Rambam Laws of Teshuvah - Chapter 3 / Halachot 7 & 8 - Rabbi Alon Anava | Atzmut.org

[Music] [Applause] [Music] so we are in the third chapter of the laws of chuva of rambam and yesterday we learned about a few types of individuals that lose their hola maba i went pretty thoroughly who are these individuals and what are the sins that will cause a person to lose their alarm about and i told you that as we progress we'll explain even more thoroughly about these groups of people that we know not to include ourselves in them so if you remember there were a bunch of them today we're going to learn about the group that is called minim and uh why why is it important to know because in six we were learning who are the people that they don't have a place in the world to come the first one was the ones who go against the torah then there was epikosim heretics and so forth so now we have to know who are these who is a a mean that i should not associate with with or not be myself one so we're in in the third chapter and it says as follows there are five types of people that will be called minim elohim a person that says that there's no god and that there's no uh governor to the world that that not only that there's no god that there's no entity that runs the show that's the first type of person that will be called a mini amin next one yes time a person that says oh there is a god but there's a few gods or even more so the first one says there's no god and now no nobody created the world and nobody governs and controls the worlds that's number one number two says okay there is a god but there's only there's not only one there's two or maybe three or four and that's not even a question there's only one god another one yes a person who says there is one god a val goofy but he has a body and he has an image kind of like uh what's his name yashka casper how do you call him casper no i'm not talking about casper i'm talking about yashka yeah there is one god but he has a body and he he is he has an image and another one the ken how may another person that says that there is a god but he's not by himself there's others there and he's not the first one so there was yeah he created the world but there's somebody else that preceded him that's another type of mean another type vechain another type is a person that worships a planet or one of the zodiacs says i don't necessarily believe in god i worship this planet right now and this is a little bit less relevant to our generation but in olden days people used to worship planets or zodiacs and so forth okay still though but months it was pretty common kade and and and and more daily some people say no i believe there's a god but i will worship this planet because that planet will be like kind of my attorney or my advocate between me and the master of the universe saying in other words i do believe there's another entity in the world above that has some type of assay each one of these five that we just broke down is called the mean and again the translation there's not really a translation to that it's just a person that goes against the torah now it's a little bit clear who are these five types of people will go against the torah which in other words is really going against god not only against the torah next number we learned a few types of people that don't have uh a share in the world to come the first one was minim the second one is epicosi manapicos is a heretic or an epic course a person that says that there's no such thing as prophecy i believe there's a god but there's no such thing as prophecy or a person that says there's no such thing as prophecy and there's no such thing as what's called a divine inspiration that information comes from the world above from hashem to a human being well that's against the torah because we have prophets that they get information from the world above we have baler kodesh people that they might don't have prophecy but they have divine inspiration so this is one type of a heretic another type of a heretic hamakrishnev that says moshe albano is just a human being i don't believe in his prophecy which is disqualifying the entire torah and some people do say that i don't believe that maybe some people say oh the torah a human being wrote it it's a prophecy for moshe ben you can go against moshe another person it was a heretic that says hashem created the world there is a god but he doesn't know what i'm thinking and what i'm doing he's saying in other words i'm minimizing the the power of the master of the universe now these types these three types they their heresy their heretics against the torah that a person says yeah i believe in the torah but i don't believe god gave it i believe somebody else gave it this is a one of the three who goes against the torah another type of a person that says okay the torah was given from god but moshe rabbino added on that so he says one verse one word one letter even if you say the torah is 100 right but marshall bennu added two two words no this person is going against the torah moshe rabino didn't add anything this is much more relevant to us a person that goes against the commentary of the torah because many people they read the torah and they say okay i believe what it says in the torah i don't believe commentaries download that's the person that goes against the torah vegeta the one who goes against its commentary because what is the commentary of the torah the oral torah the entire oral torah is commentary on the written torah so if you go against the oral torah i'm sorry to tell you you go against the entire torah more than that a person that denies the so to say spokesman of the torah which is our sages many people say listen i believe the torah is divine i don't believe the rabbis this is rabbinical this is rabbinical some people say that's their argue that they say no i believe god there's a god there's a there's a torah but all the commentary and the rabbis they're just humans i don't believe in that and you know who were like these two types of people sadok was a kohen from a very big family of koa nim and he he and the entire family they went completely against the oral torah and up until today this by the way i don't know outside the world but in israel there are communities that are called zdokim they call themselves stokhim and they believe only in their written torah and they do what it says in the written torah but not more than that so if it says you can can't cook a calf in its mother's milk that's what they do i mean cheeseburger is fine it doesn't send it to a cheeseburger it just says not to cook so lamb and the mother's milk that i don't do anything else that's totally fine so they only believe in the written torah so these are called stoking and up until today there are you know i met a few years ago a person like that i i was i thought he's joking with me and he told me i'm at stocking i said excuse me what are you how much docking i didn't even know what it was until i found out and i was like people like this exist yeah so nevertheless these two individuals uh is another schmidge some say he's related to the family of sudoku in some say don't there is some argument here about the history but nevertheless these two schmidges these zadok and baitos they said no we only believe in the written torah so whatever it says in the written torah we follow anything else we don't care of so the person that denies its the torah's spokesman i mean i shouldn't even say spokesman the name the the sages that the the unshaken the men of the great assembly to go against him by saying i don't believe the oral torah who says that now really ninety percent of what we do is explained by the oral torah did you ever see the word the filin in the torah no there's not such a word in the torah te filing it says so why do you put filing on because we know that the ought is that is a tiffine how do you know that because that's what our rabbis told us so one can come and say i don't believe in that you know according to the slokim they don't put filling on because it doesn't say the word the feeling that now how do you put the filling how do you prepare the filling how do you prepare mezuzah it says that you have to hang a mezuza out the door but where how what what do you write in there and same with anything all the laws of srita of slaughtering almost anything the oral torah comes and explains that you know it says even how do you where does it say anywhere in the torah that the british has to be on the male organ maybe the british lies here on the ear the skin here too maybe you rip the hair of the hair off so ninety percent of the torah is explained by the oral torah and to come and go against the old torah is he going against the spokesman the the names and shakeness the sages the rabbis of the great assembly and who did that zadok and baitos still holding my tongue really strong not to say all sorts of derogatory words of these two schmidges but anyways this is an example and up until today the people will follow that another type of a person that goes against the torah a herety a heretic a person that comes and says oh god he replaced the mitzvoth you know who says that a third of the world says that that there's a new testament hashem got rid of the old rules and he gave us new rules that he replaced the mitzvoth the better so the old one is an old and the new one is the one who's valid that's another heresy type of heresy machem even though that the torah the original one was from god but we disqualified the first one and we go to the next one this is a two-thirds a third of the world say that and that's christianity that's the old testament yeah yeah it was given by god but you guys messed up so now hashem refined it he added on it he removed them it's what gave new ones that's heresy and here he gives an example who does that yeshum yeshuim means the christians even though it's not a hundred percent uh correct because yeshuaim is the it's not correct to say christians it's the ones who follow uh uh yeshua or the excuse me originally yeah they're i can't really call them christian christians because up until today by the way there's yeshuaim and and they don't they don't call themselves christians or or a catholic they call themselves yeshuaim but anyways he says yeshuaim well i will put it now under one big umbrella of christianity catholicism all this all that idea behind yashka and the other ones very interesting term although says hagarim the kids of hagar which are arabs is interestingly he doesn't say ishmael and he doesn't say muslim he says first of all just goes to show you that at the time of rambam there was there was an islam therefore they didn't exist then so they didn't even have the word muslim or islam he called them they wanted the kids of hagar which are arabs but anyways this is just an interesting commentary that you see that at the time of hamburg islam didn't exist but anyways any one of these three that we just defined he's a heresy heretic he he goes against the torah a hundred percent and this type of individual lost his entire ulamaba so now you have a little bit of a clear definition what's that mean or a person that goes that goes against hashem stay away from them and a heretic a person that distorts the torah so not only that you can't be one of them you can associate yourself with one of them and definitely not support them in any type of a way not financially and on any type of way not even sharing a video or something you got to be very careful not to be part of any individual like that because you might have some type of a connection and needless to say these type of people they they lose their entire alarm about the world to come so you want to be very careful to follow exactly what it says so you're not going to come because a lot of it listen it's not really to do with us but some people even though they sit and learn torah i still see questions of heresy who says that the the the name the sages are so accurate maybe they distorted things maybe throughout the generation the torah kind of was reformed oh whoa how about you don't say things like this so even people who sit in yeshiva and learn torah sometimes they have some what's called avak dust of heresy you got to be very careful and somebody says something that you smack them down right on their head don't say stuff like that you know we stick with the kalosh boku in the torah and gets off the path that's big a big no-no you got to be very careful why because the cast of shalom can cause the person to lose their entire ulama now you were involved in one way or another in any type of belief like this or activity like that then your chuva has to be very directed to that to that niche a lot of people say i never did such things i stole i embezzled i cheated i did many things that i didn't do good so at least you know one thing let's do on your chuval list but if hashem you were involved one way or another knowingly not and wrongly by mistake you know you got to do some serious true value on that and somebody even asked me a convert wait a minute i used to believe in all that but then i converted and i told him he says do i need to do chivas and of course you need to do chuva what's the question here but when you accept on yourself what do they ask you when you convert are you accepting on yourself that there's only one god do you renown any belief in any other god and you you you you accepted yourself not the rabbis are going to look at you where you have second thoughts here but nevertheless even converts need to do chuva even though yeah one can argue and say yeah but the second you converted you're brand new you still have to do chuva for things you did in your past how exactly each individual separately some people they're converts and they never really practiced anything in their in their previous life some people yeah they're who they were like the head of a ministry or whatever it is anyways we all need to do chuba for our past sins whether it's deliberately knowingly intentionally by mistake not knowingly i was forced either way the only thing that you don't need to do for is something that you didn't do so we all have to do chewbacca hashem will forgive our sins [Music] you