Rabbi Yaron Reuven Responds To The Critics

What is your approach to people that say that your approach is wrong? Show me your results. I'll show you mine. Usually the people that say that my approach is wrong are not going to want to show their numbers. Do you know why? Because their numbers don't exist. So it will be very embarrassing to them. The amount of people that they've helped do chuva are usually non-existent. And if they do exist, it's so minimal that I literally helped more people do chuva in a single day than they did in an entire lifetime. Number two, as far as if you ask them for their numbers of how many people they've helped financially, they could probably think for about a half hour and come up with maybe a list of three, four, five, or even 10 people they've helped. But if you look at what we do every single year, we literally help tens of thousands of people hashem every single year throughout the year throughout the holidays all the numbers are published. We've helped over 300,000 people almost eat and have uh you know and help them financially. So it's it's literally it's they could continue what they're what these naysayers continue doing for the rest of their life. Even if they lived a thousand years, they want to reach what we've already done now. That's number two. Number three, ask them how many books have they uh distributed to help do chuva, to help learn Torah. And I tell you, well, you know, I bought a book and I gave it to one of my students and you know, I I got some free books and I I gave it to a few people and you could probably count, you know, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 books they've given for free. We've given out now after this next uh next shimit it'll be well over 300,000 books for free over 300,000 books for free that we've published printed and distributed for free and the list goes on how many you know so so so you show me your numbers I'll show you mine in fact I don't even have to show it to you it's published on our website it's all public and who let's see which approach gets better results Which approach gets better results? Doesn't matter whether you agree with the approach. Who gets the results? That's number one. After that, let's compare what I say to what the Torah says and compare what the so-called mainstream uh different approach uh how they compare. If you compare what I say, you'll see that I say exactly what our have said for the last several thousand years all the way to the prophets. If you look at what the other approaches, you could find this generation, other people saying what they're saying because they're not going to agree with the tradition of what Amis is had over the last several thousand years. If you look at how the prophet spoke to Isel, including Mosher Rabenu, you won't see them, you know, speaking to people like uh like uh the mainstream approaches of God loves you no matter what and everyone's at sadik. You're never going to find that. You're never going to find that in the written Torah. You're never going to find that in the oral Torah. You're never going to find that in the You're never going to find it in You're never going to find it anywhere. It's simply a modern-day invention to be politically correct and in order to uh empty people out of whatever is in their pocket. It's to be liked by everyone. It's not to help everyone. My concern is to help everyone do chuva. I don't care if you like me or you don't like me. It doesn't make a difference in my life whether you send me a compliment or an insult. It's the same exact thing to me. It doesn't mean anything to me. My goal is to help you do chuva. So if you do chuva and then you hate my guts. If you do chuva and then you love me and you think I'm your msiach. If you do chuva and then you act like I don't exist. If you do chuva and you simply want to talk to me every opportunity you get. Whatever I can do to help you, I'll help you. But my goal is to help people. It's it's that's that's the goal. Whereas this other approach, it's to do something new, to reinvent the wheel, to reinvent the Torah, to give it a new modern approach. And we know throughout all of history that anytime people tried to change the Torah, it only led to bad. It only led to bad. And the best proof of it is not only what we've seen throughout the generations. Look at the results today. 99% of the rabbis are so-called, you know, mainstream. Are the results good? See for yourself what's happening? The communities are disastrous. You have mixed dancing inside the from communities in my uh and and in and all types of places. Rabbis are doing mix dancing intermarriage assimilation it's a disaster. So if this new approach that is the majority already for for a while if it was working so well how come everything is getting worse. Whereas if you look at what I do look at the results people that watch our lectures get better get closer to Hashem. They get so close to Hashem that your modern mainstream people call THEM FANATICS. WELL, GUESS WHAT? I rather be called a fanatic than a Shabbat than an adulterer than a thief. So, anyone says, "I don't agree with the approach." Well, if your approach's goal is to get people to do chuva, then like I said, show me your numbers, I'll show you mine. If your approach is to be liked by people, then I'm not even competing with you. I don't care about what makes you more popular. Doesn't make it. That's just simply not what we do. We don't try to be popular. We try to help people. And whoever comes and drinks from the holy Torah that we teach and publicizes gets better. Simple. Whoever doesn't doesn't. So what's your approach? My approach is what Am is and its leaders has been doing since the beginning without changing it. What's everybody else's approach? mainstream mainstream needs to make a U-turn and go back to the right stream and that's what we're trying to do succeeding doing it. We've answered all the questions that we've seen and uh will continue learning and teaching and publicizing the Torah. Everyone that wants to support can donate at bzashem.org. If you need a big tax write off and a big mitzvah at the same time, you could do it still for another 55 minutes. If you just simply need do mitzvah, you could do that as soon as possible because run to the mitzvot. But you could also do it tomorrow or the next day. Pretty much the sooner the better because that's when the mitzvah is going to come to you. But aside from all that, everyone should go to the Kiru store. If you're living in the United States, go to the Kiru store as soon as possible. Order the magnets while we still have supplies. It's not unlimited. I mean, obviously, we have a lot, but it's not unlimited. Get them as soon as possible. Shaveim starts in a few days. Shvim lasts for only several weeks. Even if you decide you don't want this magnet on your car the whole year, at the very least it should be on there for those five six weeks of shaveim because that's the auspicious time to do chuva for morality. That's when the tikun uh is most important. strong lectures uh similar and different to the one that you heard tonight that are simply full of sources, honesty that's brutal but is effective. It helped countless people get closer to Hashem because for the first time in their life, they heard that there are serious ramifications for their bad actions, whatever those bad actions are.