Who Becomes Ex-Communicated In Heaven?

1:07Unapologetically, there are so many Jewish kids today who are embarrassed by their Judaism. The only time they put on a kippah is if they go into a shul or if they're praying, and maybe sometimes not even then. Where do they learn this? From their parents. Their parents go to shul with the kippah inside their pocket. Why? They don't feel like the kippah applies as long as they're not in shul. You ask the father, "Wait a minute, aren't you religious?" "Yeah, yeah, Modern Orthodox." "Okay, so whatever Orthodox version you are—FIFA, Nike, Modern—whatever you are, we have a mitzvah in Judaism. You read about this mitzvah, you pray three times a day?" "I try." "Okay, you try. So you say Shema Yisrael once a day at least?" "Yes, I try." "Okay, so Shema Yisrael has a mitzvah of tzitzit." Mitzvah of Tzitzit. Do you remember the Mitzvah of Tzitzit? You remember that? Because, yeah, but Rabbi, isn't that only applicable if you have four corners on your clothing? And isn't the kippah only applicable when you're studying? No. Who told you that? What do you mean? My Rabbi told me it's only if you have four corners. Okay, he told you part of the teshuva. Part of the teshuva. I'm going to give you the rest.

2:29says a few things. There are certain people that HaKadosh Baruch Hu loves. Someone who doesn't get angry, someone who doesn't get drunk, someone who doesn't insist on getting back at someone, meaning if someone insulted you, you don't insist on retaliating. You understand that HaKadosh Baruch Hu takes care of everything. People like that, HaKadosh Baruch Hu loves them. Okay. And then there are certain types of people that HaKadosh Baruch Hu hates. Already, many of the shuls are not going to like this part. Why? Because they have never heard that Hashem hates people. Well, in fact, He does. He hates people that speak one thing with their mouth, but something else with their heart. Fakers, hypocrites. He calls you a tzaddik, but in reality, he thinks you're a rasha. He says, I love you, but in reality, he hates you. Things like that.

3:32Someone who could defend his friend with testimony that he has but doesn't, he is being discussed. It's important to know we're talking about Jews here. It's not referring to Gentiles; we're specifically talking about Jews. The Gemara says you should understand that we're discussing Jews and should not be mistaken into thinking otherwise. However, you should know that there are certain people whom HaKadosh Baruch Hu doesn't just dislike. But he excommunicates them. He puts them on nidui. You know what nidui is? Nidui is when you pray, and HaKadosh Baruch Hu says he's not part of a minyan. Kicked out. Excommunicated. There are certain people like this, and they don't even know it though. Why? HaKadosh Baruch Hu doesn't put a billboard on I-95 saying, "The following people are on nidui on my list." You know why? You would need the whole highway sometimes.

4:33It's not enough. It's too expensive already. HaKadosh Baruch Hu says, no, I'll just deal with it later. We'll make Rabbi Reuven make a video on it for free. Publicize it all over the world. Who are these people that aren't excommunicated? There are seven who are excommunicated from heaven. They aren't in nidui. And these are A Jew has no wife. Not because he's single, he hasn't found a wife. He doesn't feel like getting married. He wants to shop around. "No, I haven't found the right one yet." Buddy, you're 45 years old. What's not the right one? Get anyone in there at this point. "No, she's not religious enough for me. She keeps Shabbat, she keeps Taharat HaMishpacha, she's modest." Yeah, in reality, it's not that she's not religious. "She's not pretty enough for me." Oh, she's not pretty enough for you. Okay, HaKadosh Baruch Hu hates you. What? What do you mean he hates me? That's what it says. You're in nidui, you're excommunicated. Why? Because this is already your 19th shidduch. It's not your first one. No problem. You can find someone that you like. Don't marry someone that you don't like. No problem. But there's no one you like. You don't like anyone. Who do you like? You like one of these Hashem yerachem women on the internet. On TV. That's who you like. You think that a Bat Yisrael is supposed to look like this zonah. That's what you think.

6:01Don't worry, zonah is a milah in Gemara, it's not a curse word. So now, this is where we learn in the parasha that the sons of Yaakov say about Dinah, hak'zonah. Why? She is a zonah, sister Dinah, and we're going to let this guy rape her and not do anything about it. Be with her, are we to do nothing about it? That's milah naTorah. It's the language of HaKadosh Baruch Hu. Anyway, a person doesn't have a wife and doesn't want to get married. He wants to shop around and go to clubs. Every week he has a new "wife" because he hasn't found the right one yet. Okay, that's already a significant issue for many. What else? One who has a wife, but doesn't have children. Why? Not because he can't have children because HaKadosh Baruch Hu is the one that decides if he can have children. But he doesn't want to have children because he doesn't want to ruin her beauty. So every single time he's with her, it's wasted seed. "No, no, we just got married. It's only our second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh year already. We're not ready. We're still in our 20s to have kids. We're not ready. She's on the pill. It's okay, Rabbi. My Rabbi in Eretz Yisrael told me it's okay."

7:19They told me, "It's fine, no?" What no? The Gemara says it's not fine. What do you mean it's not? You're excommunicating. You are in nidui. You have no right not to have kids. That's the point of marriage. One of the points, not the only one, but one of the points. You get married to have kids. You don't want to have kids? Don't get married. You want to ruin your figure? What do you expect? She's gonna stay 95 pounds for the rest of her life. She has kids. What else? One who has kids but doesn't raise them to study Torah. He sends them to go learn law. He sends them to go become a sports announcer. To go become the next NFL star. Two and a half-year career before you want to commit suicide because that's how long the average career is in the NFL. I used to deal with them, my clients. The average career lasts two and a half years, then they want to commit suicide because, by four years after retirement, they've lost every single penny they have, and they're more broke than when they started, no matter how much money they got. We're talking about guys that made a hundred million dollars and are broke within four years of retirement. I wrote a whole paper about it; you can look it up on the internet.

8:45The point is, rabotai, you raise your kids to become an NFL star, a basketball star, a baseball star, a lawyer, a doctor, whatever you are, not learn Torah, you're in nidui. You're allowed to be a lawyer, allowed to be a doctor, allowed to be a shoemaker, allowed, allowed to make money, but you have to learn Torah. If you don't make sure your son goes to the best yeshiva to learn Torah, you're in nidui. You pray, HaKadosh Baruch Hu says, deleted. Junk mail. He looks at your prayer as junk mail. Why? You sent your son to a coeducational school that calls itself religious. You send your son to public school. The Me'am Lo'ez calls every parent that sends their children to public school an idol worshiper. Why? Because that's what they teach in public school. Next.

9:46Someone who does not have tefillin on his head and tefillin on his arm—someone who doesn't lay tefillin regularly—you don't put on tefillin? No, I whenever I get a chance, Rabbi, you know, at least three or four times a week. Three or four times a week? Okay, so three or four times a week, HaKadosh Baruch Hu says you're on cherem. Yeah, but I was sick, and I was praying to Hashem, and He didn't cure me. Exactly. He didn't cure you. Why? You're under cherem. Your tefillot are going to a junk mailbox. Why? You put on tefillin whenever you feel like it. Hey, Rabbi, is it still okay to put on tefillin? It's 5:30. The sun's kind of down. The stars are out. Can I put on tefillin? No, it's too late, mister. Next time, remember to put on tefillin at 8 o'clock in the morning, 6 o'clock in the morning, or definitely before that. If you forget because something happened and you're on a flight to wherever, no problem. Just make sure you put on tefillin before the sun goes down every day, except Shabbat and Yom Tov. Why? That's the brit, my friend. That's the covenant. If you don't keep the brit, you have no connection. Who are we talking about? Yeah, if your father didn't do it, okay, there you go. That's why you came out like this. Fix your father's mistake by doing the opposite and...

11:03But then, my favorite. My favorite one. The one that no one ever thought would be part of the list. No one ever thought it would make it to the best of the seven. Someone who does not wear tzitzit. Someone who does not wear tzitzit is on nidui. Yeah, but I didn't wear four corners. Okay, you didn't wear four corners. So, you should. Because if you do not wear a tzitzit and you are a Jew, you're on nidui. You're excommunicated from HaKadosh Baruch Hu. Why? Because HaKadosh Baruch Hu gave you a gift, a gift that keeps on giving, and you not only rejected it, you threw it in His face. He gave you a gift called the mitzvah of tzitzit, which is a mitzvah that's so easy, it's so easy. You have to be crazy not to do it if you're a Jew. Why? Every single second you have this piece of clothing on, that's a mitzvah every second. If one mitzvah—I'm not even talking about the whole day—one mitzvah, just pick any mitzvah from the Torah. Let's say the mitzvah of tzitzit for one second. If you take all of the good that you've had in your life, that's not your whole life. Let's say you're 25 years old and…

12:26Out of the 25, let's say five years are good. Twenty years, you're in the bathroom, sleeping, eating, not having such a good time, whatever it is. Five years out of the 25 years are good. Percentage-wise, let's say if you lived 100 years, that's 20%. That's really exaggerating, but nonetheless, let's say 20% of your life is good. If we take that 20% of your life, 100 years, 20 years of life, and put it in a box, removing all the bad, imagine how valuable, how concentrated that 'good' would be. It puts into perspective how fleeting the enjoyable moments in life can be and how we must cherish and strive to maximize them. We inject it into you in one shot. That's a lot of good. Imagine you could enjoy 20 years of good in one second. That's a lot of good. All the ecstasy pills and crack in the world can't do that. Now imagine all the good, not just yours, of all the people. all of the generations from the beginning of the world until today, and until the end of the world - all of their good, not their bad, no wars, no Inquisitions, no disease, no breakups, no makeups, no nothing - all of the good that they've all had, you put all of their good into that same box that was just yours and.

13:50You inject that into somebody, that's a lot of good. All of that good is not even a down payment for what you're going to get for wearing tzitzit for one second. So when HaKadosh Baruch Hu says, I gave you a gift that's going to give you that much good, for what? For wearing an extra t-shirt. Not only does it make you more modest, but it also gives you many mitzvot, something you cannot even imagine or begin to appreciate. But what do you do? You say, "No, no, didn't you say four corners? No four corners. I'm not going to wear it if I'm not wearing four corners." HaKadosh Baruch Hu says, "You don't want My mitzvot? To that extent, you're in cherem." And the Gemara in Masechet Menachot, page 25. Says a Jew does not wear a tzitzit if there is an exile on the nation, a decree on the nation, a world war, pogroms, or inquisitions. The first people that get killed are those who do wear tzitzit. Why? They don't have any protection.

15:05All of those extra mitzvot that they would have performed by wearing that tzitzit when it's hot, when it's cold, when they're inside, when they're outside, all of that extra, they didn't have it. So they don't have protection when the times unfortunately call for a decree to wake up the people. So not only do they lose while they're alive when they're in nidui (excommunication), but also Hashem, if bad things happen, which anyone with eyes and ears would know that unfortunately we are at such times. We are at such times. You don't have to be a big genius to realize the world, the world wars, are all heating up. All of the nations are ready to fight. Everybody is just looking for an excuse to press the trigger. Whether it's Trump, China, Korea, Russia, Israel, or Iran, everybody's looking for a reason. Everyone's looking for an excuse. This is not one of those times that you just pass on mitzvot as if you have extras. And that's why Hakadosh Baruch Hu says, you treat my mitzvot as if they're not important, you're in nidui. Lastly, he says, someone who does not have a mezuzah on his doorway. Someone who does not put a mezuzah on his door. He has a house with seven rooms. How many mezuzot? One.

16:31What happened to the other rooms? Nah, they're expensive. What is it, a mezuzah? $100, $150 a mezuzah? That's too much. One mezuzah is enough for the whole house. Where did you get the mezuzah? eBay. I got it for a discount. $9.99. $9.99. Made of plastic, cost more money, so I had to make it. The house is valued at half a million dollars or more - even a million dollars or more. Yet, the mezuzah inside is $999 or perhaps only $40 from a Judaica store that's being run by Gentiles. The only Jewish aspect of the store is the name, Judaica. Instead of going to a kosher rabbi who sells mezuzot from known and reputable sources, a man reached out to me about a month or a month and a half ago. He asked, "Do you have mezuzot?" I replied, "Yes, but I only carry the more expensive ones. I don't deal with the $60 options, I'm sorry." He insisted, "No, no, no, I want the best one." I told him, "The best one I have right now is $350." He said, "I want that one." I responded, "Okay, baruch haba, no problem." It was the first time I'd sold a mezuzah, as usually, they are given as gifts to donors.

17:40He said, "What's the occasion?" He goes, "Listen, I'm never going to make this mistake again." He goes, "What would you do?" He said, "I bought a mezuzah. Some guy, it was a discount. Whatever it was, I don't know, $50 or something like that. I figured I got a good deal because, you know, the covering, the shell looked really cool. But I don't know, there was something wrong, something wrong all the time in my house, all types of problems. And I heard in the shiur to check your mezuzah. So I asked the rabbi, can you check the mezuzah?" So the rabbi, not the one that sold it to him, checked the mezuzah, opened it up... It's a printer paper. Printer paper. Somebody went on a computer, pressed print on something they found on the internet, and they put it inside a box, claiming it is a mezuzah. This is kosher for dogs. If the dog is Jewish, he can use that mezuzah. A Jew cannot use it. A Jewish human being cannot use this mezuzah. It's printed on printer paper. Summers was on another person's mind. They sent me a message and told me, "Listen, I need a mezuzah. What's the problem? All my mezuzot got checked, and all of them have crosses inside. I bought them on eBay. I didn't know they were from missionaries."

18:44Writing, they have all types of people: Chinese people writing mezuzot because they have skills in writing and drawing. They write mezuzot, but the secret missionary act is that they put crosses, Yoshke, inside the mezuzah. This guy checked his mezuzot, and all of his mezuzot have crosses inside. Why? He bought them on eBay. A person who does not have kosher mezuzot in his house is in nidui. You pray, and Hakadosh Baruch Hu's response goes to junk mail. How many of our brothers and sisters are having their prayers go to junk mail? No tefillin, no tzitzit, no mezuzah. They don't want to get married because they want to shop around. They don't want to have kids because they want to leave their wives like Tamar. Beautiful. When are we actually going to finally realize what it means to be a Jew, Rabotai? We must stop joking around and pretending like we're Goyim. Remember, if you were born a Jew, you cannot become a Goy even if you want to. You could act like a Goy, but you're always going to be a Jew. When you go up to Shamayim, they are going to judge you like a Jew. And Hashem Yirachem, what happens to a Jew who acts like a Goy in this world? Now,