God Doesn't Change - Parashat Balak

and says any any relationship that's based on something like that you're going to get some type of interest is not going to last it's not going to last even your relationship with if you're keeping only because you want hasem to give you money uh spouse kids uh Health whatever it is that relationship is temporary said okay I'll ask uh I'll ask God making it seem as if he's this righteous person that is going to ask God what to do tells you shall not go with them you shall not curse the nation for it is blessed simple answer is no not only no don't go with them but no because the nation you want to curse they're blessed what does bam say to the people he wakes up in the morning and he says to the officers of balak go back to your land for there is no desire before hasem to allow me to go with you hasem doesn't want me to go is that complete no why not because it's not that hasem doesn't want you to go and that's it he gave you a reason I don't want you to go because the nation you want to curse is blessed you can't C curse them what's the point of going you're not allowed to curse them I will not allow it but he didn't tell this to the officers why he wanted to leave the door open if I tell them listen God said I can't curse them he said they're blessed people then they would just leave and never come back but if I tell no God doesn't it's not the will of God he doesn't desire for me to go then it sounds like oh the door is still kind of open why implying that maybe he doesn't desire for me to go today but if you come back next week maybe he'll change his mind so BAC sent officers again even higher ranking officers and they come to Bam and says to don't don't uh refrain now from coming to me I give you great honor so what does bam respond to him bam says if belak were to give me a house full of silver and gold I would not be permitted to transgress the decree of the word of Hashem my God to do anything small or great this sounds like bam is is a sadik sounds like he's a sadik listen Bak you're sending me people second time but you have to understand I can't do anything I can't do anything that will go against God so it sounds like oh what's the problem he sounds like a righteous person what's what's the reality here in essence what he's telling him I can't I can't come but yet I didn't give you the reason now you came back I'm telling you that I can't do anything that a God doesn't decree in the world but who knows what he decreed yeah but he told you last week yeah but that was last week maybe God's going to change his mind stay here he tells him stay the night here he says to them now you too please sit in this place tonight and I'll know what hasem will add uh to uh will additionally speak with me meaning maybe Hashem changed his mind maybe Hashem changed his mind but hhm doesn't change his mind and even later in the Tora he says oh yeah I got one of the things I bam learned from this hm doesn't change his mind he's not a man but at this point bam thinks that maybe uh you know even though hasem said you can't go because they're blessed they now they came back so there has to be a reason for it what's the reason said says bam was such a r that he's in essence telling them listen last week you came I told you no CU that's not the will of God he doesn't allow me to go now you came back I have enough time to think about it let me go talk to him again because now that I think about it why did he say you can't curse them because they're blessed people and tell me not to go if I can't curse them why is he even bothering to tell me not to go ah God knows that my curse will work despite it being against his will and that's why he tells me not go not to go in Ence God is scared of me that's how much of bam was he thinks that God is scared of him so let me talk to him and compromise with him we'll come up with a comp compromise that's how diluted a person can be Hashem can give them gifts and instead of that person recognizing the gift they spit on the gift they ignore the gift they said no it was me oh yeah so you're telling me that you are the one that uh decided you're going to be really rich yeah what do you mean I uh started the product I got the customers oh you're the one that won the lawsuit that was not winnable yeah sure what do you mean I had a good lawyer I paid $100,000 $200,000 in lawyers oh so the same lawyers that told you you cannot win the case they actually won the case and you think that's from the lawyers you don't think that's from Hashem well yeah well I'm what's wrong with that well what did you do to win the case what did you do they told you you can't win the case they told you that the case is lost the best case scenario is maybe there's going to be a compromise in reality what ended up happening is you want every single thing you want it in different you wanted in different countries you end up end up getting a bigger winner than your lawyers even imagined what what did you do oh well you know when I thought I was going to lose I did as many mitv as possible to help as many people do Chu I learned as much to as I could oh so that's what you did it's not that the lawyers got better it's not that the law changed it's that you did me you that hem likes and what are you doing now that you won the case oh now I'm uh you know now I'm going on vacation oh so after gave you what you want in a miraculous way what are you doing you're not doing the same exact thing that earned you what you got in the first place why because you forgot that he gave it to you you figure out listen we won good I did what I did Hashem did what he did and uh you know we're doing business oh so you think that's how it works you think that you could do business with hem that you do mitv he gives you the money right now which Rabbi told you that because there's a lot of people out there that call themselves rabbis and they sell Judaism tell listen if you keep Shabbat you're going to have money you protect this you'll have money you give that you'll have money you do this you'll get married you do this you'll get now although does promise salvation to those that do his will that's not the way Judaism is supposed to be you're not supposed to serve hm that way in fact when you serve AEM in that way where you think that if you do this and you'll get something back that leads to a lot of problems first and foremost it leads to the problem we just said which is as soon as the person gets what they want they win the trial they they they get the job they find the spouse they get the kid guess what they stop doing those very same good things that Hashem wants them to do that earn them that good thing they stop why because they figured listen that was the transaction I kept chabbat I gavea I helped people do CH I got what I want I'm finished no that's not the will of Hashem Hashem is in essence gave you a tool the reason why he gave you what you wanted is not to stop you from doing what what you're doing it's to encourage you to keep going because there's more that's going to come but instead of doing what you did to keep it working to keep it growing you went elsewhere you did something else you're going further from Hashem and then what happens tragedy all of a sudden something is discovered all of a sudden they don't need you at the company anymore all of a sudden the biggest client leaves all of a sudden the the spouse doesn't want to be married anymore all of a sudden there's sickness all of a sudden there's problems and the person wait what happened what I kept Shabbat I did everything why is hasm doing this to me no no no you did this to yourself you are doing good and doing the will of hem hasem was giving you good stuff to give you encouragement to keep growing because he it's like a it's like a but it's like a donkey with a carrot leading them to go to the right direction he gave you what you wanted for now CU a temporary encouragement not a payment encouragement to keep going in the right direction but you've already failed the second you got what you want you stop doing what a commanded you he commanded you to do the those things he commanded you to give he commanded you to keep Shabbat he commanded you to to keep theora it's not a suggestion and it's not even because you going to get what you're going to get he just gave you what you wanted in order to entice you to keep going but you were taught Judaism in upside down fashion you were taught that if I do this he's going to give me this and then I'm finished as if hasem is doing business with you no no Hashem commanded you to do it even if you get nothing and that's the problem with selling Judaism when you sell Judaism you're in essence telling people that their relationship with hem is temporary it's based on something and M says any any relationship that's based on something like that you're going to get some type of interest is not going to last it's not going to last even your relationship with if you're keeping only because you want Hashem to give you money uh spouse kids uh Health whatever it is that relationship is temporary a relationship that's permanent is you do it because Hashem commanded you to do it it's an obligation to do it and guess what when you start that way eventually you'll fall in love with Hashem and you'll want to do it while also always reminding yourself that even if you have a bad day and you don't want to do it anymore you're still obligated do it not because you're going to get a reward all of those different things that you get along the way that's just showing you I'm watching you I'm trying to help you out get more get this way get that way so instead of seeing the relationship that he had with a as a gift he saw it as he is higher even than his own Creator in a certain aspect where he hasn't changed his mind he has his mind targeted he wants to kill is HEM says you can't curse them bam says maybe hasem Chang his mind why would he change his mind because technically if I couldn't curse them why did he tell me not to go why did he tell me what to go he rationalized things he rationalized things just like the Heretics rationalize things they rationalize that Adam and Adam and Eve they sinned because Hashem wanted them to sin because that's what brought people to the world as if hashm couldn't bring people to the world without the sin or that God needs you because he created you as if he couldn't create you and wouldn't create you had he had no need and all types of other Mumble jumbo that people have or he won't punish you why because he's the one that gave you the desire if he didn't want you to do it he wouldn't give you the desire these are the rationalizations of the philosophers that are anti- God while pretending to be religious and even pretending to be a prophet a Holy One [Music] amen