Doing TeShuva For Stealing

[Music] most people have a big house just to show off most big houses they don't have chihuahua in them so the question is yes hashem will give some people that big house and my book enjoy it problem is that if you use that big house just to show off to people when you go up to shamayim it won't look good it won't be such a nice fancy house over there you'll get punished for it why hashem says i gave you a perfect tool to sanctify my name i gave you 87 rooms in the house use one for you one for your wife one for the dog and the other rooms were left empty how come you didn't invite any other house something to your house what the whole house was just to show off the people so i gave you a gift and you misused it so bitcoin means that it's not just having confidence that akadasa who runs the world but it's also managing your life that way managing your life you're allowed to want more you're allowed to be ambitious and you should be ambitious that ambition is for you to want more in life more spirituality mainly and the way you do it is by attaching the materialism and is to to the spirituality that's one of the difficulties a lot of people have is that as soon as they have a uh material in front of them they have money in front of them they forget about god a lot of times that's why a lot of times you'll see bad stories on the news of i don't know somebody stealing from the government or all types of horrible stories with religious people behind it it's not that they were not religious they were religious they just didn't believe in which is that hashem is watching everything there's a lot of people that do good that you don't see in the news did something bad in past out and come back to you know it's the yes well i mean it's it's a uh knowing that it's gonna come back to you is is good but you can do something about it if somebody did something bad they could do chuva the key the key of all of this showing mr du chuva is to fix whatever you did wrong so if let's say i have a guy that asked me a question last week he said he had a business that was really not a kosher business he sold some product that the product was let's just call it fake and he said i made some money and uh in reality they got something it's just that it wasn't legit let's call it that without giving away anything so what do i do he tells me now because i'm doing chuva i keep shabbat i keep this i keep that but i still have an issue why it took money it didn't belong to me i said okay give it back to the people he goes i don't know who the people are it was a business 10 years ago you know i shut down the business already i don't have the customer's name to find the customer's name will be very difficult and near impossible where they are who they are and what they are how much did you take how much did you it goes well totally let's say it's 50 dollars it's okay so now you took from people you want to do chuva you can't return it to the people that you took it from so you have to use that money for you have to take this money and you have to use it to benefit the public something that's going to benefit the public now if you have all of the money you have to use all the money now you don't have the money you have to start making payments let's say if it's fifty thousand dollars you don't have fifty thousand you have five hundred dollars two five to 500 a month 500 this month 500 next month and so on and so forth until you pay the whole thing because okay what's going to benefit the public so there's many many causes that benefit the public you could have let's say a uh local schule you could have a uh let's say key care of organization that does helps the public you could do many many things but it has to have some connection to there are some connection to something good but also at the same time some connection to benefiting the public in general not just something that benefits one person like you can't just go and give this fifty thousand dollars to uh to one uh one uh tadiq or to uh you know one one uh homeless guy and make yourself feel better about it no you have to benefit the public just like you hurt the public you have to benefit the public meaning that you have to do triva for these things if you took money it doesn't belong to you you can do chuva for it in general if you're alive you can do too practically for everything there are certain things that require different things as far as chewbaca but nonetheless if you're alive you could do shiva for everything the key is whether you have as much desire to do chuva as you did to make the sin usually we have it's much easier to make the sin that to make you know why because to make this sin usually it's to take something doesn't belong to us people have a hard time because it requires staying power you have to stick with it you know that's one of the things that's very difficult for people like for example they'll start with a payment plan they stole 50 000 to stop paying 500 a month one month two months three months six months a year they're paying but then a year and a half into it hashem sends them a test all of a sudden upon assad goes down it's like oh yeah this one i can't pay the back i'm like yeah but you stole money yeah yeah but uh this money i can't do it yeah but you this is this is a deal you have with hashem not with me you have a deal with a chevy you have to pay the money to whatever it is whatever card you have yeah i'll just do it next month and all of a sudden you see the guy's not paying anymore he doesn't feel like doing it why because he's not seeing the benefit he's not seeing the benefit of paying back the money that he stole as much as he saw stealing and that's a problem that a lot of people have with with chuva in general is staying power sticking with this solution sticking with the medicine but if a person has the staying power they'll be able to complete juvenile and go up the shaman completely clean without any problems it just requires requires a lot of effort and constant learning [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you