Rambam Laws of Teshuvah - Chapter 3 / Halachot 13 & 14 - Rabbi Alon Anava | Atzmut.org

[Music] [Applause] [Music] so we're going to continue in chapter 3 in laws of juventu we're going to learn today the 13th and 14th allah and that will conclude chapter 3. so if a person puts fears on somebody on the community and not for the sake of heavens the one who puts so much fear and comes and really scares everybody but he's doing it for his own honor not for hashem and all of his belongings and everything that he does is not for the sake of shamayim for example who does he who does it directed to to malkei of deco having for kings that are idolaters this is another type of person that loses their ulamaba just to remind you uh we're we're in chapter three we were talking here about the ones who loses their la maba so we gave a few different types of groups this is talking about another group that's called metis they're putting fear on the community now if you're scaring the community in order for them to do chuva by saying look at all the problems we have look how hashem is not happy look at this look at that's good you're making everybody do chew up but if you're scaring people like now what they do they're scaring people that there's a plague there's no plague there's some scaring everybody millions of people are walking in the streets full of fear and they're afraid of their own of their own shadow they're afraid to shake hands they're afraid to associate with people there's no plague now i'm not saying the virus doesn't exist but it's not worse it's like a running nose that's it that's what it is and they're scaring people like as if there's a plague there's no plague so this is a perfect example so a person who scares the community and this is one example i mean it can be uh one individual that comes and scares the entire community but for his own honor and for his own respect and to have him control then uh and his cover now what is it says you like what that's more his his intention is for himself then this person loses their allama bar next 14. each and every one from these 24 types of people so we went now throughout the last couple classes through 24 types of people who loses their mobile affalpi israel even if it's a jew and he loses islamabad there's nothing to do with your non-jew a lot of people say hey wait but he's a jew doesn't it say that israel is all the jews have a place in the world to come well yeah if you follow the torah any listen you do mistakes here and there fine but when you're doing severe sins like that even if you're a jew you lose your muba the average and there are some sins that are a little bit less worse than the ones that we just said now in the last couple of classes but even though our sages say that even though they're not so bad these sins shahara gilbert if you're doing it over and over and over and you don't change you still lose the alarm about so we now went through in the last classes about severe sins that a person can lose iran about but our sages say there are also sins that are not so severe and you know how you can lose because of that if you're repeatingly doing it over and over and over and you don't changing your way henley and therefore you should be very careful with these sins now what are these things that he's talking about that are not so severe but if you don't stop doing it you're still going to lose your lambo now let's uh explain them what are these things a person that makes up a nickname to somebody and constantly calls him by that nickname but i'm not talking about you know if the name is joseph and you call him yossi that's not what we're talking about i don't want to give now all sorts of examples because it's horrible but some people call people with very horrible names and they call it as a nickname hey fatso or you know whatever i'm just trying for you to understand what i'm talking about fat so it's not the end of the world but if you making a nickname for somebody who's overweight and you're calling them fatso or whatever it is you use your imagination and you're constantly calling that person in this derogatory nickname that will cause a person to lose their llama now again i'm not talking about you give somebody a cute nickname and it's coming from a loving place and a place of respect i'm talking about a person who is really mean to another individual in their class in their community in the in the in the neighborhood and they give them a real not nice name and then they call it like that and of course every time they call it everybody giggles and laughs that person loses their allah even though it's not a severe sin next a person that uh embarrasses another person in public loses don't embarrass you want to embarrass somebody you have something to say say it in a closed door but sometimes we'll sit uh a clown well not a real clown with a red nose but a clown type of a person and there's going to be a bunch of people and he will mock another person and embarrass him look how you look look how you eat look how you behave and he's embarrassing in public and the person now is having a lot of shame another person like this will lose a llama next this is a very very bad it's when a person takes pride in the shame of another person that i put you down so i can look now real good this is called uh mith kabit becca longhaviro that i will gain respect when i'm gonna make you look real bad and many people do it don't think this is like a some prehistoric sin people do that they will make another person look bad only for them to look good and this a person would lose islamabad next was a person that disgraces a sage and unfortunately in our generation there are a handful of them that they mock tell me a sage now one can argue and say hey our yeah but we still have great rabbis huge rabbis that we call them tell me sage and some people disgraces them he's a liar he's a rapist he's uh this he's after money he's after honor a person that will disgrace ahmed wazette loses his place in allah to be very careful when you're talking about the one who disgraces his teacher your teacher goes out of your way to to teach you you don't disgrace him and we're talking about kosher people not the not kosher ones you lose your lamba means to disgrace but when you you dis disgrace the festivals so i don't know exactly if it would work well in hebrew and english in hebrew it's called in english to disgrace but when you you're saying listen i believe in hashem or whatever it is but it's nonsense it's something that happened 3 000 years ago it's nonsense it's a it's a fairy tale it never really happened the the exodus this is disgracing the the the festival a person would lose islamabad next one a person who profanes sacred things and that can be a holy grave of a great sadiq it can be a sephir torah can be a shul a synagogue that you know now happened many many uh unfortunately many times in the last year even more that people walked into a synagogue happened in los angeles a few a few months ago maybe you remember in netac people walked into the synagogue and shabbat and ripped took all the sife out of the the the ark and we're throwing it all on the floor taking sid rim throwing them on the floor uh prayer books italy thought this is the person walking into a synagogue they did that in los angeles a few months ago in a very big city sure yeah that's actual the persian zoo in beverly hills and they of course got caught on cameras but who cares you you this is disgrace this is mama profanes and people do that they did it not too long ago here arabs did it in the world they think it's arabs could be other people but they think the the it was done in the synagogue in one of the settlements anyways the person that does that loses what does it mean that the person would lose their alarm about me you're telling me that one every one of these people that we just mentioned now they lose their llama so i embarrassed somebody once and that's it i'm go i'm doomed ah this all means if you died without doing chuva which means that if you do one of the things that i just mentioned disgracing a sage embarrassing a person in public and etc no need to repeat if you died without doing chuva yeah but if you did shiva before you died who met and then you died the hubba so you are you repented you are balcheva you did shiva resemblance nothing will stop anyone from doing chuva if you do the worst of all sins can be due to for affilo now what happens if a person all of his life denied the existence of god this is called kaffar that i say no i i deny the existence of god the torah is fake the rabbis are fake it's all fake if a person denied the existence of god called him of all his life and moments before he died he has a place in the world to come where did we bring such a strong statement so we bring it from a prophecy in the book of isaiah chapter 57 verse 19. the verse goes shalom shalom hashem what does it mean peace peace for the far and to the near says the lord and i will heal him so the kadosh bhu says yeah you can be very very far but if you do chew up i will heal you so we have good news here even if you failed in one of these things that we just mentioned you'll be fine now just to conclude all the wicked people in the marine the one who goes against the torah and convert to other religions below and all the rest of the ones that we read in the last few chapters last few halachot in chapter three if the ones of them did shiva now it doesn't matter whether you do it ben begaluey benbe matmonious whether you did it obvious that everybody sees you did you and sometimes you do chuva and nobody knows you did you means quietly you know when i became observant for three years three four years nobody knew that i'm doing cuba nobody i lived in america i lived in chicago my parents would come and visit me from israel i would go quietly into the room put the filling very quietly on my hand that there wouldn't be any marks on the hand i would put it along the shirt nobody knew that i'm doing chiva my mom would ask me why aren't you eating whatever it is if it wasn't kosher i wouldn't tell you it's not kosher no i don't feel good nobody knew i'm doing cuba the only one who kind of figured out something is going on is my grandfather who came and he saw that funny looking cup with the handles what we do doing washing the hands he saw one like that i had in the kitchen and he's like what why you have this one what are you doing i was like me no somebody forgot it here but nobody knew i'm doing chuba you know when people figured out when i started walking with a yamaka and i grew a beard and going with two teeth then you can't hide it anymore but nevertheless a person can do chuva and everybody knows they're doing juva and some people do chewbacca nobody knows they're doing chewbacca either way makeup up hashem will accept him hashem doesn't need you to wear a suit is in the heart how do we know that hashem will accept it accept that person listen we need solid proof that i need to be having an assurance that if i do trivasham will accept me so has to be proof to that where do we get the proof this is a verse in the book of chapter 3 verse 22 book of jeremiah and he says return backsliding children that's what the prophet zechariah says even though you are still considered a shavava backsliding because you're doing it quietly and not obviously hashem will accept you in cuba because most people they don't do chuva like that overnight it can take them 10 years that they start having hiruhuru they're thinking of juva the person steals and he says i don't want to do this anymore or like what are we right now the person will embarrass somebody over and over and then he starts feeling not so comfortable he says you know what i feel real bad and quietly he goes to the person and apologizes and he doesn't do big chuva publicly either way whether your chuva is public whether you're travis probably private that nobody knows hashem will accept you and if you do a fool who full-hearted you are hashem will accept even the worst of all sins hashem will accept it but you have to make sure that you do shiva before you die from the world and with this we're concluding chapter number three we'll continue chapter number four with more interesting things but i would want to conclude chapter three that you have to now memorize all the information that we said what are the severe sins that can cause you to lose your to make sure that you're not doing it and if hashem you hospital you are doing it then make sure that you do serious trival on these severe ones because you don't want to leave this world and shalom loses so you have to focus on the the all the lists that we just gave in all the last allah and make sure that you hans versus don't do any do if you need to fail fail in other things don't fail in the things that will jeopardize your eternity and the most important thing to remember because we're all guilty in one of them one way or another maybe not in the severe ones but at least in embarrassing people and many other things or mocking the the torah and rabbis then at least du chuva and hashem says if you die and you did shiva she will accept it except your chiva and at least you don't lose your mobile and don't follow for the nonsense that people tell you call israel islam don't worry all the jews have a place in the world to come yeah read the rest of the verse people just come and tell you all the jews have a place in the world to come yeah but then they can the next part of the verse is hoots besides the ones and then it gives the whole list of the ones who don't have a place to ramabasa don't think you can do whatever you want and you're good to go yeah a person an average person like me and you can lose your lavabre like that memorize the the categories who are the people who can lose the lambo the right way and make sure that your chuva is good hashem should accept it and basal forgive all our sins and we all meet happily in the world to come [Music] you