Tanya Igeres haTeshuva 1d- Teshuva is Forsaking Sin from today on - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

so goodday we're learninga the third section in Tanya we're on page sadik alive opposite page 180 the alter finished explaining briefly the Brer at the end of the chap of the of of of Yuma where he mentions three categories of transgression that require three different methods one for not doing the MIT say the positive Commandment that we were instructed to do the second was for desecrating a proh Prohibition which is called the Le don't do and the third is within the category of Le when it's such a Prohibition that the punishment that Hashem says is cus exision or execution through four different ways that bezden gives rules and fulfills so this was the the M the P the BR now on the first line and and we'll get right we'll start right there inside the text says what is the and this what we're going to learn now is a great great listen to it it's third word on the first line bibl biblically speaking he it is to forsake means to forsake the the sin bad alone that itself if you make the resolution from today on I will never do this sin again you have done everything else that comes along with chuva which is regret for the past V confession tin fasting torture that you place upon yourself for your transgressions all of those four things and others are not MIT they're all a very important ingredients in a a larger picture but the MIT is one thing making the resolution that from today on I will never do this again and I was thinking about this over the over shabas again trying to to to to show show you how the AL his this line here in Tanya was realized by the re the in America he come to a Jew he's on a college campus he's fighting against the war in Vietnam and now he's dealing with all of the the foolish isms in the world are you a he she I or you know who are you are a man or a woman and all these crazy things going on the person looks at himself and they say you know I have a checkered back background all kinds of baggage from the from Yesa in his youth he did this he did that you know wild stuff so you know regardless of how long your ponytail was and how many girlfriends or boyfriends you had makes no difference everyone has a package so you say until you clean up your at you didn't do TRV says here not like that says that from today on when the kabad comes to you on campus and says you're a Jew come for a meal make a br Come Dance come learn come put on film right and you do that and you say but I have this checkered back background he says we'll deal with that later right now let's let's do what Hashem wants and let's let's get the wheels going again says the AL 200 years before kabad went out to campus that you've done TR that's what it says here I'm not you could read it as well as I can to the exclusion of what velv to the exclusion of and could you imagine regret the past say but that's those are important things but not for Tru and its Core Essence is I will not do this anymore it's a very very powerful Insight now on one hand this Insight seems to be like a coola you know a lency hillow you know hey all I have to do is just make a decision from today on not to sin anymore the fact that I enjoyed life and sin till now who cares so it's not true who cares you better care because although you did Chua a stain was made a Mark was left and we want to get rid of those stains too so it's not as though they're not important but you've done Chua so when the gar says he remember the says there wasn't a sin that he didn't taste you know he out he outdid Wilt Chamberlain those some of you don't know Wilt Chamberlain was a was a very world famous uh basketball player and Will Chamberlain said that he he had relations with over a thousand women okay well the says there wasn't a sin that he didn't do so I would assume that he was even wor worse than Will Chamberlain and nevertheless what does the gor say that go he he he he realized that he's so far from hasem and he cried he gave the shrieking cry and he died at the spot and rebi says I think it's rebi that he died with Chua you you ask yourself about that Y in other words I can be a a b an indulgent you know no good for nothing right and when I wake up and I'll do chuva that's not what we're talking about cuz the gor says speak if someone says I will sin and I'll do chuv we don't give him a chance Chu we're talking a situation where for whatever reason you were unconscious spiritually and later you became conscious of who you are as a and now you say I want to reconnect to my jewishness I want to be a ye and you do chuva that chuva puts you into another category into the category That You Are Holy the fact is that there issues from before so there's fasting and there's and there's V confession those are all adjuncts to chuva let's continue what does it say over there in tractate Sanhedrin and regarding Witnesses you know a witness to be a witness you have to be a kosher Jew if you're a Russia if T categorizes you as a wicked person in Russia you're invalid Hally to be an aid on a contract and the classical example having just made a wedding is at a wedding right the most important people at a wedding people don't realize this is not the rabbi is not the one reading theba not the one getting the last guess who it is the two witnesses if those Witnesses don't give testimony that this was a kulture k the entire is invalid so when I call up different people to honor them as being a witness some have told me I don't want to be a witness I have to do chuva and I really have to believe in the chuva and do the chuva and I don't want to take that responsibility I know a ye here in B Park may have has already been 10 10 years in a coma Rabbi zberman tremendous I heard that you know he he was asked to be an aid on manyas and he turned them down because he didn't feel his enough so In classical terms if you know that you did something that t and classify you as a Russ and you haven't done Chua for it it your your testimony is invalid so the AL says here what if that person quoting that right velv what if that person before he comes to the he says hasem I'm doing chuva for everything and I won't do it again I won't do it again I really won't do it again I promise you says he becomes about the on the spot 247 abouta and he's Kos fores and the is good and the contract is good and everything else that's the Al's proof to his understanding of what the Mitzvah is for cha is that because of or that something else yes it's but the question is what what is the her Chua I'll so the point I'll of course but what is it what's the content of it not that I I regret what I did that's not it's that from today on I won't do it again now just to to elaborate for another moment what happens when a person does enough V so we discussed it a little bit now we'll just continue in our last year the current the of an a is what we call the Rejection of the Yoke of God any AA from not being nice to your spouse cheating on your taxes hurting murdering whatever the a is then the essence the qu essential Essence that runs through every a is Rebellion against God I should say regarding when we talk about Mitzvah between man and God is you know you're you're you're cheating you're stealing for your friend you're not being nice but what's the opposite of accepting the Yoke what does it mean to accept the Yoke Hashem I submit I'm going to do it your way I'm a very smart guy I know better than you but you know what now I realize I don't know better than you and I'm doing it your way I thought I knew better than you but I realize I don't so from here on kab said I'm going to accept the Yoke like a servant like an evid like a servant to a Master that's that's why says because if you talking about to law if you're talking about following God Vis the to which is hashem's to you have to believe in God you have to follow God why should I put on Fillin and put on a mza and eat K and go to aik on and on if at the end of the day I don't believe fully in you sometimes when it's comfortable I check in with you but otherwise I don't care and guess what it's not just for those mitzvas why should I is there no difference between andak oh absolutely but those are all details those are all details if the is right but you what but what iser asked for for for the record is is there a difference between doing something intentionally it or you know accidentally or you know I couldn't control myself and the answer is there's a difference but but it all the is similar in both similar in both in the sense that in one you you know you can't control yourself but that itself is a preo that's the is Sir that's the the whole thing of a neid a NE puts itself aside completely in other words his Ron is the r of the of of thein of the master so the fact that you're not doing intentionally in spite that I'm going to show God I don't excuse me give a damn and all that okay so it's not oven we call that in in terms oven it's not oven but theil is still missing look Al says that the way to make retribution for is the opposite what's accepting hence from today on the fact that you have to you have to deal with things in the past it's very nice it's it's important but it doesn't change what you are today and further and and future in the future and it's very important the besides that it gives hope to people you know there there are therapeutic benefit to building the hope to building the uh the potential you know that's true but we're talking about this isn't another what Al saying and this is why I'm saying it now Al is not like you know I'm trying to make you feel good you know this isn't feel good Judaism when says he already went through all all of all of T all of rambam all of Riff all of gar and he knows it all cuz he learned sh he learned sh 16 times by by the age of 18 I forget what they did his children wrting that talking about a genius of and he says I've come to the conclusion that MIT I I'm just extrapolating on the issue that the brings here and bringing out the greater important issue for us let's continue and now he says in his own words what does it mean a person should make a resolve in his heart with a complete heart a sincere heart I won't return to this foolishness I was a big fool in the past I'm not going to become do this big foolishness again how was I a big fool look at the words is you see the word in the by rebelling in God's kingship those words themselves tell you what is what does an AA consist of Hill it's not just I did this sin and that sin this sin you know the graphic details of sin that's not relevant here what's relevant is the the general idea that I did Rebellion that's and that's do those are the words of did I rebel against God that's all the particulars of the Rebellion is not important right now it's going to become important soon in a different way but as far as this of MIT is it's to remove the Rebellion cuz the Rebellion is the problem let's continue says a and I won't the person says to himself left and I will know and I won't ever again desecrate MIT the command of the King again he doesn't go into details because it's not relevant details here what's relevant is there's a king God of all gods and this King gives a c a command and I violated the command I make a resolution from here on I will not Rebel and violate and go against his command says now now adds the details say whether they be in the matters of the positive Commandments so here is takes the the general idea of the antithesis to rebellion and he says it as to express itself both in the positive and the negative Commandments and why does he do that as it'll be clearer later but just briefly it's because ultimately ultimately how do you show a How do you show that you're not rebelling it's either by doing the and even when something is what we call neutrality right neutrality something that's neutral you as we learned earlier in the first section tan chapter 7 teaches us there it's a matter of do you elevate it to the side of kadus or do you lower to the side of kipa so what what does that mean in in the in the in the wordage verbiage that he uses here either you make of it a positive or you make of it a right so when giving a ride to someone in your car which is neutral you're of right so here you have neutrality something that's neutral vable and right away you elevate neutrality something that's what we call to K or you have free will and you take something that's neutral and you lower it to to the negativity complete cont spiritual impurity and contamination says this idea that Hally is the idea of chuva he says I'll find it for you in the word itself Chua Chua means to return El to return to God with all of your heart with all of your soul to serve and to guard all of his MIT so the word t means return so again does it mean repentance no cha means return return to who you are as a ye and your to God and he brings the the wicked one should forsake his D his style his Manner and the man of the man who has the strong opinion of sin his thoughts he should change his thoughts and return to God so shared I think what the re once said that the first part the wicked one should forsake his D you hear that we talk about what's your D what's your D what's your approach what's your D right oh the r has a certain D it's the D of sin it's the D of [Music] indulging forsake your D that's a that's don't tell me about the particulars but this D leads you to sin okay someone who sins transgresses has a a mental component that they formed they're going to approach it this way you know yesterday they they they can't maybe you saw this it came out with a tape of uh 1998 or 99 where the Saudi Arabia fellow was in Washington filming and the capital and the Washington Monument and on and on and now they're saying here's clear evidence the Saudi Arabia was involved in 9/11 right and I'm thinking about it like pretty good proof now in other words before the actual bombing they put someone in there to scout the land take the pictures the videos BL blah BL blah BL and then later two three years later comes the the massacre the the Russia the Russia who sins today had already planned it way back in his D no it's not always like that many times spontaneous you get a TAA you can't control the TAA and you do the AA whatever that is but many times it's not that way it involves a der and the D Builds on you slowly over years you become jaded and you become so self-righteous and you start justifying your all of that is D says the nvi the name of hey Russia forsake your D the plan that you planned out for years get rid of it and then the evil thoughts get rid of bad thoughts and plans do chva the so again he brings these the what what does that mean return to God because that's that's proof to what he said earlier that the word t is not repentance but it's return okay he brings another he's going to bring now four to support his idea that CH means return you shall return to God your God you should hearen to his voice Etc by the way it shouldn't say theu in all of these it say the go it's a mistake the Reb corrects it in the in the back of T because the only time you use is for AIC statement for a you use so the the one who not the AL but the printer wasn't too learned it looks like and he inserted the word vulu yes yes H I just want to understand what what what he one implies I didn't quite that it's it's basically the same it means in English Etc but but the the ETC that is used foral for rabic is ETC means the and there are more words in the verse but I'm not mentioning him to you the means and the conclusion gar but it's like we had earlier that's righto but but as a rule as a rule whenever you're quoting a you're supposed to use and you're not quoting the entire verse you want to say Etc dot dot dot you have you're supposed to say V when you're quoting a you say because you want to make it clear this is and this that's important to know that so here is quoting verses in T and and and it says so the writes in the that's a mistake of the printer simply didn't know it's not didn't write it that way so you have to understand that when you know wrote it originally on a piece of paper and if if a couldn't read it he just just you know he just he wrote what he did he he they they weren't uh very big Toby okay let's go further used colloquially in modern Hebrew I I is used a lot yeah okay but curious if in terms of this I don't I I I I I you know I'm I'm not the one to ask I'm not bu modern Hebrew I'm asking in general if anybody right I I think you're right I'm glad you made that I think in modern Hebrew we don't really use V I'm almost sure they use if you'll hear a speaking they'll Pro they'll Pro they'll probably say actually here's another thing that has to be looked at when you when you what form what do you say we learned that the verb is used and it's used uh among teenagers as slang which which were which were which one okay okay that's that's modern Hebrew I don't know let's go further your heart Jews return to so these are four these are that we say and all that we'll stop here andem uh tomorrow we will continue how the AL now counters the other opinions who say that the details of CH and he he he mentions them again and he disagrees that that's TR and he questions anyway see you all tomorrow zun have a great day thank you very much thank you thank you pleasure