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Who Goes To Gehinnom?

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Rabbi Yaron Reuven

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Who else doesn't have a share in the world to come? Those who cause many to sin, which includes those who cause them to commit a severe sin like Yoav and Zadok and Baitus. And also those who cause them to commit a slight sin. Even the nullification of a positive mitzvah, it includes both those who force others to sin like Manasseh, who would kill Jews if they didn't worship idols, and those who entice others and lead them astray like an immodest woman that walks around enticing men to look at her. This is considered, my beloved ones, a very big problem. Why? If you are a woman walk around immodest, [music] you're causing people to sin. And unfortunately, your beauty is your venom for yourself and for your victims. [music] And a person that does not pay attention to these things can literally lose their world to come and go to a place where they can't get themselves out of. Now, you think that this is an exaggeration, we just read the Rambam. But if that's not enough for you, we can also look at other places. Rabbeinu Yonah in Iggeret Teshuva, [music] page 68, section 78. Woman must be modest, Rabbeinu Yonah says 800 years ago. She must be modest and make sure that she does not attract people to look at her. If she's modest and people look at her anyway, that's not her problem. But Hashem takes care of everybody. If you're modest, Hashem's going to make sure people don't look at you >> [music] >> in an inappropriate way. And women that have changed their life tell me this all the time. I don't know what happened, but every Jew used to look at me now. I think I I look prettier, more modest, more classy, but people have respect for me. People have respect for me. I don't know what happened. So, that's kedusha. Kedusha is following you. Don't worry. Rabbeinu Yonah says a woman that's not modest causes men to look at her, men that are not her husband. Whether they're looking at her face or they're looking at her hands, and needless to say at other parts, Rabbeinu Yonah says. He's not talking about a woman that's has no arms and no legs, as the Gemara says. No arms and no legs means she has no covering of her arms and she has no covering of her legs. The Gemara says, "Woman with no arms and no legs, not allowed to look at her." So, the Gemara says, "What do you mean? She has no arms and no legs, why would you even look at her?" No, no arms and no legs means she's not covering her arms, she's not covering her legs. Means she's immodest like a prostitute, it's a preetzut. Okay, no look, okay, fine. Rabbeinu Yonah doesn't even go into that. He says even if she gets people [music] to look at her face or her hands, meaning [music] small things. Everyone that's going to look at her is going to go down to gehennom, and she will go down to gehennom for each [music] and every single person that she brought down to gehennom. Because she's the one that caused them to sin, because she did not act with modesty. And they fell because of her. What does it mean fell? They ended up wasting seed.