the world. Why? Because they never forget. You don't need a memory stick; they never forget. Everything that you ever see is always going to be there. You look at a woman once, and you're always going to remember what she looks like. You're always going to remember how you saw her. So if you choose to use your eyes to look at immodesty, you're never going to forget it. If you choose to exercise that immodesty, to take action, know that it leaves a lasting impression. with a woman that you're not allowed to be with, just know, just know, that when 120 comes, and you go to Judgment Day, she's going to be with you at the trial. And according to the Gemara, she's going to be like a kelev, tied to you at all times and never leaving you. So even though you're going to have your wife, baruch Hashem, and kids, a kosher family, everybody did teshuva, you're going to have this beast from your 20s still chasing you. Hey! Shmuley! Remember me? Embarrassed next to your tzaddeikes wife and kids. Why? Because you took action on something Hashem says not to do. So the point of learning all this Torah is to learn how to apply it. When you start learning how to apply it, you begin actually becoming a better quality person.
