Rambam on TeShuva And MaShiach Now

You tell on me to say, "Listen, Mashiach is going to be here soon. I shouldn't want everyone to do teshuvah." The Rambam says you we learn that teshuvah is the number one most important job for all of Am Yisrael because every single prophet we ever had talked about teshuvah. Every single prophet. Every single prophet made teshuvah the number one mission they have. Am Yisrael must do teshuvah. Whether it's Moshe Rabbeinu, Avraham Avinu, Yitzchak, Yaakov, Isaiah, anyone, anyone. Zechariah, Ezekiel, David Hamelech, any prophet, men, women. We had seven women that were prophets, 48 men. All of THEM NUMBER ONE JOB, AM YISRAEL do teshuvah. Some worked on communities, some worked on the entire nation, but the point is all of them delivered the same message. Am Yisrael must do teshuvah. The Rambam says that's the number one mission for Am Yisrael do teshuvah. What do you mean? But everyone's religious. You have to do teshuvah. But they keep Shabbat. Exactly, do teshuvah. But they learn. Exactly, you have to do teshuvah. It's good you're keeping Shabbat. Now you have to do teshuvah. A lot of people think they've done teshuvah. A lot of people are sure that teshuvah is not relevant to them. They tell me, "No, no, I don't need to come to your shiur. You just talk about teshuvah all the time. I already did teshuvah 15 years ago. I keep Shabbat." I said, "Yeah, you keep Shabbat, but now it's time to do teshuvah." Shabbat is good. Taharat Hamishpacha is good. Kosher is good. Modesty is good. Now you have to do teshuvah. What do you mean you have to do teshuvah? You have to fix the inside. Outside you're perfect. Everyone thinks you're Baba Sali. Inside you're still round potatoes. Inside you're still angry every 5 minutes. Inside you're still have an ego that's bigger than the room. Inside you're still stingy. You're still not sure whether you should give $5 or 5 and 1/2 dollars the car myself for the entire year. You made half a million dollars, you want to give $5. Help us out $5. The guy ate a sandwich the size of his head. He says is there a shorter version of Amazon? It took him 3 hours to eat the sandwich, but he doesn't want to spend 3 minutes because of Amazon. Say thank you to him 3 minutes doesn't want to spend. 3 hours to eat the sandwich, but 3 minutes to say thank you no. Okay, you keep you you're eating kosher. But you're still rotten. Your character traits are still you still haven't done it all. This is all of us. You tell people listen. You have to work on all of these different things. You have to learn more so you have to work on yourself and so on and so forth. People look at you like you have five heads. And you start noticing that a lot of people live such a life that's so consumed with material, so consumed with the Egyptian Greek life that if the Messiah came they just tell him to leave. Why? Listen, I'm finishing remodeling my house right now. Can you come back in a couple of years? Let me enjoy the house. I just signed a new deal with uh Walt Disney. I'm going to make a million dollars this year from Walt Disney. Let me uh enjoy dollars first then you come back. I I don't know what he's going to come 3 days before the Messiah. He's going to say hello. Tell the Messiah hold up a little while. Hold up a little while. It doesn't have to be 3 days. 3 days is a little uh little a little too much on us. We have to get ready. You know the wife is still doing this. The husband is still doing this. The kids haven't finished school. People are saying Messiah Messiah Messiah, but as soon as the mashiach comes they to go away. Because they haven't done teshuvah. Teshuvah is something that happens on a day-to-day basis, not a one-time thing. So Am Yisrael did not do teshuvah. Before Hashem Yitbarakh took them out of Egypt, they did not do teshuvah. And they also did not have an intention to do teshuvah. Because they intended on living a life no different than a guy that decides that he's going to shave with a razor. No different than a guy that decides that he's going to wear shatnez, and whether shatnez or not it's God's problem, not his. He's not going to change. They decided to live with the sin. Hashem says, "Okay, you want to sin? No problem." He killed all of them. 80% at the best-case scenario, 80% of Am Yisrael did not survive. He killed 80% of Am Yisrael. Only 20% left Egypt. You learn this from the pasuk chamushim. In the beginning of the parashah, for anyone who didn't hear it already, it's very important to know this. Vachamushim alu Bnei Yisrael me'eretz Mitzrayim. Chazal says, chamushim means one out of five. One out of five. Meaning, one out of five of Am Yisrael left Egypt. What happened to the other four? The other four Hashem killed with the plague of darkness. Why? Didn't want to do teshuvah. They didn't want to go to Mount Sinai. They wanted to get the Torah their version. Make Hashem bring us the Torah to Egypt. Make Hashem give us Torah the way we like it. Our version. There is no your version. There's no your version. Now, the scariest part, Abutai, as you see in the Gemara also in Midrash Tanhuma Rebbi Nehorai says, "Alvai Alvai." Meaning, "I wish that one out of 500 one out of 500 of Bnei Israel left Egypt. I wish it was one out of 500. But in reality, says continues, but in reality, EVEN ONE OUT OF 5,000 DID NOT LEAVE EGYPT. MEANING, the one out of five that we just said, 20% survived, 80% didn't. Shte yados, he says, "I wish it was one out of 500 because it's really not even one out of 5,000." And Midrash Ma'am Lo I says it's not even one one out of 500,000. The numbers are scarier and scarier. What people say, "Listen, you know, I mean, most of Am Yisrael doesn't keep basic level mitzvot, they don't pray, they don't say Shema Yisrael, they don't even know Shema Yisrael, they don't eat kosher, they don't keep Shabbat, basic level mitzvot, nothing. What, Hashem's going to kill all of them? Not going to let them do teshuvah? They can do teshuvah now. What if they don't? Okay, we're Parshat Beshalach. Tells you what if you don't. It tells you what if you don't. It won't be the first time. That's why every Friday, before you go into Shabbat, most important mitzvah. What does it say? Hashem Lamabul Yashav. God sat and let the flood happen. He let the flood happen. What do you mean with the flood? Flood destroyed the entire world. Without Torah, without you complying with Torah, there's no point. He doesn't need you. We need him. He's perfect. Meaning that the only one that can win or lose out of this is us. He's perfect. We don't decrease or increase anything. He's perfect. We could win, we could lose. So without us winning we lose, not him. Ami Israel was not interested in doing it. Now, the best of them, the best of them that survived, the one out of 5,000 or the one out of 20, whatever it is, whatever the number is, either way it's a tragedy. Biggest tragedy that ever happened in the history of Ami Israel was its beginning. There's a lot of really cool stuff on our websites, [music] uh new features, uh and a lot more uh projects that are on the way. Then [music] we shall help Ami Israel get closer to Hakadosh Baruchu, to publicize Hakadosh Baruchu's name, >> [music] >> and know that he is the one and only God.