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Distance Yourself From A Thing Of Lies - Fake Conversions

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Rabbi Yaron Reuven Short Torah Clips

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foreign which we talked about briefly last night but one of the things that uh we should emphasize a little bit more as we've talked about it many times but you know we see that in the um 23rd chapter of Passat mishpatim in verse number 13. foreign be careful regarding everything that I've said to you the name of gods of others you shall not mention nor shall your mouth cause it to be heard so this is a very interesting Allah very interesting a statement by kadushboo who to remind us again and emphasizing that we have to be careful but not just be careful be careful in regards to everything regretful in regards to everything even including what we allow into our mind is a emphasis here that we with our own little small minds human Minds don't really understand what the necessity is I mean we've already understood that all of this stuff is things that we should take seriously since he says you know if you don't do this you'll die if you don't do this you'll die if you don't do this you'll get punished you don't do this you die you know it's over and over again but yet emphasizes once again that to make sure that we're careful with everything that we're doing uh whether it's the not cursing our parents not hitting people not killing people not being a uh uh committing bestiality not doing all you know charging interest all of these different rules that I mentioned here but also including things that we may not necessarily think are such a big deal such as the one that's mentioned in verse 7 that from a thing of Lies you have to distance yourself from and also you should know that you should not execute an innocent the righteous for I shall not exonerate the wicked that you're never gonna get a uh a head you're never gonna win I should say you're never going to win in the end if you go against it sadikim uh and uh one of the reasons why people think that they could win against the city Kim when they uh you know they do what they do is because of money and that's why the very next Allah who says and do not accept the bride for the bribe or blind those who see and corrupt those who are just so here we see that who is saying take everything that I say seriously treat it very carefully including things that you may not necessarily think are such a big deal such as being uh distancing your yourself away from lies from a thing of lies from a statement of lies from people that are liars uh from a business of of of of dishonesty and so on and so forth and don't let the bribes blind you because bro you know don't think that the uh you know you're gonna be the one that is going to uh not look at money and say no no no money doesn't talk to me it's really more about doing good or whatever it is don't think for a second don't trust yourself for a second because as he says doesn't necessarily always have to be a bribe where you you know you're giving money to somebody under the table or something but rather a bribe where you have something at stake here uh and um who says that the chocolate this bribe even blinded those who see meaning those that are smart typically they're smart typically they're brilliant even typically they are people that are reliable and even ones that are telekim even people that are righteous uh throughout all of their life have fallen have fallen for bribes so here we see that the tomorrow is warning us time and time again about how to treat the laws uh how to in essence treat ourselves as the mish9 of what says don't trust yourself until the day that you die so here we see that the tala is emphasizing over and over again the rules that we have to take seriously now the question is now these rules these rules that we have I mean some of them people will tell you today they may not be relevant they may uh be uh something that is perhaps relevant to the days of moshebenu the days of David Miller you know when the Torah was the dominant force in the world maybe it was relevant back then but not today which by the way anyone that says such a thing is 100 at heretic uh that you have to stay away from not listen to uh you're not allowed to learn from such people and many people are coming to me uh lately with a uh unfortunately uh after the fact after they did not listen to past advice that we've given to the public even in some cases to people directly to stay away from Heretics like for example as I mentioned a couple times recently this apicals Asher Meza who does mass conversions like uh he used to do in Christianity now he just does it in the name of Judaism but as I told you many times he's just simply a Christian pretending to be a Jew and this apicals who likes his own opinion a lot more than the Torah has more friends that are Christians and Idol worshipers than he does orthodox Jews makes fun of the Tawana regular basis but yet he says that it's all in the name of the Holy tawa where he wants to convert more people and invite them to Judaism even if they don't live in Jewish communities even if they don't really fit in to uh to the Jewish definition and so on he wants to convert the whole world which again is not acceptable among uh Orthodox Judaism or really Judaism in general but he wants to beat the system and uh quite a few people have come to me lately telling me that they've gone uh to him and uh you know recently they've become one of those uh you know people that uh fell for the Trap the so-called free conversion which is really not free just he pretends that it's free uh and aside from that it's a uh uh it's it's a it's a conversion that's uh even if it doesn't cost money it was actually better off that if it would have cost you money but actually been a legitimate conversion that somebody would consider but the people that have gone to him then eventually they want to move to Israel or they want to uh move to a normal Jewish community and in both cases more and more and more of them are being rejected uh and in some cases not rejected in such a nice way I mean they're treated uh like uh literally somebody that's an idol worshiper in some cases they don't even consider them a half a Jew you know not that there's such a thing as a half a Jew but literally they consider them as Idol worshipers they consider them as missionaries and they frown upon it and those that know who Asher Meza is don't even want to accept these people even after they convert uh a normal conversion because of how bad of a reputation this Russia has uh you know with the rabbinical world but unfortunately the people that didn't know or perhaps chose not to know went to him got their fake conversions and now they want to join you know the Jewish Society in Israel or in America or you know other places and they're being rejected and I say okay so what do I do now you know what do I what do I do now I can't get accepted anywhere you see the problem is that what you do now is not necessarily going to fit in with everything that you've you've been taught until now and the reason why is because everything that you've been taught until now is that you should do everything yourself you should pretty much you know put an x on the rubber note you should completely disregard the traditional system you should learn to law up to your own understanding and in essence telling you what to do now is a not gonna fit in with everything you've been taught because what to do now if you're in such a circumstance is you have to abandon everything that you've been taught until now erase it literally pray that you forget every little bit of information you've learned from these Wicked people and restart all over no matter how long it takes and how much money it costs and how difficult it is and the reason why is because what what to do now is what you were supposed to do from the beginning which is to do chuva Now by doing chuva every person has to do Cuba for different reasons sometimes people have to do chuva for violating Shabbat or you know they're they're born Jews and they didn't keep Shabbat they didn't keep family Purity and so on and so forth they have to do too well for that some people stole so they have to do Cuba for that some people wasted seed so they have to do tuba for that and so on and so forth but a person that goes against the rabbis a person that goes against the rabbinical world not just specific rabbis that uh you know uh he had an issue with or even more so wicked people that pretend to be rabbis but he just simply you know put an X in the entire rabbinical world as a uh or you know you guys probably have a better imagination than I do with different terms that you want to use and the point is is that you know he just says I'm going to do whatever I want that person has to do chuva what kind of chuva chuva for ego chuva 4 arrogance chuva 4 literally every single thing from alif at tough and the reason why is because up till now you've been learning uh simply a different version of Christianity you haven't learned Judaism yet you've learned Christianity just from a Jewish perspective to some extent uh when you learn from people like that the same thing goes for these other teachers so-called teachers or rabbis or whatever it is that teach heretical teachings because really what they all have in common whether it's Manus Friedman or it's droll or it's a Prager or some of the other emervis and so on and so forth and it's obviously Mesa is that in essence they all fall into the same trap that the previous generations reformers and Heretics in a picosim were falling into which is that the Torah is there to soothe me the Torah is there to please me the Torah is there to fit into my life the Torah is part of my life but not life itself and in essence everything I just said is the opposite of the truth when people are taught that God needs them then they're being taught the opposite of Torah when people are taught that you can take Allah into your own hands and simply look at any uh canister of food the ingredients and decide whether it's kosher or not based on your own understanding of the law that's the opposite of the truth when people think that teaching things that are scary scary parts of the talao which is the death penalties and the punishments and so on is not supposed to be taught but rather it's supposed to be more pleasing more comfy more like you're sleeping in you know under your little poof your little uh you know uh blanket that you have over there you know in a nice cold winter and you're comfy and you may be a few jokes here and there to keep you awake and not teach any fire and brimstone when people tell you that stuff that's the opposite of the truth why because in essence they're teaching you that the Torah is in essence a part of life but not life itself [Music] let me know what you think and make sure to share it because other people need to learn too