Honesty in This World Creates Our Olam Haba

Transcript

This Torah class is brought to you by TorahAnytime.com. I'd like to share with you a Sfas Emes: V'yarashtes ha'aretz l'man tichyeh. You will live if you have tzedek, tzedek tirdof, l'man tichyeh v'yarashtes ha'aretz. Why is yerushas ha'aretz a condition, if you say the truth? Says Sfas Emes, it's not referring to ha'aretz, this world. It's going v'yerusha. Ha'aretz, Olam Haba. L'man tichyeh in the next world, in Olam Haba, because emes is in Olam Haba. You create your Olam Haba if you're honest in this world. You are destined to Olam Haba because in this world, your schar is not a big— as they say, it's not— what, you're honest? What, are you crazy? It's not a commodity in this world. It's only for the next world. It's not referring l'man tichyeh v'yarashtes ha'aretz, Eretz Yisrael, but rather it's referring, says Sfas Emes, v'yarashtes ha'aretz, an Olam Haba, which we know in Chazal it's called alma d'sheikta, the world of truth, which today we call Olam Emes. It's in the Olam Emes, l'man tichyeh v'yarashta. You've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by TorahAnytime.com.