Parashat Re'eh - Getting The Message

By the way, as a side note, uh the uh in case uh people don't know, uh you know, sometimes you have to uh tell people a few times the same thing. And we see it from the Torah. We see it from the Torah. For example, in uh this week's parasa, we're starting a new para parad says in the beginning of the para says, "If you can get off the phone, that would be fantastic. See, I present before you today a blessing and a curse. The blessing that you hearken to the commandments of Hashem, your God, that I command you today. and the curse. If you do not hearken to the commandments of Hashem your God, then you stray from the path that I command you today to follow gods of others that you did not know. So you see in this week's para first and foremost, we've already heard this more than a few times telling us once again, you have two options. There's no middle ground. There's no gray area with Hashem. He simply says you have you have he doesn't say you have a half a bra you have like a middles size you have a small ba big ba you know a mediocre baka a baka with some rims on it he doesn't say any of that what does he say you have oh you have kala either your life is blessed or it's cursed simple doesn't tell you oh maybe there nothing blessing or curse but we heard this already. How many times you going to tell us? Apparently, we need to hear it a few times. We heard it already in we told us we have blessings and blessings and blessings over a dozen verses of blessings and then over almost four dozen verses of curses. Kazal says that the reason why there's only a dozen or so blessings of of of uh uh blessings and so much more curses, it's not that there's so much more curses than blessings, is that we simply do not understand what a blessing is. So it simply be a waste of time and a waste of space in the Torah to detail the blessings. We wouldn't understand what it is anyway. So he gives us the basics stuffs we can understand. Start the stuff that our human mind can understand. You know money is a blessing. Okay, I'll give you money. Kids are a blessing. Okay, before you have me think it's a blessing after maybe 50/50. We'll see. You think getting married is a blessing? Yeah, wait until you get married. And she wakes you up at 3:00 in the morning. Says, "Honey, I have an idea." What? I have an idea. It's 3:00. I want to go to sleep. Oh, I have an idea. Sometimes they have an idea. 3:00 in the morning. So it tells you blessing or curse. Tells you blessing or curse. We don't understand what blessings are. We don't understand what curses are. We think Hashem is joking about the curses. We heard the curses. Curses are scary. the says in the beginning of the chapter, beginning of the uh of the book, he says there are some people that are so stupid that they don't think there's punishment. This what he says. He says there's some people in the world, he says there's not that many. Uh he lived 800 years ago. That's why he says there's not that many. There's not that many. But he says some people they're so stupid they don't think there's punishment. He says as if Hashem didn't say it a bunch of times like as if it doesn't apply. So we saw in says there's blessings, there's curses. We saw in there's blessings, there's curses. We saw it in many other par. And if that wasn't enough, Hashem said it twice again here. If you noticed, he says, "I present before you a blessing and a curse." Okay, finished. Okay. No, he says, "Not blessing or a curse. The blessing if you do everything I say." But you said that there's a blessing or a curse. I know obviously if I do what you said, I'm going to get a blessing. Why are you mentioning it again? If there's a blessing of a curse, obviously if I'm if I'm smart enough to understand what this verse is saying, you don't need to explain to me that the blessing goes along with me doing what you said and the curse goes along with me going against what you said. Obviously, I understand. But no, knows his creation. He says you have a blessing and a curse. The blessing is if you do what I said. The curse is if you go against what I said. How come thinks that we need to know that there's a blessing and a curse so many times? Because apparently a benadam the human being unless you repeat the instructions the when it comes to when it comes to things that are relevant to the purpose of life unless you repeat it over and over and over and over Again, it simply does not sink in for long enough. It goes in. You came to you got aiz tomorrow. You have to start all over again. Yeah, but I got a whole for three hours. It's good. No. Yeah, it was good for today. The two hours, 3 hours you came to the sh that saved you from all the other garbage you could have done with those three hours. Tomorrow you have to do something else. You have to go on one YouTube go type in why I have you have to learn a new Torah. Yeah, but I learned already. You have to learn it again. How many times until uh until Mashia comes unless you repeat it over and over and over and over again. It doesn't sink in. Why it doesn't sink in? What? Something's wrong with us? No, nothing wrong with us. says he created the and the's job is a few different things. He's the he's the he's the says all three are him his job is to get you to think about anything but think about doing something else. Get away from Hashem. Listen, instead of shield, go have a drink with the guys. You haven't seen him in a long time. Yeah, but is good. I can have a drink with the guys some other day. No, no. Come on. The guys where you going to insult the guys knew you. Come on. It's it's a this one. All types of laws they're going to create for you that's connected to your friend somehow. Why? Listen to my friends. Yeah. What about the shield? Watch tomorrow yet is going to get you off off the road. After you fall for the now changes uniform, he becomes the Satan. Satan comes from the word. Must means that he rats on you. He goes up to Shamim. He becomes the prosecutor. He goes toem. You see this of yours where your son, your son, instead of going to he went to have a couple of drinks with the guys. Can you believe it? Hashem, he he desecrated your Torah. He went to a couple have a couple of drinks instead of learning to for free. He didn't even have to pay for it. Not like had to pay all of his money to he had for free. He didn't go but instead he went to go see uh who knows what he saw in the bar. This what he did your son. This is your son. What an embarrassment in sham you have. What an embarrassment a person has in shine when a kadosh who his father in heaven watches this movie of his son leaving his Torah. Why? He could watch a game to watch football, Sunday night football. A bunch of overgrown men on steroids. They're going to probably die before the age of 55 getting paid millions of dollars. They're going to uh waste before they actually even end their career. Most of them declare bankruptcy within four years of retirement and you're going to spend all your time what to go watch them instead of so now is not happy with this. So then Satan takes advantage what he say change uniform again another uniform who we become you know somebody desecrates Torah you said in your death penalty no can I go to work can I go to work right now so now we have to pray that we have someot somewhere we have a sadik grandfather mother. It's ag grandmother some mitzvah we did that we forgot about some potential that we have something that's going to fight for us against the that's the job of the says I have to remind you day after day that there is a and there's a why if I don't you're going to just treat my Torah as if it's something you can study whenever you feel like it. Whenever you get a chance and treat it like it's a mundane manner, like it's something like a secular that you're learning that whenever you get a chance you read the paper and and watch the news and just to keep up to date and you're not going to treat it like it's life or death. You're not going to treat like this is either the key to blessing or to curse. So unless I remind you over and over and over again, you're not going to get the point. So once again, He tells us again, >> "We are meant to be a light unto the nations, not to follow their misguided practices." Remember, every Jew has to remember that he's a Jew and she's a Jew. We don't celebrate non-Jewish holidays, even if they seem harmless. It's a zil disrespect to the Torah and could lead to chalu hashem, desecration of God's name. stick to our holy Torah and our own holidays. That's the path of a true Jew.