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1:35Because someone will tell the truth and help people do teshuvah. So if you're looking for the truth, it says in the book of Deuteronomy chapter 4, if you look for Me, you'll find Me. If you look for Me with all of your heart and all of your soul. If you're looking for Hashem, you're looking for the truth, Hashem is making it easy for you. Don't come to me when the Mashiach comes and say, "Oh, I didn't know." You knew. You knew that giving Bar Mitzvahs to dogs is not in the Torah. You knew that you can't go against kiruv. You knew that modesty is very important to Hashem. You knew that there's nobody in the Torah wearing a wig. You knew. It's not some mystical thing. The Torah is not in Heaven. It's here. You have it in front of you. Read the book. It's in there. Commentary. It makes it easy for you. You don't even have to know Hebrew. You can read it in English, Spanish, Russian, whatever language you want. Don't come to Him and say, oh, I didn't know. You knew. Everyone knows. Everyone knows. You have to make a choice. Who's your God?
2:49The one of Am Yisrael or the Satan? You have to pick. And that's what people have to understand. People say, wait a minute. They came to Rav Elchanan Wasserman, Zikhrono Livracha. He said, Kvodo HaRav, is it true that all of these people that are not following the Torah are going to Gehenom? All of them? It's the majority of the world. And Rav Wasserman wasn't exactly known for yelling and screaming. You know, he's a man of truth, but he was an old man already at that time. May I ask, Rav, is everybody going to go to Gehenom, really? He smashed on the table and said, "Of course! What do you mean, what kind of question is that?" What is it like, he says, "It's like you're walking around in the desert..." There's no food for miles. There's no water for miles. There's nothing. Your next-door neighbor is a scorpion, and the other one is a snake. Both of them want to kill you. And all of a sudden, you see a castle. A brand new castle in the middle of the desert. You go inside the castle; everything is beautiful, clean, and brand new. Immediately, you see a kitchen with amazing food and cakes, apples, chicken, steaks, and everything is fresh and hot. All ready.
4:05You go inside the castle; everything is beautiful, clean, and brand new. Immediately, you see a kitchen with all kinds of amazing food—cakes, apples, chicken, steaks—everything is fresh and hot, all ready. Right next to it, the plates are made out of diamonds. So, you help yourself to a couple of diamonds in your pocket and you help yourself to an apple, then a steak, and then an ice cream because it's pareve, and this and that. And all of a sudden, there's a hand that grabs your shoulder: "Hey, what are you doing here? Who told you you could eat this food? Who told you you could be in this castle? What do you mean it was here? I didn't know anybody owned it!" Right next to it, the plates are made out of diamonds so you help yourself to a couple of diamonds in your pocket, and you help yourself to an apple, then a steak, then ice cream because it's pareve and this and that, and all of a sudden, there's a hand that grabs your shoulder. "Hey, what are you doing here? Who told you you could eat this food? Who told you you could be in this castle?" "What do you mean? It was here. I didn't know anybody owned it." They throw you in front of the judge and say, listen, this thief just went into the castle and started stealing the king's food. So the judge asks you, what were you thinking? What were you thinking going into the king's castle and stealing his food and diamonds on top of it? And Reb Yiddish says when the fool says, I didn't know anyone owned it.
5:31The judge will punish him twice: once for stealing and once for stupidity, for thinking that it all came from nothing. A castle came from nothing? The food is warm without anyone cooking it? The ice cream didn't melt and is waiting for you, only without anything from an explosion? That's another reason you go to the Gehinnom. Who was the man who said this? You knew. You know the dog is not supposed to wear its feeling. You know you're not supposed to drive on Shabbat. You know. When Mashiach comes, he can't say, "I didn't know." Can't say, "I didn't know."
