The Gemara in Sanhedrin warns that mocking Torah scholars, calling them by their first names, or failing to stand for them makes you an apikores who loses a share in the World to Come. The speaker stresses that disrespecting the sages is disrespecting the Torah itself, and urges reverence for learned scholars as part of trusting in Divine control.
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The last thing you want is to go and put down a kosher hakham, one of the people who are taught, one of the important hakhamim, righteous people, you know. And you got to be very careful. Why? Because you can lose everything. You become an apikores. The Gemara in Masechet Sanhedrin asks, who is an apikores that has no share to the world to come? He loses his share to the world to come. We're talking about a religious man 2,000 years ago. Everyone was Shomer Shabbat. So the Gemara asks, who is an apikores? Someone that disrespects the chachamim, calls them by their first names, puts them down, makes fun of them, doesn't stand up when they walk into the room. Mal'eh mezal zer bachachamin. Do you know how horrible it is? Why? Disrespecting the chacham is disrespecting the Torah that he has in his head. Disrespecting the Torah in his hand, it's disrespecting the one that gave this Torah. We only beg you to have mercy on us. That's it. Not to punish us, not to bring anything bad to us. Who is good, only you know. We We know it's all from you. Eh, not will vado, but we know it's 100% in your hand. Do not ever forget this. We hope for all kinds of good things to happen, but we know Hashem is in charge of the pyramid here. He pulled the strings. He wants Haman to be our lover, he will be our lover. If he will want the Nazi all of a sudden to be our lover, he will be our lover. If he wants our best friend in history to become our enemy in a second it will happen. Don't ever forget this. Therefore, you should always in your head say, 'En od milvado.' It's all Hashem. And what Hashem thinks is good for us, for this country, for the world, we will not make it big about his decision.
