Why Are So Many JEWS SECULAR TODAY?
To Donate and Support our Kiruv work please visit us at www.BeEzratHaShem.org. If you'd like to invite Rabbi Yaron Reuven to give a lecture at your synagogue, home or office please email Yaron@BeEzratHaShem.org to see availability and make arrangements. Rabbi Yaron Reuven is based out of Florida, but travels around the world to give lectures to different groups. Click here https://soundcloud.com/yaronreuven/sets/daily-chidush To Listen to our very popular "Daily Chidush" short audio series on soundcloud.com Join one of our interactive "Interesting Torah" Whatsapp groups to get daily messages of short Torah clips that can uplift your day by texting the number above. Please join our Facebook page Be'Ezrat HaShem page and join our group "Torah Lessons To Help Our Lives". This Group is solely about publicizing HaShem's holy Torah from my lectures as well as great Rabbi's such as Rabbi Efraim Kachlon, Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi, Rabbi Zamir Cohen, Rabbi Pinto, and anyone else that is teaching interesting and relevant Torah. We will also bring you some brand new lectures directly from a Kollel in Jerusalem you won't find anywhere else. Torah posts will be in Hebrew and English. There are plenty of places to find entertaining stories that sound great, but this group is about showing you Torah that can impact your life, hence the name Torah Lessons To Help Our Lives. If it's not impactul, then it won't fit in. I watch and read all that I personally post, so I promise to do my best to bring you only the best quality of Hashem's amazing Torah. The Torah is the only thing in the world that you can learn and have an outcome that makes you SMARTER, WISER, And a BETTER Human Being. If the Torah you're learning is no longer impacting your life in a positive way, than its time for a change. If you haven't learned Torah in a long time or ever, then its time to start friend. I guarantee you will enjoy the journey and life will never be the same, if you just give it a real chance. Kiruv and Kiddush Hashem is our #1 goal. So please feel free to contact me if you are interested in getting more FREE material. We would be have to send you Torach lecture DVDs, CD's and a Book for FREE to anyone that is serious about learning them. If you are far from Hashem and His Torah, our goal is to get help you get closer. Thank you for the opportunity and May Hashem bless you with a life full of Torah 00:00:00 Intoduction 00:00:11 Ignorance and Consequences 00:01:22 Understanding Masechet and Gemara 00:02:03 Olam HaBa: Good and Bad 00:02:56 Accountability and Teshuva 00:03:28 Following Hashem: Not Elective 00:03:58 The Fear of Hashem 00:04:55 Hashem Is Not Santa Claus 00:05:49 Giving Without a Price 00:06:42 The Story of David's Son 00:08:02 Learning Yirat Shamayim
Transcript
0:11So why aren't people scared today? Why do people do such bad things? There are two reasons for it. Number one, they don't know. They simply don't know. They are unaware of the truth. They don't understand what the consequences are of not doing what Hashem wants. They think like I used to think, which is that...
1:22That Mishnah, where it says it comes from Masechet Sanhedrin. Now, every time I say Masechet, that means Gemara. Gemara is our Oral Torah. It's one of these books. So, for example, this is an ArtScroll edition of a sefer. So imagine each time I say Masechet, it's one of these masechtot. There are 63 masechtot, but there are 73 editions of this because it's in English and Hebrew. So when I say Masechet so-and-so, I'm not mentioning the whole masechet. I'm just mentioning one line within the sefer. So imagine what's in the rest of the sefer. So now, in the Gemara, Masechet Sanhedrin, It says, all of Israel have a share in the world to come. And he uses the verse from the prophet Isaiah, "All of you are righteous." This actually provides the definition of what it means. It doesn't mean that everyone automatically has a world to come. It means that, just like the Gemara in Masechet Chagigah, page 15, says that...
2:29Hashem reserves Olam HaBa for everyone, but there are two Olam HaBas. There's a good one and a bad one. There's Gan Eden, and then there's the other hot place. They have different names for it: some people call it Gehinnom, some people call it hell, and some people call it kaf ha-kela, along with several other names. The point is, it's not a pretty place; you don't want to go there, and... So the Gemara says that whether one will have it is dependent on themselves. How do we know this? Following that line of the Gemara, there's a verse, and then there are ten pages listing those who do not have it. So, it states that everyone has it, except for the following people. When you read it, you have to start doing teshuva (repentance) because you realize that you could be one of them. Now, one of the things that shocked me when I first started doing teshuva is that I realized that following what Hashem says is not an elective. It's not like if you want to, it's okay, and if you don't feel like it, it's also okay. Hashem loves you regardless. He loves you, and that's why He gives you time. But it doesn't necessarily mean that He can give you Gan Eden just like He gave Moshe Rabbeinu. There obviously has to be an account.
3:58Now, David the King tried to give us a few hints so we get to the right place, so we reach Gan Eden, and don't make mistakes that cost us eternity. And he says, "Go, my sons, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of Hashem." The reason for this is found in Tehillim 111:10, where he says, Reishit Chochmah Yirat Hashem, the beginning of wisdom is the fear of Hashem. We see this throughout all of the Torah. We see this in the book of Deuteronomy, or Sefer Devarim, where Moshe Rabbeinu tells Am Yisrael, "What does Hashem want from you other than for you to fear Him?" Meaning, the only thing He wants from you is for you to fear Him. That’s it. Just fear Hashem. So the question is... Why don't we need to fear Him? Why can't we just love Him? Why can't we just say, "Hashem, I love You. Give me a million bucks." "Hashem, I love You. Give me two million because the million, I spent it." "Hashem, I love You. Give me a bigger house." "Hashem, I love You. Give me a good wife." "Give me a good husband." "Give me good kids." "Hashem, I love You. Don't give me anything. Just let me keep whatever I have." "Hashem, I love You. Let me live to 120 minimum." Why can't it be that way?
5:25Why can't it be that way? Because then you're turning Hashem into Santa Claus. Hashem is not Santa Claus. He's also not your friend. He doesn't give you gifts for no reason. The Sfas Emes, which is one of the sages in our history, Hashem wants to give you good because He is good. He wants to give you good, but His wisdom knows that He cannot give you good for no reason; there has to be a price. Because if He gave everyone good, they wouldn't appreciate it. So, for example, if every time your kid asked for something, you give it to them, all you're doing is creating a little tyrant. You're not creating a good kid. If every time your kid asked you for something, you said yes, so in the beginning, you can ask, "Okay? Can I have candy?" Yes. "I'll have another candy." Yes. "I'll have another candy." Yes. After a week, you might say, "Can I have candy?" and then your wife wants to divorce you. Why? Because the kid has no teeth, and the kid doesn't like you anymore. Why? Because he also knows he doesn't have any teeth because of you. So, giving him everything he wants is not exactly good. Now, if you fast forward it...
6:42Every time you ask Abba for something, he gives it to you, and every time your son asks you for something, you give it to him. He wants candy in the beginning, and then he wants a phone, and then he wants a Playstation, and then he wants a car, and then he wants a house. David HaMelech is telling us that you're going to make the same mistake that he made one time. He had several sons, and one of his sons, he never told him no. Every time he asked for something, he was told, "Yes, whatever you want, I have, because I want to give you everything I didn't have as a kid." David HaMelech didn't have exactly the easiest childhood. So one day, the child asked for something that David HaMelech had to say no to. What was it? He wanted the malchut. He said, Abba, you gave me this, you gave me that, you gave me everything. You know what? Don't even give me anything more. Just give me your position. I want to be king. I want to be David HaMelech. Hashem said, you can't be king. Hashem has to choose you. What do you mean? You've been giving me everything I want my whole life. Now you're going to say no finally? Ad kan! Can't do it. I'm going to kill you. And that's actually what he tried to do.
8:02Shalom became a little tyrant because he could not tolerate the fact that his father said no, as he was used to hearing yes. So everyone knows that just saying yes all the time is not a good thing. Now, David HaMelech is telling us that... When we learn what Yirat Shamayim is, we're going to learn when to say "yes," when to say "no." And Hashem wants to give you good. But He knows that He can't just say "yes" all the time. If you do good, you get good. If you do bad, the opposite. But the first and most important thing is you need to recognize Him. You can't ask for stuff and not know who He is.
