Daily Chidush: I Don't Like What The Rabbi Said Can I Comment Publicly?

we had a extraordinary shab at Gabriel bharian community in New York extraordinary lectures we did many of them and uh lot of T A lot of and I wanted to um go over a few things because with so much Torah and and so much Purity coming to the world there's always going to be some impurity uh this versus this Hashem created meaning that for every pound or kilogram or meter or any measure of Kusa that hasem created he also against it uh he created tum he created impurity because everything has to be leveled if there wasn't a if it wasn't a leveled world then it would either be too pure which would mean it would be gun Ed in or if it was too much impurity then it would be G so gave us the same opportunity uh you know the the same tools to use either forus or for T so this is one of the main things that we learned from when uh we hear the first verse of the Tor first verse of the par where mosu says I begged hasem at the time saying my Lord Hashem Elohim you have begun to show me your servant show your servant your greatness and your your strong hand what power there is in the heaven or the Earth that can perform according to your deeds and according to your Mighty acts so here mosenu is telling us that he's begging AEM 515 times because we know that the uh numeric the gatria the numerical value of V the first word of the par meaning begged I I I begged his numerical value is 5155 and also the numerical value for the word which is prayer is also 515 so mosu in essence is saying here that I beg theem to let me in to the land of Israel and uh but at the same token he's telling Hashem that I know that everything that you're doing here is showing me your greatness and your strong hand uh your Deeds your Mighty acts and ultimately it's uh obviously showing us that Hashem is a uh is just with everything that he's doing he's just still trying to overcome this decree so first and foremost we should know that when mosenu is mentioning here uh your greatness and your strong hand he's mentioning two separate things uh just like the word uh Adonai uh which is my Lord in the literal translation it's a uh referencing Mercy uh the the the second name Hashem for for hem is actually referencing hashem's uh Dean which is Judgment so just like he these two names each of Hashem are representing two different things greatness is also ref referencing uh mercy and strong hand obviously is referencing judgment and the same thing with the end of the verse Deeds meaning good deeds and and just deeds and mighty acts meaning again judgment so we see that mosenu is showing us that uh uh three words are in essence synonymous uh and to uh mercy and three words are in essence synonymous or representing the same thing as far as judgment so mosenu here is begging hem to use both his mercy and his righteousness as far as his judgment and and deciding to let him in to the land of Israel now we've talked about this in the past of why hasem ultimately decided and told him it's too much for you you're you know don't don't pray another time don't pray the 56 time uh because at that point I would have to let you into the land and I don't want to let you into the land because if I let you into the land you're going to build a bet mikdash and if you build it then I will not be able to destroy it a thousand years later or over a thousand years later when am sins with idol worship with murder with the sex crimes the three three major sins of the first bet mikdash and uh if you build it I won't be able to destroy it which would mean I would have to destroy the nation of Israel so nonetheless the bigger question here is why is Moses begging Hashem to go into the land of Israel I mean technically right now if he dies he's going into the real world he's going intoa he's going into the ultimate this is the prophet of all prophets why is he so gung-ho about going into the land I mean what's the big deal I mean you're going into a much better world and this is something that we really need to understand which is the whole purpose of this K allu wanted to do was serve AEM and he was even willing as we uh as we learned from the midash from Rashi he was even willing to go into the land of Israel and not even be the leader just to uh just to go in there and just fulfill one more Mitzvah just one more mitvah just just fulfill one more mitzvah for for in the Tor so we see thatu truly knows the value of one Mitzvah and how it's all of the gold and all of the silver and all of the money and all of the wealth that was ever that ever existed for all of mankind is not even worth the smallest mitvah in the real world OFA so he obviously knows this so how do we explain the people today and in past history but more so today I think uh that are going against the Torah and sometimes obviously you see you have Heretics that uh you know that's they spend their life going against the Torah they uh they want to go against ra mrai they want to go against me they want to go against rala whoever else they they don't they don't like that is fulfilling the will of hem it's teaching Torah and they just want to use their time to go against it because they don't like what they hear so there's Heretics there's atheists there's lefties there's all types of psychopaths in the world but that's not really the people that we're referencing now referencing sometimes there's innocent people that are not so innocent where they are religious or they have a at least they're keeping some of the mitv but sometimes they hear a clip or a lecture and they don't like what they hear they don't like it they uh like you know listen I think that uh what you said is too strong it's scaring people or anything any nonsensical comment like that you know and they don't like what they hear and they decide to take the initiative and make a comment against the rabbi either to publicly or even to someone else what is the consequence of doing something like that well first and foremost as we learned from the we learned in actually a couple times in our lectures about L it's l obviously has a huge huge amount of consequences huge amount of punishment you have to really do everything you can to stay away from it but the against one person is one consequence but if we fast forward to chapter 27 of the book of Deuteronomy in it actually gives us the consequence of or any act against the publicity of Torah any act against the publicity of doing kiru and getting am to do chuv for anyone whether that person's a heretic or the person is supposedly or Ultra Orthodox but just decides to public size his opinion against some Rabbi what's the consequence if you go to chapter 27 verse 26 it says so here we have the tribes are standing on two side two different mountains and they're saying these you know these are the blessings these are the curses and it's giving the details of who's blessed and who's cursed and here on the curse side the word is the worst possible punishment that anyone can get in the T this is the worst word to describe punishment it's called the first one to ever get it is the serpent the snake Adam and Eve and here in chapter six it says a cursed AR is the one who will not uphold the words of this Torah to perform them and the entire people shall say Amen so kazal explains to us it's not just someone it's not just referencing someone that is not just fulfilling the Torah because that's obvious someone that's you know there's plenty of other curses before it that are signifying someone that's not a uh you know that's not F following the toah whether it's because they're homosexual or because they don't keep the Shabbat or they go against converts or they lead uh you know they put some type of uh um trap in front of a blind person and so on you know someone that degrades their parents all types of horrible horrible crimes so why mention it after all of these other things why mention it specifically regards to the Torah here kazal is explaining to us here that it's not referencing just someone that's not fulfilling the Torah but rather someone that's getting in the way of publicizing Torah in the way of getting am Isel and the righteous among the Nations back to Hashem close to Hashem in any way that they possibly can in accordance to the Torah so when someone makes what they believe is an innocent comment Hey listen Rabbi I don't I I don't think that what you did is uh you know what you said is the right thing here and you start telling people that uh you know not to listen to this Rabbi if it's a valid opinion where you have uh let's say the rabbi made a mistake where there you actually have solid evidence listen according to this according to the r this you actually have solid evidence of if the rabbi made a mistake then of course yes you know by all means you can do it you can make the comment and but it's better to do it privately so the uh you know so there's not a uh a big Bagan made out of it in case you're wrong but if it's just your opinion your lowly human opinion well you just don't like what what you heard you don't like that the rabbi said that when you know the reason why the Holocaust happened is for the same reason of why the BET mikdash was destroyed it's for the same reason of why we had the prgrams and the uh and all the types of destructions we've had for our nation throughout all of history which is AEM did it why did Hashem do it Hashem did it because we sinned when we sinned Hashem said he is going to give us punishment if you don't like to hear those things and you decide to make a comment there's a cost for that comment there's a very very high cause for that comment because if you start telling people you shouldn't listen to this Rabbi you shouldn't listen to this Torah because you don't like this one comment you are getting in the way of publicizing Torah and maybe that Rabbi may not necessarily be the right fit for you but he could be the right fit for thousands and thousands of others that don't have another right fit so by you discouraging them directly or indirectly from listening to that Rabbi you are fulfilling the description of this verse and unfortunately are bringing a curse upon yourself who wants to be cursed by Hashem who wants to get the worst possible punishment in this world for doing something that they think is not a big deal I'm just making a comment on Facebook I'm just making a comment on YouTube or Torah anytime or any other place out there that you want to make a comment and you think it's not a big deal you have to really think about everything that you do because just like when I was in the business days I was very very careful with giving email accounts to any new adviser that would work for me and the main reason is because I know that anytime anyone says anything the world will find out so when you have a new guy jumping on board and he's a new you know 20 25y old kid and he's starting to to work you don't really know what his mentality is like you know okay you know his work ethics you know his uh you know possibly uh a few skills that he may have qualities that may have but you don't really know what's going on inside his head so if you give him complete freedom to just go start writing emails to random people asking them for business you never know what this guy is going to do because he doesn't really know that much he doesn't really know the rules he doesn't really know everything yet and unfortunately he could say something stupid that could put the entire company in Jeopardy so that's why we were very very careful before we actually ever gave anyone an email account and it would be like a a big process we need to act the same way on ourselves we have to be extremely careful before we make any public comments whether it's face Toof face with somebody or in a gathering or worst of all in a public format like Facebook or all other types of social media because that comment once it's on there's no way to take it back cuz even if you delete it Moments Later by those moments 50 60 100,000 people or even 50 million people could have read the comment already there's no way that you can ever grab that comment back and those people are going to make judgment based on that comment and not about the fact that you deleted it so to fix such against Tor is nearly impossible if not impossible today because of how far the internet reaches it has good and it has bad there's K that could come out of the internet and there's Tuma on one end you could reach 50 million people with just one single post you know that's two minutes or two hours and get them all to do chuva on the other hand that one comment on that post that tells people that hey that this this Rabbi is too extreme or I don't like him or whatever some nonsensical comment that you make could easily make even 100 million people go against that Rabbi and Destroy his his his whole work and 20 years worth of effort for no reason just because you decide you don't like it so we have to be really really careful because number one I don't think anyone unless they're completely a which they probably not even you know just doesn't even apply to them they have a different level of Gom but someone that's like you know has decent intentions is at least a decent human being that's listening to this cuz the rash is probably not listening to this and anyway so the decent human being you have to be very careful don't be stupid don't be foolish and just make comments thinking that it's it's okay to freedom of speech and and freedom of this and freedom of that there's no such thing as freedom of speech because your speech will have consequences even if you don't see them in this world so make sure you watch your words you watch your comments and the best thing in the world is if you have a comment for a rabbi if you have a comment if you have a disagreement privately message them send them an email you know give them a call send them a text message you don't have to publicize it to the whole world that you disagree with something that they said because again you may be wrong so by the time if you already make a comment and then they respond to you if they get a chance by the time they respond to you it could be a few days a few weeks a few hours even if it's a few minutes they could take a long time and any busy Rabbi is going to take it's going to take a while sometimes it takes for example for me and not any something major but I could just tell you for me sometimes it'll take me two three weeks to respond to a comment so that's one of the things that you have to understand um one of the leaders uh during the uh times of World War II um said that um the bad thing about uh you know Truth versus lies is that by the time the truth wakes up to the lie that's around it hasn't even had the it hasn't had the chance to even put its pants on yet meaning that the LIE gets around the world before the truth could ever even get its pants on meaning that by the time you get to a point where you could respond to this L mistake or even just a uh misunderstanding it's already too late be very very careful because none of us want to be a we want to be on the Blessed side side so mayem continue to bless you continue to teach all of us Tor and allow us to get strong enough to emulate the midot the character traits of