What Is Your Stamp In This World?

0:35Plastic bottle or a diaper that's thrown into the ocean doesn't dissolve for 450 years. So, you take a piece of plastic, you throw it into the ocean instead of throwing it into the garbage, or you decide that you want to throw your child's diaper into the ocean. Scientists say that it's going to take 450 years for this thing to disappear from the world. Now, anyone who's normal realizes that 450 years is a long time. Things take less: some five years, ten years, or twenty years. Still, everything takes a long time. But nonetheless, if you take a piece of plastic, every normal human being will understand that that piece of plastic lasting in the world for 450 years is a lot of lifetimes. It's a lot of people; it's many generations and... You made one mistake by going on a ferry, and instead of taking the bottle of water and throwing it in the garbage, you threw it into the ocean because you just don't care and you want to be funny. That bottle is going to be in the ocean for 450 years. People have to look at this bottle. It's going to do something in the world. You're going to have an impact for 450 years in the world because of this one action that took you literally a second.

1:58You took a bottle and threw it in the woods. Yeah, somebody else will pick it up, and nobody picked it up. 450 years later, that's your stamp; you're in that piece of... you're in the woods. In Shamayim, after a person leaves, it’s, "Oh, by the way, that bottle you threw out? And you polluted the world that Hashem created. That's you. That's you, that bottle, that wrapper, and that cap." That machine that stopped working and so on and so forth, that piece of plastic you threw into the world—that's 450 years. You're in the world, part of it is what you're everywhere, except it just sins everywhere, sins everywhere. That's something any normal person can understand. Why? Because all of us have probably done it at some point. We threw a bottle somewhere it doesn't belong, we threw a wrapper where it doesn't belong, and... There's something much, much worse than the bottle. There's something much worse than a piece of plastic because even the plastic will eventually dissolve. Even the plastic will eventually leave the world after 450 years. And that's when a person makes an action against Hashem. She says Lashon Hara about her best friend.

3:11Best friend, which says Lashon Hara, what kind of best friend is this? By the way, you should know that Lashon Hara only comes from best friends; it doesn’t come from enemies. Your enemies don’t care enough about you to speak Lashon Hara. It is the best friends who speak Lashon Hara. He speaks Lashon Hara about our best friend, that Lashon Hara breaks up a shidduch. In Shamayim, a person goes up and they say, "Let me show you what kind of effect you had for eternity." That shidduch was supposed to yield eight kids. Instead, she had a different shidduch with three kids. Okay, three kids are good, all tzaddikim, but it's not eight kids. What happened? One of those five kids that's missing was going to be a big mezakeh harabim. He was going to help 60,000 Jews come back to Hashem. But now he's not in the world. Why? Because he said lashon hara one time. He said lashon hara one time, and as a result, 60,000 people didn't do teshuva. Anyone who begins thinking and delving into their actions before they do it realizes, you know what, it's just not worth it. It's not that I don't want to sin; it's just not worth it to sin.