What's The Worst Type Of Sinat Chinam We're Ignoring? (7 Minutes)
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0:56Rabbi Yonatan Eybeschutz, who lived a couple of hundred years ago and was dedicated to Zikui HaRabim, spent his whole life engaged in Kiruv, trying to save Am Yisrael. He said that the biggest Sinat Chinam that we still suffer from, the worst type of Sinat Chinam, is when one Jew sees another sinning. One Jew sees another going against Hashem and doesn't say anything. That's if anyone watched or listened to the 613 Commandment series the Rabbi has. It goes in detail about the 613 mitzvot that we have. Whether it's Shabbat, korbanot, all 613. And it shows you how each one of them has a source in the Torah. Most people think that of the 620 mitzvot that we have, 613 are from the Rabbis, and 7 are from Hashem. In reality, it's the opposite. It's 613 from Hashem and 7 from the Rabbis.
2:19The most interesting part is the ones that, you know, as much as people complain about rabbis creating new laws and so on, the ones that people like the most, the mitzvot that people like the most, without knowing, are actually the rabbinical ones. Chanukah, saying a beracha before you eat, reading Hallel, it's the simple ones. So, one of these mitzvot out of the 613 from Hashem, not even from the rabbis, is called "You must rebuke your nation." You see one of your brothers and sisters from Am Yisrael sinning... and you have some type of connection to him. He's your brother, she's your sister, neighbor, colleague, friend, part of your kehillah. You see him sinning, you have to find a way to tell him the truth. Why? Because obviously, if you're not sinning, you're not sinning for a reason. You're not sinning because you're scared of Hashem. You're not sinning because you love Hashem. You're not sinning because you know the consequence.
3:42So if you know the consequence, then Rabbi Yonatan Ha'ibeshitz says it's the same thing as knowing like a train is coming. If it was a train coming, and it was a person standing on the tracks, just not paying attention, just whistling, in the middle of the train tracks, just looking at the sun, no idea why he's even there, thinking life is grand. It's a train coming. He's on the track, and you're watching this live. Would you say something? Would you push him out of the way? Would you at least whisper, "Hey, there's a train coming"? Would you even just say this? You would, right? You'd probably even do it for a cat.
4:43He'd probably even move a cat. How many heroes did we hear about in the news? Mr. So-and-so saved a monkey in some zoo. Look, there's a video on YouTube that got one billion hits. A cop saves a group of ducks from a highway. National hero, he saved ducks. Save people. Let's start with people. We'll worry about ducks after. If you don't save them, the train's going to hit them. And Rabbi Yonatan Eibeschutz says, that's the Sinat Chinam that we're still suffering for. And that's why the Beit HaMikdash has not been built for 1,948 years, because we're still scared to tell people the truth.
5:43We're still scared of what they're going to think of us. Maybe they won't invite us to Shabbat anymore. Maybe they won't donate to our shul. Maybe they won't buy me a new car. Maybe the foundation I'm starting is not going to get up and running because I'm not going to get money from the kehillah because I told them that if they violate Shabbat, everything else that they do is meaningless. There's no teshuvah without Shabbat. Chazal say that even if you found a way, which is not possible obviously, but you found a way to keep 612 out of 613 mitzvot. You found a way. But the one that you don't keep is Shabbat. The 612 that you do mean nothing. It's like you did nothing. Why? Shabbat is the foundation of Judaism. Now the reason why you can't do all 612... 613 is because they're not all relevant to one person. Some of them are just for Kohanim, some are just for women, some are just for men, some are just for the Beit HaMikdash, some you could only do in Eretz Yisrael, and so on. In reality, each one of us is responsible for probably a couple of hundred. Did you ever test yourself and see how many you're actually doing?
