Don't Hate Your Fellow Jew | Parashat Achrei - Kedoshim

finally after you didn't talk for two years and now you're back to loving each other. Just because you worked so hard to develop this relationship all over again doesn't mean that if you see him violating the words of Hashem like desecrating Shabbat, committing adultery, stealing, or whatever it is, you should stay quiet. Absolutely not. You must reprimand. You must rebuke. you must rebuke because if you don't you will incur the sin just like as if you sinned and that's one of the things that Mosha Stern Mosha Snider Shalom said the reason why you had so many religious people also died during the Holocaust is because just like the Shabbat says that at the time of the destruction of the beta mikdash. The religious people, those that kept Shabbat, those that did honest business, they got punished first from Hashem. Why? Because they didn't rebuke their fellow Jews and tell them to do Chbat. He says the same thing happened here. We saw Jews were being intermarried. We saw Jews violating Shabbat. We saw Jews desecrating the Torah. We didn't rebuke enough. Now, some would say, "Yeah, but they were already intermar. They were already assimilated. What can we do? It was already too late. I told him and he didn't listen." Now, let's say let's say you told him and he didn't listen or you felt like he's not going to listen. Mosher Snider says, "Did you feel bad that he's going to go to Gan? Did you feel bad every time that he violated Shabbat? Did you feel bad that his kids are not Jewish? Did it hurt you? Or you just lived your life like it's not a big deal? The average person sees their neighbor violate Shabbat. They don't care. They say, "Ah, yeah, he's secular." What do you mean he's secular? You don't care that he's going to go to Gome. You don't care he's going to get punished by Hashem? Yeah, but he's doing it. I understand he's doing it, but you don't care. It doesn't burn you in your heart. Doesn't bother you that your fellow Jew, your brother, your sister, your cousin, Hashem has to punish them. Doesn't bother you. Well, guess what? For that, we got punished. It's not just that we didn't rebuke, we didn't care. And the same thing is happening today. The lack of care that people have for their fellow Jews's religiosity has gone to the point of loneliness to the point where we've accepted secularism. We rationalize it. We say, "Listen, he's secular, but you know, he's a nice guy. I understand he's secular. And I understand you think he's a nice guy. But are you trying to maybe help him not be secular anymore? No. You know, I told him something like three years ago. He didn't listen. Wait, so you're telling me that if one of your sons wanted to jump off a bridge and you told him, "Don't jump." And he just said, "No, I'm going to jump. You just walk away." Say, "Okay, jump. I'll see you in uh after this world." You just let it go. No, of course I would start. I would try again. How many times would you try? I'll never give up until I until I succeed. Okay. So, how come it's different because he's your neighbor? How come it's different because he's your cousin? How come it's different because he's one of the people in the community? Just that's it. You just give up. People are so lazy when it comes to helping their fellow Jews that literally it's to the point where they're completely careless. I even have people tell me, "Listen, I emailed this person three times already. Three times I emailed them and they don't want to listen. Can I just stop now? Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? Is the email that you are sending that heavy on your head that that wait, you just can't do it anymore?" But if it was to get a client that's going to pay you 5, 10, $15,000, you'd send them 50 emails a day. But because it's to help a person do Chuba and get out of gum, after three emails, you're already tired. After three text messages, you're already tired. I'm not saying spam people 24 hours a day and don't go to work anymore. But to send a message once, twice a week to your friends, to your family, to different people in a community. Just send them a shra. Don't even say anything. Send them this lecture. Send them any lecture that we made. The movies, the short ones, the long ones, anything. Once, twice a week. No different than how people send stupid videos about ducks crossing the road. No one is ashamed or bored or tired of sending the stupid videos. No one is ashamed, bored of tired of sending some non-Jew that speaks well about Islam. Everybody gets scared. Everybody gets excited about those. They always go viral. They find some Muslim, they find some Christian, they find some, I don't know, a Buddhist say nice things about Israel and it goes wild all over the community. But if a rabbi says things that the Torah says 500 views, 50 views, five views, no views, how come you didn't share that when you got some government member, some guy that attended the UN meeting and spoke favorably about Israel, you send it to 50 of your friends like it was free money, but the you got tired after two uh do text messages. How come? That's because we don't care about each other's spiritual status. Not only because we ourselves don't believe what the Torah says that they're all going to get punished, but even more so. We're so into our own self that we just figure, let me just save myself. And of Mosha Snider says, for that we got punished. For that we got the Holocaust. Now, what's the connection between all of what I just said and the very next few words that says you must love your fellow Jew like you love yourself says the I love shalom that we did a series about him of says in the reason why these Two commandments are next to each other is because you have to rebuke him, because you love him, and because you care about the punishment and the agony that he will suffer if he doesn't listen to the rebuke. The reason why you must love your fellow Jew as much as you love yourself is right next to the obligation to rebuke is because you have to rebuke him because you love him and you don't want him to suffer and you don't want him to suffer.