A Foreign Fire - Is smoking marijuana permitted?

[Music] now questions a few people just left they missed the questions part go ahead mute now let me turn off the camera so you guys start questioning yeah go ahead so the ten commandments has the first three first three commandments tell us that a qadosh baalhu is very strict when it comes to how you serve him meaning that you can't serve him your way you have to serve him his way so there's several places in the torah that talks about something called yeshuvadat where a person has to be focused a person has to be in a state of mind of clarity that they could fulfill the first three commandments of the ten that to acknowledge that hashem took us out of egypt to acknowledge there's no god other than god there's no idols and to also not use his name in vain like for example hashem's name for no reason like saying like mikey and john and all types of names and treat hashem as if he's not hashem and hashem showed us this what happens when somebody fails now had four sons all four of his sons were extremely righteous two of them nadav and avilu were the best of the best so much so that the sage is saying they were in the level of moshe narun meaning the nadav and of you were in the same level as moshe and they were the best sadiq righteous everything is good but then a torah says that one day they were celebrating with everybody else and they decided you know what let's do a mitzvah let's go to the kodashim and service him let's do a special offering for hashem hashem killed him why would hashem killed such righteous people that they're not going out with girls they're not uh wasting seed they're not murdering anybody they're not doing it what are they doing they're going to pray to hashem in the highest level possible and instead of hashem saying thank you where he said he kills them so khabib say why so there's five different reasons of why hashem killed them reason number one they had a little drink before they went why they having a drink because they want to get drunk said no we want to be happy we want to serve hashem out of happiness why because hashem says in parashat kitavo prasaki devo will see it in about a month and a half he says part of the punishment is because when you served me you didn't serve me with happiness so part of the punishment is because you didn't serve me with happiness so they know when we service them we have to serve them with happiness to be you know happy heart glad so you have a little drink have a nice little shot little tequila automatically happy right hashem says that's not the kind of happiness i'm looking for and if you think that's the kind of happiness that i need that i want you to be drunk that you need something physical in order to be happy hashem says you've lost your right to live you lost your right to live why because you failed all three of the first commandments you felt even acknowledging and understanding what your point in the world is and you actually think that you need anything else but the torah anything else by the torah to be happy and that's the failure of this generation now moshe feinstein allah shalom writes me god that somebody that smokes marijuana for uh you know for himself meaning not uh because of medicinal reasons if it's medicinal reasons then they have a leniency assuming they don't have any other option but hashem even people that use marijuana for medicinal reasons have a uh because of new innovations they do have a uh a way to use the actual uh plant without getting high which is the cbd they use the cbd and uh and use that for their health reasons meaning that they get the benefit of the drug or of the of the plant without losing their state of mind but anyone that still insists on smoking marijuana then they're violating the torah in many many different ways and as moshe feinstein says that a person that does such a thing would have been judged if it was the time of the senate two thousand years ago would have been judged for the death penalty like a ben soyeon why why ben solomon because the benson chooses to be wayward chooses to be against everything even though he knows better he simply chooses to change his own reality chooses to over drain chooses to overeat and so on and so forth so it's not that somebody is uh you know it's against his will no one has forced you to smoke marijuana or take drugs so when a person chooses to lose their yeshua dot their their clarity of mind then in essence they're obviously don't understand the purpose of the world and they don't understand that kardash is literally here now if you were trying to apply for a job and a job is the best job in the world let's say it's going to pay you a million dollars a day you're going to work for some hedge fund you get a million dollars a day now of course you're not going to show up to the job with uh you know underwear and a t-shirt you're gonna show up with your best suit you're gonna show up with your best tie you may even borrow some money to get a nice suit a nice tie just to make sure that you look presentable to in order to get a job that gives a million dollars a day and when you see the guy you're gonna shake his hand really firm how are you sir how are you ma'am how's everybody and all of a sudden you speak british you're like uh you know speak really well and everything is good you use all your dots and your e's and everything else and you have a business card even though you don't have a job and everything is changed why because you want the job you want the job so you have a business card you have a job you have a business card with your name on it and your cell phone number on it and your mommy's address because you still live with ema and you have that yes sir in case you need me that's me that's me so ah what's a company yeah it's something like that i'm an independent contractor and you're all psychotic you give the guy the business card and you speak british all of a sudden and everything is good everything is fun because you want the job why because you're giving this guy that interview or this woman that's interviewing a lot of honor a lot of respect in order to benefit from them who says how come you don't treat me like this i'm in front of you all the time i'm in front of you all the time how come you don't treat me like this how come you don't speak politely you don't have cover now when you pray you don't have the real intention to learn you don't wait for the answer to be given to you completely you walk out in the middle of the answer of the question that you asked how come did you really want to know the answer or did you want to find maybe i could uh use one of his words to just not listen how come because abu taking we all have yet and yet has many many tools and one of the most dangerous tools that a yetzera has is confusion leading you to become confused but confused is confused by choice why confused by choice because you are spiritually lazy like says laziness that leads to tiredness what kind of tiredness spiritual tightness you're tired of doing mitzvoth because you're lazy you don't want to find out why should i do me to vote why should i do me tomorrow ah it's too much for me so when a person is spiritually lazy and they don't want to listen to the whole answer they don't want to listen to the whole shoe they don't want to do the full meets about they don't want to do all that stuff they're always going to have the excuse to justify their current behavior even though their current behavior is giving them a little bit of a bad feeling inside they know there's something wrong with it but they still continue why because ah it's too hard to do true love for this one let me try to pick a easier mitzvah let me try to pick it easy mitzvah by the way for all of those people that are in the cash advanced business the law of not being allowed to be in the cash advanced business was in last week's parashat for anyone who didn't see it it says in chapter 20 25 verse 36 do not take interest and increase and you shall fear your god and let your brother live with you do not give him your money with interest and do not give your food for increase i am hashem your god who is saying you're not allowed to lend jews money with interest but he connects yach mind with it he says you have to fear hashem what is the fearing of shaman letting money with interest have to do with each other he says if you want to get out of the cash advanced business the only thing you need is fear of hashem that's it that's all you need if you're afraid of hashem you'll leave the business tomorrow no questions no what if i have a solution no maybe i could find a different leniency maybe i could only deal with this type of client and i could be a discount broker nothing you simply get up leave why because you're afraid that god is going to put you in a place that no one can help you including him himself why it's his own laws so all you need to get out of that rotten vulturous business and any vulturous business is your mind you know you have to be afraid of hashem afraid that hashem will punish you not in this world in the next world in the next world and that's the thing that people need to have if you have your mind you will have full chuva you don't have your mind you won't have full chuva you won't even have half chuba you'll have nothing why because chuba is requires your mind requires fear of hashem requires fear of hashem when you're conducting business requires fear of hashem when you're learning torah requires fear of hashem when you're asking questions requires your fear of hashem when you're getting answers fear of hashem is the beginning of all wisdom that's what the vida medic says that's what [ __ ] medic says that's what al qaeda's himself said there's many places in the torah that hashem talks about fear of hashem why because the qadhafi who needs you to know he's not your buddy he's not your buddy he's your father but he's also your king if you treat him that way you'll have a good relationship with him a very beneficial one if you don't and you treat him as if you're doing him favors with each uh you know each devotor that you're learning with each you're attending if each meets right as if you're doing him a favor then guess what you're not going to get very far with your daughter and that's why it's required it's a required learning for each and every one of us to learn why should we fear hashem how can we serve hashem through fear and ultimately get to love hashem but that doesn't make fear go away that just means that the love is on top of the fear it's not that it's either love or fear it's both or nothing [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] do [Music] you