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There's a lot of
issues when it comes to being wealthy.
The rich people that are prepared for
it, don't know how to do they don't know
how to laws, they don't understand
they're going to get punished for it.
And this is not what I'm saying, this is
what the Hafetz Chaim said.
Hafetz Chaim said to his talmid muvhak,
Rav Wasserman, and we brought this in
the series Era of Mashiach
in one of the lectures
where Hafetz Chaim said
the people that will get punished the
most at the time of Mashiach
are the rich people, the rich Jews that
did not give enough tzedakah for the
sake of Torah.
They're going to be punished the most.
Meaning, more than the heretics, more
than the mechalelei Shabbat, more than
everybody else. WHY? BECAUSE HASHEM made
you
successful
FOR A REASON. YOU WERE supposed to be
the one that was going to be used
to publicize the Torah, to get people to
do teshuvah before Mashiach comes.
You didn't do it, you're a traitor.
Now, of course, not everybody's rich,
and in fact, most people are not rich.
There are more rich people today than
any other time in history.
But needless to say
if the amount of people
that are not even rich
people that are average
followed the laws of the Torah,
literally you would have 10 times more
people following the Torah than we have
today.
So
one of the things that a person needs to
know
is that
the Torah discusses money
and it tells us different messages. One
of the messages is in
Parshat Naso.
Parshat Naso
It says in Parshat Naso
in chapter 5
verse number 5 and 10
V'chol terumah l'chol kodshei Bnei
Yisrael asher yakrivu laKohen lo yiheye.
And every portion
from any of the holies that the children
of Israel bring to the coin shall be
his.
A man's holies shall be his and what man
gives to the coin shall be his.
In so many words
what the Torah is telling us here that
you know the people that made certain
sins as it says in the in verse number
seven, part of their confession is to
bring a sacrifice, to give money, but
also part of being a Jew you have to
give money to the coin, money for the
Torah,
money for the Beit Hamikdash.
BUT THERE'S AN INTERESTING THING here
where it keeps saying loye loye which
means
it shall BE HIS.
WHAT IS THIS IT SHALL BE HIS?
What does it mean it shall be his? Is
giving and therefore it's his? Now of
course we can understand the basics
which is
the only as we said before, a person
eventually dies and the money that he
has doesn't go with him to shamayim. In
fact the more money he has left that he
didn't give during his lifetime the more
problems he can have because if his kids
and his inheritance use that money for
bad it goes to his account.
And he cannot rely on the fact that
they're going to do so much good with it
if he didn't raise them that way.
So and even if he did doesn't
necessarily mean that they always have
control. So a person needs to know
whatever you give during your lifetime
that's really what you have.
THAT'S REALLY WHAT YOU GAVE is what you
have.
The Sefat Emet Duke
had a famous donor
that
made the tea.
And uh
this very same donor
he came to the
um Slabodka.
And Slabodka also got a donation from
him.
But after the war erupted
and they took all of the money
he said
there are two people I'm not going to
forgive.
Who? The Slabodka and the Slabodka.
Why? How could you say such a thing?
He says, "How come
when they came to me for
to COLLECT MONEY
WHY DIDN'T THEY COME with guns?
That way they would take all the money.
So at least the MONEY THAT I HAD COULD
BE USED FOR TORAH, FOR GOOD THINGS.
INSTEAD, WHAT HAPPENED? THE NAZIS TOOK
IT.
The the the the communists took it. The
evil monsters TOOK IT.
WHY DIDN'T THE RABBIS COME WITH GUNS?
TELL ME, GIVE ME ALL THE MONEY. LET'S
GO. WE HAVE TO PUBLICIZE TORAH."
AND HE WAS SERIOUS. HE WAS HE wanted I
can't believe I missed out. He was a
tzaddik, big tzaddik.
Big tzaddik. He said tzaddik, EVERYTHING
HE HAD HE WAS UPSET THAT HE DIDN'T give
enough.
So now
we understand that certain people see a
verse says what you have is what you
give, good.
What does the Torah say?
What else does the Torah say?
Rashi says
Rashi says lawyer
shall be his
means lawyer a lot of money.
To him shall be a lot of money.
To him shall be a lot of money. Meaning
the fact that he gives charity is going
to be the reason WHY HE WILL HAVE a lot
of money.
But how could it be? If I made 10,000, I
give 1,000.
I have 9,000. Hashem says no.
You have 10,000. You gave nine you gave
a 1,000.
You have 9,000. BUT HASHEM HIMSELF
PROMISES YOU YOU'LL HAVE MORE THAN
9,000. HOW? HE HAS ALL TYPES OF WAYS.
All of a sudden there's a new customer.
All of a sudden the existing value
increases. There's a million and a half
different ways that Hashem can increase
your wealth.
This doesn't happen right away.
Everybody has their own tests and then
Hashem has timing specific to each and
every single circumstance. But
nonetheless, a person that gives on a
regular basis for the sake of Torah,
there's no question. The Torah promises
that he will have more.
He will have more.
Hashem has merited to have countless
students do teshuvah over the years and
the investors behind us that have helped
us.
Those people have no idea how profitable
their portfolio is. And that's why I
tell everybody to invest as much as
possible as much as they can.
