TBC - Day 5 - 'So don't sin...' - Rabbi Alon Anava | Atzmut.org

[Music] [Applause] [Music] so a big part of chuva is taking responsibility for your actions now i told you already that bazaar hashem we are going to learn that many different types of books parts of books throughout this 40 days one of the books that we're going to learn from is igeret it's a one of the sections of the book of the tanya so it says there in iger that if a person doesn't have the willpower or the physical power to fast then he can redeem it with a charity because many of the tikuni many of the rectifications has to be done through fasting so there's a famous rabbi his name is rabbi gironam when he used to reach to this part and explain that one can redeem the fast with charity then he also used to ask what should a person that doesn't have money do if you don't have money are you going to redeem the fast so what would he say so don't sin you don't have money don't sin if you're thinking you're going to count on your money to save you later on then just better not to sin saying in other words two things first of all you have to take responsibility for what you do and if you already sin then there's gonna be damage involved it's not gonna just evaporate from the universe you have to take responsibility one way or another and one one of the ways of taking responsibility is paying for your own actions like an adult the other thing is that if you think you're not going to be able to pay then don't do it as the famous americans say if you can't do the time don't do the crime so think three times before you're about to do the sin if you'll be able to rectify or to pay the debt and if you think you're going to have an issue paying for that not necessarily with money with chuva with hardship with fasting whatever it is no don't do it nothing itself should make you think three times before you do a foolish act by saying thinking am i going to be able to afford the chuva do i have enough on my credit to do more i have enough what to do for so that in itself should arousing you positive thoughts but saying it's not worth now the sin again doing shiva gang fasting reading tea lime doing whatever i need to do not worth it therefore better to think three times before you do that way you don't have to pay the due and definitely not pay a high a high bill [Applause] [Music] you