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HELPING A SINNER

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Rabbi Yaron Reuven

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[Music] if if you see for example that there is a uh I mean where he's explaining over there from the verses is a little different the situ ation today so for example it says that if there's let's say a hole in the ground and uh your friend's donkey falls into the hole in the ground fell into the hole and you know that if you don't save this donkey he's going to die and your friend's going to lose money don't just walk through it and uh make it like oh it's not my donkey so I don't care know like people sometimes they see you know garbage on the floor here in abet and they just walk like they didn't see the garbage why cuz the rabbi can pick it up you know no no they don't want to pick it up they see the girls slaving over bringing food every week but everybody pretends like they didn't eat so the girls pick it up the girls make it the girls do everything but the guys just eat like pigs no one wants to help you know like that you know you guys ever hear such a thing it happens sometimes so that's called Selfish that's what it's cold so says don't be selfish but don't be selfish not with your friend or even with your enemy someone you don't like why don't you like him oh he's a sinner oh this guy's this guy's a sinner this guy you know he steals an in his business this guy uh violate Shabbat so ah I shouldn't help him no no no my friend if he's a Jew you have to help him unless he's an idol worshipper if he's an idol worshipper or he's someone that leads other people astray then it says let his donkey die let him die too if he's stuck in a hole if the idol worshipper is stuck in a hole let him die don't save him but how do we actually act in the world we act in the world but we save them too why if you are a doctor and you get a call on Shabbat that someone is at risk of dying unless you come to the hospital and you save their life with some type of surgery if it's a Jew it's a mitzvah for you to go save this guy's life it's a mitzvah for you to drive in a car in Shabbat to go save somebody's life Mitzvah it's not like it's not a sin it's actual mitah to drive on Shabbat and perform anything to save a Jewish life but what about if it's not a Jew what about if it's not a Jew you if you're a doctor you still have to drive on Shabbat to go save the non-jew and the reason why is not because to save the non-jew but rather it's because if you don't save the non-jew then what's going to end up happening is that the non-jewish doctors are not going to save the Jews and you're going to indirectly hurt other Jews therefore you go save the non-jew also therefore you go will save the N also it's not a sin it's not a sin no it's not a sin no because you're doing it for the betterment of but uh the point is is that in in this specific example is that you have to make sure that your uh um Judgment of other people even if their Sinners is not too heavy and not heavier than Gods you're not allowed to hate The Sinner you have to hate the sin has a uh a uh debate between uhan and his wife BR bu was a very wise woman that uh knew a lot of Tor and uh she saw that her husband the was being uh insulted and uh bothered by these aim these gangsters outside every day these uh little gangster kids would bother him call them names all types of things so they bothered them so much every day every day every day that one day he found himself starting to pray for them to die and buah before he finished the prayer because how he finish to pray definitely they would die buah who heard this stopped him in the middle of the prayer she says my dear husband don't you know that Hashem doesn't want them to die if he wanted them to die they would already be dead don't you know that you're supposed to hate the sin and not the sinner rather than praying for them to die pray for them to do chuva and says many you're right you're right I should pray for them do CH he pray for them do CH and then ended up doing Chua so that means that if you see AABB driving on Shabbat you see someone that's married to a non-jew you see a Jew married to a non-jew you see a Jewish guy going to casino gambling you see a Jewish guy eating pork on yum don't hate him the sin of course you should hate the sin but him itself him his personality don't hate him per se why he's not normally speaking I'm not talking about all the situations normally he's not making the sin because he hates God generally speaking most Jews are dear people and they're simply sinning because they're ignorant they're clueless of the law and even if they know the law they don't know the consequence of violating the law so they're eating pork because their belly is of higher value to them than the Torah is if they're inar that's because they private part is their brain instead of their brain being their brain if they stealing in business that's because they've turned money into God which Many religious people do also so don't hate the sinner hate the sin unless unless the sinner is a if the sinner leads other people astray if the sinner makes fun of the Torah if the sinner leads people to Christianity or to idolatry or to atheism or to Muslims or Islam or he leads them away from God altogether for no reason or he leads them to nightclubs or he leads them to make all types of crimes against hem that's he does it like he knows this a sin he doesn't care he leads them astray on purpose he makes fun of the Torah he writes things against the rabbis that are he uh makes fun of God things like that then he's a then he's a m and a person like that people somebody that leads people astray and a person like that it is a mitvah again it's a mitvah to pray for that person to die it's no it's not true it's a mitvah to pray for that person to die you pray for him to die without even knowing three times a day this is in your amid three times a day you pray for such people to die why because they lead people to away from God every Jew that prays amida this is part of amida if you're a woman you pray this once a day you're a guy you pray this three times a day why cuz these people are enemies so those people mitv to hate them wait for them to die but as far as regular average uh Jewish guy that uh that is clueless just doesn't doesn't follow the T no that guy you pray for him to do CH andm he will hopefully he will uh you know it's a uh sometimes they don't like my cousin unfortunately but uh nonetheless it's a uh it's it's somebody that you need to help um but uh again it's a uh where if you see a person like that that violat Shabbat or other things um but not on purpose not to make God mad and so on you see his donkey in the hole go help him go help him why do you go help him because that could potentially be your opening to not only show that you don't hate him you hate his sins but not him uh but also further than that there could also be a way for you to connect to this person and show them the beauty of Judaism I know that many times when people learn the beauty of Judaism the true beaut Judaism their entire perspective changes you know it's a uh it's it's when they actually understand that we have rules for everything but that's to Mankind's benefit they realize how beautiful Judaism is [Music]