Sefer Tomer Devorah: The 6th Middah, "Ki Chofetz Chesed" - Uncovering How Hashem Can Judge Favorably

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay good afternoon everyone from alaikam we continue in uh the safer tomorrow devorah and as we've been beginning um with the importance of the regular study of mosur um uh in our last year before um i would like to just cite a statement of revistral about shampoo whose yard side is chavus you know raphutner points out ironically the balchem his yard side is the the umptif of the giving of the torah the gura his yard side is on sukkah yamthafers so some would consider that a bit ironic but rabbistrol balsham would say that the yetzahara cannot persuade someone not to learn for a jew not to learn that's uh impossible but the tsahara persuades a person don't learn anything that brings to your shamayim for example suffrage moser or don't learn moosa don't learn sahara persuades a person learn gemara all day now obviously gemara is uh perhaps the the foundation of our learning the the meat and potatoes but nevertheless the yet sahara has a very hard time discouraging a person not to learn but he'll put an extra emphasis don't learn mostar don't learn halakha okay so i want to just speak out and summarize this particular media and then make a few eyes we're learning the sixth meda the meet and the tamadvara says just to paraphrase there's a certain chamber there's a certain hallway there's a certain area in in shamayim that they have special malachim there and those malach are appointed to accept and to store away and stow away gamila's khassadin and when the midazzadin is makatrix on kalisto when it prosecutes against claude israel those angels they take that said and they show up and hashem says oh oh i didn't you know that didn't show up um that wasn't emphasized in the first round it sounds like there are sometimes two rounds of then hashem will judge a situation based on just the facts uh merits and demerits and even if one of the merits is said but if you have more demerits than merits you know the person might be uh up the creek without a paddle but there are special malachi and those malware take the mitsubishi and they showcase it and hashem says you know what they're they do i'll be marachim on them like in the time of the quran hashem told gabriel who is the media who is meet us go take the um a fistful of coals and throw it on the city meaning god gave license to to uh gavriel to be able to execute full medazine and everything was going to be destroyed and up and kaiser would have been uprooted at its source and they were in fact high of clay but akadeshwar who said and the passage says they saw it appeared under the kruvim the hand of a man and that indicated that claudius is going and even though we were kaif they were we were saved because we did why why so this is a very big hidden of the term of the vira the simple shot of khabib is god likes to do to us god chooses to do hesa to us the time of our is identifying it as kirkhaser god likes khasad in others not that god does khasir he likes when others do hasset and therefore god will sometimes do a second round of judgment in the first round using the letter of the law we don't deserve to be saved but because god admires husted so much he'll do a round two and in round two will be much more prominent even though you have more aveiros than mitzvahs and in fact the evil nagoyan is commentary to the siddhar he says this is what it means in the shabbos in round one god looks at merit and justice and if we deserve it we'll be saved and if we don't deserve it we won't be saved however kindness and mercy are before his throne meaning in round two god will say wait one second let me look at um right urea in in arizona like that shot right urea was smiling he gave me all right we're getting the thumbs up from arizona awesome okay so says the tama davira if so this is the meda with which a person needs to conduct themself which means as follows even if you see a bad person and he's hurting you he's harming you he's doing evil to you and he's getting you angry if he has a redeeming quality not that he does khasa to you he does said to others so now let's follow in the ways of hashem just like hashem says despite the fact that you deserve to be destroyed i will value this redeeming quality that you do likewise we should see in other people even if they're rotten and they're obnoxious but if they do hesa to others we should have a positive outlook toward them secondly and this is the kiddush of the day and we pointed this out yesterday and we're going to emphasize that today it says the term of the vira and not only if you see other this person doing it to others but if you see any redeeming quality in him you should say that redeeming quality is enough that i consider him and i reckon him he's a aziz he's a good jew and especially with your wife that even if your wife has a few good qualities that should allow her to be considered in your eyes um very proper and very upstanding even if 99 of her character is lara but the fact that she has certain even very limited good qualities and i know i i'm not referring to anyone here's wife of course who have many i'm sure many good qualities just you know for the people who are not listening it could be that in their situation even a minor uh redeeming quality should uh we should follow in the ways of hashem so now comes our mata seo solomon and he asks really a very very strong question where did the timer devour get this from god doesn't do this the only thing we see by god is that in round two god will say let me look at this person again oh he has in his repertoire he said okay i'll give him a favorable judgment but god doesn't do that with other good qualities all we see is god is kasir we don't find the tamim davar is saying if you see in your friend he's an obnoxious guy or he's a really rotten to the core but he he's he's expert in the midst of visiting the sick even if in the other 612 mitzvahs he's rotten tom davar says we should have a good outlook of him that's not what god does god specifically is said so we should find we'll follow in god's footsteps and we will perhaps give somebody who does kindness a second opportunity but why is the term of our applying this to any good quality that a person may have and rematch so solomon says that from here we see there are two steps step number one is god loves kindness and someone and even if they're overall bad he will consider them good if they do kindness at least but god cannot do that to every media that a person has because god is a dying he's a judge and there has to be some fairness but the fact that he allows himself to be persuaded by someone's act of kindness means he has the meda to be able to see one thing good despite everything else bad that obligates us almost to go further than god does because we're not die on him and therefore we're allowed to be a little bit more liberal in our view of other people and therefore we could take god's need and say just like god sees if somebody who has the need of hassan god hones in on that and he ignores everything else he could do that we should do that for any good quality that somebody has so this is almost mind-boggling where this is obligating us to act beyond the kindness and the the uh ways of charity of our creator so that's something really worthy of of thinking about and with this ramataseo solomon answers a question that have pl that has plagued many and we'll conclude with this before the umpteenth of us gemara says in shabbos someone who judges his friend favorably they will judge you minister unfavorably so in other words let's say uh you ask somebody you know could you do me a favor be ready at a certain time and the guy is uh he's he's late so judge unfavorably that's something he had extenuating circumstances okay so the question is i understand i could judge someone favorably because i don't really know what his circumstances are but god knows exactly what our circumstances are so how could we say judge your friend favorite so god will judge us favorably there's nothing to judge favorably god knows why we did it wrong if do we have a good existence do we not have a good excuse we meaning what's the media connected me to how is it even possible for god to judge someone favorably if he knows all the details judging favorably only applies when you don't have all the information so the khafiz and the hatfuna asks this question and he says look basically a person could do a mitzvah for a variety of motivations i could do a mitzvah because i think it's the right thing to do i want to come close to hashem or i could do a mitzvah because i want money or honor so if we judge our friend favorably god will sort of sometimes look the other way when we do a mitzvah even if our motivation perhaps is lacking or says a person may have mostly avails and a few mitzvahs but if god judges us favorably whole host so to speak be able to explain away the aveiros we've done we did this under pressure this average we were not feeling well and he could sort of tilt the scales that way but sizzle material solomon based on the term of the viral we now understand what it could mean that god will judge us favorably because we could take somebody we will we see a jew he walks into the shoal he doesn't darwin properly he doesn't learn properly he doesn't do mitzvos properly and yet the term davar is saying that if he has one good quality let's say he smiles at people and he says good morning to them we have a responsibility to strive to say you know what he's a good jew and then god will say that about us why because god could do that to us he could say he could hone in and say you know what even though this person has 99 demerits and one merit if that merit is khasad god could then have a good outlook at us so it is possible for hashem to use the attribute of judging people judging us favorably but it will only be properly deserved if we apply that to our friend okay rabbi say obviously all these midos are are certainly great challenges and what to strive for so thank you very much for uh joining together for this year and mrs hashem we will continue uh tomorrow is heir of yamtha tomorrow tomorrow's thursday so we're not gonna have this year tomorrow at five um we'll continue as hashem next monday wishing everyone a good option bye-bye you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com