Rambam Laws of Teshuvah - Chapter 3 / Halachot 3 & 4 - Rabbi Alon Anava | Atzmut.org

[Music] [Applause] [Music] so we are in the third chapter of the laws of chuval today we're going to learn third alaha and we'll try to squeeze in also the fourth one so we're in chapter 3 any person that regrets the mitzvot that he did and he says i wish i didn't do that what a waste of time this whole torah thing is and he said in his heart i really wasted my time with this whole nonsense i wish i wouldn't even do them and they'll never give him a merit for what he did i knew well i met many people who said that but there was one guy who happened to be he arrived the shiva where i arrived the same day so the head of the shiva constantly thought we're friends where's your friend this is not my friend it happened to me we came on the same day up until today if i see what's with your friend it's not even my friend anyways this friend i don't even know how he came to yeshiva but he was in yeshiva i don't know what he survived three and a half weeks and the whole time he was mumbling what a waste of time what a way it caught you and i was like you know what the minimum that you did please shut up because you're going to lose it so there are many people who say such things so now rambam comes and clarifies don't say such things because you lose it and then they give those mitzvot to whoever deserves it so don't do such things where do we learn that you can lose your mitzvoth as it says in the book of jerez 33 verse 12 one sinner no sorry the righteous of the righteousness of the righteous will not save him on the day of his transgression meaning that you did a mitzvah you said i wish i i wouldn't have it i wouldn't do it you lose it you're not gonna get it and and this is when you are uh saying that on the first mitzvot that you did because it's not going to cover all the mitzvot unless you say i give up all my mitzvot like that when you die they take you to the heavenly court and they put all your sins and all your mitzvot on the scale and they weigh it uh inevitable you can't get away with it that's what's going to happen the day you die don't think that you're going to be taken to some island and they're going to give you some pina colada they're going to take you to directly to the heavenly courts and you should pray that you're not going to go through the long route the short route is that they take you straight to the heavenly court the long route is that they give you a surprise party a welcoming party by the battalions that they come and give you like what we call in israel azubug they give you a welcoming party so you reach already to the heavenly court all bruised and beaten up and your and your whole shama is uh shaken but nevertheless when you die they take you to the heavenly court and they start your trial and they put your sins and your on your uh it's voted you do you on the scale and they weigh it but the same thing they do every year they weigh your sins and your mitzvot every not only you all all the creatures of the world he says this animals do i told you yesterday cities countries animals creatures humans everybody they put on the scale and they weigh their sins and their merits when on judgement day which is on rosh hashanah exactly two weeks from today how wonderful mission in satsang a person that is found righteous and you remember yesterday we defined what's righteous that you have more majority of mitzvot and you know there's a question if it's 51.49 if you have 59 percent mitzvoth 49 but nevertheless sadiq will be the one that has a stronger weight in the mitzvot he will be sealed in the book of life omission the one who was found guilty or wicked majority of sins is going to be sealed in the book of death i told you already this is not the binomial that balatania is talking about this means half mitzvoth half of it they put the sin on hold kill yom kippur ima sachiba if he did shiva that person then he will be sealed in the book of life lay he will be sealed in the book of death and that's it the end of the story what do you want to take from this don't ever give up any mitzvah that you did and even if you feel was a waste of time you have a weak moment in your life you're depressed you're unhappy whatever it is don't ever say what a waste of time you're going to need this mitzvot one day next allah even though the the one of the greatest mitzvoth some even say the mitzvah is the blowing of the shofar but nevertheless this is this is what the torah says that we have to blow the shofar on this day but nevertheless there is a hint in the shofar that it says remember what is the hint in the shofar wake up sleepy sleepers or sleepies or whatever you want to say it is the ones who fell asleep and you are numb wake up veneer the meme the ones that are you know like uh half asleep half awake akitsu mitra mitrim wake up from your coma go through your actions find the wrong things who forgot the truth why behave less man you passed your time with nonsense and a lot of it was by mistake the college natal behavior that all your year was wasted on emptiness and nothingness have always your actions and your paths what you did and let go of your bad and evil path that you chose to take um also your thoughts one has to see himself throughout the entire year like as if he has 50 merits 50 since why now what he's saying here right now happens to be that we two weeks before rosh hashanah some people read this 11 months before rosh hashanah now he's telling us in other words one of the effects of the shofar is to wake us up from our from our uh sleepiness from being completely not focused on the torah meets the vote and to do to go back from my wrong path but one thing that you need to acquire whether it's like today two weeks before rosh hashanah or whether it's 11 months before rosh hashanah you constantly have to hold yourself like as if you have percent mitzvoth fifty percent of a lot why because that's going to put you in some type of a reality equation wait a minute i need to do chuva i need to at least add more mitzvot and reduce overloads so all the time you have to take the consideration that you're exactly in the middle don't say you know what i think i'm doing pretty good i mean i have a few sins here and there but i'm doing pretty good you know i'm pretty sure that i have eighty percent good twenty percent bad y'all know whatever so don't hold like that because that's not correct nevertheless always hold it like you have half not only you also the entire world remember yesterday i told you that also the world gets judged always accepted that the world is half has merits and the other half has since now let's say you are you you hold yourself that you're 50 50. not 49 51. you wake up in the morning you say i am fifty percent it's about fifty percent of the world now what's gonna happen if you do one scene that's it you go back to cafe you put yourself in a deficit now you're putting the entire world in you on the scale or to the side of that you owe vega and what would be the result that you bring on your self-destruction what if you now you tilt the entire scale on a favorable side now i said 51 it could be zero 50.0001 i don't take my uh my words always and i mean i just threw out 51. but if you're exactly 50 50 and you put on the scale one little good act then automatically you tilt the scale on a positive side what's going to be the result the garam love elohim you cause yourself a rescue and salvation one little mitzvah therefore you always have to grab a mitzvah because you don't know where you're holding how many times you had the opportunity to do mitzvah and you said to yourself i know i really don't feel like this right now you know sometimes you offer somebody do you want to eat what do you have to eat you have an amazing sandwich is this a mozzie yeah i'll have from the apple why not i feel like saying amazon just give me some of the from the salad you know you can you never know maybe this mitzvah that you're going to sit down on your tuckers for three and a half minutes and say amazon that's the mitzvah that you grab and you're putting on the scale now and it will tilt the whole scale it covers so uh mitzvah comes to your way listen i'm not talking about initiating mitzvot that i'm i'm not expecting it from any everybody you should try to initiate mitzvoth whenever you can but even yesterday my wife ordered pizza one of my son comes he's like he's like is this a mozzie or this amazon i told him even if it's miserable even though i doubt that most of the pizza's armies are not you know diluted the the the dough has to be but whatever but i told him even if it's misono you this is your dinner you're gonna have two three pieces so make a sudah even if it's mesonot so you sit another five minutes and forty three seconds and say uh so initiate the mitzvah but here if it comes to your direction don't so quickly say you know i'll pass why because this can be your rescue this can be your salvation how many times you gave over you gave up a mitzvah don't do that now where do we learn this from shenemar as it says in the book of michele proverbs chapter 10 verse 25 with sadiq but the righteous is the foundation of the world you do one mitzvah you can become righteous and you will build a foundation to the world there should sadaq who's the righteous person the one who won the the case sadaq he's a he's not necessarily this is not the siddique we're talking about you now put the entire world in a favorable scale and save the entire world with one little action um therefore there we took we take on ourselves the nation of israel to increase acts of kindness and charity and also acts of goodness and kindness velocity and to ask to to do as much as mitzvot that i can when i mean i will add all year round rambam says and don't think for one second i'm saying i'm better than ramban that i'm saying i'm gonna add i'm just saying my point of view is don't wait for uh ceremony do it all year long that you want to add as much as you can but here he's talking about that so when do we do it we have seven days technically it's ten but seven we actually it's not rosh hashanah so we increase in acts of kindness and charity and learning torah and so forth why do we do that we do that to increase and to make sure that we have as much as marriage as possible and we do that in the 10 days of juventus more from and many have the custom to wake up very early and to do tikkun to pray in a synagogue i mean we say 30 days some people only say this in the 10 day days of chuba throughout the 40 days they're like i mean the 30 days they're like yeah one time they one time they come one time they don't come but ten days of chiva doesn't matter what's going to happen turn the world upside down don't miss it you're just and you pray in the synagogue and you pray all sorts of words that are awakened the soul to the until the day of the the dawn comes up why because you want to add as much as khuyot as marriage as you can before yom kippur so now we are having an advantage imagine you would read this the day before rosh hashanah now we're reading it two weeks before now so he gives you another two weeks to say wow you know i don't know where i'm holding maybe right now this second i'm 50 50. so i have now two weeks to as they say pack it in pack it in sit and learn torah as much as you can acts of kindness charity whatever you can because let's say you're now 50 50. you might be 20 good and 80 percent bad by the way don't be so sure of yourself but nevertheless now is the time to let's pack it in and needless to say in the 10 days of juva and by knowing that and pondering upon that you you should increase in your acts of kindness and to understand that don't ever think that you're doing great now if you are doing great but no harm is done you just added more but one should always hold himself that i'm not doing that great if you feel that you're doing okay that will cause you to be lazy that will cause you to be like okay i know i'm doing great so today i don't have to pray today i don't have to learn i don't have to do much i did great the last three and a half days so always hold yourself that you're not doing that great and you constantly have to increase besides the fact that you don't know what will be that mitzvah that little act that you do that that will be what tilts the entire scale of your own personal scale and the entire world to a favorable side that will bring salvation rescue and and and tikkun rectification with the entire world hashem hashem should erase delete and forgive all our sins [Music] you