What's Real Teshuva? Stop Eating Worms!!! (7 Minutes)
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1:31The vegetables also have to be kosher, not that they grow them on a specific farm. This is a kosher farm. This is a time to know that you have to wash the vegetables to make sure that when you're eating the lettuce, you're not eating worms with it. Because every time you eat worms, it's six different sins, meaning it's a bigger sin than eating pig. So if you don't wash your vegetables properly, you're risking committing multiple aveirot (sins). It's crucial to be diligent in this aspect of kashrut (kosher dietary laws). 100% you're violating the halachah. Everybody thinks, "No, no, but I bought the salad at Starbucks, so I bought it at this one or some fancy restaurants. Of course, they clean it." Absolutely not. Absolutely not. They do not clean it the way Jews clean it. Why? Because they don't have to, and… They don't have to put the lettuce and make sure that all the leaves are going into water three different times with salt, or maybe with soap. You have to wash it, and you have to make sure to look at it. I mean, it's like a science project just to get some salad. They don't do that. Do we think anybody, even in the kosher places, many places don't do it.
2:37It's a lot of work. It's a lot of work. Just assume that they're washing. No, they're not washing. What, do you think you haven't eaten a few flies, a few worms, a few maggots, a few of this? If you ate in any of these places, you ate a bunch of them. And each time, it's six different sins. So when people complain, "Oh, why did I have a flat tire today? Why did I lose money today? Why does my wife hate me? Why does my boss want to fire me?" Why? Because you're eating worms every day, that's why. Something that is tamei (impure) only generates more tumah (impurity). Bringing impurity into your body means that whatever comes out is also tamei. So, the beard and the hat and the jacket and all that stuff mean absolutely nothing. It's nonsense, absolute nonsense. Unless it's an obligate obligatory fast, as a matter of fact, unless you are the key, meaning an expert on all of the halachot—all of the basic halachot, all of them: halachot Shabbat, niddah, everything—kashrut, limmud Torah, you're my master look up in this generation of talmidei chachamim. You're not even allowed to touch any of those things, according to the Rambam.
4:01The Rambam in Shemoneh Perakim says that many people look at the stories of the tzaddikim. Look, this tzaddik used to fast from Motza'ei Shabbat till Friday. I can't fast for a week, but I'll fast for a day. Why? No reason. I want to fast. I want to make myself holy. Make yourself holy, learn some Gemara. Make yourself holy, learn halachot. Make yourself holy and learn Parashat HaShavua. Learn something; your fasting is meaningless. No, no, going to a mikveh is not the answer. If you spend your time before the mikveh, you need to spend your time after the mikveh learning Torah. The water is not going to help you if you're not learning Torah. It's not going to help you. You might as well go to a pool; maybe you'll have some fun. You're too many for the mikveh. It's not going to help you if you're not learning Torah every single day. It's not going to help you. Whoever is giving you this illusion that you can go to the mikveh once a week, once a month, once a year, or whatever it is, and that it's going to somehow fix it, that's 100% avodah zarah. It has nothing to do with Judaism. It's complete stupidity.
5:16The words of the Rambam, the Rambam says those people that take the maasim of the tzaddikim, the deeds and acts of the tzaddikim, and do it themselves, are completely stupid. This the Rambam says, these stupid people are... Because they have no idea why the tzaddikim even did what they did, and yet they compare themselves to the tzaddikim by doing it. They think that the tzaddikim became tzaddikim because of the mikveh, became tzaddikim because they fasted. They became tzaddikim because of the Torah they learned, not because of the beard they grew, not because of the peyos and the hats. So instead of focusing on all these little things, Rabbi Elazar ben Chisma says first and foremost, understand what's foundational and what's not.
