Rambam Laws of Teshuvah - Chapter 3 / Halachot 9 & 10 - Rabbi Alon Anava | Atzmut.org

[Music] [Applause] [Music] so we're going to continue in the laws of chuva with the maimonides with rambam we are still in chapter three and we're going to learn today two holocausts nine and ten tet and youth so we were speaking about the different types of people who lose their allama ba their world to come so today we're going to cover a group of people that are called mum like i told you in many times the translation is not sufficient mumma is a person that replaces his jewish faith to a different face that says i don't want to be jewish anymore i want to be christian i want to be a buddha or or muslim or whatever it is this is really what mumar is the translation is apostates maybe maybe i'm pronouncing it wrong apostasy so but really what it means a person that's replacing i don't want to be jewish anymore but this everything else is fine just with one sin he's hooked on the person is saying i will do all the torah but this specific sin i'm going to do and i'm going to do it deliberately not by mistake and it becomes his habit and everybody knows that he does it so he has a reputation in the town that he does everything like a jew but one thing that he's not willing to accept and it can be circumcision it can be eating kosher food whatever it is there are some people that are like that even if that sin was of the most simple sin that you can think of that he says i am not going to listen to the torah when it comes to mixing woolly linen shatness i will deliberately go with wool and linen and one according to the rambam by the way we're getting a hint here that rambam is calling this mitzvah mitzvah a simple mitzvah so i wouldn't necessarily shalom i'm not here to contradict the rambam i think chatnez is a pretty big one mainly because we know that it affects a person's health but nevertheless hambam says this is mitzvah that a person says i'm gonna do everything but chatnes i'm not taking on myself another mitzvah that rambam also considers to cut the pair we're not allowed to shave the oats now you don't have to grow long ones but you can't shave them so the ones who grow the pillow they're doing it based on many different mystical reasons but you don't have to wear long peyote but you're not allowed to shave them and minimum two three millimeters that you have to keep them uh uh not shaven so he says here hola ki fe tape to to to cut the pair the reason why they say like a in the olden days they used to have a hairdo that they used to shave this part and just keep on the top here so that would call la kiev to surround the the sides of the head the priests reverends all sorts of people like this used to do it okay and this person says i will do the entire quran but this one mitzvah that is not a big deal i delete it from the torah this is called the muma i think the the verb will be apostates no but how would you say the verb apostates apostates okay so this person will use the word in hebrew it's easier for that thing for that mitzvah not only that the who she has and he's doing it deliberately to make hashem angry i mean hamshem is not happy with you changing the torah you don't have a permission to change anything in the torah and you decide well not you you decide that this mitzvah is not for you this is angering hashem now we have this is for me it's about now we have mumar le kolatova a person does it for the entire torah the ones who completely leave judah judaism they convert to the faith of whatever country they are why because that country comes out with a dick with a decree and this happened many times in the past that the country or the government will come and say you all have to convert or we kill you and it happened with the romans and with the greeks and with the russians and many other times that they came and told you either convert if you convert right now we'll let you live if you don't convert it will kill you so these people who says okay i'm hereby giving over my jewish faith i don't believe in the god of israel anymore and i become now whatever it is this is for the entire torah they debug and then what happens is that you go to their faith and now suddenly you become a christian or a muslim and you have to declare out loud it's not that you're just saying it in your mind you have to say it out loud israel well what is good for me to be a part of the nation of israel shem shepherd they are degraded and they are being executed why do i need to i need i need to now hang out with this with this group of people i don't want to be a jew anymore doubly back below i rather go with the ones who have a stronger hand i want to be with the winning team and believe it or not there are many people who did that in the past the person is now as a mum for the entire torah and this person loses his end the story no questions no negotiations next halach that's another group of people that we said that they lose their entire people who causes other people to sin it's called mahdi arabim and unfortunately in our generation there's a a lot of them how how do you do such a thing some of them in the history they did that with big things and for example who he gives an example used to make massive parties and he would bring idols and tell everybody now coming all bow down to these idols i will uh support the the wine and the food and you'll just bow down and by the way many people don't like hearing it but a certain individual that has many uh fans in our generation and gets great respect in this country who did the exact same thing you will find his picture in every government office in every school in every department of education the the they call him jose medina the prophet of the of the medina of the state of israel no they could not anything else he was he was a christian i mean he said he was a jew that renounces judaism most people don't even know that and when you tell them that they get very upset why are you talking like this about such a great man he wasn't great he converted out in the open to christianity he didn't circumcise his kid he celebrated christmas out in the open and he made these mass conversions with thousands of people converting them to christianity that was his vision by the way and many other things i'm just saying that because a lot of people think he was such a great individual he wasn't a great individual somebody once told me oh you look like some somebody from the past that saw me after many years with a long beard says oh you look like herzil i was like you can tell me i look like the devil don't tell me i look like him so but anyways this is another individual like making many other people sin in a very public and a big way another individual another two people who did it we learned that last week sadok and baitos remember them they were koalim that after that became a whole movement that's dokim and the bytosim these were two koa name from big priest families and they also as they say flipped out and they caused thousands of people to sin so a person that makes other people sin now here is talking about bedavargador with big things causing people to do idolatry to go against the master of the universe vegetable but also some people they do with small sins for example a filo level tell me that i cause you not to do a positive mitzvah ah don't need to put feeling on today it's okay and you know who does that many people who will define themselves or will call themselves rabbis and they have followers and they will exempt people from doing all sorts of mitzvot because the person is depressed or unhappy or something didn't go wrong and they will they will recommend to them you know you don't have to do that it's okay take her take some time off you're not allowed to do such a thing and if you have a rabbi that tells you things like this you're going to be very careful if you want to listen to this man who tells you today you are exempt from this mitzvah because i see you tired today no such a thing and if somebody tells you that then run away from that person he's not a real rabbi he's taking you straight through straight to genome when i became observant my rabbi was bitting me on my head beating me not beating beating me on my head if i would do something wrong he would challenge me and rebuke me and i was like okay that's that's the rabbi i need somebody who tells me what i don't want to hear what i'm looking for somebody who's going to round corners for me so on one hand and many others this is on big scale and you know don't think in our generation we don't have people like that there are many people and they look like religious people with a beard and a yamaka and they'll throw these big so to say torah events and it will be done on shabbat with live broadcasting and bands playing on shabbat and many other things and you have to kind of read between the lines and unfortunately in our generation there are organizations that they come in the in the look of a religious organization but look how they what they're doing there's one organization now they were they were advertising on pesach because there was the quarantine uh a big lens center broadcast on zoom they're broadcasting a little said they won't zoom what kind of and people fall for that no and and and and here's a great example of different people who are saying no it's a very hard time and you're not going to be with your families so you can desecrate the festival and do a le cedron and some people fall for that you're not allowed to it doesn't say anywhere in the torah you're allowed to desecrate a festival in order because you're sitting by yourself my parents also sat by themselves in their little cedel and they couldn't travel anywhere in there by themselves my mom told me and told her don't even think about how can you even think about doing a zoom center that's mocking like straight out so some people they do many of the people seen in big things some people it's one little sin and that's also called the mahdi arabic so if somebody comes and tells you are exempt from this mitzvah because they see you tired today or you're not feeling well or you or you depressed no now some things the torah will exempt you from doing but you have to see what the torah says if a person is severely ill and he can't stand and of course you are exempt from praying if a person has very severe stomach issues that causes him to run to the bathroom every 10 minutes he's exempt from putting filling on by the way but that's what the torah do you have to see what the torah tells you can't make up inventions because today i don't feel well uh i'm a little bit sad today so nonsense that and that's why you have to go to a real rabbi who tells you what you're allowed to do what you know how to do and when the torah is telling you this you're exempt from but not to come up with all sorts of examples also the nonsense nevertheless this is the two types of mahdi arabic on a big scale and on a small scale even if it's a small scale it's still considered making others sin next to now you have worse than that the people who forces other people to sin it's called ones and many times you see people that actually do that now here he gives an example was the son of the king of his kia king was a great king and out of him came uh now king his kia was one of the top kings we ever had in our history and he has a kid menache that went and forced people to do idolatry and if he wouldn't they wouldn't do it he would kill them so this is that you force somebody to sin now the person who was forced is reliable that's a whole different discussion right now here we're talking about a person who forces and again don't think there are people in our generation that don't do that this is not a prehistoric sin this is up until today there are people who will force other people to sin now we have even worse than that that a person causes other people to mistake he he leads them the wrong way and because of that they do sins or they don't do mitzvot and that we have hashem or i should say the complete opposite hashem we have a bundle of them in our generation and why do they do it because they want money fame power control fair whatever it is and they will make you go in the wrong path what he says he really had to hit out them he the person tricks you whether right now it's deliberately or not it's irrelevant but he makes you do a mistake and i know of a certain individual who calls himself a rav he's not a rabbi he's not a nothing maybe but he's not he's not even close to having people to him not available what's the word le hat autis do to cause somebody to be go the wrong path this is a big problem now why would somebody do that again like i told you power money control and many other things that you cause other people to by mistake they they're innocent people they don't know you know many people called me email me came to me and told me that rabbi told me i can do this and that and i'm like what huh i mean you how would you even believe somebody to do that so you have to be very careful who you turn to advice who you ask your questions therefore the best advice is you go learn the halacha yourself and what you don't understand you go to the right authority to explain to you what do i do here because unfortunately there's so much misconception so much misleading sometimes it's done by mistake and sometimes it's done deliberately but when it comes to your eternity you don't mess with that you don't go to an amateur when it comes to your eternity if khastel you have a disease you don't go to some student in medical school you've got a professor that is doing it for 50 years because you need the best advice not some uh a paramedic this is not where you get your advice same thing with your eternity you have a question in the torah you go to not somebody who's pretending to be allowed and there are wonderful people online that they give great tour classes but they're not enough people call me arab i'm not i have i give classes online and i give classes here as a rabbi who studied for 20 30 40 years got ordained to be a rav not a rabbi that does weddings or stuff like that and i'm not mocking anybody is a person who sits in the bay deal he's the head of obedient and he he that's his job and there are many different levels in rabbis and some people call himself you know who's about you give some classes and you make a wedding that's very nice you might have an ordination you might be a teacher and a very nice guy a person who sits in a beding who was ordained for that this is not so easy it's not a simple rabbi that's who you get your answers and again there are wonderful speakers wonderful teachers wonderful rabbis community rabbis that officiate weddings or they do whatever they want and then they're all good as long as their culture they're good but when it comes to i have a rabbi who's my rabbi and i have a rabbi who's and i go only to him for serious questions in her because that's he's in his eighties and he's sharper than any 20 year old you were thinking in his eighties he may be like he's sharp as a whistle sharp as a knife knows that inside out and that's for when it comes to allah and when what he says i know that i don't need to ask explanation it will give me 50 sources in that that's a real love so an unfortunate generation people titled themselves as you know you can call cause of a rabbi because of a speaker uh teacher we have a few of them and unfortunately some people pretend to be so you have to be why am i saying that and emphasizing that because a lot of people think that this has to do with 2000 years ago it has nothing to do with 2000 years ago it's in our generation you see it all all day long and i understand some people want to be popular some people want to be like some people want to have some ego trip they want to have more followers on facebook or youtube or whatever and they go and say that the junk that comes out of their mouth is just unbelievable it's just unbelievable the junk that comes out of people's mouth and people follow them because they have a nice big yamaka and a long beard and as somebody once told me this costs 10 shekels and the beard is one year you have a nice beard that's it that's that's all it is and i know people who look with the beard and the yamaka and all that and they cheat women and they rape them and they molest them and all in the in the look of a rabbi so you got to be very careful who you get your advice from who you operate and you go with the torah says because some people will trick you to make a mistake and you are naive and he says i don't know i will just conclude with the story that i sat a few years ago i was in one of my tours in los angeles and in the in the middle of the class i don't even know how it came out to what context i said you're not allowed to drive on shabbat and especially you know in north america people drive to the shul shabbat and i said out loud you can't drive on shabbat this man came to me after the class there was a long line of people waiting to ask questions he waited patiently all the way to the end he comes to me the man was in his 60s he started crying and he told me you were the first rabbi that told me in the last 25 years that i'm not allowed to drive on shabbat i've been driving to shabbat services for the last 25 years and nobody ever told me i'm not allowed to you're the first one i ever hear it from and he was crying and he was like nobody told me not this show that i went to no natural that i went to and he got so upset he's like how can somebody let me drive desecrate shabbat and and that's the problem that sometimes people whether they're doing it deliberately or not knowing your mistake i don't know i'm not gonna now blame the rabbis of the shul that he was driving there maybe they were afraid that he's not gonna come maybe they wanted a nice check i don't know but you have to tell the person straight out to the face i'm sorry you can't drive to shabbat i like when you come to our show but you cannot drive here you wanna set you up with a room you can sleep by me or spray somewhere else he was so angry so upset he's like i can't believe it how could nobody told me that for so many years but you don't see that i'm driving don't you know that i live 15 miles away so you have to be very careful who you get your guidance from because these people shalom they take you down now you don't want to be one of those people you have to be very careful not to be one of these people when you do somebody asks you a question if you don't know you tell them i don't know you know in time people ask me questions and i tell them i don't know i don't know the answer i can't give you the the right advice now i can sound very fancy and give you whatever answer you want to to hear but that's taking you right right to to the wrong place and i become a mahdi arabic some people think it's disrespectful for their own kavod if they say i don't know you know the utmost respect that i got to all the rabbis that i met in my path as the rabbis who were able to tell me i don't know let me ask my rabbi that's what gained my respect instead of arrogant people that says of course well the answer is yeah but if you don't have the answer why is i'm saying that okay so now i'm sorry i went too far with that this is a class of halacha not musab but it's important because in our generation many people are guided wrong many people are guiding wrong mainly you are guided wrong but don't guide people wrong you don't know say i don't know i don't know what the torah says go ask go to the big deen it's across the street don't ask me i'm not a love and everybody has to do that shalom should not come that a person should do a sin because of you every day before we go to sleep what are we saying you should not do a sin because of me now i'm going to be in a problem here and especially if i mislead you that's a big problem this is called and therefore the rambam says the person doesn't even have a place in ilamabad so be very careful with your eternity and with other people's eternity this is not something to be played [Music] you