Rambam Laws of Teshuvah - Chapter 3 / Halachot 1 & 2 - Rabbi Alon Anava | Atzmut.org

[Music] [Applause] [Music] we're gonna start today chapter three in the laws of juventus by my money but my monarchies by rambam and uh we're gonna try to do see if we can do two or today if not we'll break it into two classes but in the chapter three ver number one alef it says as follows every person has some sins and some it's what he calls it's huiot merits and avonaught since avon just to be grammatically correct is a sin that you know and you are aware of and you in most cases also do it deliberately misha's a person that has much more mitzvot over average is called sadiq not bad it's a pretty cool title now let's see if you have more mitzvoth a person that has much more sins than merits then mitzvot is called russia a wicked person and you can be a very nice person and feed the cats in the street and be very kind to the people in the supermarket and but you can still be called wicked because according to the biblical term terminology if you do sins then you're wicked now how is about if somebody has mahatella half mitzvoth half of the world he's called bainoni now this is benoni what the rambam says this is not the benoni that the balatania speaks in the book of tanya that's a whole different level here he says benjamin half half now this is when he talks about an individual how about a country medina same thing with the country if the majority of the citizens of the country have merits and mitzvot and they're overpowering the sins hare is adequate and the country is even considered righteous now in case it's not familiar to you but when we pray on rosh hashanah there's a part that we recite by saying who's going to be rich who's going to be poor who's going to die who's going to who's going to live with the sword with an animal it's also talking about which country is going to go up and which country is going to go down the majority of them of the citizens are doing good then the merit of the country goes up and if the major um citizens the majority are doing sins and the whole country is considered wicked and then the same thing for the entire world you know then not only we get judged all the world gets judged the entire hola means world the entire world gets judged every little butterflies also get judged every ant every fish every tree every human being seven and a half billion and counting we all get judged it's not only just for the jews but nevertheless the whole world is also being judged if the majority of the population of the world are doing good then the entire planet the entire world is being judged favorably if not they're not this is number one and it's important to know because sometimes you see that the population makes a huge difference the same thing by the way with the city and everything so it's in our interest to make as much as people do chuva and behave right because that gives merit to the entire world the entire city and of course to myself now number two if a person has much more sins on over the mitzvot and again he's using the word avonaut and zhuyot but i'm going to translate now the words khuyoda's mitzvot instead of merits but he calls it merits so if a person has much more sense 95 percent since five percent emits votes then this person can be liable and die on the spot because of his behavior actually a person can actually lose his life some people shalom they die in the young heart attacks diseases getting run over od whatever it is a person can die very young because the majority of his actions are sins and he says miadu met beresho because of his evilness is uh he dies right away and he adds here as a side note even though sometimes we see complete wicked people and it seems like they have much more sins but they have a long life sometimes you see these wicked people they live till they're 90. look at what's his name soros and all these other gangsters the rothschilds and the rockefeller how was he when he died that whatever that devil 102 oh how do you see where this is not a good example these are real evil people but nevertheless these people they they have a long life because says for every little the maybe you did something good i'm gonna let you take it all in this world and in the world to come you have zero you have nothing in the world to come but nevertheless let's not concentrate about these devils as countrymen are people that you are you know on a daily basis you see them sin and you say that person is full of sins how come he doesn't die first of all we don't know which meats what they have they might do a lot of bad things but they might have quietly a lot of mitzvoth that are much more powerful than our their sins so we don't know so even if a person looks like a very wicked person he might have a lot of good mitzvoth that he does that are considered very powerful and you can't judge the book by its cover saying in other words now where do we learn that a person can die because of his sins it says in the book of irmiyau the book of jeremiah chapter 30 verse 14 a love avonecha for the greatness of your inequity because you have so much sins that can cause you on today is about a country that has many many sins of it that also the country can go down look how many countries went down they didn't sustain or survive where did we learn that from says in the torah it says in the book of chapter 18 verse because they're it's talking about sorry because sorry it's this is talking about saddam since the cry of sodom and gomorrah has become great so we see you know stone was a majority of sins there the storm makes las vegas looks like uh a kindergarten what was going on in stonewall so the whole city even abraham couldn't find even the future they came there destroyed the whole city now the same thing with also the entire world if the entire world had more sins than merits the world will not exist by the way that's really good news means that as a planet we must have much more mitzvot where do we see that if shalom the entire planet would be ceiling that the entire earth will be destroyed then you can find this in the book of bereshit chapter 6 verse 5 in the flood of noah of course as it says and the lord saw that the evil man was great in the earth and that was the time of the flood of noah so she destroyed the entire world so we have here a few examples jeremiah says that if it's just you hero if you have a lot of sins you will die before your time and we see uh that if it's a city then we have an example with dom vamora and there were other cities and the entire planet then when the time with the flood of noah and only this calculation by the way it's not according to the quantity of the me of the sins and the quantities of them it's vote rather al-nafi godland by by their quality negative or not because sometimes one mitzvah can be more powerful than a thousand sins so it goes by the volume or by the equality and not by the quantity how do we know that sometimes one meets well can overpower many of our average sins well it says in the book of elohim book of kings a chapter 14 verse 13 because there is found in him a good deed towards the lord sometimes you can have a thousand sins but you did one good mitzvah ooh can say okay you know a little bit of light diminishes a lot of darkness maybe that mitzvah is going to save you and that's very good news by the way because many people think they don't have any hope i did so many scenes i'm doomed but that's not for you to decide because maybe along the way hashem gave you a few opportunities and you grabbed a great mitzvah and this mitzvah the power of it will overpower all the sins that you did i mean you know where the word sadiq comes from sadiq comes from the word in hebrew so dick right he won the case you don't have to want the case a hundred percent even if you have eighty percent good twenty percent bad if the eighty percent is greater you can win the case so you might still have to go to genome and wash off that twenty dirt but who cares so you go to a little vacation again on they get with all the sins washed off and you go into canada this is in a good case if not they'll send you down here to live another full cycle and repent but nevertheless we see from the book of kings chapter kings a chapter 14 verse 13 that it says because there was there is finding him a good deed but on the other hand sometimes you can have a hundred or a thousand meats vote and one sin will wipe off all these mitzvoth i mean everything has to be backed up where do we where do we learn that from and this can be found in the book of kohelet exclusives chapter 9 verse 18 and it says one sinner destroys much good you can be good for 20 years then you do one sin he blew up the whole thing but that has to be a serious sin by the way and this is not going to be decided by you by only by the master of the universe he the ones who decide you can decide oh this mitzvah is great this sin is nothing says i i run the show here i will decide and only the master of the universe don't have anybody come and tell you by the way this will be more powerful than that here rambam says clearly only he knows he the master of the universe only he knows the power of the mitzvah the severity of the sin he makes the rules he runs the show he knows because sometimes a person can do one mitzvah and for him it's something huge for you to put filing on every day in the morning it's uh normal so you get a certain volume of power over reward from that mitzvah but imagine a person that for him to put filling on is the biggest challenge in the world and for one time he was able to put filing on the one-time feeling of of this person can be a thousand times greater than all your feeling you did in all your life because for you it came naturally and for him it was a huge struggle so there's not even ways to even package it by saying this is worth this and this is worth that a person that is by nature a calm person and for him he never gets angry so on the other hand there's another person that his nature is angry and he gets angry all the time it's not the same anger it's not the same effect so the bottom line is that the kalosh baku is the one who decides who's going to be judged how and what but it's important to know that there is going to be a day that the kadash were going to take all your sins and all your merits and put them together and start seeing what one is worth and might be able to tell you for these hundred sins one mitzvah you're able to knock it off and for this 20 years of hard work once in you were able to blow it up so saying in other words as the mishna says do not disregard the small mitzvot comparing to the big mitzvoth because you don't know the reward you might say i'm going to concentrate on just on these big things how do you know that maybe this little thing is not worth as the huge ones and the same thing with the sin one person says you know what i'm gonna be like this when it comes to the severe sins but with the small sins then i don't think they're so important that that is fine although that will never that will never work but hypothetically how do you know what's the severity of a sin so to conclude this is you have to take in the same measure the severity of the sins the importance of them it's vote and to know that at some point there's going to be some type of a comparison and just to reiterate only the master of the universe knows the power or he says the weight of the mitsuba nobody can come and tell you this is worse worth more than this and this is worse than that and so forth only the master of the universe and bazal hashem we should hope and pray and wish that the master of the universe will consider everything that we do powerful i mean everything that we do good should be powerful everything that we do bad should be minimum and by default we'll win the case and we'll beat sodeka badin forgive all of our sins [Music] [Applause] [Music] you