Wake Up Call - R. Meir Simcha Sperling - TorahAnytime.com

There are certain people that we would for sure allow into our homes, right? 100%. Certain neighbors that we would let come into our house. Certain people. Then there are certain people we for sure would not allow to come into our home. Certain neighbors that we don't want coming into our house. And yet we're following them and we're listening to them all the time. We're following every time they post and we're following every time there's another podcast. Whether the shimash is good or not good whether it comes from a terror place or not whatever it is that he talks about these are my role models these are my idols whatever it is I would never let them in my house for sure not some of them are go and some of them are dangerous but I allow them into my life how through technology right we have to remember that it's very important when it says over here that means what does that mean that means that the people that you're close to you're going to be involved with it right you listen to certain music you that that's that's what's going on in your brain you watch certain things you see certain and things. That's what's going on. That's your neighbor. That's what happens over I don't know if this is what it means over here that it's it's an actual labor. The point is that you could be convinced. You could be manipulated. You could be sucked in. You could be taken over. You could be surrounded with very very very bad people, even from the security of your own home, your own bedroom, your own bed. Why? Because you're following every single thing that they do. Woe to the Russia. Okay, we understand that. But woe is to the neighbor also because you get dragged in. So many people do things, speak certain ways, listen to things, see things that they would never do only because they were busy following that person or they were busy in that world. In the world of podcasts, in the world of technology, in the world of social media, in the world of just following all these people and we don't realize how scary that is. We would never let if it was in real life and they were coming into your house, you would never let them. You never let them come to your table and talk to your children with you and without you. These are scary people. You're letting very scary people into your life. And if you know what I'm talking about, you know what I'm saying. If not, then okay. So then not. But this happens all the time. I get messages all the time that they're there people getting stuck in very scary things and doing very scary things and threatening to do scary things. Why? Because they heard a certain thing. a certain big person did it or a certain big person spoke about it or it became less taboo or people it's it's not it's fine whatever everybody's doing it now this is something that everyone's doing it went viral it went viral so everyone's doing it we have to be very careful Dustin Nav the whole sh over here was cuz they were neighbors they really had no they weren't going to become the top just like palace wasn't going to become the top but they were neighbors so they got involved they were listening they were hearing they were close to it we have to make sure that what we listen do and what we're watching and the things that we're close to. And again, it doesn't have to be geographic. I'm saying it doesn't have to be your neighbor. It could be in your ears all day, literally all day long. There are people that listen to hours and hours and hours of podcasts every day from who? From from anybody, from everybody. Anything that talks to you, who who like who's the Rebi? Who's the Talmud? What's the hierarchy? Everyone's amar. You have to be very careful in the world of podcast. You have to be very careful because everybody talks what what then they think they know what they're talking about. and and that you listen and that you believe everything and and who knows who knows what it could It could be the the biggest could be scary scary things scary things you know new things new seeds are planted into your mind and you start believing and you start listening and you start thinking and you start looking and your perspective change everything changes your whole perception of the world changes because of all the trash and all the garbage that you're putting inside. So you have to be very very careful what you see very careful what you see what you listen to because and sometimes it's very young children sometimes it's your own children and you don't even know about it like what what who who are you listening to what type of songs what type of music what are they talking about there's no one in the world that says that that's mut there are certain things that everybody is do everybody knows that it's user you yourself know it's user there are certain podcasts that are user nothing to talk about So what am I saying? What I'm saying is let's just be very careful. Let's just be very careful what we allow into our system. Right? This is a very very kadesh I'm saying we're the we're the ambassadors of a kadesh. We're the children the children of Hashem is barak. We're the Jewish nation. We can't listen to all all these just anything and anything. Everything and anything literally on the on the internet every single person is a mandar. Everybody thinks they're a mandar. Everybody could say whatever they want and they have a whole, you know, platform for it. Millions of people. What does millions of people mean? It means nothing. It just means that there's a lot of people that are listening. So who are those people? If you take each one of them, you would take their advice for anything? Probably not. So who cares how many people? Who cares that it's going viral? We have to be very careful we listen to and make sure that this is what Hashem would want me to see and want me to listen to. Because if not we could literally become attached to it and then start defending it and start thinking like it and it's not a terra it's not the terror way. So I think that's a very important idea. Number two.