Erev Rav Rabbis Love Cash Advance

You know, listen, all the motivation that I had to do chuvah, all the motivation that I had to change came from you. I watched your films. Spoke to you. Got the package. But then the rabbi told me that you're crazy and no one can do what you say. So, I just listened to him and I didn't do chuvah. Instead, I went and joined the cash advance business. Instead, I continued going with goyotes. Instead, I continued violating Shabbat. Instead, I went back to drugs. This young guy called me. And I haven't heard from him in 4 years. 4 years ago he contacted me and uh told me saw my films, wants to do chuvah, change his life. So I do the best that I can to help people, give them uh some words of encouragement, chizuk. And I sent them a free cure of package. Invested a few hundred dollars in it. And sent it to this kid, even though he had plenty of money. I didn't want money to get in the way and I sent him a bunch of material. But I never heard from him. I haven't heard from him in 4 years. But then I get a phone call. And I'm not answering the phone and he starts texting me. He's telling me that he made millions of dollars in the cash advance business. And he went back to drugs. And he's in trouble and needs my help. Okay. Nobody else can help him. So I talked to him. Talk to we talk, we try to figure things out. He starts telling me about his messy life. And uh tells me that he was in the cash advance business and literally within the first month he closed a hundred thousand dollars in commissions worth of deals in just a few deals. By the second month he was already closing a million dollar deal. Literally made a lot of money and I stopped him there and I said, "Okay, so those handful of deals that made you a bunch of money tell me are all of those people still in business? Or they declared bankruptcy?" And it didn't take him more than three seconds to respond, "Yeah, of course they're all bankrupt." Of course, they all lost everything they have. So these customers that you made a hundred thousand in this one, fifty thousand in that one, ten thousand in this one, all these people made you a bunch of money right away and you continue making more money and but right away you already know you're making money, but you don't know what's going to happen. So you could excuse everybody that goes into that vicious immoral like business of cash advance and those that are like it. Well, people don't know the damage they're causing people. But you know after a few months when those same customers are declaring bankruptcy. I told him, "So wait, so all of them went into bankrupt? He said, every one of them. And what about the money? Do you still have the money? The money that you made? He says, no, Rabbi, all that's gone, too. Every penny is gone. But now I want to go into the rehab business. He said, why do you want to go into the rehab business? He says, because all of my co-workers in the cash advance business, dozens of people, all of them are connected to the drug world in one way or another. And all of them have been damaged by it. Sham Yishmo V'Atzi. So, you have drugs, you have a corrupt, predatory business that's destroying businesses and lives day and night. Horrible. I said look, listen, I sent you a package 4 years ago. At the time you were really right for doing chuvah, I invested in you, put money into you, put time into you. What happened to you? Not that it matters today, but still I want to know what happened. He said, to tell you the truth, Rabbi, I spoke to you, you really woke me up. You sent me that package, I was so excited. And then, I spoke to the local Rabbi here in the community. I told him about you. He said, ah, yeah, I know, he's crazy. Nobody can do that chuvah that he says. Don't listen to him. The Rabbi told you this? He says, yeah, yeah, this Rabbi, yeah. He's the family rabbi. Family erev rav. So, what do you do after that? He said, "You know what? Listen, all the motivation that I had to do teshuvah, all the motivation that I had to change came from you. I watched your films. I spoke to you. Got the package. But then, the rabbi told me that you're crazy and no one can do what you say. So, I just listened to him. And I've been a literally dodging you for 4 years. And I didn't do teshuvah. Instead, I went and joined a cash advance business. Instead, I continued going with goyot. Instead, I continued violating Shabbat. Instead, I went back to drugs. In fact, this time the drugs were much worse than the first time. And the sins were much bigger. And I've destroyed a lot of lives. I didn't know whether to scream or to cry. I didn't know who was the bigger murderer here. I mean, this poor kid got into a business without even having the proper tools or education of what it even is. At least not in the beginning. But I could assure you that in shamayim, every single sin that young man made in the last 4 years, every single one of them goes to that rabbi's account. With just a few words, he literally murdered this kid. But he's a rabbi. And some of you would even know his name in different communities. He's not most popular, but nonetheless certainly some people know who he is. And he took a kid that was about to do teshuvah, that was doing teshuvah, and simply decided to tell him, "Nah. Stay the way you are." That's the version of Esau that's more dangerous than any missionary. That's more dangerous than any Nazi. That's more dangerous than any version of Esau that exists. Because it's the Esau that's within. As a rabbi, I must emphasize that this mitzvah is mandatory for every Jew as it ensures all members of Am Yisrael can properly celebrate the holiday with dignity and joy.