Iggeres HaMussar #7 - The Greater the Person the Greater the Yetzer Harah

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay good afternoon everyone from malaysia how's everybody doing hope everybody had a nice jump tiff um we're going to continue in the uh safe era of iguara samosa of the uh [Music] of the rabiso cilantro um let me just fix something here okay um [Music] we're continuing in uh ruby swells muscle treat us and revistro said that when the gemara refers to the basic belief in reward and punishment and that is the foundational principle of kala tarakula the belief that hashem rewards for our good actions and punishes for one's sin however rabiso salantar says that this force within us is very much concealed in the deepest recesses of our hearts and if we don't seek to expand it with the learning of muslim then this force will not send out its tendrils to discipline us and it will not affect our behavior and because of that we could potentially be niksha in very serious averroes that reach the heavens the sin of speech without any restraint improper business activities and bitto torah above and beyond everything else and because of that in our limbs there's cannot no perfection if somebody uh does a a true accounting for his activities they will notice that unfortunately this basic feeling and belief in hashem's reward and punishment is completely have been removed from our consciousness and the greater someone is the greater their yetzer is and where we walk in darkness and we don't see the severity of a particular sin it's analogous to says israel looking at something in a telescope where even though the item that we're looking at is very great we could look at a star and the star is even greater than planet earth and the star looks like just one speck of light and through the telescope it doesn't give us the true picture of how big this entity is it only looks a little bit bigger so the torah to us is like a telescope it won't give us the true evaluation of the severity of lashanhara of bittal torah of dishonesty in business nevertheless those averroes uh by learning torah will be able to magnify their value we won't we won't recognize and appreciate its true severity but at least it will be uh elevated and magnified to a certain extent well says this teaching can be placed and lifted into the words of gaza in other words this teaching that the greater one is the more severe their yetzer hara is can fit into the words of khazam where the gemara talks about the stand the level the jewish people and the times of the first base i make dash as opposed to the sacrament where the gemara says mikdash risha in the first temple midnight why was it destroyed because of the three sins that that they committed but mikta shani the second temple shall you oyskin vittoro umitzweis they were involved in the learning of torah and the performance of mitzvahs ugmyla so in the second temple it seems they were greater than the times of the first temple which is something we have to understand because how could it be that they were greater in the times of the second temple and rav goldberg cites a leshem that we've quoted many times that in the times of the second temple the evangelism saw fit to open up the gateways of heaven and reveal to claudius israel the methodology of learning the yud gimo mido is and because of that the the jewish people were on a higher level of torah knowledge so in the times of the first base hamikdash the claude israel were not involved in torah they were not on such a high level and they violated but mikta shaini they were involved in tairan and hassan so why was it destroyed we know isabella's because of baseless baseless hatred says they both say the early authorities that their sins were revealed so their end was revealed in other words the earlier times the times of bias re-shine where their sins were revealed so god revealed when their end would be finished in other words they would only be in exile for seventy years ahron in the later generations shalom is their sins were not revealed loyne is galla kitsam their end was not revealed so in other words we are indeterminally in the galas which is very interesting because the simple shot in this gemara that we showing in this gala avoid is that the earlier uh generations and times of bias rishon they violated their sins out in the open they violated their sins in a revealed matter out publicly they committed idolatry publicly they committed adultery publicly they worshipped they murdered publicly and therefore god publicly told them when the end would be namely after seventy years but babayushini where they sinned secretly was secret therefore the end of their galas was kept as a secret however rabbi sorel learns this kumara differently says that we saw meaning that the sin of the early generations was revealed means their sins were sins that are revealed sins everyone understands that it is prohibited the aim pinoys el habino without having to turn to deep understanding and comprehension meaning the sins violated in the times of the bias re-showing were out in the open in the sense not that they were done publicly but it is obvious and clear that they are sins however the sins of the later generations baljiru raklama spain and haiti they are only appreciated by those who contemplate well and thoroughly their severity lama lahfli which is very great because the sin of sinasrinam is not immediately appreciated and recognized however upon study and analysis it has recognized the extent of its effects and ramifications mustafa is spreading out le protec to many detailed sins being master without any restraint rahman al-islam so in other words the the the resolve cilantro seems to be saying that in the times of the second day the sin they violated was not a sin which is immediately appreciated and recognized to be prohibited and the gemara asks were the earlier generations better or were the later generations better was it better to violate the three cardinal sins or is it better to violate says the gemara the answer is found in the response of god to the first generation god brought back the temple after seventy years the shiva the gemara answers look at the palace look at the temple we shine it was restored to the earlier generations it was never restored to the later generations this is illustrative of the fact that the sin of sinas is worse than abba dazar ghilaris and sri because for the three cardinal sins they got the temple back for sinasrinam they didn't get the temple back so clearly sinatram is worse now this is very hard to understand because basically what results point is an average which is immediately recognized to be severe is not as is less severe not as severe as navera that it requires analysis to appreciate its severity why would that be why would a navera like murder where everyone instinctively recognizes how bad it is not be as bad as baseless hatred where people don't instinctive instinctively understand how bad it is and basically saying this is illustrative of the fact that in the second temple they were greater and because they were greater evidenced by the fact that they learned turn they did because they were greater they were niksha in greater sin namely sinasrinam who had shardibar lamala this is the matter that we spoke above one who is greater than his friend kamai bibayashini like in the second temple shall you ask him the torah that they were involved in torah yitzray god all their yetzer was even greater um and they made them stumble in severe sin noida and appreciated by those who understand and recognize the path of truth the quality of evil that that was entailed in it those who contemplate the truth know how awful these sins are so rabbi swallow seems to be saying that the sins that are immediately recognized to be wrongful were not namely murder idolatry adultery are not as bad as the sin that requires more analysis to appreciate their severity and this is something we'll have to explain more about monday why in what way is sin astrinam because it's not understood how severe it is that makes it more severe what's the logic of that i mean something that everyone instinctively realizes is wrong there's a reason why people instinctively realize it's wrong so why wouldn't that be why wouldn't that render those sins more severe okay business hashem we'll try to look into that more on monday everyone is invited tonight tonight this year will be 9 p.m a little bit of a different time 9 p.m so you're welcome to join us uh very nice stuff tonight and wishing everybody brahav sakha have a good day good evening koltov you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com