Akiva Hated Rabbi Akiva!

Aside from the obvious that they had to go chase their mana, they didn't like the fact that Moshe Rabbeinu and the rest of the tzaddikim didn't have to go anywhere. The mana arrived at their door. They don't like to see the religious people that commit their lives to Akadosh Baruch Hu succeed. They don't like to see the religious people have blessings. It bothers them. In fact, even the people that are trying to be religious, trying to do teshuvah, trying to it also bothers them. All of A SUDDEN, THEY CARE about why you wear a kippah. When you wore a baseball hat, they never asked you a question. When you wore absolutely nothing in the street, they never asked you a question. When you brought some boyfriend or girlfriend to the house, NOBODY ASKED YOU A QUESTION of who you're going to marry and what you're going to marry. All of a sudden, you want to do teshuvah, you want to marry a bat Yisrael, you want to marry an avreich, you want to do teshuvah, you want to keep Shabbat, you want to cover your hair, you want to COVER YOUR BODY. ALL OF A SUDDEN, they're interested in your business. They're interested in your life. Why are you going to shul? Who died? Why are you wearing that clothes? It's hot. Why are you eating that? Why don't you come eat McDonald's? WHY THIS? WHY DO YOU CARE ABOUT MY LIFE? BECAUSE the resha'im can't stand the tzaddikim. Cannot stand the tzaddikim. Why? It reminds them that they are resha'im and it reminds them that they don't have an excuse to be a rasha. Because if you can DO IT, THEY CAN do it. If you can do teshuvah, they can do teshuvah. And in essence, it obligates them. So, what do they do? Misery likes company. They want you to be a rasha with them. WHEN YOU ARE A RASHA, when you are a rasha'it, when you are looking like a zonah, when you are looking like some some apikoros, when you are doing all these DIFFERENT THINGS, NOBODY ASKED YOU who you're going to marry and what you're going to eat and what you're going to do and how you make your money. All of a sudden, you started to put a kippah on. All of a sudden, you have a kissui rosh on. All of a sudden, YOU'RE RELIGIOUS. EVERYBODY wants to know your business and how you're doing it and why you're doing it and they have an opinion about everything that you do. All of a sudden, they're the expert psychologist, psychiatrist, doctor, lawyer, whatever you want, they know everything and they feel like you should know and hear them out. Oh, how come you don't listen to me? I'm trying to help you out. Why don't you help yourself out, buddy? Why don't you help yourself out? You're in a process of a divorce for the third time. You are declaring bankruptcy. You're stealing from your customers. You're doing ALL TYPE GO HELP YOURSELF, HABIBI. WHAT DO YOU NEED TO HELP me for? I'm religious. I'm trying to be religious. I'm trying to serve Leave me alone. I want to go to shul to I don't want to go to a club with you. I want to marry this bati said, this tzaddikah. I don't need to go look somewhere else. But the reshaim can't stand it. And don't think this is a new innovation. This is actually in the Gemara. The Gemara Maseches Pesachim says that the reshaim hate talmidei chachamim even more than Esau hates them. And their wives hate talmidei chachamim even more. Why? These wicked people are worse than Esau. They're worse than the Arabs. They're worse than everybody else. This Duberman, yimach shmo vezichro, that's Lieberman, Duberman, Doberman, dog over there that's in THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT. HOW MUCH HATRED does he express to towards the religious people? Says we should throw them into the garbage. If you would say such a thing about the Arabs. If any religious If any rabbi would ever say, "Go throw the Arab terrorists into the garbage. Go throw uh the the non-Jews into the garbage." Literally, they would put them in jail. But this yimach shmo vezichro, this Doberman over there that's in the government and the rest of his clown friends, including the prime minister that's a kofer apikoros, and practically not a Jew even, and most likely not a Jew cuz he's is they say that his mom converted with a fake conversion. The point is these people hate religious people. Why? Not because of them per se, but rather because it's in them. The further you are from a Torah, the more you hate the Torah. The more you hate the people that comply with the Torah. And this rabotai Karim is something that everyone goes through. Everyone goes through and they have to overcome it. They have to overcome it. Many times people hear the story about Rabbi Akiva. Rabbi Akiva before he did shuva, before he became gedol hador, before he became the biggest rabbi in the world with 24,000 students. Rabbi Akiva says that before he became religious, he hated talmidei chachamim as much so much that he wanted to bite them like a donkey so he could break their bones with his teeth. That's how much he ate them. Everybody heard this story. Everybody heard this story, but what everybody perhaps didn't hear is that there are countless people out there that have the potential to be a Rabbi Akiva of their community, a Rabbi Akiva of their of their class, a Rabbi Akiva of their of their entire city, a Rabbi Akiva of the generation, but they won't allow themselves to be the second part of the Rabbi Akiva. They only want to hate the religious people. They have the potential, they have the neshama to be a tzaddik, to be a gedol hador, but they won't overcome that that hatred. Why? Because they're listening to all types of heretics and all types of apikorsim that tell them that the Torah is not good for you. And unfortunately, rabotai, there's a lot of people like that. There's a lot of hatred. A lot of hatred out there, but this is something that's supposed to strengthen you and your ability and your and your desire to help those people that are far away from a Torah. Don't bring them hatred and think that that's going to solve the problem. Surely if somebody's an enemy of a Torah, like Doberman over there, that's one thing. But if somebody is simply clueless, you should simply be the one that says, "Listen, habibi. Look, this is what Torah says. This is God that loves you. He gave you eyes, gave you ears, gave you a wife, gave you kids, gave you this." This is God. This is What is he asking you for? He gave you 24 hours. What is he asking you for? For for an hour a day? What is he asking you for? What is he asking you to kill yourself? No, he asked you to learn his Torah, to do mitzvot. He asked you that your your kids are modest, your wife is modest. He asked you to eat kosher food. What is he asking you for? You You would show these people a little bit a little bit of Torah and you could see that some of these people can turn into a Rabbi Akiva.