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Don't Follow Your Heart - Parashat Shlach

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Rabbi Yaron Reuven Short Torah Clips

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this you have the you have you have all this bag happening wants to annihilate the people because they don't have and then decides that this is the perfect time to give us the I'm assuming the most of you know this verse These verses I hope so hem said to Moshe saying speak to the children of Israel and say to them that they shall make themselves CIT on the corners of their garment throughout their generations and they shall Place upon the tiit of each Corner a thread of turquoise wool I shall constitute tiit for you that you may see it and remember all the Commandments of Hashem and perform them and not explore after your heart and after your eyes after which you stray so here we see a gives us a commandment a new tool that the G VNA cried about on his deathbed they saw the G VNA isim of his generation cry in his death bed why you crying for the he says because in this world that I'm leaving I could earn aah every single second I'm alive by wearing a in I can't do it even if I gave them my just to earn one Mitzvah I can't do it if a person understands what a Mitzvah is they cry about it a person that's not crying about it should cry about the fact that he's not crying gives us this weapon called this is going to protect you it's going to help you remember but then he says so you don't explore after your heart and after your eyes after which you stray so here we have a question that says the Tora said you should not go after your heart and after your eyes these are two different things don't follow your eyes what does it mean immodesty immorality promiscuity wasting seed pornography filth of the filth Billboards television cable public school all that garbage that's that's see don't follow your eyes okay fine but what's don't follow your heart what does don't follow your heart say to don't follow your heart means Z atheism heresy don't follow the heretic that's in your heart don't follow the Heretics don't be an atheist so on one end he says don't follow all of those girls with no arms and no legs don't follow all of those posters IM don't follow mixed pools don't follow mix dancing don't follow okay fine on the other also this's going to help you don't be an atheist if you told me okay don't follow your eyes and I don't know don't follow your mind because your mind should think oh that's the one that thinks about bad things I can understand but your heart what does that have to do with your heart that's what on the surface the statement of our sages is difficult to understand for usually it's taken for granted that atheism is associated with the mind and the heart or the will and therefore it should have been written that you shall not follow after your mind not your heart but as a matter of fact we often find that wisdom that's mentioned in the tah is associated with the heart where it says my heart has seen much wisdom or the wise of heart accomplish the Fulfillment of The Commandments so why is the heart connected to this specific Mitzvah to wisdom and in fact when it's saying don't follow your heart it's referring to a sin of that's technically in your mind a sin of atheism because we think atheism heresy that's in your mind but T says no it's not in your mind being a heretic is not in your mind has nothing to do with your mind has to do with your heart that's what Allah says now you go ask an atheist why are you an atheist and he say there's no God why there's no God prove it to me prove me that there's a God and I'll tell you all types of things and I'll mention all types of scientists that agree with him he won't mention the ones that disagree with him and he won't mention the ones that change their mind too they used to be atheist but now they're religious and I'll tell you prove prove prove prove proof and that's you know people think that the world came from nothing so you ask him why you this way I tell you because it's logic scientific all types of things doesn't make any sense and you're going to say no I can give you scientific proofs that God exists I can give you rational proofs that God exist I can give you philosophical proofs that God exists I can give you a million and a half proofs and guess what it's very likely none of them are going to help you why because your heresy has nothing to do with your mind you're a heretic you're an atheist not because of logic you're heretic because of your heart that's says [Music]