Tanya By Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz Sec 3 Chap. 3 - Charity Atones for Sins

welcome to nights time class we are studying Tanya the book of Tanya we are studying actually the third section in Tanya the section called thank you it gerotor Trueba and we're actually studying the third chapter so interesting Tanya third section third chapter okay so we are actually studying a great part of Tanya because ultimately we all want to be happy right and we want to have a clean slate it's always nice to have a clean slate so it Garret ruler teaches us about the biggest gift that God gave us and that is the power of true ver true was a tremendous power because the reality is when you do something wrong you did something wrong and we all want to be able to push delete now suddenly it's hard to push delete Tanya in against a true are the outer it teaches us about the tremendous Mitzvah in the Torah that God gave us to do true ver which means if and when we do something wrong we have the power to push delete Wow is that amazing come on you can push the lead and anything new did said or even thought that's awesome so the outlet says that basic kuva basic truth which we discussed in the first chapter of Gera the trooper is making a resolve I'm not doing that anymore I did something wrong you know I'm human made a mistake I'm not doing that anymore that's true done didn't close the book right that's what the altmer says now he bring down what it means those the holy people fast when they do things wrong right they feel badly fast and the Opera says again true ver just to return to God you have to do one thing what is that make an agreement to yourself between you and God I'm not gonna do it anymore that's true however the algebra says what happens if somebody wants to be able to go back and rebuild the relationship and make the relationship just like it was before I mean even better in other words the Hebrew word is that you want that your true love shouldn't just be okay I'm sorry I'll never do it again but you wanted to be godly oh my gosh this guy sincere this guy really wants the relationship and to rebuild the relationship and a strong beautiful way so in other words it's called to make it a little tone God should be happy with you and you should be happy with God you should be back and sync together and even stronger than before so the after ourselves then there is a place in the times of heaven people brought sacrifices that means they could have used the money for themselves they weren't they bored of sacrifice they brought it as a gift to God and by bringing the sacrifice and praying over the sacrifice you're able to reconnect once again with God today we don't have the opportunity so what do we do today we fast and fasting creates that creates that reality now again basic trouve ah you don't need it but if you want to be like you know upgraded chuhwa you know something beautiful and something special then you fast so that was in last week's chapter chapter 2 about the fasting when you want to be lord someone finish on comes along districts in traffic doctor says how many fans how many fasts do you like how many times you have to fast those fasting means not eating its what is that ten minutes an hour and so we know fasting to the full day now generally speaking there two types of fasts most fast that we fast throughout the year is from before sunrise different opinions exactly how many hours before sunrise one opinion up three hours before sunrise until sunset and there's a too fast a year that are actually 25 hours right Yom Kippur at district cetera but so a fast is a full day from the morning and again debate about what time the morning starts as always everything that's available and then obviously with sunset but even that's also debate of what time of sunset okay but that's a fast how many fasts so in the Zohar and many other places that brings down how many fasts you need for a particular sin so certain sins for example 84 fast 84 fast that's a lot of fast maybe maybe right you might after today blog you'll be going on diets which is a good thing right okay certain fast 84 correct certain over a hundred fasts person in a year what you're jumping let's first talk about the the sentence right the amount of fasts again yeah and there's a whole list depending on what the sin was this is it for example as an omission of a positive commandment this transgression of a negative commandment depending on what the penalty of the commandment is whether it's just the if it's if it's biblical if at rabbinic if it's a it's a death penalty if it's a me sedation I'm gonna die in the hands of God again there's many different many different types of let's vote and obviously positive and negative and then pending on the strength of the mitzvot and a whole list of the how many fasts but irrelevant let's use the example down Tory gives by someone that omits wastefully his seed so therefore every single time you do it eighty-four fasts now here's the big the question and if you do that example let's say somebody did that more than once so the question is every single time for every single time you do they have to do 84 fast that means it all precise for example such as someone did it 10 times you definitely 840 or 20 right 60 60 80 or and so on and so forth so what opinion actually is for every single time one did a sin pending on that number of fast that you have to do guess what so can add up very quickly like before I've you said before you know it you'll be going hungry and losing a lot of weight but you baby it and save a lot of money okay there you go I'm writing from a holy person okay so that is one opinion one opinion is for every time you did a specific sin look up the amount of fats and the meter is running there's no curbing the the count now what's interesting is we'll take a little segue but an important segue the optimum uses the example 1020 or infinite right why 10 20 I mean pretty heavy numbers we're talking to 84 fast so I said 1 2 3 right why boom were jumping to 10 we're jumping to 20 we're dumping the infinite because it's brought down many places in Kabbalah and so where that what happens is every time you do a sin you actually affect a negative damage to the God's infinite name because we know everything is God so when a person when a person follows God God reveals but when you sin God gets God gets concealed so ultimately every time you you're you do a sin and you don't follow what God tells you to do we know what's happening at that moment you are unfortunately hitting God's name what's the first letter of God's name good and the sin that are you referring to actually affects the good which affects your intellect and that's why when personal sins certain sins you literally your your clarity you lose your clarity your mental clarity some of them you lose your emotional clarity and so on and so forth but every single sin chips away now we know that what's a complete human being this tense we wrote that's when you use the example of 10 and then 20 because obviously that you know each one is intertwine with the other and then obviously infinitely the way each one is intertwined with the other and I'm just a whole long Kabbalistic idea but you see when after picks a specific number of 10 20 there's a reason for it not just you know passively okay so that is one opinion one opinion is get out the calculator you did have sinned boom these are many fast every single time boom okay that's one opinion and what is that based on it's based on very simple the times at a temple if somebody did a sin that the biblical to bring a car burn a sacrifice of a hot dose for sinning then you have to bring a carbon Cantus right why don't you do it twice you've to bring two three 100 for every single time you did a sin that's how many carbon Honda's you can't just group it together there's no group on this count there's no group discount right every single one you got an African Paris and that's that opinion it holds strongly you did something wrong 10 times 20 times 30 to take out the number calculate it out and that's that's something that's so many fast you have to do that's one opinion did you do some tank God's different opinions another opinion is known old on a second bottom line is you did something wrong you're human fine I got it either true v''e but now you want to become one with God you want it like settle you settle your accounts so the day you're coming to atone irrelevant you sinned once twice ten twenty right the numbers are altering one set of paths that's it one one doesn't one set of hands to it what's the basis on everything SMI bases because in the times at a temple let's say a person for example did missed an opportunity to do a positive commandment I think it's two hundred and forty eight eight pounds of Commandments and you pick to think of anyone you supposed to do something you didn't do it so then you have to bring a sacrifice not a carbon catalyst was doing something wrong but a sacrifice which was called a carbon or law which is all the means it totally goes up to God the whole thing is burnt to God so when a person does something wrong that he's obligated to bring a carbonara so let's say for example a person did not do it's positive commandment once so you bring one two three four irrelevant number you bring one did they you come in to repent you only bring one so use this very simple just like in the times at a temple if you omit anything you didn't do a positive commandment guess what you bring one sacrifice does it that's a second opinion so one person says right no end element says one you need to come to some kind of a opinion so there's actually a third opinion and this is the accepted opinion is that for every sin that you've done so if you definitely did it once so whatever the number amount of fast that's that's what we have to do if you did it twice for every one of the sins you have to do it twice why don't you did three times so for again everyone you do three times four and on done in other words the the the the third opinion entering the third chapter right third section I the third opinion says and that's active when we go by I know that's the one that most people accept is that he's doing true with it you're printing there you know oh my gosh how many I do oh I did it once you do one to the it maxes out at three it back says three times it means let's say for example in the case that we said you have to do 84 fasts and you did it let's say what irrelevant him out any time more than three four or five twenty hundred whatever so you're just times by three and you're done eighty four times three 252 it's still a lot of fast but it's not infinite I mean it's manageable right okay now what's the reason you have to the reason there's like that for the first opinion had a reason because like the Sacramento Carbon campus the second opinion that it was only one like sacrifice of carbon olih so you have to have a reason you can just you know it's not about just a guessing game and picking out numbers from a pack what's the reason why three is so to speak the preferred number so there's over explains I'm this is always says that what happens if a person went ahead and sin against God and we know there's always very powerful and it says something it's like solid there's always that's when a person goes ahead and sins against God so you don't have us the first time it gives them a shower an analogy because analogy gonna comprehend things if you have to take a clean white sheet and boom you got a stain on there so when the person sins it's like you have a beautiful white sheet and also you see a stain on there that's so pretty stain so what do you do you clean it what happens always has a person goes in sins again so now that stain becomes stronger the stain becomes stronger so what do you do yet so we're harder to clean it but then there's always says aren't the person does this thus in the third time so what what does it say that stain spreads all over the place quantitatively and qualitatively Wow think about this the first time made of stain okay clean it second time stronger stain I need a little more maybe you know bleach or something to clean it the third time it's all over the place why is that because there's something magical that number three interesting all right we're looking right the third chapter right the third the section of tiny it's nothing mantle at number three that one's you do something three times it's not that it's a bigger stain it's a deeper stain no it's a whole different reality now it's spread all over the place and think about let's see if someone does something wrong oh my gosh you know you feel bad all right you do a second time once you do the third time it's like it's becomes a habit on a certain level it becomes a habit becomes like it comes like a nature it becomes a cheap it's something which already now you like lost the the the specialness three something yet we don't even in according to Jewish law three is a Kazakh if somebody lives in somewhere for three years that means that that's your place it's three has tremendous strength so once someone does something three times the sower says now you got like now it's spread uncontrollable unmanageable so there's always says it works in the positive as well also wait a person say saying I find one set to say so when you're doing true VAR when you do it the set they they the number they said you do it once all right that's pretty good God's already paying attention do a second time then you say three times you do this third set of five now ready you're you washed it away what happened that three the same thing that happened at three for the negatives there's life submerged just like in three it blew it out proportions when I did Trouville and they fasted the first set and I fasted the second set if after that said something happened with the number three there's something powerful it's almost like it's like miraculous it's magical whatever the term you want to use there's something power in number three and therefore the actually the prevailing opinion is whatever you do wrong you coming here today to do true VAR if you did it once okay so so recent do twice V twice fine yeah is wise if you want to do it three times irrelevant how many more times after that three times and you're good to go now that's the first section of this chapter Tania so based on this so far what do we have three difference of opinions of fasting whether it's infinite amount pending on how many sins you did or once or the prevailing opinion three times but at the end of the day is you're dealing with fasting and if you did something wrong some sins we mentioned in 284 but some are hundreds some learn more some or less you talk about a lot of fasting you can be spending a whole year fasting we didn't have a normal day if the real you can't fast on Shabbos can fasting young lives so let's say for example you have a the 84 times 3 that's 252 you know Shabbos is another 50 days yontiff you don't have one day be trying to travel to be that fasting not an easy thing to do say after makes us a strong disclaimer disclaimer that's fasting as a rule is for strong and healthy people well I wouldn't want to be a strong and healthy person but alright that's fine I got it fasting is for strong and healthy people not only that so if you if you're not strong and healthy and if you're going too fast like the prescription says and it's gonna hurt you you have an obligation not to fast why because we don't have the right to what cause pain and suffering to ourselves like we discussed in tiny doctor says a sham will aside and close we paying this off and we cannot bring pain and suffering on herself God wants us as tourists as bribe and God wants us to live God wants us to be happy God wants to enjoy life so but in true you want if you want to become one with cover if you if you're weak and you're not strong and it's gonna cause you any pain and discomfort you absolutely should not fan something out a lot of fast now again obviously we're we're dealing with someone that does have what the fast for he did sin and the fact is as we realize from before that every single person we're not really minutes we're not angels so we either transgress some of the negatives that we shouldn't of or we missed an opportunity to do something positive plenty of it so that we that that they're out there that we did not do studying Torah for example starting Tory's was the silent era when 24/7 so if for example for whatever reason that certain moment moment minute right set a time you didn't study Torah and you were not doing anything productive I think you know what's the haps and texts and emails right that's I don't know if that's a good exemption probably isn't right so if you want your bottom line is you did not fulfill upon the grounds when you should have guess what there's list the fast to do so it's not like we don't have we don't all have like an accounting that we got to settle some of these some of these sins that we have but nevertheless you know a lot of sin you know in a fast why because it's gonna cause you pain and suffering and you know I want to do that especially since we're not strong we're not so we're not strong and healthy throughout the past somewhat so much not only yep devil says if you're going to go ahead and fast so a you're doing something wrong cuz you're fasting you're causing pain and suffering to yourself be if you're someone that studies Torah and we all should be studying Torah but when you're fasting and you're not eating you're not getting your proper nutrition you're not gonna have your mind it's not going to work in to study Torah so not only are you causing yourself pain and suffering you're actually not being able to study tour right now or a study tour with your full-powered full concentration so you're down you're double hurting yourself so again it makes a very very clear the screamer don't start running out it won't start fasting because we're not as strong and we are weak and more importantly if it's gonna take away from us from studying Torah we're just it's doubly wrong so therefore fasting is not a recommendation for anyone that doesn't have the power to do so if someone's capable it's not the whole story but if you're not capable 100 and do not do it now so then if that's the case comes back the big question since we all want to be close to God we all wanna be one with God and we did things wrong so what happens we did something something wrong what happens now we okay fine god I'm never gonna do it again I'm only gonna do the right things so I'm gonna fast it's like God I can show you um sincere but you're saying don't fast I want you to enjoy life and I want you to enjoy life right you can sit and study Torah I want you to be happy I want you to be a functioning ring come on I got a vise how do i how do I accomplish again the key word the rots on how do I get one with you not only one with you but you should be happy with me I want to show you them sincere I want to give something of myself so the prophet Daniel says it's a very very important verse and prophet Daniel and he sounds like this your sins you should redeem with charity your sins you should redeem with charity and the altar it says that for every single day that you should have passed it's let's say for example let's use a simple little calculation so I think you someone did something wrong which the the prescription has 84 days of fasting and if you did it one so it's 84 but if you did it many many times more than three so fine we're accepting the fact that what 3 times 84 252 so therefore you should give 18 the coin the Alpha uses good do they polish there's a whole discussion throughout the Rebbe has a commentary exactly how much the value today is if you're really sincere I'll look it up and I'll tell you exactly what the value of 18 gudule a polishes it has to with silver coins and soul of dollars I mean it is a modern dollar value to that 18 gudule a polish but in Hebrew it's called Chi 18 you do they polish you give three times that amount per day now so prophet daniel says guess what you want to become one with God no problem obviously the preferred would be fasting but since were weak we don't the strength and some takeaways to study Torah so then you should give that and the altar of a sudden somebody wants to give more than that minimum and you can give more you can give it let's say their value is 25 50 hours there whatever the amount is you can get boy you have 100 and 200 for every day do the math how much that's amount you want to get per day times of ie the the amount of fasting if new for that sin and you'll know anything your your your charity bill is now so that's what the prophet the Neal says you want to redeem your sins give charity and there's a certain amount per day paid so you need to have basically you need to look up based on the sin you look up how many fast you have to do then you multiply that begin by three let's assume that's we're gonna want to be that number and then whatever the dollar amount per day and you give that charity often give it all one day you can give it over time but the point that you're giving this to atone for your sentence now but the author says I know I know I know your heart I want you really do want it fast and true I made a disclaimer certain fast because we're weak and that was just a in our generational week there's no old generation people much healthier and people had you know more healthier lifestyles less stress and healthier foods it wasn't contaminated and so on and so forth people had the ability fast st. smart the fast you go get headaches morons whatever the story is but that's that it's the fact other someone's you know I still want to try to accomplish this fasting thing because true I can do with charity but that charity is a secondary the primary is the fasting so others on yes yes let's look at your sentence if it sins there are serious ones in serious its transgression the way the punish women who in death death might but then or death by ear by God yummy simulation and so on and so forth so then what you should do is if you really want into it and again remember the disclaimer before that you really have the strength to do it so let's say for example let's use the number that he's been using before 84 let's say you did this wrong 84 fast and let's say you only did it once so you only did it once if you did it more let's say you did it once then or you definitely didn't warn you wanted to tell you the total 252 so doctor says take the first set 84 84 and do it but don't do it in the summer when it's a very long day take 84 and do over a 10-year period you know we take on big projects you can't do a big project in one day it was all you want to build a building right I'm building it in one day I mean come on you know anyway I think can pull it off together they bring in all the subs together to get the permits guys right there but normally speaking to build a nice big building takes a while to project so you want to take on this project of fasting so we'd overtaken your period you say you're gonna fight to 8410 your period 8 8 and a half days right you back in over 10 years and then even those days in a big calculator even those days don't do it in this summer when it's a long day take winter days because the winter it's much shorter take the shortest days in the winter right you know when the candle lighting is at 4:30 right so it's just about over 530 around foot so do those days is the winter days you do it over 10 years etc and but now that only resolves you from what from one set we still get to at least three times so he says one set the first set to over 10 years full days but now you're missing two more sets so I'll just take those two sets and what we're going to do is we're going to divide it a bit up we're going to divide it means so it's making for two sets gonna make it into four sets and what you'll do is you'll do half days because it's an opinion that two half days is like one whole day so let's say you have 84 times two sixty-eight instead of doing 168 more full days you'll do 168 double right half days and then you also divide it in fine right and you'll get up earlier and you can anything you can start it we have to also be careful together you have to start the fast three hours before becomes four it's sunrise but you can do a half a day and two half days equals a full day okay now if we talk about somebody really wants to fast and you're able to so he's telling you a plan had to do it in a healthy way do it over ten years the full days in the winter the other days you can do half days half days a half days and obviously try to do when I went to two it's also stole Shore today and you also can do it over a period of time now but let's say you say oh my gosh but see you're like you know one of these people want to make sure you dot every I and cross the t's but there's a coin to one opinion that three is not enough but one thing to say for every time you tend you need a full set of 84 so he says so fine you really want to make sure you dot the i's and cross according to that opinion so for the I gave you an advice chocolate says for the first three sets the first set you know over ten years right in the winter second side you do when I've second two sets or actually four sets because we're breaking it into half you're gonna divide them in half and the balance of your charity he says for all those other fast according to that opinion that let's say you have to fast another five thousand pass but that gives charity for so this way you clearing hamsters on all levels alright great advice now what happens after says fine but that's that with the fast thing that was saying if you really want to do it only do it for the serious sense one that's some serious punishment of death penalty and so on and so forth what about the lighter sins so for example what's considered a light of sin so ones I don't have a death penalty here or for example missing opportunity to study Torah and unfortunately we all we all suffer from that instead of sitting in studying Torah we get involved in the stuff which is literally meaningless and useless the value of time but the what you're doing the importance right now you're not silent are you could be silent the point is very simple a person should be studying Torah when 24/7 it means if you're not studying Torah you better make sure you have a good excuse hey exec don't make you have a lot of money to pay it is right the Redeemer charity so so right studying Torah will be something that you we miss out another thing for example you're gonna like this one nothing that doesn't happen to anyone over here but we just bring it up and a few guys can relate something like getting angry right never happened so getting angry guess what you won't hear the how many cents for that how many fasts for that the only one no right okay so you but getting angry for every time for every time that's using angry again for every time you get angry you got this whole snow fast you got to do and guess what how often do we get angry don't announce this is in public right we get angry are you ready for the next one no if I stop here right okay very good very good all right good good good or for example I'm gonna say it washing Hara gossip gossip sitting around and gossiping the fast add up there so that will relax for not studying Torah nothing it's done it's heavy weights all I got from been doing you know kill and killing a murder and so on so it's not saying Torah getting angry Allison Hara dad is fine that you a hundred percent curry Dean retire you don't have to be bought don't have to run after fasting I mean listen to agimo don't do it we're talking after you did it and you want to repent for those you don't have to drive yourself crazy and fast over ten years and find the shorter days those you can give charity it's not a problem not a problem at all now so here comes out Trevor and he says very this is like a very practical question hold on a second so we just said right that whether it's in cases serious offences and the balance I have it you're gonna have a use charity bill or in cases where it's you know that's the studying Torah when I should getting angry so on and so forth in Russian Hara and gossip I mean you start doing the math you believe me going fortunes of money fortunes so what's the problem because we know according to Jewish law what we know person should get how much how much the person give charity what's required to give charity any right now how much is required to give no required to give charity is ten percent you made a hundred dollars ten dollars and belong to you made a thousand dollars one hundred and so on so what ten percent is not yours template you have to give yeah that's an obligation you have to give and this is tithing this is not a poor person that comes we had the one jail our course about the whole idea of charity but stick focused on the on the tithing target you have to give ten percent you have to why don't somebody says I want to give more so Torah says guess what Turin has rules because they deter wants you to live with her wants you to enjoy life you want to give more no problem up to twenty percent don't if you're giving more than twenty percent now you're acting irrational and responsible Torah says you should give ten percent if you want to be give more no problem up to twenty percent so if you make let's say for example a hundred thousand dollars a year you have to give $10,000 charity and you can give up to twenty obviously pending on how much more you're making that's how much more you can give okay so now and if you give more the Torah says that's bhisma's you're being responsible you've been yapping irrational now some people I think actually keep telling much more didn't Bill Gates the way or is half misfortune or something I mean whatever that I was saying going to Jewish law ten percent of twenty percent so down to her says but hold on a second I think for all these sins it's very possible we're gonna be going into the 30 40 60 percent range right so I have the two go together so the optimist is very simple everyone has a budget right we all the family budget how much you spend on food and clothing and shelter and travel whatever it is right education religion we have a budget how much is your budget for medical bills exactly there you go whatever you need when it comes to medical bills physical health is there a limit guess what song you to sir hurting you it's gonna be next year the budgets out what kind of crazy thing is that my tooth is hurting or whatever or whatever maybe medical there's no limit there's no limit why the question is a silly question why because it's medical you got to take care the problem whatever it costs of course you gotta borrow you got to go charity whatever whatever but the point is medically why because the person has to be healthy so the algebra says when it comes to your physical health what do you say what's the buzzer for medical bills whatever it is so when it comes to you spiritual health what's the budget there whatever it is you sinned you messed up guess what you're gonna pay whatever it takes to heal your soul the 10% of 20% that's for regular base of charity but when a person is in a situation where his soul got disconnected from God and you want to reconnect and you have to give charity to atone for the sins what's the budget there is no budget and it's not a contradiction to the ten twenty percent and therefore the al-tohra says that people today give lots and lots of cherry why not for the 10% to 20% because we all sin whether it's some serious stuff whether it's some light stuff whether it's again there's not studying Torah as much as we should or getting angry god forbid or gossiping and slander so guess what we're human and but nearly we want to come comic God so we said we got godless and we're human we made a mistake I'm sorry I should really be fasting but guess what I can't handle it so here and you keep on giving charity and the artery actually finishes off the chapter with a verse from a car and it sensibly as follows house they have Shem ki lo some know which means house they the kindness of God the kinds of God ki because like some new asana means there's no end it's not completed cetera so yalter explains as follows keloid samdo because we are not complete what does that mean we're not complete we're broken when we broken we're not complete we don't do every single minute are we supposed to we unfortunately transgress the negative Commandments so Pillai some know therefore has their shame we have to come on to the charity and kindness of God and we know God is what it's God finite infinite God is infinite so we need God's infinite charity so therefore the way to evokes God's infinite charities what else doing our charity on whatever we can do on an infinite level and by and by giving charity and giving charity as much as we can you know what happens we actually atone for our sins and we create that our relationship with God should be what lit ruts own so as you can tell this chapter chapter 3 and the guys the truth is a very very important chapter because the author lays out for you an ability to become reconnected to God in a very practical way the obviously he lays out to you the rules of difference of opinions of how about fasting but ultimately he says you really shouldn't fast unless you're able to and if you're able to it's only for certain sins but primarily you couldn't atone for all your sins that you've done sins for sins that we've done that either that we did wrong or you miss doing right by doing what like in charity without a budget to atone for our sins and guess what our sins will be atone for