GOG U'MAGOG MOVIE PART 12

the the was written about a thousand years ago. A section of the vast majority of Jews do not know exists and it's called G of repentance. This section of the book is something you every Jew has to read multiple times because it not only will tell you things that are of paramount importance for you to know if how you do this juba if you're doing even the right thing or not but also all of the issues we've discussed against the heretics are addressed here says what is the prerequisite to a person's cha to a person's repentance I say it's possible for him to do chuba only after he knows the following seven things one he must clearly recognize the shamefulness of his deed. For if this is not clear to him and he is in doubt or uninformed about it, it is not possible for him to have remorse or seek forgiveness for it. As it is written in 515, for I am aware of my transgressions and my sin is ever before me. Meaning for him to do chba, he has to be knowledgeable enough to know that what he did is wrong. And if he doesn't know what he did is wrong, then he hasn't done. I mean, even if he keeps Shabbat, he keeps kosher, but he doesn't know speaking bad about is not allowed or that stealing from his customers. Even if they're going, he's going to get rewarded for the Shabbat that he kept and the kosher that he kept, but he hasn't completely cha. He's going to get severely punished for whatever he did. Well, I did cha. Yeah, but you're a thief. Yeah, but you're No, but I didn't know. Okay, so now you'll know. But not only enough to knowledge, he says it's not possible for him to remove the remorse. He has to get himself to a point where he has remorse over the things that he did wrong against Hashem. Now who do you think knows more about anything in Torah or anybody else in the world today? Meaning that if anybody else in the world says then what says you don't have to argue who's right or wrong. So automatically we see in the first one told us already what the Raab says. This is in essence telling us already if he is not going to learn Tawa there's no way for him to do. Why? Because he's never going to become about what he did wrong. Two, he must see the wrong in his deed and its basis. For if it is not clear to him that what he did was wrong and that his action was not right, he will neither regret it nor accept upon himself the conditions of repentance. Rather, he will be judged as one who sinned in error and he has an ample excuse. As it says, who can fathom errors? Cleanse me of any unknown faults. So already here he's saying, if he doesn't see what he did, he knows it's wrong, but he doesn't see why it's wrong. I know he's not allowed to steal. I know why it's not allowed to doa dal. I know it's not. I just don't know why it's wrong. I don't know why it's wrong to uh do catch and pants. I don't know why it's wrong to wear idol worship on your head. I don't know why it's wrong to waste seed. I don't know why it's wrong. Hashem made the body that way. Like some people tell me made the body spit. Does that mean you spit like a like a like a camel? You you know it's not allowed because you just heard it in a lecture, but you don't realize why it's wrong. Says if he doesn't understand why it's wrong, then he's not going to be able to do chuva for it completely. It's partial chuva and he's only going to stop because he's it's not allowed, not because he understand that it's wrong. That'll be considered accidental sin. Meaning he's still going to get some level of punishment for it. Why? It's not allowed. Three, he must realize that retribution for his misdeed is absolutely inevitable. For if he is unaware of this certainty, there is nothing to compel him to regret the act. But if it is clear to him that he will be punished for it, he will regret it and ask forgiveness. As it is written, for after returning I felt remorse and after learning the consequences, I struck my thigh in grief. 31:18. In so many words, if he does not believe that Hashem will punish him for every single one of his sins, that means that he cannot do chuba. He is incapable. She is incapable of actually completing her cha. Why? Because if they don't believe in the punishment, don't understand the punishment. In so many words, this is not in their belief system that they're never going to be able to ever understand how Hashem runs the world, why he runs the world the way he does. And therefore, they're never going to understand the magnitude of their actions to the point of regret. Now, if I tell you it was a guy grew up, became fantastic person, very smart, very giving, very successful. eventually got to the point where he was able to help hundreds of thousands of people eat every year, give hundreds of thousands of people jobs, improve the morality of the world, tremendously publicized God's name, did everything great. Someone that made a major real difference in the world. You say, "Well, where is this person? He died." When before he did all those things, who is this person? That's one of the people that one of the women killed while he was a baby. It's called abortion. Some people they get pregnant so they can have kids. Some people they get pregnant so they kill him. What she's not realizing, she thinks, "Oh, no. Maybe it's just a it's a it's it's not really a baby. It's really like it's not a thing yet. It's not a thing. What they're not understanding is that a person doesn't think that that thing in their belly is a real person. It's not possible for them to ever get to the point of remorse of understanding that they just murdered a person that could have been Mashia. Murdered a person that could have been murdered a person that could have been the best doctor in the world. Murdered a person that could have saved life. Murdered a person that did some wonderful thing. They're not thinking it's a person. So it's not possible for them to understand what the magnitude of what they did is. Hence the reason why they can't do that's three. Four, he must know that his misdeed is held against him and recorded in the book of his demerits and that it will not be overlooked, forgotten or laid aside as it says Deuteronomy 32:34. Is it not stored up with me, sealed in my treasuries? Each person signs with his own hands that every man may know his deeds, says Job 37:7. For if he thinks that it is dropped and not held against him, he will neither regret nor ask forgiveness. Since his punishment is slow and coming, as it says in because the sentence for an evil deed is not carried out immediately, they have therefore emboldened to do evil. Here again the says a thousand years ago knowledge of reward and punishment is not just of paramount importance but if it doesn't exist chuba is not possible because he's going to think listen I know I used to do bad things but I'm not doing as bad now I'm doing less bad so God's going to give me the credit for it and he's just going to let go of those other things no you're not understanding not a single thing you've ever done wrong will be skipped unless you've done everything there is no skipping nothing will be overlooked nothing will be led aside side. The moment a person doesn't realize that, it's not possible for them to ever get to a level of remorse, to ever really think there's really going to be a judgment. And that's why they get shocked when they hear punishments, gay. No, stuff like that. Why? Cuz in their mind, like, no, no, no. What do you mean? I'm a decent person. I'm not killing anybody. Yeah, but you realize that you cheated on your wife the other day. Yeah, but she didn't find out. So, it doesn't hurt. Yeah, but you realize that, you know, according to it's not allowed. You know, I'm not going to do it again. Yeah, but you you stole from a customer. Yeah, but that was only one. You know how many customers I did the right thing for? He thinks like it's thing like people think like it's a law of averages or something or a majority or or a batting average like baseball like people have this convoluted way of thinking in order to justify and rationalize their sins says if you don't understand reward and punishment you're never going to be able to complete your it'll always be partial. If a person does not believe in punishment, they're not considered part of amicad. No, but this is people that believe in punishment. They just don't think it necessarily applies to them or to what they did. If I'm no longer killing people, then I'm no longer a murderer. If I'm no longer stealing, then I'm no longer a thief. No. No. What you're not understanding is chuba doesn't work that way. It's not just stop crime. You also have to fix the past. And that's the difference between the Torah and people's logic. Until you've done cha for it, you're still a criminal. Number five, he must be certain that repentance chuga is the cure for his illness, the way to recovery from his wrongdoing and shameful conduct, and that through repentance, he can rectify his error and regain what he lost. For if this is not clear to him, he will despair of attaining the creator's pardon and grace and will fail to seek his forgiveness for past offenses and says by the prophet, you have said our transgressions and sins are upon us and we perish because of them. How can we hope to live? The creator then responded through his prophet as I live says Godem. It is not my desire that the wicked man die but that the wicked man change his way and live. So in so many words says a person can't just do cha just because it's a new lifestyle like he's living in a religious community now so therefore he's going to keep or she's married she's married a religious guy now so therefore she's going to keep Shabbat from now on let them become a religious verse then you marry them someone that's going to say they are going to change for you is not going to change for you number six he must make personal accounting of God's graces upon him and of his own disobedience of gratitude for these favors he should weigh the punishment for a transgression against its pleasure and the sweet bliss of the reward for righteous act in this world and the next against its pain as our masters of blessed memory said consider the cost of a mitzvah against its reward and the gain of in sin against its loss. So again you see how reward and punishment is of paramount importance repeated one after another as a condition. Now if a person's asking why is punishment so important for us to know about because that says the that's how Hashem made people seven he must exert tremendous self-restraint to abstain from a sin to which he has grown accustomed to and must resolve in his heart and innermost being to detach himself from it as it's written prophet yel rend your hearts and not your clothes once these seven points have been clearly impressed on the mind of the sinner it is possible for him to repent for his sins he still hasn't repented it becomes possible without these seven things it is not possible to do full cha you know people say no no I'm going to do chuva from love you don't even understand the requirement for cha from fear when you say such foolish things section four there are four essential elements to repentance one feeling remorse for past sins two desisting from them and renouncing them three confessing them and asking forgiveness for them four undertaking in one's heart and innermost being not repeated so we see here that chuba is very any constant toil on your own heart and mind. Torah is is going to humble you. Cuz if you're learning, that means you're going to be doing Shiva. At some point, you're going to get to this. And when you get to this and you realize, oh man, I forgot my homework. I haven't done this. I've already bought 10 15 years. I haven't done all this stuff. But that's also why a person that's done cha is even higher somewhere than someone that hasn't sinned. Why? The person has done cha gone through this process, developed, worked, reworked, rewired, renewed himself so many different times and continues to do it every day because he realized what's really required. Desisting is a sign of one's firm faith and reward and punishment. As it says, let the wicked person forsake his way and the corrupt individual his thoughts, says Isaiah 55:7. One who persists in his sins says, because of the outrage of their violence, I was angry and struck, hiding in my anger. Yet they went astray in the way of their hearts. So again, the says just to stop the sin, you have to believe in reward and punish. That's how Hashem made people. If you do not think that you're going to get punished for what you're doing, you're not going to stop. But how is this guy stopped cheating on his wife even without believing uh that he's going to get punished? I mean, he didn't stop because it's wrong. He stopped doing wrong simply because it's no longer interested. But if you offer him something better, he'll do it. The only reason he's not a murderer is not because he doesn't want to kill. He just hasn't had the opportunity to make it work. Anytime he wanted to kill a person, he was surrounded by people that could arrest him could kill him also. You know, it wasn't worth it yet. The riskreward wasn't in his favor. But if you put him in a place where all of the things allow him to do the crime, he'll do it in a second. Only reason he's not he's not performing the crime right now is not because he's not a criminal. He's still a criminal. The same can be observed in human relationships. When one who has wronged this fellow has remorse and desists from wronging him, he is then considered worthy of forgiveness and pardon. Asking forgiveness is a sign of one's humility and loneliness before God. And confession of sin precipitates his being forgiven. As it says in Proverbs 28:13, "But he who admits and forsakes his sins will be forgiven of the opposite behavior." It says, "I'll bring you to judgment for saying I have not sinned," says Jeremiah. So he who conceals his sins will not succeed. So here a person that does not fear punishment is not going to apologize. If he's not going to apologize to explain to him what that means is very simple. Just think of you hurt somebody that's very very dear to you. You hurt your boss. You hurt your spouse. You hurt somebody that's important. You just going back to think as if nothing happened is just not going to work because they're going to think, "Wait, he did all that to me. She did all that to me. And now they're just acting like everything's okay. No apology, even slang apology like my bad, like something, like anything, no flower, no nothing. They're either a sociopath or they're so selfish that they don't even care about you. Meaning that if you don't apologize, it makes things worse. That's essence what says if you don't apologize to Hashem, it's not possible to do. Now, why would anybody apologize? Cuz they know there's a punishment. If you don't think there's a punishment, you can't apologize. So when a person gets the test, you should know Hashem's knocking on your head. He wants to show people if you're sadik or not. If you pass the test, look, look, look, look, look how great my son is. Look, look, look, I knocked on him with the If you don't pass the test, then Hashem also uses that says, "Look, I didn't give a miracles." You know why? Look what happened. Look, give him the test and embarrass me this guy. So that's the thing. When you don't know, you think that you're righteous by doing XYZ when in reality you're wrong. The amount of that Hashem gives us doesn't just end with just giving us some money, giving us a wife or a husband, giving us some kids. People don't understand the opportunity to do chuva is so great said if we had yonipur once every 70 years. If we understood what that means, we should dance for all 70 years for that to have yonipur. Needless to say, how much should we dance? We can do cha every single day. Not only that we can do cha. We're already on the path of doing cha which is not just dancing. They should be dancing in the in the heavens cuz we don't really understand what we're doing and where we were supposed to go to. You don't realize you are on a oneway ticket to g it never ends. We have no concept of what that means. Talks about forever gay. Talks about horrible, horrible things that happen to people that do not do cha. This no longer applies to you so long as you continue on the path that you're in. Imagine a person lives October 7th every single day for 500 million zillion years. You can't imagine it. It's not there's no concept of of such time of such suffering. There's no concept of that. Imagine that person saying actually what you are on the path to getting that 500 million years of October 7th. Instead, not only you're not going to get it, but you're going to get 500 times better on the positive end only good, only blessings, only greatness, everything good forever. That person knows a lot more than you about the value of cha. Why? He saw with his own eyes. I was supposed to go to gay and gay. He saw the fire in front of him. He started melting from it just from being a few miles away from it. He was screaming from the heat, started suffering. He saw with his own eyes. And now you give him not only don't give him the suffering, you give him good. That person knows what cha means. You don't know what cha is. Why? Cuz you're not dancing every day. I don't see you guys dancing. The average person, oh yeah, you know, I keep Shabbat good. Yeah, I learn. You have no idea what miracles happening every single day that you keep a mitzvah. You have no idea how fortunate you are that you're a Jew that's able to say and it be it. It's applicable to you that he is your one God and that's it and you are part of AmI and not some other nation. You have no idea what you have. You can read Torah without somebody threatening your life. You could just open the book and read it and that's it and like no one's going to kill you. Whatever you want, however you want. You have no idea what that's worth. Why? Cuz you never saw otherwise. You never saw otherwise. You know like one of the one of the that had to flee while they kidnapped his daughter took her hostage and he was fleeing them because they were the crusades. And while he's running away from the crusade, he writes one of the most important chubot in the history of alaka. You're writing a chba while you're running and your daughter was kidnapped and everything else. The amount of privilege and blessing that a kadosh gave us to be living right now to be in the generation of msiah to be a generation of go to be in a generation where there's endless amount of Torah available. If that was alone there's no end to the thank yous. We should say the fact that we're already on the right path meaning you already made the decision to do Juva. You're already doing chuba. You're already in chuba for years already. If you're not ear to ear smiling, if not physically at the very least spiritually always happy, there's something wrong. Happy is not something that you can make yourself. Happy is a state of being at all time. Happy means you are in this state of being without any other stimuli whatsoever. Meaning it doesn't matter what happens in the world. You have money, you don't have money, you have good health, you don't have good health, you have problems, you don't have problems, you deal with the problems, you deal with the pain, you deal with the agony, but it doesn't change your happiness. You're happy. Why I'm connected to Hashem? Is there anything better than that? Connected to Hashem. Is there anything better than that? And you say, "Oh, yes. Nice. What nice. What nice. You understand what Hashem is." That's the thing. The person doesn't understand. Why doesn't he understand? Because you can't explain blue to someone that's blind. When is he going to start seeing? More to learn. More to applies. Mora lives. guy's got seen. But a person that sees blue with clear eyes, you don't have to explain to them. A person understand what the hell I'm talking about. That means he's still blind. He does cha and it improves over time. We learned about go. We learned a little bit more about what chuva is. We learned a few more questions. We also learned that we have a lot more opportunities than we thought imaginable. We have a lot more to thank Hashem for at the opportunities that he gives us even though the opportunities are difficult. And may it be his will that will give us the strength and the ability to succeed in all of these opportunities that he gives us to serve him, to publicize his name, to glorify his name, publicize his holy Torah, sanctify his name so we can serve our purpose in this world and merit to see the salvation come after Gum Magog through Magog and ultimately to merit to see Hashem's name glorified and sanctified in every part of the world because Amen. Amen. [Music]